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Sources: SpaceX weighs filing confidentially for an IPO as soon as March, targeting a June listing that could raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/spacex-is-sa…

Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users (Conor Murray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/si…

TikTok Competitor UpScrolled Hits No. 1 On App Store Following Allegations TikTok Suppresses Anti-ICE Videos
UpScrolled, a new social media platform that says it does not shadowban or censor users, ranks No. 1 on Apple’s U.S. app store as of Thursday—much higher than competitor TikTok, which is No. 27.

Confidence in ICE is falling and half of Americans support cutting its funding (Taylor Orth/YouGov)
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53954-confidence-ice-falling-half-americans-support-cutting-ice-funding-january-23-26-2026-economist-yougov-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p140#a260127p140

💸 Albania, Europe’s laboratory where AI combats (or hides) corruption
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-19/albania-europes-laboratory-where-ai-combats-or-hides-corruption.html

Albania, Europe’s laboratory where AI combats (or hides) corruption
Following the government’s announcement that a virtual minister will control public contracts, the Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating its creators and the deputy prime minister

On the spatial structure and intermittency of soot in a lab-scale gas turbine combustor: Insights from large-eddy simulations
Leonardo Pachano, Daniel Mira, Abhijit Kalbhor, Jeroen van Oijen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23155
arXiv:2602.23155v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents a numerical investigation of soot formation in the Cambridge lab-scale gas turbine combustor. Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a swirl-stabilized ethylene flame are performed using the flamelet generated manifold method coupled with a discrete sectional model to account for soot formation, growth, and oxidation. The study aims to elucidate the mechanism governing the spatial structure and intermittency of soot, supported by comparisons with experimental data. The predicted soot distribution agrees well with measurements, with peak concentrations near the bluff body. Flow recirculation is identified as the key mechanism driving soot accumulation in fuel-rich regions, where surface reactions dominate soot mass growth. Soot intermittency arises from fluctuations in the flow field driven by interactions between the flame front and the recirculation vortex. Two soot modeling approaches are evaluated, differing in their treatment of soot model quantities: the first approach employs on-the-fly computation of source terms (FGM-C), while the second uses fully pre-tabulated source terms (FGM-T). Their predictive performance and computational cost are compared in the context of unsteady, sooting flames in swirl-stabilized combustors.
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Wooo, the new computer chair should be delivered day-after-tomorrow and I'm pretty stoked. The old chair is kinda falling apart, but for a cheap chair it did a great job...however, the "new" Aeron should be a significant upgrade. Also, the rollerblade wheels will be moving from the old Office Depot chair to the new one...

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…

Exclusive: Cerebras Files Confidentially For a U.S. IPO
Cerebras Systems has again made a confidential filing for a U.S. public offering, according to people with knowledge of its plans. The designer of AI chips and systems has been meeting with prospective investors before a potential listing that could take place as soon as this April, they said. The company had aimed to go public last year, but announced last December it was withdrawing its IPO

SK Hynix has submitted a confidential filing to the SEC for a possible listing of American depositary receipts in 2026; it reportedly considers raising ~$10B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-files-confidential…

Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/25/apple-s

Apple settles lawsuit with ex-employee who stole Vision Pro trade secrets before joining Snap - 9to5Mac
Apple has settled a lawsuit against a former engineer accused of downloading thousands of confidential documents before leaving for Snap.