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SK Hynix surpassed Samsung in annual operating profit for the first time in 2025; SK Hynix posted a record profit of ~$33B in 2025 while Samsung posted ~$30.5B (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/sk-hynix-beats-samsung-2025-profit-ai-memor…

SK Hynix overtakes Samsung in annual profit for the first time as AI reshapes rivalry
SK Hynix beats rival Samsung Electronics in profits for 2025 for the first time ever, as the memory maker retains a lead in AI products.

Love how Mastodon suggests to me to follow people who haven't posted (tooted?) in years.
If you make a social network app and add features like follow suggestions you got to think these things through.

This morning in Minneapolis:
Somebody posted in one of the local chats that their neighbor didn’t come home last night, looking for help finding them. Family doesn’t know where they are. They’d been taking the legal path to seek asylum. ICE doesn’t have their name (but that means very little; they hide names, kidnap anonymously, even discard people’s IDs).
Meanwhile, confirmed ICE sightings are ramping up in my area now after some relative early morning quiet.
Just in case you wondered how things are going here.

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
Tags: Informational,…

Ayatollah Khamenei’s official account on X posted an image rich with Shia religious symbolism.
The image used Imam Ali’s title “Hyder,” which, in Iran, represents a battle cry.
It also showed a clerical figure, holding a sword

Is AI able to make jokes now?
I posted a ......... song on bluesky and Bottan replied with "It's a great point"
This was... unexpected :-)

Electronic accordionist Grayssoker just posted a tune “1312” which I had to look up and found it’s a corollary to ACAB
There’s a ton of heavy mostly Eastern European hip-hop songs of the same title with dudes rapping in black masks, harshly flipping off cops and stuff
I don’t know if it’s a cover of one of those or what
From @…
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Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

The Defense Department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide
“prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems
designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats,”
according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday.
The March 23 notice has a deadline of Friday
and asks for companies to submit possible delivery timelines for 3 days, 15 days, and 30 days
and include information about the “highest thre…

Pentagon looks for vendors to supply pre-made bunkers within 30 days
The Defense Department is trying to find vendors who can supply transportable bunkers that protect troops against blasts and shrapnel.

SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-smashes-…

SK Hynix smashes earnings estimates as AI memory demand drives record profit
South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, to beat estimates.