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Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ch…

Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa
will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation.
The case was brought by
Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn,
two penetration testers who at the time were employed by
Colorado-based security firm
Coalfire Labs.
The men had written authorization from the Iowa Judicial Branch …

County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.

The JWST has looked at #comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) again, in four filters yesterday and today: from the raw images - https://yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_latest_release.html - comes this false color image, https://www.flickr.com/photos/197464132@N05/55012773369/

Mamdami "is the one who comes off as eminently principled and reasonable, while apoplectic Jewish leaders are having an increasingly difficult time explaining why a genocidal, apartheid nation-state is a “building block” of their Jewish identity."
**Over 1,000 Jewish Clergy Can’t Be Wrong on Mamdani and Anti-Zionism – or Can They?** | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-10-30/over-1000-jewish-clergy-cant-be-wrong-mamdani-and-anti-zionism-or-can-they

#Willowdale tell your councillor Lily Cheng what you think of small retail stores in your neighborhood
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Democratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
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TIL new (?) aussie slang “cunce”
not in wiktionary or Green’s but urban dictionary knows it
does that kind of variant spelling count as bowdlerization, if it doesn’t (much) affect the pronunciation?

Hoy estš de cumpleaños "un baterista que canta un poco". ¡Y qué gran cantante y mejor baterista que es Phil Collins! Nacido el 30 de enero de 1951 en Londres, fue baterista y voz principal en Genesis y luego tuvo una exitosa carrera como solista.
#PhilCollins #CumpleañosRockero <…

“It bears repeating that President Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce,
but Putin declined,
yet he directs soldiers to continue to commit brutal crimes of aggression on one of Christianity’s holiest days.
“Even for countries at war, there is a long history of Christmas ceasefires, including notably during World War I.
Today’s decision by Putin to launch attacks rather than hold fire is a sobering reminder for us all:
Putin is a ruthless murderer who has no inte…

Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Tillis, Rosen, Barrasso, Coons, King, Moran, Merkley, Van Hollen Statement on Russia’s Christmas Bombing of Ukraine | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jacky Rosen...

Letter: Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the US House Select Committee on China, says Nvidia helped DeepSeek hone AI models later used by the Chinese military (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia