> Once again, this is easy for Bloomberg to prove: X-Ray or it didn't happen. Fake news. Surely the factory produced more than a few of these mobos. All the wor

> Once again, this is easy for Bloomberg to prove: X-Ray or it didn't happen. Fake news. Surely the factory produced more than a few of these mobos. All the world needs is an X-Ray of one board with the magical chip. That's not true, and fundamentally misunderstands what journalists' job is. They're reporters not researchers: they report on information in testimony and documents they acquire, they don't do the research to to create that information themselves. They cross-check testimony and documents between multiple sources to verify the information, they don't replicate research. Bloomberg doesn't have a bugged motherboard to X-ray. Per their story, all of those were owned by other entities. There's very little reason to expect that they have an example, since they weren't a target and the people they talked to were likely not authorized to hand over their employees property. Given that, it's unlikely they even asked for one since it would have been a foolish request.