Tootfinder

So someone posted an "EU Sovereignity Check" for web pages on the orange site, and you know which web page gets 100 points for EU Sovereignity and is listed on their leaderboard? nsa.gov

…it’s not even that. It’s just ugly. Bad layouts. Bad margins. Bad proportions. Awkward animations. Flickers and flashes. Content peeking through all the negative space so that the screen is filled with visual noise. It feels designed by committee. It feels pasted together.
The feel of Apple products has covered a lot of ground over the decades. They’ve felt elegant. They’ve felt basic. They’ve felt bauble-y and cute. They’ve felt futuristic. They’ve felt practical. But this is the first time I can recall an Apple product feeling •cheap•.

internet_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

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.

Suspected Chinese spies targeted former State official for Venezuela research
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/01/suspected-chinese-spies-targeted-former-state-official-venezuela-research/410943…

Suspected Chinese spies targeted former State official for Venezuela research
The recruitment scheme involved a sham company previously reported by Nextgov/FCW that has sought out former U.S. federal employees through fake websites and job postings.

The FBI director, Kash Patel, announced on Monday he was launching a criminal investigation
into group chats used by Minneapolis protesters on the Signal messaging app,
based on a social media post by the far-right personality Cam Higby.
Patel used the podcast of another rightwing personality, Benny Johnson, to break the news.
Higby had posted on Sunday on X that he had “infiltrated” a group chat on Signal,
the widely used communication app that offers effective…

Nude photos and passports: Justice Department posted dozens of problematic images to Epstein files site, CNN analysis finds (Marshall Cohen/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/26/politics/epstein-photos-redacted-nudes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p60#a260226p60

Minnebar (the Twin Cities’ wonderful design & technology unconference) is coming up in May. I always volunteer to do a talk, and…I have no idea what I want to talk about.
You all see me post here. Suggestions? Things I’ve posted you’d like to see turned into a talk / session?

internet_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

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) barred flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas,
after congressional aides told Reuters a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have accidentally shot down a US government drone.
The FAA and Pentagon did not immediately comment but the FAA cited “special security reasons” in its notice about the restrictions on the airspace near the Mexican border posted on its Notam alert system, shorthand for “Notice to…