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Greenspot nightshade, Solanum douglasii, at Sepulveda Basin this spring
#naturalist #wildflower

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj000qzaowx

Cash-strapped AI chip startup Hailo sees valuation halved to under $500 million ahead of urgent IPO
Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures.

As a freelance artist for Magic, I will be watching very closely to how Wizards of the Coast engages with the United Wizards of the Coast group looking to unionise at the MTG Arena studio.
I will always side with the workers & they have my full solidarity
https://

WotC Responds To MTG Arena Team's Unionization Effort
Wizards of the Coast receives unionization petition, takes on known union-busting law firm

NIST announced it is updating about 20% or around 4,500 of its calculated CVSS scores on CVE records because they were too high. Fewer than 30 CVE records were assigned a score lower than the correctly calculated value.
https://www.nist.gov/itl/nvd#news-updates

National Vulnerability Database
NIST maintains the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), a repository of information on software and hardware flaws that can compromise computer security. This is a key piece of the nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure.

Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skbchhti11x

Tower’s surge continues as valuation crosses $20 billion mark
Once overlooked, the company is now central to investor expectations around AI.

All four normal now.
I wish I could say the same for Trump. What a colossal bell-end.

In case you want to understand your TLS clients in depth from Node.js, there's a new v2 release of read-tls-client-hello now live: https://github.com/httptoolkit/read-tls-client-hello
Also now supported on

GitHub - httptoolkit/read-tls-client-hello: A pure-JS module to read TLS client hello data and calculate TLS fingerprints from an incoming socket connection.
A pure-JS module to read TLS client hello data and calculate TLS fingerprints from an incoming socket connection. - httptoolkit/read-tls-client-hello

Back of the envelope calculation was that it would take about a 1/4 hectare of spekboom to offset the carbon emissions of my 2010 Honda Jazz.
Given that it grows in fairly crummy soil, and really doesn't need a lot of care, again back of the envelope, the cost came to a few thousand rand per month. A lot of money, but not crazy, out of reach expensive.
Nice to see someone else is trying to scale this insight -

World Bank, Amazon back R1bn Eastern Cape spekboom bond
The deal channels global capital into restoring degraded Eastern Cape land while creating carbon-credit income for South Africa.

US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/d9pizceo2

Credo to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics for up to $1.3 billion
The Israeli company's photonic chip technology enables faster, lower-cost data transfer in next-generation AI clusters.