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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.

The curse of having to remember easily hackable passwords may soon be over
A new alternative is set to take over in 2026
#Passwords will be on the way out in 2026
as #passkeys take over

Passwords will be on the way out in 2026 as passkeys take over
The curse of having to remember easily hackable passwords may soon be over, as a new alternative is set to take over in 2026

#Fahrradbubble: Leute, ihr müsst besonders im Winter eure #Riemen putzen.
Es ist offenbar falsch, was viele behaupten, dass ein #Riemenantrieb keine Pflege braucht.
Mit mäßiger Verschmutzung …

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

Israel-Premier Tech cycling team loses title sponsor after protests | Cycling News | @…
#Israel #Gaza #cycling

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #DesertIslandMusic, and I've of course spent some time thinking about these in the past. Currently, these are mine. The first 3 are from the 90s. Hell yeah. And this way, I have some psych, some punk, some electronica, and some metal. 🔥
Meat Puppets - Too …

Meat Puppets - Too High to Die (Full Album)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Molchat Doma:
🎵 Toska (Live At Panorama Hotel)
#MolchatDoma
https://cepitadenaranja.bandcamp.com/track/toska
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sMra9TqwOskuvn4eR11n3

Sources: China told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate on import conditions (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-tells-tech-…

China Tells Tech Companies to Halt Nvidia H200 Chip Orders
The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, according to two people involved in the communication, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets. The instruction ...

Dozens of January 6 supporters march through Washington five years after attack
A brawl erupts as a counter-protester is arrested – live
Many of those at today’s march, including ex-#ProudBoy leader #Enrique #Tarrio say tha…

Sources: wealthy Californians are quietly mobilizing on WhatsApp and calls in a long-shot bid to oust Rep. Ro Khanna, who supports a controversial wealth tax (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/politics/ro-khanna-calif…

California Tech Executives Plot Against Rep. Ro Khanna Over Support of Wealth Tax
It’s hard right now to be a progressive Democrat in the heart of America’s tech industry.