@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-22 00:45:52
The IPO prospectus SpaceX dropped last night revealed how much the world’s largest public offering is underpinned by a founder firmly in control.
Elon Musk, who previously complained he didn’t have a big enough say in Tesla,
will control 85% of the vote at SpaceX through special shares
(and will get another billion shares if SpaceX puts a million-person colony on Mars).
The filing raised speculation that after SpaceX goes public, a purchase of Tesla isn’t far off.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-22 01:45:51
Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US government awarded grants and took equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti 30%, IBM 12% (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/quantum-stocks--us-taking-equity-stakes.html…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-21 19:02:29
Anyone working at Apple following me?
Please make it possible in Safari to select Kagi as search engine.
Thank you.
(I am not asking for tech support or browser suggestions.)
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 03:13:26
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked the country’s commander-in-chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi,
after days of widespread protests against the removal of the country’s popular defense minister.
His replacement, Mykhailo Drapatyi, 43, is a younger general
often described as representing a newer generation of military leaders who have forged their careers during the current war with Russia.
The shake up comes after Zelensky last week fired defense minister …
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-07-21 13:21:35
TIL: There’s a town in the U.P. of Michigan named “Felch.”
I have no comment on this novel (to me) fact. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@nwstornado_bot/11
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-06-19 20:37:53
The average investor who bought #SpaceX shares in the open market after its debut has seen nearly all of their gains disappear as a sharp pullback erased a large chunk of the stock’s post-IPO surge: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/the-average-spacex-buyer-post-ipo-is-almost-under-water-after-two-day-slide.html - "The reversal underscores how quickly sentiment has shifted following the company’s blockbuster debut. After briefly pushing SpaceX’s market value close to $3 trillion, investors have begun reassessing whether the stock’s rapid advance can be justified by fundamentals."
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-16 09:49:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-19 03:40:52
Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-21 04:42:03
For Elizabeth Arif-Fear, there was no single moment when she realised she wanted to be Jewish.
“It was just a journey over time,” she says.
The 37-year-old interfaith activist was born Christian, then converted to Islam and was Muslim for 14 years, before realising that that faith was also not the right fit.
Eventually, she found the answer she had been searching for in Judaism.
“I feel I’ve finally found God without all the extras,” she says.
-- “Without Jesus, …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-18 14:28:00
