MediaTek's stock posted its best week since 2002, up 22%, amid enthusiasm over Google's Gemini 3 and chip deals; MediaTek was reported as Google's TPU partner (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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
Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.
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 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
You can spot AI Boosterism if you add "Iä! Iä!" to the end of what's posted and it makes perfect sense.
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…
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…
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-…
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