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Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now a part of the design team at Apple, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ap

Apple Acquisition Talks, Fraud Accusations: Behind One App Startup’s Nasty Split
Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store. The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s ...

I just can’t agree with this. I mean…yes, I feel for the guy. I’ve never been in his position. I don’t know what kind of pressure he was under.
What I •do• know is that if you publicly, eagerly capitulate to fascists, whatever reasons you might have for that, you accept the consequences of that choice. Collaborators who capitulated out of self-preservation instead of belief are still collaborators.
https://mastodon.social/@Sgns/116441133941793969

It's only a /24 from from an edu to Nebius, but if you don't know Nebius, they are like a CoreWeave, which if you don't know, they are the two of the leading (start up) AI-driven, GPU-fueled infrastructure providers outside of the big, better-known hyperscalers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
https://

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Des Moines Area Community College" transferred 161.210.111.0/24 (Taken from 161.210.110.0 - 161.210.255.255) to "Nebius Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $6.40 K)

Everything we’re learning now strongly suggests that Donald Trump’s war is about to get worse.
♦️First, officials leaked word to The Washington Post that the Pentagon and the White House are likely to
💥demand $200 billion more from Congress.
Trump sort of confirmed this in remarks to reporters while adding some unsettling threats of unspecified additional military action.
♦️Second, sources told Reuters that Trump is considering the deployment of thousands of troops…

Trump War Takes Darker Turn as Leaked Plans Unnerve Experts: “Madness”
In an interview, Congressman Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Democrat, sharply condemns the newly leaked war schemes—and tells us that Dems must not agree to one more dime in war funding.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Azure Amber:
🎵 Going
#AzureAmber
https://azureamber.bandcamp.com/album/going

Zeitspanne von Genehmigung bis Inbetriebnahme einer #Windkraftanlage.
Die Box (hellblau) zeigt, wo die mittleren 50 % der Anlagen von der Dauer her liegen. Der Strich in der Box ist die typische Dauer. Die Hälfte der Errichtungen war schneller, die andere langsamer. Die dünnen Linien („Antennen“) nach oben und unten zeigen, wie weit die meisten übrigen Projekte noch streuen. Die ei…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Noir Désir:
🎵 Le Vent Nous Portera
#NowPlaying #NoirDésir
https://yiannc.bandcamp.com/track/noir-d-sir-le-vent-nous-portera-yiannc-nu-disco
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZQVJD9I6GCqXmkmMuEoLa

Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come

Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.

Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-developer-conference-ai-war-alex-karp/

At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars
As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.

German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse agrees to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds for about $6.2B in cash and stock (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/deutsche-boerse-reaches-5-3-…