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The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
#OpenTelemetry

Transgender swimmer banned for 5 years after gender test refusal -- blames insurance costs (Jenna Lemoncelli/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/sports/transgender-swimmer-ana-caldas-banned-five-years-for-refusing-sex-test/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p1#a251024p1

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

TIL: “tenure density”
https://mstdn.social/@jmccyoung/115769188515830950

For you #Minneapolis, #Dinkytown, University of #Minnesota folks: five years ago, we lost the iconic McDonald's

Gov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years (Yue Stella Yu/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor…

Newsom plans no new journalism funding despite $175-million funding deal with Google
It’s a significant walkback from an August 2024 deal between California leaders and Google to jointly spend $175 million over five years to fund local journalism.

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115748612376238550
The EU should think very seriously about visa requirements requiring vaccination certificates from USians before permitting entry.
Unlike five years of social media history, this will actually keep people saf…

Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions #environment

Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions
Global efforts to curb emissions of the potent but short-lived heat-trapping gas methane are doing about as poorly as the more prevalent carbon dioxide, but there's hope for the next five years, U.N. officials said Monday.

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.
Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals,
blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air.
Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout

Residents in this small town ‘left for dead’ after industrial disaster
“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year in AI in the next three to five years and is discussing potential investments with Japan (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

Alabama Woman Freed After Five Years in Prison for Stillbirth
https://jessica.substack.com/p/alabama-woman-freed-after-five-years

I think about this every time I pass the bus stop where it happened (now built out to protect people better). Two young men from two very different versions of Limerick city, two lives destroyed (one very much by his own actions).
https://www.

Sentence for gangland figure who killed student Joe Drennan increased by five years
Limerick student was killed in hit and run crash in which convicted man had filmed himself speeding

"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebra…

It’s been five years since I was elected to the #OpenStreetMap Foundation board becoming the first POC and the first person residing outside the U.S., Canada, and Europe to be elected. I like to think I broke some sort of glass ceiling because the OSMF currently has three POC on the board, and three people based in Africa or Asia.

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/tourists-social-media-trump

China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-20/c…

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that renamed itself in the Metaverse craze less than five years ago, is reducing its Metaverse activity by 10% and laying off some 1500 employees.
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-reportedly-laying-off-over-10…

@…
Falls du deine Sammlung von Beispielen für die aktive Verdrängung der Klimakrise erweitern willst:
https://<…

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

went thru my bookmarks and found BOOTED HARLEYDUDE. whyd i never go thru this kings site before???
http://bootedman.com/

A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitru…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

My 2018 Nissan Leaf has had no maintenance needed in 7 years (besides the usual tire rotation, brake check, etc).
Love it so much we bought a 2024 as well. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115691608937085271

Five years later, as Trump's lies continue, the danger of the January 6 insurrection remains (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/five-years-later-as-trumps-lies-continue
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p162#a260106p162

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/how-your-at-home-dna-test-could-send?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2bq2

Bloomberg News: «There is still a very real gap in the current value, or stock, of all the investments that the US and China have out in the world. At the end of 2024, the total value of US companies' long-term physical investments overseas was some $6.8 trillion», 5 more than China.
https://archive.is/WR8NN…

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.

this web component is five years old and it has outlived many epochs of JavaScript frameworks incredible journey-ing their “best practices” into even bester practices

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that a Dodecahedron is a 12-letter name for any 12-sided shape. And did you also know that on this day in 1962, the Canadian Government decreed that our dodecahedron nickel was decadent and that round was right. Pre-1962 nickels are now pretty worth a nickel, but a coin in "mint condition" has been known to fetch a few pennies more.
Have you noticed there are more coin buying events in your neighbourhoods over the past few years? Some of that activity is driven by buyers taking advantage of people wanting to sell old jewelry, collectibles, or jars of coins that are sitting in the back of drawers or closets. But the rise of digital transactions, particularly increased during COVID when no one wanted to touch your infected money, has increased the collectible value of coins and, in some cases, the actual metal value exceeds the face value.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
http://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-12-sided-five-cent-coin-becomes-round/

A personal scientific journey in ophthalmology: Twenty-five years of translating research into novel therapies https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18/6/883 "Optogenetics and Sensory Substitution": noninvasive sensory substitution devices "are being refined to improve spatial navigation in bli…

Colts will start 44-year-old Philip Rivers against Seahawks: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6882055/2025/12/13/philip-rivers-starting-colts-news-seahawks/

Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60 US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Thank you @… for reminding us that even on the day of her death Brigitte Bardot should not just be remembered as an actress but also as a very prominent racist.

Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right
Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.

My M1 MacBook Air (16GB/2TB) has begun lagging during normal everyday use in ways that I only associate with Windows systems. Never seen this behavior on the Intel Macs I bought or was fed by work for over a decade. It's disappointing to see software quality continuing to slip, and for Apple to be obviously giving up on a system that's not yet even five years old.
Oh well, I hadn't planned to buy another Mac, anyway. This just reinforces that decision.

BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Amol Rajan leaves after almost five years to start his own business in the creator economy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/amol-rajan-to-leave…

Amol Rajan to leave Today programme to start own business
Amol Rajan is leaving the BBC Radio 4 Today programme after four years to build his own company and take part in the creator economy.

Today’s sanctions also zero in on eight cyber military intelligence officers for working for the GRU for cyber operations targeting Yulia Skripal with X-agent malware and, five years later, the attempted murder of Yulia and her father on UK soil
https://www.

UK cracks down on Russian intelligence agency authorised by Putin to target Skripals
UK announces sanctions against the GRU as Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report finds Putin personally ordered their activity in Salisbury in 2018.

NEVER FORGET: Jan. 6 Five Years Later (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/never-forget-jan-6-five-years-later
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p110#a260106p110

"New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds"
#NewEngland #Climate #ClimateChange

France is aiming to increase the number of shared cars fivefold in five years: from 14,000 now to around 70,000 in 2031.
Both station-based and free-floating, within companies, urban and rural.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/autopart

Autopartage : le gouvernement vise un objectif de 70.000 véhicules d'ici 2031
Le gouvernement a fixé jeudi un nouvel objectif pour développer l'autopartage en France afin de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre du...

Dozens of January 6 supporters march through Washington five years after attack
A brawl erupts as a counter-protester is arrested – live
Many of those at today’s march, including ex-#ProudBoy leader #Enrique #Tarrio say tha…

A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-5-years/

Where Meta's biggest experiment in governance went wrong
Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?

Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren't funding election deniers (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/five-years-later-these-10-corporations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p23#a260106p23

25 years ago today,
five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights,
and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause,
told Florida it could not finish counting ballots
despite the Florida Supreme Court ruling to the contrary
because of an equal protection principle never used before or since.
-- Eric Segall

Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social)
25 years ago today, five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights, and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause, told Florida it could not finish counting ballots despite the Florida SCT ruling to the contrary b/c of an equal protection principle never used before or since.

US announces ‘strike force’ to counter Southeast Asian cyber scams, sanctions Myanmar armed group https://therecord.media/strike-force-southeast-asia-scams

Frequent Arctic wildfires could cut snow cover by 18 days, impacting global climate and ecology #Arctic

Frequent Arctic wildfires could cut snow cover by 18 days, impacting global climate and ecology
The correlation between Arctic wildfires and abnormal snow cover under global warming is of growing concern. A comprehensive quantitative assessment by researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has shown that increasingly frequent seasonal wildland fires across the Arctic in recent years have delayed snow cover formation by at least five days and could lead to a future 18-day reduction of snow cover duration, with implications for global ecosystems.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
David Bowie:
🎵 Five Years
#DavidBowie
https://mojofilter.bandcamp.com/track/david-bowie-five-years-mojo-filter-farewell-ode
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JIzFhI9Lt5FyslawmHCBi

A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitrus…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

Impact: How history could narrow down Cowboys' next DC options https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/impact-how-history-could-narrow-down-cowboys-next-dc-options

January 6 Is Five Years Behind Us. The Threat It Exposed Is Not. (Adam Kinzinger)
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/january-6-is-five-years-behind-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p70#a260106p70

Good Morning #Canada
There's been a lot of references to Badlands on social media lately, something about a movie or something. Seems like an opportunity to revisit some real bad lands in Alberta. Seventy-five million years ago, give or take a million years, when dinosaurs walked the earth, southern Alberta was a subtropical paradise of towering redwoods and giant ferns. But then the glaciers came and had their way with the landscape. Today, fertile plains suddenly drop away into a world of multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos. Spanning east from Drumheller to the Saskatchewan border and south to the United States, this region is known as the Canadian Badlands. It is home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world. It's a little bit more famous than the Cheltenham Badlands in Ontario.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Badlands
https://youtu.be/faf8DEXtMtU?si=ryTB_1Eo7dKCoyRb

My 2025 walking wrapped… Ending the year just shy of five million steps!

Colts vs. Seahawks prediction: Seattle will cruise to victory, but all eyes are on Indianapolis' QB situation

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-vs-seahawks-where-to-…

Various news about a possible future collider,
all pointing to the CERN FCC-ee as the leading proposal.
The Chinese CEPC plan is now on hold, as a decision was reached to not include it in China’s plans for the next five years (2026-30).

As part of the European Strategy for Particle Physics update process, recommendations drafted earlier this month have now been released
As expected, the main recommendation is to pursue the FCC-ee project, which will cost an esti…

Future Collider Update
Various news about a possible future collider, all pointing to the CERN FCC-ee as the leading proposal. For up to date background technical information on proposed colliders, including cost estimat…

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-ip…

Inside Apple’s iPhone Road Map, From Foldable Screens to Curved Glass Cases
The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly ...

The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington.
Agents arrested Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on explosive charges.
Calls to relatives of Cole listed in public records were not immediately returned.
The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, …

5 years later, authorities arrest a suspect in Washington pipe bomb case. Here's what to know
The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington, D.C. The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, and the Capitol riot by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters

How #uv got so fast
#python

Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B (Kim Tong-Hyung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-samsung-…

Samsung Electronics leads new domestic investment plans in South Korea
Samsung Electronics and other major South Korean companies have announced new domestic investment plans. This comes after a meeting with President Lee Jae Myung, who hopes to counter concerns about prioritizing U.S. investments under a recent trade deal. Samsung plans to invest $310 billion over five years to expand domestic operations, including a new production line at its Pyeongtaek hub. Hyundai Motor Group also plans to invest $86.3 billion from 2026 to 2030 in research and development. SK …

The State of Podcasting in Australia: Trends, Listeners, and Local Opportunities
#AusPods …

The State of Podcasting in Australia | Umbrella Creative
The State of Podcasting in Australia: Trends, Listeners, and Local Opportunities Introduction Australia’s podcasting scene has exploded over the past five years, shifting from a...

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
https://bsky.app/profi…

Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org)
Five years ago today, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election. January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand — it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.

JioHotstar plans to invest $444M over five years to acquire and produce content from South India, as it plans to more than double its 200M subscriber base (Praveen Paramasivam/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Impact: How history could narrow down Cowboys' next DC options https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/impact-how-history-could-narrow-down-cowboys-next-dc-options

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol
in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
https://bsky.app/profi…

Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org)
Five years ago today, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election. January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand — it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.

The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (Christine Chung/New York Times)
https://www.nyti…

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

Colts bringing in veteran QB Philip Rivers for visit in wake of Daniel Jones' season-ending injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/indianapolis-colts-qb-philip-r…

A US judge sentences Keonne Rodriguez, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to five years in prison for helping to launder hundreds of millions (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Five years after the deadly attackon the US Capitol, Donald Trump and other Republicans have engaged in a near-complete effort to #rewrite the history of the day and #erase it from the collective American memory.
On his first day in office, Trump #pardoned

Fun fact: every five to ten years, an elephant gets loose in Ireland. Besides New Ross, Naas (2003) and Blackpool, Cork (2012) I know of an incident in the vicinity of Allihies, ~2004. We are presently overdue. Be careful out there!

China sentences 5 Myanmar scam kingpins to death https://therecord.media/china-sentences-5-myanmar-scam-kingpins-to-death

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/bitcoin-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein-bitfinex-razz…

Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release
Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.

Indian megacities are sinking putting thousands of buildings at risk: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/indian-megacities-are-sinking-putting-thousands-of-buildings-at-risk-study/

Indian megacities are sinking putting thousands of buildings at risk: Study
Parts of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, India’s largest cities, are slowly sinking, mainly due to overextraction of groundwater, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s Manish Chandra Mishra. Researchers used eight years of satellite radar data and found that 878 square kilometers (339 square miles) of land across the five megacities show […]

January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history (Sam Levine/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/january-6-trump-us-capitol-attack
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p61#a260106p61

Nvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12…

Jerry Jones says Cowboys' defensive struggles don't all fall on Matt Eberflus https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-says-cowboys-defensive-struggles-don-t-all-fall-on-matt-eberflus

Futures uncertain for Saints veterans Cameron Jordan, Demario Davis, Taysom Hill https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47507204/futures-uncertain-new-orleans-saints-veterans-cameron-jordan-demario-davis-taysom-hill

The Scottish Sun editor Gill Smith will be the next editor of The US Sun, succeeding Natalie Evans, who was the inaugural editor of The US Sun from Feb. 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media…

Scottish Sun editor Gill Smith to lead US operation
Gill Smith has been named the next editor of The US Sun after leading sister title The Scottish Sun for five years.

Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an "AI co-scientist", and more (Sandro Iannaccone/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alphafold-changed-science-after-…

AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.

January 5, 2026 (Monday) -- Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p63#a260106p63

Australians are abandoning travel to the US,
and boycotting World Cup matches there next year,
as the Trump administration flags new rules
that will soon require visitors to ❌hand over their social media history
when applying to enter the country.
In a notice published on Tuesday,
the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP)
said tourists to the US
from 42 countries including Australia would have to
🔥reveal all of their social media …

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average 35% a year over the next three to five years and the total AI chip market will reach $1T by 2030 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

A Florida jury awards Megan Thee Stallion $75K in her defamation suit accusing blogger Milagro Gramz of being a "puppet" for Tory Lanez, who shot Megan in 2020 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/megan-thee-stallion…

Megan Thee Stallion wins defamation civil suit against blogger
A Florida jury sided with Megan Thee Stallion, agreeing a blogger defamed and harassed the rapper after she was shot five years ago by R&B musician Tory Lanez.

Who will win NFL Rookie of the Year? Ranking favorites, sleepers and intriguing long-shot bets

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-rookie-of-the-year-pred…

Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 5% (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustai…

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
Marking this anniversary is not just about remembering the past.
It’s about confronting the dangerous reality of the present.

How long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him?
The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years.
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jama…

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet
How long after a nation-state murders one of your columnists is it appropriate to make a multibillion-dollar deal with it? For Bezos: five years.

Ampere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

New NBA and MLB TV Deals Will Drive Global Sports-Media Spend to $78 Billion in Five Years
Ampere Analysis forecasts a 20 percent increase by 2030.

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…

The Asian Billionaires Riding The Data Center Boom
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.

Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-…

Ant Builds a Mobile Payment Network as an Alternative to Visa, Mastercard
Five years after the Chinese government quashed Ant Group’s plans for what would have been the world’s largest initial public offering, the Chinese fintech giant has built a fast-growing international business. That offshoot runs a global payment network for digital wallets that could one day be ...

Five months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world,
a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, pharmacy and market in a remote village of South Sudan known as Old Fangak.
Situated in a deep pocket of grassy swampland formed by floodwaters from the Nile that haven’t receded for five years thanks to climate change,
Old Fangak was home to thousands of internally displaced South Sudanese women and children
— inclu…

Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive.
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.

Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-reserves-50-billion-sto…

OpenAI Reserves $50 Billion for Stock Grant Pool
OpenAI last fall set aside an employee stock grant pool worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The $50 billion pool of restricted stock units should last for roughly five years and should rise in value as the ...

VW says it's developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years (Edward White/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/62434bb6-e6bf-4a82-911d-2826f212eee0

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Bottlenecks in data center construction threaten Japan's AI ambitions
Labor shortages, rising costs and outdated building processes delay construction

It was a tense extra-inning battle
— the Dodgers scored the go-ahead run in the 10th inning and held on to clinch their second title in five years.
Mookie Betts hit a key home run, and closer Evan Phillips sealed the win.
You can read the full play-by-play and highlights here

Dodgers win World Series vs. Blue Jays: Live updates and reactions from wild extra-inning Game 7
Los Angeles pulled off a wild win to secure back-to-back titles, the first since 2000

Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bitcoin (BTC) Miners Hunted After Stealing $1 Billion Power From Malaysia Grid
Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in Malaysia.

On this day three years ago,
OpenAI released what it referred to internally as a “low-key research preview”called ChatGPT.
And people sure did use it
—more than 1 million of them in the first five days.
ChatGPT grew faster than any other consumer app in history.
Today, it has 800 million weekly users.
ChatGPT’s success has quickly rewired parts of our society and economy.
Now we are living in a world that ChatGPT helped build.

The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.

Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/microsoft-will-raise-prices-of…

Microsoft will raise prices of commercial Office subscriptions in July
For the second time in five years, Microsoft is hiking prices for commercial customers of its widely used Office bundles.

Over the past five years,
as Trump’s most notorious acolyte in Congress,
#MTG had adopted his unrepentant pugilism as her own.
⭐️“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,”
she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December.
“You just keep

Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump and MAGA
How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.