Tootfinder

Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10% after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/dell-forecasts-fiscal-2…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Above the Law:
🎵 Black Superman
#AbovetheLaw
https://frostie.bandcamp.com/track/frostie-vs-above-the-law-black-superman
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RTXQxmxGfG6yLBvA0hULI

How it started / how it's going
(Climbed Ben Ledi, a Scottish mountain that is not a Monro, fortunately the top was above the fog and clouds!)
#Scotland #BenLedi #Hiking

Note that none of the complaints above are about the much-maligned transparency effects (which I have turned off). This is just basic, ground-level 2D design stuff that even this not-a-real-designer rando can pick apart.
The flagship product of one of the wealthiest companies on earth. Seriously.

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

Urban Demons IX👻
城市鬼魂 IX 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

This is not, in fact, a great turnstile. None of these perform any counting nor prevent a person from going through in the wrong direction. Somebody needs a refund.

Höllental ❤️
(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path along the rocks higher up...)
#FootpathFriday

On this day (April 26) in 1994, my favorite band released one of my favorite albums. 'A Date with The Smithereens' features some incredible basslines, Lou Reed on two tracks, and the whole thing is a damn banger.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0

"‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time"
#Orangutan #Animals

It's been a while so it felt like it was "time" for this one again.
#WristCheck

#SilentSunday

Let us now recite the five kinds of spores....
• Spermatia act like pollen—they can fertilize a mate but can’t infect a plant.
• Aeciospores can’t infect the plant they were produced on—they must infect a different kind of plant, the primary host.
• The spores above are found on the alternate host; those below on the primary host.
• Urediniospores are made in huge numbers on the primary host, and spread infection among plants of the same species, sparking epi…

Ferry boat. Furry boat.
Know the difference!

Morning run is done ✅ (#running)
This lounge chair is, where you’ll finde me for the rest of the day.

Arts and Architecture Students Sell Dragon Day T-Shirts Out in Front of Milstein Hall -- Dragon Day, No Kings and the Skunk Cabbage Run will make a big weekend which will be cold enough for my winter phase
#photo #photography

This is what the market-led policies of Fine Gael and Fianna Fšil have given us. They've put the profits of landlords and investment funds above ordinary people.
That's why I've decided to run in the Galway West by-election. It's time we had a radical shift in housing policy that puts people first.
• Ban Evictions
• Freeze and Reduce Rents
• Build a State Construction Company to deliver quality homes and jobs at the scale we need

Over 17,000 homeless last month in record high
Homeless figures have surpassed 17,000 for the first time.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/27/france-minitel-1980s-europe-silicon-valley-shackles

This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.

thinking of James C. Scott
#photography #fall #nofilter

And here is my published dissertation @…, about quantifying the natural CO2 exhaust at the Starzach site in Southwest Germany (my result: ~10t/d):
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/176213…

Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus

AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable
🤖 https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-stocks-dot-com-bubble-comparison-market-outlook

Please take a moment to study this horrifying screenshot.
Ask:
- What here is negative space?
- What is information-bearing space?
- What space is neither of the above: usefully conveys no information, but adds visual noise?
And…wtf is that horizontal gray bar doing there?!

The price of silver smashed through the $90 mark Wednesday morning
for the first time in weeks
as the metal recoups gains it lost after a late January crash,
though the precious metal remains far from the record highs it previously hit above $120.
KEY FACTS
The price of silver is $90.68 as of 9:25 a.m. EST, up nearly 4% but down slightly from a high of $91.18 reached earlier in the morning.

Silver Breaks $90 Mark Again—Fueled By Tariff Uncertainty, Iran Tensions
Silver has recouped some of the losses that it suffered following a price crash in late January.

uhh, were users *asking* for this? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remote-improvements

Disclaimer: the above is a shitpost.
“IQ” is pseudoscientific racist and eugenicist concept.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
CSS:
🎵 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above (Calvin Harris Remix)
#CSS
https://cocolah.bandcamp.com/track/lets-make-love-and-listen-to-death-from-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jd9W7k8DTnBSovDSxK77n

No, there is no magnificent 'planetary parade' in the evening right now as the internet shouts from everywhere but on the other hand there is also more to see than just Jupiter high in the sky - as I could confirm Wednesday from Bochum, Germany, at 51.5°N, #Venus is already a bright if rather low evening star while #Saturn and #Mercury could still be spotted above her: see https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid027a6qUBbjXPf96BtzV89HNTcEA8Z2y9gorSCns8sTzS3nTFUpngTXwagopfUAw6Ngl for more pictures and hard numbers!

meow meow meow :3

“What’s your favorite…”
Let me just stop you right there;
I do, in fact, have favorite movies, books, scenes, comics, games; many of them!
I will NEVER be able to answer the above question, because the second you ask it/I read it, my mind goes completely fucking blank as they all vie for 1st

Urban Demons VII 👻
城市鬼魂 VII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-expects-annual-p…

This is exactly the thing I wonder about. Was it shoved through over internal objections? Was it many teams’ separate good work stuck together too hastily? Was it the wrong kind of pressure from above, or bad taste from below, or what?
It’s frustrating because as a dev I catch glimpses of all the really fantastic engineering work folks at Apple are doing •inside• the box, and they’re feeling very little love for it right now because the •outside•is so clunky.
https://sfba.social/@scm/116296203532915798

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
James And The Cold Gun:
🎵 Above the Lake
#JamesAndTheColdGun
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tmNXPEkONtlFvcCEMyCGT

Just got the dreadful email from above
"[Entire org of thousands] should work from home tomorrow. More guidance to come tomorrow."
It's Wednesday, and they've been leaking hints about a layoff for weeks.
Here we go.

Getting a jump start on #caturday, before I forget.

Counterflow around a cylinder
Matheus P. Severino, Leandro F. Souza, Elmer M. Gennaro, Daniel Rodr\'iguez, Fernando F. Fachini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22022 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22022
arXiv:2602.22022v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The incompressible flow around a circular cylinder, positioned at the center of an unconfined planar counterflow, is studied by means of numerical solutions of the conservation equations and linear stability analysis. The flow is completely defined by the Reynolds number ($\Rey$) -- based on the cylinder radius, the strain rate defining the counterflow, and the kinematic viscosity. For very low values of $\Rey$, the flow is steady, two-dimensional, and fully attached to the cylinder wall. Increasing $\Rey$ above $\Rey_s \approx 16.86$, the flow separates, giving rise to two symmetric, counter-rotating recirculation regions on each side of the cylinder. Further increasing $\Rey$ leads to a progressive enlargement of the recirculation regions and the appearance of multiple recirculation centers, akin to Moffatt eddies. However, the convective acceleration imposed by the counterflow limits their size. An oscillatory mode becomes linearly unstable for $\Rey_{c} \approx 4146$. This mode gives rise to a sinuous meandering of the wake flow, on each side of the cylinder, being analogous to the well-known von K\'arm\'an instability. The frequency of this mode is directly proportional to the strain rate defining the counterflow.
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#bloomScrolling #tulips

The first search (A) does now find the toot above, so maybe part of the issue with (A) is that the three words are within linked text.
(B) remains a mystery.

Tectonic Wall
A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).

Source: Paramount is expected to come back with a WBD offer above its previous $30 per share bid, seeking to outflank Netflix; Paramount has a Monday deadline (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-d…

Paramount Expected to Raise Price of Warner Bros. Bid, Will Netflix Walk Away?
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance has a Monday deadline to submit its best and final offer for Warner Bros. Discovery -- and Paramount is expected to come back with an offer over its previous $30/share bid for WBD, angling to outflank Netflix to win the deal.

STMicro reports Q1 revenue of $3.10B, above $3.04B est., $171M operating income, above $165.8 est., and forecasts $3.45B revenue for Q2, above $3.21B est. (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/stmicroelectronics-repor…

It is not fun to live right above a meth lab.
Ask any #Canadian .

As Russia's war against Ukraine enters its fifth year,
the economy that sustains it has been transformed in ways that will be difficult
—perhaps impossible
—to reverse without another crisis.
Westerners keep waiting for the Russian economy to collapse.
It won’t. -- But nor will it recover.
It has entered what mountaineers call the death zone:
the altitude above 8,000 metres at which the human body consumes itself faster than it can be repaired…

For today's #MountainMonday I want to share this view again that we had when we were hiking through this beautiful forest.
More about it here:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/reflect…

✍️ New post: Weis­sKlang L1 – Punch­ing Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones

WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Still, there are some other things Hypercard did we’d do well to study, even with full-scale tools. Off the top of my head:
- It richly rewarded unguided exploration. Unsuccessful experimentation had a way of leading to paths forward, not just dead ends.
- Much of it worked by direct manipulation: if you want the thing there, you put the thing there. (Unity and Godot both sort of kind of do some descendant of this, but not with the same discoverability and transparency.)
- There was a rich library of good starting points, modifiable examples.
- An empty but functioning new project had essentially zero boilerplate. You didn’t have to have 15 files and hundreds of lines of code to get a blank page.
- Its UI made it easy-ish for newcomers to ask “What can I do with this thing here?” Modern autocomplete and inline docs kind of sort of approximate this, but in practice only for people who already have tool expertise.
- HyperTalk (the programming language) is tricky to write (it’s a p-lang), but it’s remarkably easy to read. You can peer at it with very limited knowledge and make educated guesses about its semantics, and those guesses will be mostly correct. (HyperTalk syntax tends to get the most attention when people talk about this, I think at the expense of the other things above.)

Spring is near! Today, when I left the house before being awake the sun was already up
!B

#coastStarlight views

Record all mastered! On to licensing covers, getting ISRCs, finishing artwork and liner notes, credits, making sure nobody's left off the acknowledgements. Did all the recording and mixing in-house, but still lots of other expenses, so doing a kickstarter to recover what we can. Final decision is to call it "Dulcetta." Sweet little coda. Been a long journey w the #leukemia inter…

This Earth Day, I'm grateful for the many different ways I get to encounter the living world, from wild landscapes to manicured gardens, from trees by the sidewalk to protected green spaces
Mt Roosevelt over Snow Lake; the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum; a robin in New Haven; a lupine at Sepulveda Basin
#naturalist

The Area Code Comes Home
When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let Husker players wear their three-digit home area code on the helmet bumper above the face mask. A Peyton Newell on the defensive line, a Mike Williams at wide receiver, an Andre Hunt lining up outside, each wore the digits of where they came from in…

The Area Code Comes Home | David Boles, Blogs
When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let H…

The cold and wet can get annoying at times but the views here never get old #pnw

The View From The Precipice (is always the best!)
(Sonnenberggrat doing its name justice on a sunny late-summer-like day in November 2025, two days before winter arrived in full force...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records #UnitedStates

March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records
A burst of unusual March heat is hitting the United States this week and into next, busting previous monthly heat records by wide margins. While heat is most acutely felt by people exposed to it, graphics and charts convey the scale of this extreme event. Temperatures in the West remain far above what's typical for March, a sign the early season heat is not letting up. Compared with the average highs for March between 1991 and 2020, temperatures across some parts of Oklahoma, Nebraska, northern…

For anyone in central Oklahoma in search of some family entertainment, I highly suggest the Vernardos circus in North OKC. They are here for one more week. A really great special circus experience for one and all.

Still one of the best views of the town. #northumberland #berwickupontweed

Heron and reeds. #silentsunday

Extending $\mu$P: Spectral Conditions for Feature Learning Across Optimizers
Akshita Gupta, Marieme Ngom, Sam Foreman, Venkatram Vishwanath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20937 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20937 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20937
arXiv:2602.20937v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Several variations of adaptive first-order and second-order optimization methods have been proposed to accelerate and scale the training of large language models. The performance of these optimization routines is highly sensitive to the choice of hyperparameters (HPs), which are computationally expensive to tune for large-scale models. Maximal update parameterization $(\mu$P$)$ is a set of scaling rules which aims to make the optimal HPs independent of the model size, thereby allowing the HPs tuned on a smaller (computationally cheaper) model to be transferred to train a larger, target model. Despite promising results for SGD and Adam, deriving $\mu$P for other optimizers is challenging because the underlying tensor programming approach is difficult to grasp. Building on recent work that introduced spectral conditions as an alternative to tensor programs, we propose a novel framework to derive $\mu$P for a broader class of optimizers, including AdamW, ADOPT, LAMB, Sophia, Shampoo and Muon. We implement our $\mu$P derivations on multiple benchmark models and demonstrate zero-shot learning rate transfer across increasing model width for the above optimizers. Further, we provide empirical insights into depth-scaling parameterization for these optimizers.
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
On the ground, above the ground, and below the surface, Ukraine is strong and crushing the Russian hordes as they continue to attack.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and kicks Putin in the nuts: …

Russian Offensive Keeps Crashing Into the Ukrainian Fortress Belt of Donbas, Bleeding Out One…
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

"World’s largest steam-producing heat pump comes online in Finland"
#Finland #HeatPumps #Energy

World’s largest steam-producing heat pump comes online in Finland
Turboden, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has energized what it calls the world’s largest steam-producing heat pump, delivering 12 MWth of superheated steam using low-grade waste heat and CO₂-free electricity with a coefficient of performance 10% above its guaranteed value of 2.

#Peaches geht gut ab
- #Vaginoplasty (Live on #KEXP)

Big New Crane Between Gates Hall and the Construction Site that used to be Phillips Hall and will be part of Duffield Someday
#photo #photography #crane

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Gang Starr feat. Inspectah Deck:
🎵 Above the Clouds
#GangStarr #InspectahDeck
https://owltree.bandcamp.com/track/gang-starr-ft-inspectah-deck-above-the-clouds-owltree-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZBSXNYdTZVaBUQI3E2rF6

Analyzing What the Raiders Need the Most https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-analyzing-what-need-most

Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/nvidia-…

The average temperature over the entire contiguous U.S. (CONUS) in March was 10.5°C, 5.2°C above average, ranking as the warmest March in the 132-year record.
This marks the first time any month's average temperature has exceeded 5°C above its 20th-century baseline.
https://www.ncei.noaa…

Honestly obviously the Goldblum one above is a joke edit, but the Apple commercials from that time are so nice. Especially compared to the garbage shown on streaming platforms today.
https://youtu.be/83nS4EGKU04

'Blick von oben' #fotovorschlag 'view from above'
When I saw the topic, I wasn't sure wether I should post a mountin photo or not. But as I have seen so many others doing so, I decided to also post this "view from above" from ~3 months ago when I went to this mountain and enjoyed not only the silence but also the view.
Enjoy!

I feel like I am missing my SLA to turn around portraits so it is a guilty pleasure to share a #sliceoflife of which I will say two things: (1) I told the clerk at the 7-11 that "I didn't know she was still around" and (2) the photo is above the dignity of the object because I took it with a huge lens

For #Caturday, Cubone sits above all and surveys his dominion
#cats #CatsOfMastodon

Witnessing Magnetic Reconnection in Tangled Superpenumbral Fibrils around a Sunspot: #Sunspot: https://aasnova.org/2026/03/11/astronomers-see-braided-magnetic-fields-above-a-sunspot/

My kids have had the last week off of school and it's looking like they'll have a snow day on Monday, too.
Just slowly losing my mind over here.. (also way behind on work)

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115812989227244456
Background to the above:
1/ last year's change to the software status page for TrueNAS
2/ <

⚠️ Product may shrink when wet.

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/…

Stock market hits all-time high as Dow closes above 50,000
The U.S. stock market ended a bumpy week with a bang,
as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time.

The Dow crossed the threshold
— an important psychological barrier
— earlier Friday before retreating
and then surging again to close at 50,115.67.

That was a jump of 2.47 percent, more than 1,200 points for the day.

The rally extended to the S&P 500 and the …

Stock market hits all-time high as Dow closes above 50,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at a record 50,115.67 on Friday, rising more than 1,200 points for the day.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Beth Orton:
🎵 The Ground Above
#BethOrton
https://bethorton.bandcamp.com/track/the-ground-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/03czEOGf1RDg2FPcl30XCn

Urban Demons 👻
城市鬼魂 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Anybody have a non emergency service contact for Puget Sound Energy? They have a contact to report outages and downed wires but not lower priority issues.
We've pretty definitively figured out what's going on at my friends' place: intermittent brownouts on one of the two 120V phases affecting the entire house but not neighbors. Waveforms show glitches in the sine right above and below the zero crossing consistent with series arcing. And it happens more often in windy weathe…

Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15% after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/intel-intc-q1-2026-earnings-report.html

Intel's stock soars 15% as results top estimates, with chipmaker showing signs of growth
Intel has been a Wall Street darling of late even as the business has yet to find much momentum.

Yo, wtf did I do to deserve *this*? And yes, I need a haircut and shave, but it's not *that* bad!

"Amazon deforestation raises surface temperature by 3°C during dry season, satellite data show"
#AmazonRainforest #Deforestation

Amazon deforestation raises surface temperature by 3°C during dry season, satellite data show
Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%. The loss of vegetation leads to an increase in surface temperature, a decrease in evapotranspiration, and a reduction in precipitation during the dry season and in the number of rainy days.

What is so bewildering about Trump’s cruelty is how it has been allowed to pass, its casualness.
Donald Trump hovers above the circus of death and chaos.
Trump defies attempts to make his actions cohere with any particular strategy.
His wars, killing of innocents, and indeed, the threatening of entire civilisations are reshaping the world,
but without him even having orchestrated some master plan.
He is animated by little more than momentary impulses and resent…

Branches 🌿
分支 🌿
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal ‪paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite€
#filmphotography #Photography

Historic Glacial Confluence
This is the site of confluence of the former glaciers Vernagtferner and Hintereisferner, two of the most (and longest) studied glaciers in the world. It is the site (at ~2200m) where several times over the past thousand years the ice of the Vernagtferner would pile up to form a massive dam, 150-200m tall, which caused a semi-permanent ice lake to form in the Rofen/Hintereis valley above (the one visible from ~7 seconds). Many times this lake would get up to …

Sometimes, people with a large audience let it go to their heads. When they are shitty, they feel the need to justify it with fancy rhetoric because they're above the rest of us.
We all take shortcuts, we all cheat on the diet, we all hit the snooze button for another 5 mins of sleep, we all do the thing we think we can get away with (and then feel guilty about it later) because no one was looking. We're human. Sometimes you've just gotta be honest and own up and say "…

Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.83B, vs. $4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 8% after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-22/texas-in…

Netherlands-based ASM, whose deposition tools are used to make advanced chips, projects Q2 revenue of ~€980M, above €886.8M est., driven by AI demand (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/a…

Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns

U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live,
according to three people briefed on the situation.
Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said.

The military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level as the United States and …

Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns
Lockdowns at U.S. bases and a global security alert underscore concerns that Iranian retaliation could extend to officials on American soil.

Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Midpak:
🎵 Above and Below
#Midpak
https://midpak.bandcamp.com/track/above-and-below
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qXzfQoMPJbz25eD9uFrhK

SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.49B, above est., net profit up 61% YoY to $172.85M, above $139.5M est., and 2025 revenue of $9.33B, above 2024's $8.03B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…

Sources: UK-based CuspAI, which aims to use AI for discovering new materials, is in discussions to raise at least $200M, taking its valuation to over $1B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-20…

Figma reports Q4 revenue up 40% YoY to $303.8M, vs. $293.15M est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; FIG jumps 15% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/figma-fig-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Figma stock jumps 20% as company sees AI monetization accelerating growth
The design software company maintained its gross margin even as more people adopted the Figma Make artificial intelligence tool.

eBay reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $3B, vs. $2.87B est., GMV up 10% to $21.2B, and forecasts Q1 profit above estimates; EBAY jumps 6% after hours (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/eb…

Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/cadence-design-systems-stock-earnings-ai-chip.h…

Cadence Design Systems shares pop on earnings beat, custom chip optimism
CEO Anirudh Devgan said he expects the trend of companies making their own custom chips to accelerate.

Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, vs. $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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