tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64425143213581190042026-06-01T08:48:42.286-07:00<i>In war, everything not censored is a lie.</i>climateerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588010121648399850noreply@blogger.comBlogger52939125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442514321358119004.post-67052551675333256882026-06-01T08:11:06.801-07:002026-06-01T08:13:06.517-07:00

From Globes (Israeli business news), June 1:Motorola Solutions to buy Israeli co D-Fend for $1.5b&nbsp;The Ra’anana-based startup, which has developed counter-drone technology, will become the most expensive-ever acquisition of an Israeli defense company. Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today announced it has entered into a

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But if you are working at a hedge fund where are you going to get your material non-public information?Maybe that's why the salary is as low as it is.From FinancialNews, London, May 24:AQR Capital Management is joining the rush of financial heavyweights into event-based markets&nbsp;Hedge funds and proprietary trading firms are floating salaries of up to $260,000 to build out prediction markets

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From the Social Science Research Network, May 27:Abstract We develop a new ranking algorithm of venture capital (VC) firms and individual VC investors. Our algorithm emphasizes the importance of valuation, dilution, net profits, value add, and human capital decay. For illustration, we apply the methodology to rank the top 100 US-based individual VCs and top 100 US-based VC firms for 2023,

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From the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, May 29:Commissioner Hester M. PeirceMay 29, 2026The Commission has struggled with the climate disclosure proposal for years. Today we are proposing to rescind the rule that the Commission adopted in 2024. I support the rescission proposal and look forward to hearing feedback from the public.I understand why some people strongly support a

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Or, more accurately, the index funds in your retirement account will.First up, from&nbsp;Neue Zürcher Zeitung's TheMarket.ch, May 27:&nbsp;"These Monster IPOs Expose the Dark Side of Passive Investing"SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are rushing to go public. Larry McDonald, founder of «The Bear Traps Report» and New York Times best-selling author, warns that their accelerated inclusion into indices

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From Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex:The war in the Middle East continues to hang over risk-taking appetites the sword of Damocles. There appears to have been little progress over the weekend, even though a US decision was expected after the meeting in the White House Situation Room at the end of last week. Reports suggest there have been a series of skirmishes over the weekend, and

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From WCCFTech May 30:Although CES 2026 was a massive disappointment for consumers, Computex 2026 looks to inject some much-needed excitement back into the beleaguered tech space. In what is arguably the biggest consumer hardware launch of the year, Nvidia and ARM have already started teasing their highly anticipated N1X laptop chip, an APU based on the same GB10 chip used in the DGX Spark.

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From MIT Technology Review, May 28:Fervo Energy, X-energy, and Solv Energy are all racing to supply more electricity for rising demand.&nbsp; This year, there’s been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear reactors, did the

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People matter.From the internet's tiny treasure, Delancey Place, May 22:Today's encore selection -- from Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.&nbsp;Jerry Seinfeld's career moved from standup to sitcom due to a wise choice in agents and the persistence of that agent: "[Jerry] Seinfeld had already made several smart choices in his fledgling career, and among them was to sign with manager

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Via Tech in Asia, May 31:Nvidia and Microsoft are expected next week to debut the first Windows PCs that use Nvidia chips as the main processor at Computex in Taipei and Microsoft Build in San Francisco, according to sources. The lineup is expected to include Microsoft Surface devices, systems from Dell, a US-based computer maker, and other PC companies. Microsoft is also expected to show

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From the British Library, May 29, 2023:Discover how the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ended the Byzantine Empire and transformed the great city into Ottoman Istanbul.Blog series Medieval ManuscriptsAuthor Peter TothThis year marks the 570th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, on 29 May 1453. The city at the Bosporus, on the border between the Mediterranean and the

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From Forbes, May 28:Stagflation sounded impossible until it happened. AI could create another economic contradiction economists don’t yet have a name for&nbsp;Artificial intelligence can propel the economy forward even if unemployment soars. If that happens, economists will need to rethink the idea that a growing economy is a healthy one.&nbsp;Ken Griffin wasn’t buying the AI panic. At Davos in

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From Fortune, May 30:SoftBank plans up to €75 billion investment in French AI centersSoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure.&nbsp; &nbsp;The first phase comprises an initial €45 billion investment to

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From Literary Review, May 27, reviewed by Simon Nixon:Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A university acquaintance I had not seen for years once invited me for drinks on the terrace of his vast Thames-side apartment, only to demand that I lean on a colleague to kill an inconvenient story. The husband of

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From American Affairs Journal, Summer 2026 / Volume X, Number 2:The American electric power sector has not grown appreciably for twenty years. To be sure, consumers pay plenty to replace infrastructure, to “transition” the sector away from the most carbon-intensive sources of energy, and to find ways to allow utilities to cram a wide variety of underutilized capital spending (think “smart

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From The Next Web, May 28:At its first annual conference in Paris, Mistral formally rolled out the physics-aware AI stack it built around the Emmi acquisition, with Airbus, BMW and EDF as launch customers. Mistral AI used its first annual conference in Paris on Thursday to formally launch “Mistral for Industrial Engineering,” a physics-aware AI stack pitched directly at heavy-industry

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Not only beat the scam but also beat the scammers.Crush them, without their realizing what happened.Everybody needs a hobby.From Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, May 28:&nbsp;Pump-and-dump schemes hurt people who buy into them and can rattle markets. And yet, some speculative investors purposely seek out them out, says research by Eugene Soltes. What can regulators do?&nbsp;Many

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From the Washington Post, May 28:GLP-1 drugs may be rewiring circuits involved not only in appetite but in emotion, desire and beyond.&nbsp;Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans.An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and young women with a hormonal disorder affecting the ovaries

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From Al Jazeera, May 27:New legislation aims to integrate banks into Russia’s air defences using jamming systems and trained employees.&nbsp;Russian lawmakers have passed a bill to allow trained bank employees to shoot down Ukrainian drones amid an increase in the number of attacks.The draft legislation, which would see banks across Russia install electronic jamming systems while selected

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The headline is deceptive, this is far from luxury.&nbsp;There are a couple developments that are but they, or ultra-luxe cruise ship timeshares, never made any sense. Why would the very wealthy want to do something like this? It is applying mass-affluent marketing to the actually affluent. Wut?From the Wall Street Journal, May 26:They went to South Dakota to ride out the apocalypse at a ‘5-star’

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From Puck,&nbsp;May 21, 2026:With stratospheric funding and a slew of founding talent from OpenAI, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab seemingly had everything an A.I. startup needed for escape velocity. But as it approaches its 15-month mark, the company has little to show for all that promise and capital.&nbsp; When former OpenAI C.T.O. Mira Murati launched Thinking Machines Lab, in February

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Just as the&nbsp;United States-Mexico-Canada trade Agreement (USMCA)&nbsp;enters joint review (and probable limbo).From Bloomberg, May 29:&nbsp;Canada edged into a technical recession as weak business and government spending drove a slight contraction in the first quarter, pointing to persistent slack in the economy amid US trade tensions. Real gross domestic product fell by 0.1% on an

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AMD's&nbsp; CEO has three degrees from MIT (or as Harvard Man Russell Seitz put it: The trade school on the Charles)From TIPRanks, May 29:AMD stock was down after Lisa Su spoke at an MIT graduation ceremony. Her mention of AI sparked boos from the graduates.Advanced Micro Devices&nbsp;stock was down on Friday after CEO Lisa Su spoke to MIT graduates about AI. The semiconductor company’s CEO

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I wonder why Mr. Soros would allow one of the OSF grantees to do that?&nbsp;From The Dallas Express via Yahoo News, May 18:A national progressive organization partially funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations appears to have been actively opposing the development of data centers in Temple, Texas.Indivisible Centex, the Bell County chapter of the national Indivisible group, held a week

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It turns out that more is possible.*From the RAND Corporation, April 20:Projections and Policy Implications for 2030&nbsp;Key Findings There are plans to add a total of 151 gigawatts (GW) of front-of-the-meter (FTM) and 149 GW of behind-the-meter (BTM) nameplate capacity by 2030. After project completion rates, retirements, and resource reliability are accounted for, these additions

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