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As AI models commodify, Apple's plans to spend just $14B on 2026 capex, far below hyperscalers' combined $650B, or 90% of their cash flow, may be a genius move (Horace Dediu/Asymco)
https://asymco.com/2026/03/10/the-most-brilliant-move-in-corporate-histor…

“Bees can learn a surprising amount of information from observing peers, including which flowers to visit, but also how to solve complex object-manipulation tasks. Accordingly, many complex social behaviors are much more driven by individual problem solving than by a diffuse swarm intelligence, as was traditionally thought.”
- Lars Chittka, ‘The Mind of a Bee’

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years | AP News https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords. Late Tuesday the Lords dropped objections to a bill passed by the House of Commons that removes dozens of dukes, earls, and others who inherited seats in the unelected upper chamber. The chamber currently has more than 800 members. The vast majority are now “life peers” appointed by the government, but roughly 1 in 10 members are currently hereditary peers. A previous Labour gov…

The Genius of Getting It Wrong: What Hawking Teaches Us About Knowing
In 2004, at a physics conference in Dublin, Stephen Hawking stood before his peers and announced he had been wrong for nearly thirty years. The specific error concerned whether black holes permanently destroy the information they consume, a claim Hawking had championed since 1976 against some of the sharpest minds in theoretical physics. He paid off a bet with Caltech physicist John Preskill, handing…

The Genius of Getting It Wrong: What Hawking Teaches Us About Knowing | David Boles, Blogs
In 2004, at a physics conference in Dublin, Stephen Hawking stood before his peers and announced he had been wrong for nearly thirty years. The specific error concerned whether black holes permanen…

Age is but a numeral, esteemed peers! Our best chapters lie ahead. Remember, Churchill took office at 65, exemplifying endless opportunities for those prepared to grasp them. 🚀 Embrace limitless prospects for continuous growth and prosperity! #AgeIsJustANumber #NeverTooLate

Where Raiders' Maxx Crosby Ranks Among Peers After 2025 Campaign https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-where-maxx-crosby-ranks-among-peers-after-2025-campaign

Senator Elissa Slotkin:
We are going to have to grapple with the unbelievable corruption that is coming out of this administration.
His kids have earned $1B since he became president.
A lot of my peers do whatever the president tells them to do.
They've ceded power as a separate branch of government.
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Elissa Slotkin: We are going to have to grapple with the unbelievable corruption that is coming out of this administration. His kids have earned $1B since he became president. A lot of my peers do whatever the president tells them to do. They've ceded power as a separate branch of government.

High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds (Karina Petrova/PsyPost)
https://www.psypost.org/high-iq-men-tend-to-be-less-conservative-than-their-average-peers-study-finds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p110#a260218p110

These photos!!!
#LeMonde:
"Artemis-2 : la NASA dévoile des ph…

A comprehensive piece on X and the Digital Services Act, born on the same day.
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-digital-services-act-main-character.html

The Digital Service’s Act Main Character: the EU Commission finally fines X
    Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Animated Heaven, via Wikimedia Commons   Intr...

This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/capex-ramp-will-squeez…

How Capex Ramp Up Will Squeeze Google, Amazon, Meta
Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money. The good news is ...

A decisive Lords vote to ban under-16s from social media has exposed both a rare political consensus but also disagreement over whether prohibition or tougher and more targeted enforcement is the best way to protect children from the harms of social media.
https://www.…

House of Lords votes for under-16s social media ban
A decisive Lords vote to ban under-16s from social media has exposed both a rare political consensus but also disagreement over whether prohibition or tougher ...

It's extremly frustrating to read stories of sexual violence in (German) academia and peers supporting the perpetrator over and over again.
https://forbetterscience.com/2026/01/23/schneider-shorts-23-…

Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities
Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German sexual harasser defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions …

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e008487/

Spaceship Earth - NASA
art002e008487 (April 4, 2026) - NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon.

"Mahmood, who is closely associated with the Blue Labour wing of her party, has faced a backlash from MPs, peers and affiliated unions for pressing on with the policies after Labour came third in last week’s Gorton and Denton byelection."
Mahmood’s move to make asylum temporary ‘may undermine refugee convention’ | Refugees | The Guardian

It's already known for more than a decade that Dutch babies trump US peers in laughing, smiling, cuddling. It may explain a lot – but I don't know what (other than that this rhymes .😉).
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150128082245.htm

Dutch babies trump US peers in laughing, smiling, cuddling
Dutch babies laugh, smile and like to cuddle more than their American counterparts. A new study examining temperamental differences between US and Dutch babies found infants born in the Netherlands are more likely to be happy and easier to soothe in the latter half of their first year. US infants, on the other hand, were typically more active and vocal, said an author of the study.

Stolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116342759976325691

I think, and it may be an unpopular opinion among my peers indeed, that we need to learn to actually make this into an Engineering discipline.
I *want* to develop code that one can reasonably trust to perform life sustaining functionality, much like I reasonably trust every bridge I drive over not to collapse under me.
We’re far from it, but these days, it seems we’ve actively decided to do *exactly the opposite of that*, and that I just can’t be a part of.

I’m utterly convinced that the reason CEOs (even of small companies) are shoving LLM into all products and forcing their employees to use them (despite them being universally despised) is social pressure from their CEO peers and they don’t want to appear to be “luddites” (yes thank you I know that’s not what that word actually means).

A couple of hours of 'catch up' calls with peers in my network this morning.
A lovely change of pace and one simple way to avoid any risk of loneliness when working alone so much. ☕️

Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-…

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter
One of these companies is not like the others.

Raiders’ Maxx Crosby Doesn’t Hold Back on Browns’ Myles Garrett https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-comments-on-myles-garrett/

Asia's smaller chip companies are joining their bigger peers in hiking prices as robust AI demand fuels capex, projected to rise 25% YoY to over $136B in 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Chip price hikes spread as Asia's chipmakers plan record $136bn spending
Smaller suppliers aim to lift rates for first time in years on supply crunch

Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/microsofts-stock-closes-worst…

Microsoft closes worst quarter on Wall Street since 2008 on AI concerns: 'Redmond is in a pickle'
With Microsoft losing almost a quarter of its value this year, investors have reset the company's earnings multiple to the lowest since late 2022.

Hierarchic-EEG2Text: Assessing EEG-To-Text Decoding across Hierarchical Abstraction Levels
Anupam Sharma, Harish Katti, Prajwal Singh, Shanmuganathan Raman, Krishna Miyapuram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20932 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20932 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20932
arXiv:2602.20932v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An electroencephalogram (EEG) records the spatially averaged electrical activity of neurons in the brain, measured from the human scalp. Prior studies have explored EEG-based classification of objects or concepts, often for passive viewing of briefly presented image or video stimuli, with limited classes. Because EEG exhibits a low signal-to-noise ratio, recognizing fine-grained representations across a large number of classes remains challenging; however, abstract-level object representations may exist. In this work, we investigate whether EEG captures object representations across multiple hierarchical levels, and propose episodic analysis, in which a Machine Learning (ML) model is evaluated across various, yet related, classification tasks (episodes). Unlike prior episodic EEG studies that rely on fixed or randomly sampled classes of equal cardinality, we adopt hierarchy-aware episode sampling using WordNet to generate episodes with variable classes of diverse hierarchy. We also present the largest episodic framework in the EEG domain for detecting observed text from EEG signals in the PEERS dataset, comprising $931538$ EEG samples under $1610$ object labels, acquired from $264$ human participants (subjects) performing controlled cognitive tasks, enabling the study of neural dynamics underlying perception, decision-making, and performance monitoring.
We examine how the semantic abstraction level affects classification performance across multiple learning techniques and architectures, providing a comprehensive analysis. The models tend to improve performance when the classification categories are drawn from higher levels of the hierarchy, suggesting sensitivity to abstraction. Our work highlights abstraction depth as an underexplored dimension of EEG decoding and motivates future research in this direction.
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Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/chi…

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j