@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: the NBA may launch a streaming hub for local broadcasts next season, a year earlier than planned, due to the upcoming demise of Main Street Sports RSNs (Tom Friend/Sports Business Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Arti
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMatch eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/match-group-coo-out-as-…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto.
As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet,
a status it lost when in 2006 the International Astronomical Union created a new system of nomenclature for all those weird and wacky bodies hurtling around the sun.
Pluto, long a staple of the Big Nine and a famous childhood acrostic, was now a "mere" dwarf planet.
Trump's back on his weird horse again, makin…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe people and government of Iraq would like to thank the US and Israel for further destabilising the region by starting another war.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-plunged-into-nationwide-blackout-as-us…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deas_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mines-dams-move-in-as-protection-slips-in-a-cambodian-wildlife-sanctuary/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIn the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.
Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.
2/
@markhburton@mstdn.socialQuite right. Close overseas bases.
"Chants of “British bases out” have rung out in recent days in Limassol, as protesters call for the removal of UK military bases from Cyprus’s sun-drenched south coast island.
"Demonstrations erupted after a suspected Iranian-made drone struck RAF Akrotiri earlier this week, two days after US-Israeli attacks on Iran began."
Anger in Cyprus over UK bases as US-Israel war with Iran endangers island | Al Jazeera
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgThis from Ingold (being alive 2011, pg. 62) reads as more optimistic than it used to. LLMs are closed rather than open, and can we really say its users aren't losing skill as "the ‘living appendages’ of lifeless mechanism"?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alQuite happy with how the page/component lifecycle log messages are coming along as part of my push to get the new stateful components over the line in Kitten¹.
This should make it very easy to ensure that things are happening as you think they are and to conceptualise the behaviour of your stateful component hierarchies. (You can also use stateless components, of course, as is the currently documented workflow.)
¹
@primonatura@mstdn.social"As climate change threatens student athlete safety, states try to adapt"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFree-agent QB Russell Wilson weighing contract offer from Jets, opportunity as TV analyst https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-qb-russell-wilson-weighing-contract-offer-from-jets-opportunity-as-tv-analyst
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThe 49ers are hiring former Bears coach Matt Eberflus as a defensive assistant, AP source says https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/the-49ers-are-hiring-former-bears-coach-matt-eberflus-as-a-defensive-assistant-…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeNotePad Dev Slams Mac Version As Unauthorized and 'Frankly Disrespectful
https://www.pcmag.com/news/notepad-plus-plus-dev-slams-mac-version-as-unauthorized-and-frankly-disrespectful
@geant@mstdn.socialGÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
🔗 Read more: htt…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders expected to release Geno Smith after 1 season as starting QB https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-expected-to-release-geno-smith-after-1-season-as-starting-qb-3715898/
@servelan@newsie.socialOlympic Sex Testing Returns, Reigniting Debate Over Who Qualifies as a Woman in Sports - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/06/olympic-sex-testing-returns-reigniting-debate-over-who-qualifies-as-a-woman-in-sports/
@datascience@genomic.socialA template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialQuantum computing allowed the verification of the structure and behaviour of the new molecule in ways that were not possible before.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/scie
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS Says Offensive Phase of Iran War Over as Ship Hit in Strait (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/us-says-offensive-phase-of-iran-war-over-as-ship-hit-in-strait
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p97#a260505p97
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeTired but your housemate is in the way? No problem!
Just use them as a pillow.
@cdarwin@c.imRepublican senator Tim Sheehy joined Capitol Police as they violently ejected an anti-war protester and U.S. Marine veteran from an Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Wednesday,
-- appearing to break his arm as the group tried to wrestle him out of the chamber.
Video of the incident shows Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, rushing over to help police as they try to tug and push the protester out of the chamber,
as the protester yells, “no one wants to fight for …
@grumpybozo@toad.socialIt’s weird that so many people were appalled by Trump’s post of him as Dr. Jesus reviving John McAfee, but I barely heard a peep about the one he posted with him as Jesus on the cross with a crown of thorns.
Tolerance is so fast. I bet he could get away with picturing himself as Mohammed, and I really hope he tries it.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-selects-law-firms-cooley-wachtell…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJournalism Funding Partners announces that Google chose the group as a third-party administrator for California's public-private partnership to fund newsrooms (Journalism Funding Partners)
https://www.jfp-local.org/vie…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine's experience priceless as Iran war sees long-range strike drones go global: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/ukraines-experience-priceless-as-iran.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decaida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 21343 nodes and 86850 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
@Dragofix@veganism.socialLandmark Vote Positions Helsinki as a Plant-Based Policy Frontrunner https://vegconomist.com/gastronomy-food-service/food-service/landmark-vote-positions-helsinki-as-a-plant-based-policy-frontrunner/
@rberger@hachyderm.io“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
#
https://addyosmani.com/blog/factory-model/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialBecause Trump lifted sanctions on Russian oil, Ukraine has only one choice and that is making exporting oil as difficult as possible, therefore massive attacks on oil infrastructure like in Novorossiysk. The scary thing for Putin, he doesn't seem to be able to defend against these attacks.
#russia #oil
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net@… phpstorm is for people who write their own code, people who still write code are also dead and - as always - are unwilling to accept that as well... Enjoy it as long you can 💪
@johl@mastodon.xyzLast month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialKash #Patel has given out bottles of a personalized whiskey to FBI staff as well as civilians he encounters in his duties, according to eight people, including current and former FBI and Department of Justice employees and others who are familiar.
@luca@social.luca.runAt work @…, we are testing a new format where everyone from the support team has a one on one with everyone else. I created a python script to create the combinations and dates. At home, I thought it would be nice to make it easier to use and get back into learning Vue. I re-created the script as a tiny web app: MatchICS.
You enter a list of entities (people, t…
@brian_gettler@mas.toMaybe write to the editor to ask what's up before pulling your article because things aren't going as fast as you'd like. Peer review takes a while, everyone's overworked (including the people who've already put in the work and wrote a review), and you're not any more important than anyone else. Academia is constantly finding new ways to disappoint.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/india-pc-sh…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzHow Klint Kubiak has navigated his first two months as Raiders head coach https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/how-klint-kubiak-has-navigated-his-first-two-months-as-raiders-head-coach-3733876/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Emperor penguins face growing threat as sea ice disappears - video"
#Penguins #EmperorPenguins #Animals
@cdarwin@c.imUtah has made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages
in a move one advocacy group described as putting
“profits for the biggest polluters over communities”, with other states expected to follow suit.
The new state legislation comes as part of a push from big oil and its political allies
– including groups tied to rightwing impresario Leonard Leo
– for legal immunity in red statehouses and Congress…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ Offers Lawyers $25,000 Signing Bonuses as Recruitment Lags (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-offers-lawyers-25-000-signing-bonuses-as-recruitment-lags
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p49#a260505p49
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116356810759725972
Does Israel have a right to exist?
Yes, about as much as Nazi Germany or any other state guilty of settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Which is to say none wh…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioLessons:
- works as an insult
- works as a joke
- doesn’t actually have to make metaphorical sense
…thus:
- don’t overthink it, just vibe-joke it
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deinternet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMarvell stock jumps 20% after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand (Lola Murti/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/marvell-shares-surge-18percent-as-ceo-points…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSocial media reports earlier this week that CISA Director nominee Sean Plankey was fired from DHS, casting uncertainty over his CISA nomination, were solidified in a more detailed CBS News report yesterday.
Plankey, however, says he is gearing up for his CISA job.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on this development and other top infosec news, including
--European law enforcement busted up Tycoon2FA phishing platform,
--FBI and European cops take down cyberc…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA French parliament inquiry report calls for 25% cuts to public broadcasting and more; the far right plans to privatize public broadcasting if elected in 2027 (Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBears finalizing DJ Moore trade to Bills: Josh Allen gets premier weapon as Chicago embraces young receivers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/d-j-moore-trade-bills-bears/
@roelgrif@mstdn.social#Trump needs very very dumb people in his administration. Dumb subordinates might make himself look good, or at least not as bad as them. At least, that's what he hopes.
https://youtu.be/0HkUE-9lu5w?si=UzASOm
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialChina’s Big Bet on Wind Power Is Paying Off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/china-wind-turbines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.GeBS.EaRP98vcDITh&smid=nytcore-android-share
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2051523855286776034
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deas_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately (Türkiye Today)
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-plunged-into-nationwide-blackout-as-us-tells-citizens-to-leave-immediately-3215617?s=1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p153#a260304p153
@cdarwin@c.imAfter a wet January and February, Carrizo Plain National Monument has entered superbloom
The mountain ranges have been flowering for weeks.
The valley floor has begun to follow.
And if the weather holds,
the display could stretch into early April.
https://www.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAs satellites fill Earth’s orbit, the space race risks becoming an environmental crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/01/as-satellites-fill-earths-orbit-the-space-race-risks-becoming-an-env…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAnd of course there are a thousand practical lessons in fighting authoritarians, and we are passing them on as best we can as so many thousands of thousands have before us — but for now, for today, this is the one thing I can tell you: stop waiting for someone else to save you. This is it. We’re all we’ve got. Either we do this or no one does.
❝
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.
❞
/end
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPodcast transcript with Nilay Patel and Liz Lopatto, on why prediction market players want to be seen not as gambling but as news, incentivizing insider trading (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/889177/pred…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deword_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ aims to speed up voter roll case as deadline for removing voters looms (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-aims-to-speed-up-voter-roll-case-as-deadline-for-removing-voters-looms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p89#a260306p89
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as soon as this month as part of its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/orac…
@cdarwin@c.imKristi Noem thanked Donald Trump for her new role as
special envoy for the
“Shield of the Americas”
while acknowledging her ouster as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary.
Noem said she looks forward to working with secretary of state Marco Rubio and defense secretary Pete Hegseth to
“dismantle cartels”
as part of the president’s initiative that he’ll announce on Saturday.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioNB: I mean “hunting for heads” in a justice and reconciliation sense, not in the sense of literally chopping off heads. In Minneapolis, our commitment to responding to inhumanity with humanity is just as deep as our anger.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHuawei dominated MWC as the largest exhibitor, illustrating the challenge facing the EU as it pushes to outlaw the Chinese supplier from European networks (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-huawei-dominates-telco-jambo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCalifornia election experts sound alarm as rate of rejected ballots quadruples (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-04/california-election-experts-sound-alarm-as-rejected-ballots-quadruple
http://www.memeorandum.com/260404/p64#a260404p64
@cdarwin@c.imAbout one in eight people globally have some form of sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea causes breathing to stop and start several times during sleep.
This happens because either your airway is blocked, known as obstructive sleep apnea,
or you brain isn’t controlling your breathing as it should, known as central sleep apnea.
For decades, the main form of treatment for this population has been the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, which helps keep a person’s a…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioFriends over the weekend tried making some brownies with a vegan egg substitute but no modifications to accommodate that. The oils separated completely and they got a weird sludge that became increasingly tar-like as it cooled. I referred to them as “vibe-coded brownies,” and everybody was just like “ha, yep”
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2, up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025, amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY, while R&D jumped 34% YoY (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/apples-rd-spending-climbs-to-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPatients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350 infections, doctors say (Curtis Booker/KSL-TV)
https://www.ksl.com/article/51457971/patients-say-measles-worse-than-expected-as-utah-hits-350-infections-doctors-say
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p92#a260306p92
@cdarwin@c.imA recent YouGov survey – conducted last fall and published in January – found that only 40% of US adult citizens identify as “center-left”, “center” or “center-right”, not 70%.
Polling published by Pew that was conducted last year similarly puts the number at 41%
(including those who self-identify as “Lean Democrat”, “No Lean/Refused”, “Lean Republican”),
While Gallup data puts the percentage of Americans who identify as Republican-leaning independents, non-leaning indepen…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dekegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 1421 nodes and 3814 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'It's like the Day of Judgment out here.' New England residents trapped in Middle East as war escalates. (Nick Stoico/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/metro/mass-residents-trapped-in-middle-east-as-war-widens/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p107#a260306p107
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt,
and a record number
— 7.7 million
— have defaulted on their loans,
For some borrowers, moving abroad and out of reach of debt collectors can be tempting.
In interviews, people who made this decision cited relieving the psychological burden of student debt as a motivator,
as well as having a higher quality of life,
even on a lower salary,
outside the United States.
Man…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomething I do not think the fashy Trump-licking crowd understands is how •deeply• we here in Minneapolis and environs felt everything that’s happened.
The ICE invasion might have been a lot of things for the folks behind it: a strategic offensive, a gambit, a bender, a job, a joy ride. But I suspect that across all those cases, it was something they feel like they can walk away from whenever they decide to be done with it.
Not so for us neighbors. They have no idea how angry we are. They have no idea how long we’re going to stay angry. If you were a part of the ICE invasion, be warned: people will be out hunting for your head as long as you walk free on this earth.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI chipmaker Cerebras could raise ~$2B in its IPO as soon as April; it withdrew its previous IPO registration in October, nearly a year after filing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/ai-c…
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans could and likely would vote to table any resolution to impeach Trump,
but that would represent a de facto endorsement of whatever war crimes Trump chooses to commit against Iran in the coming days,
and of the global economic fallout for Trump’s humiliating forfeiture of the Strait of Hormuz.
The least-worst way forward for both the U.S. and the world is for the war to end immediately.
That almost certainly can’t happen with an erratic president in offic…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPennsylvania sues Character.AI, alleging that one of its characters posed as a psychiatrist, as the state seeks to prevent chatbots from impersonating doctors (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pe…
@cdarwin@c.imWith military outposts on multiple islands, as well as the shoreline, Iran can quickly blanket the narrow shipping lanes with drones, antiship missiles and fast-attack speedboats.
Given Iran’s firepower, the United States would have to capture the entire cluster of islands to try to open the strait, said Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute, including Qeshm, Larak, Abu Musa and the Tunb islands.
“They need to take all of them,” he said.
The United Stat…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMany of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora (Orlando Crowcroft/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cb371b43-d5af-4666-a9f5-28ec3e00ea63
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet gives Sundar Pichai a new three-year pay deal worth up to $692M, with stock incentives worth as much as $350M linked to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1d3fa4f9-ec94-49ff-b22f-bd69b92be8ce
@cdarwin@c.imThe forthcoming decision in
"Louisiana v Callais"
will not just be another supreme court ruling in a long line of voting cases.
This time the issue is whether the Voting Rights Act (VRA) can still require states to draw electoral maps that give Black voters a meaningful chance to elect representatives.
The challenge to the VRA is the latest brick in a wall that has been under construction for more than a decade,
A wall designed to silence Black voters…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAsia's smaller chip companies are joining their bigger peers in hiking prices as robust AI demand fuels capex, projected to rise 25% YoY to over $136B in 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@cdarwin@c.imWe're about to finally learn whether the war in Iran is a big enough story to distract from the Epstein Files
- as the Department of Justice prepares to release another trenche of files.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dona…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDrift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6 month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/04/0
@cdarwin@c.imAOC says Trump is willing to
‘risk world war’ by using Iran attack
as #Epstein files distraction
The Progressive Democrat accuses Donald Trump of ‘impulsively’ launching military action overseas
with no exit plan
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (Lola Murti/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/micron-zooms-past-700-billio…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is set to hold a press conference in the White House briefing room today at 1pm ET
on the US-Israel war on Iran.
He’s expected to provide an update on the weekend rescue mission to retrieve a crew member after a US F-15 jet was downed on Friday over Iran.
This also comes after the president issued a profanity-laden ultimatum to the Iranian regime on social media to reopen the strait of Hormuz, or face further strikes on energy sites and bridges across the count…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/world/a
@cdarwin@c.imTrump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader
as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day.
Iran kept up its retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases and countries around the region.
Speaking to American news website Axios,
Trump ruled out Mojtaba Khamenei,
a front-runner to replace his father,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who was killed in the opening strikes of the war.
Trump’s comments were…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ope…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInfineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imDemocratic senator Chris Van Hollen, viewed as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, will unveil a plan that he says would ensure roughly half of all U.S. workers pay no federal income taxes.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is expected to release the measure next week as Democratic lawmakers search for a sharp economic message to counter last year’s Republican tax law.
Under Van Hollen’s proposal, workers making at or below a “living wage”
— $46,000 for taxpayers filin…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElevenLabs raised $550M in its Series D, up from a previously announced $500M, adding BlackRock, Nvidia, and others as investors; its ARR passed $500M in Q1 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/05/elevenlabs-adds-blackrock-nvidia-and-j…
@cdarwin@c.imThe US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering plans by the start-up
💥Reflect Orbital
to illuminate parts of the Earth at night using reflective satellites,
as well as applications from
💥SpaceX that could dramatically expand satellite numbers in low Earth orbit.
“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,”
said the presidents of the Europ…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing
@cdarwin@c.imThe California primary election is on June 2, less than four weeks away.
For the third time in as many weeks, the leading candidates for California governor met on the debate stage Tuesday night.
The latest installment was a two-hour session, hosted and carried live from Monterey Park by CNN.
The debate marked the first time the candidates appeared before a national audience
and came as mail ballots have begun arriving in homes throughout the state.
@cdarwin@c.im"The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people), according to a new Oxfam analysis published on April 2, 2026, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers."
The consequences are as predictable as they are devastating:
we see our public hospitals and schools starved of funds,
our social fabric shredded by rising inequality,
and ordinary people for…
@cdarwin@c.imSome US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president’s mental state
after Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden threat to Iran in which he called on the regime to
“open the fuckin’ strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards”,
as he threatened to further attack the country’s energy and transport infrastructure
It comes as the Trump administration hurtles towards another self-imposed deadline
– this time, Monday
– for Iran to r…
@cdarwin@c.imEnergy experts have long warned that the war in Iran was causing the biggest oil-supply shock in history.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz shut in 14m barrels a day of oil.
To destroy that much demand, they said, the price of Brent crude should be more than double its pre-war level, at well over $150 a barrel.
But oil traders were in a stupor.
-- As recently as April 17th prices were below $90 a barrel.
Over the past week, on talk of renewed fighting, the…
