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SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/inside-sandisks-tr…

Inside Sandisk’s transformation from thumb drive dinosaur to the hottest trade in AI
Soaring chip prices have fueled a nearly 1,000% run for Sandisk in a matter of months. Industry insiders, prolific hedge fund managers, and even the company itself seem to have been caught off guard. Analysts think the stock still has room to run.

Neues XR-Headset Lynx-R2 setzt auf großes Sichtfeld, Datenschutz und Offenheit
Das europäische Pendant zu Samsung Galaxy XR, Apple Vision Pro und Meta Quest 3 möchte Nutzern mehr Freiheiten einräumen und keine unnötigen Daten absaugen.

„So viel Meinung bei so wenig Ahnung!“ – und heutzutage kann man dank Social Media darauf eine Karriere aufbauen.

A record 3million people to fly from UK this holiday.
Also, heading for the hottest year since records began.
No connection.
Millions hit UK roads, railways and airports for Christmas Eve getaway | Transport | The Guardian
#EcocidalMadness

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Hiatus Kaiyote:
🎵 Chivalry Is Not Dead
#HiatusKaiyote
https://hiatuskaiyote.bandcamp.com/track/chivalry-is-not-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/3STeMaQt9svi9EyB4BYrIc

"Average global temperature to hit 1.4°C above preindustrial levels in 2026, warns UK’s Met Office"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

UK’s Met Office warns 2026 could be among hottest years on record
The Met Office warns that 2026 is likely to become the fourth year on record where temperatures hit 1.4°C above preindustrial levels.

Fortunately my brain is quite slow, so as long as I'm healthy I won't need an invasive BCI (brain implant) to output faster than I can type or talk (with or without AI), and I'll use a headset or smartglasses for AR/XR.

Tech-Riesen wie Meta und Alphabet bauen bewusst „Dark Patterns“ in ihre Dienste — psychologisches Design, das Nutzer:innen süchtig macht und Daten absaugt. Das ist kein harmloses UX-Feature, sondern ein Geschäftsmodell auf Kosten unserer Selbstbestimmung. #ZDFheute
#DarkPatterns

Social Media und Dark Patterns: So tricksen Tech-Konzerne
Dark Patterns fördern die Sucht nach Social Media. Entwickelt hat die psychologischen Tricks ein Forscher in Stanford. Heutzutage werden sie von allen Tech-Firmen genutzt.

Ravens land the hottest head coach candidate this cycle https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/22/ravens-hire-chargers-dc-jesse-minter-head-coach/88307565007/

Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Meta "Pauses" Third-party Headset Program, Effectively Cancelling Horizon OS Headsets from Asus & Lenovo
Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market.” The News A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an “industry-altering announcement,” as I called the …