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ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, vs. €8.5B est., and €2.8B net profit, vs. €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B-€40B from €34B-€39B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/asml-q1-2026-earnings-report.html

Chip giant ASML raises 2026 guidance as AI semiconductor demand stays strong
ASML beat first-quarter revenue and profit expectations and raised its sales guidance for 2026.

Meta kehrt VR-Spielen den Rücken: BatmanSequel und Harry Potter VR gestrichen
Die Fortsetzung von „Arkham Shadow“ wird nicht erscheinen. Meta beendet mehrere Projekte und streicht Fördermittel für die VR-Spiele-Entwicklung.

📈 Labor Wins When They Run Union Members for Office
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Labor Wins When They Run Union Members for Office
A new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin shows how labor can play to its strengths — and win. The secret? Run more union members for office.

The FBI said a glove found two miles from #Nancy #Guthrie’s Arizona home could match the gloves worn by an “armed” person seen in surveillance footage outside her front door the morning she disappeared, according to the Associated Press.
This comes after the FBI released new photos and videos from Guthrie’s doorbell …

DNA pulled from glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s home as FBI believe it may belong to suspect seen in doorbell cam
Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Arizona home on January 31

In Arizona, an Electric Utility Holds an Election, Open Only to Property Owners (Reis Thebault/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/us/politics/arizona-salt-river-project-voting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p12#a260314p12

"Over the past few years, multiple studies arguing that amyloid-β is the central driver of Alzheimer’s disease have been retracted. Some scientists have even been indicted for fraud over the issue. All the while, none of the drugs targeting this protein and its pathway have had any real clinical effect."
What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/whats-the-deal-with-alzheimers-disease-and-amyloid/

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (Cory Schouten/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2026/k…

Kraken has filed confidentially for IPO, co-CEO of crypto exchange confirms
At Semafor World Economy, Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed that the cryptocurrency exchange has filed confidentially to go public.

“Trump is an old school eugenicist nativist. He actually is fine with immigrants as long as they have the right ‘genes,’”
David J. Bier, director of immigration for the Cato Institute, wrote on X.
“This argument was the basis of the creation of the restrictive US immigration system 100 years ago.”
“He’s a white supremacist. He doesn’t hide it,” Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan wrote on X. 
This isn’t the first time Trump’s fearmongering about immigrants has crossed the line into ta…

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-masks-trump-admin-accountability
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p35#a260215p35

Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393639/probe-