DHS asks for detainer of criminal illegal migrant Jose Medina-Medina accused of murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman
Frederick Brooks identified the same dynamic in software development in 1975, watching IBM’s System/360 project illustrate his emerging thesis that adding people to a late project makes it later. Communication overhead grows faster than headcount, coordination costs compound, and every new person contributes their capacity along with their relationships to everyone else. Those relationships require maintenance and produce misalignment and generate the need for more meetings to address the misalignment those meetings created.
Kwon was pregnant when she was killed. Prosecutors said state law does not allow a homicide charge for an unborn child unless the child was born alive. They also said there was insufficient evidence to file a manslaughter charge because there was no indication Goosby knew Kwon was pregnant.
To operate in Madison, the city’s street vending coordinator Meghan Blake-Horst said, the owners needed a street vending license, and they cannot vend in any of the city’s high-density vending locations. The owners also must follow city vending rules, she said.
To keep track of the money, Darling created a spreadsheet that listed the names of writers, the payoffs they received, and the articles that resulted from those payoffs.
The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon
Over 11,000 munitions in 16 Days of the Iran War: ‘Command of the Reload’ Governs Endurance.
Since 2020, the Schustermans have donated $3.29 million to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers, Attorney General Josh Kaul, and Supreme Court Justice Susan Crawford.
The 83-year-old US Air Force veteran who was randomly shoved onto the subway tracks by an illegal migrant on the Upper East Side has died from his injuries — and his alleged killer has been charged with murder. Grandfather Richard Williams succumbed to his injuries after he was allegedly pushed onto the tracks with another man while waiting for a train at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Station just before noon March 8.
On March 23, 2026, the Hong Kong government changed the implementing rules relating to the National Security Law. It is now a criminal offense to refuse to give the Hong Kong police the passwords or decryption assistance to access all personal electronic devices including cellphones and laptops. This legal change applies to everyone, including U.S. citizens, in Hong Kong, arriving or just transiting Hong Kong International Airport. In addition, the Hong Kong government also has more authority to take and keep any personal devices, as evidence, that they claim are linked to national security offenses
The central idea is that it mimics physical gearshifts, despite the powertrain not having any ratios. It does this by interrupting the torque from the motor, to give the effect of dipping the clutch and interrupting drive; this is accompanied by the car’s electronic brain revving the petrol engine to match a simulated gearchange – and its repertoire includes regular or rushed cog-swaps, up and down the ’box. The blipping and rev-matching on downshifts is a thing of aural beauty, each tug on a steering wheel paddle eliciting a crescendo of revs and a jolt your body can feel. It’s a feeling amplified by the S+ Shift’s rev counter, showing the engine speed rising and falling.
One story Bevil Hogg told in the new documentary, “The Journey: The Untold Story of Trek,” was how he and his co-founder Dick Burke came up with the name “Trek” at the Pine Knoll Supper Club in Lake Mills.
Why do the BWBs have such large wetted areas when they lack a fuselage and empennage? It’s because they lack a tailplane! Why does a lack of a tailplane force a larger BWB wing?
The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I’d never see again in my lifetime.
KitKat, owned by Swiss food giant Nestle, told AFP on Saturday that “a truck transporting 413,793 units of its new chocolate range has been stolen during transit in Europe.” The shipment disappeared last week while heading between production and distribution locations, the company said.
The Ferrero Group is owned by Italy’s richest family and built a $36B confectionary empire on Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, TicTac and more.
One or two health systems controlled the entire market for inpatient hospital care in nearly half (47%) of metropolitan areas in 2024.
This just may be the GREATEST campaign video of all time. Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) is a GENIUS. He’s taking out the trash.
Forgotten in the din of war is the small, multi-hued island called Hormuz that sits outside the port city of Bandar Abbas. There must be a sense of déjà vu as the island squirms in the glare of international media and braces for yet another joust amongst suitors vying for control over one of the world’s most strategic maritime routes. It may also be looking wistfully towards India as it recalls its ancient ties with merchants from Gujarat and the Malabar coast and the subsequent protection provided by Bombay.
In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity. “It appears that if people find a Banksy added to their wall, most of them call Sotheby’s rather than the police,”
So apparently we had a full-fledged Dreyfus Affair involving a billion dollar naval vessel getting torched and nobody acknowledges it.
As air power collides with geopolitical reality, the only certainty is that this conflict will permanently scar the Middle East. How did we get here and what happens next?
Welcome to The Uncomfortable, the brilliantly named brainchild of a Greek architect named Katerina Kamprani, who specializes in designing “deliberately inconvenient everyday objects.” My favorite is a fork with a chain handle (shown above), but almost all of her creations are clever, funny, and thought-provoking. Sometimes you have to see examples of bad design to make you appreciate how much we take for granted about gooddesign.
“Handbook on Guided Missiles” 1946 War Department report on German & Japanese rocket powered missiles & aircraft. This rarely-seen classic (scanned from a photocopy) provides a vast pile of information, including a great many diagrams. Air Doc 26 here. More.
Physician incomes are highest in the United States, and a decomposition shows that this mainly reflects differences in overall income distributions, rather than physicians’ locations in those distributions. This suggests that broader labor market differences, and thus physicians’ outside options, drive absolute incomes. Shifting US physicians’ incomes to match relative positions in other countries’ distributions would only marginally reduce healthcare spending.
Epic uses this to frame the entire suit as litigation-as-leverage rather than a genuine legal dispute. Perhaps that’s telling in some ways about respective company cultures- one saw it as an olive branch, the other saw a weapon. In any case, the optics intended could backfire, as judges generally do like seeing that a plaintiff tried to resolve things privately before burning judicial resources
The method is simple: set a goal, measure progress, verify against real records, repeat. The AI searches public archives, cross-references birth certificates against cemetery records against church books, and logs everything it finds (and everything it doesn’t).
The most incisive feedback from the docket argues that ONC’s historical focus on EHRs has created a structural failure in imaging interoperability. Because EHRs generally store only textual metadata or web links—not the multi-gigabyte DICOM files themselves—certifying the EHR accomplishes very little if the underlying PACS remains a proprietary, closed system Epic,
Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al-Qaeda cleric, was the first American citizen to be targeted and assassinated by a US government drone strike, in Yemen. Awlaki’s killing became a potent tool for radicalisation and inspired attacks by followers in the West.
I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.
A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game?
The math is simple and devastating. The United States has roughly 15 billion cubic feet per day of operational LNG capacity. Another 17 bcf/d is under construction. Another 19 bcf/d has been approved but hasn’t broken ground… the capacity Biden froze. If those frozen terminals had been approved on schedule in early 2024 and broken ground immediately, some would be approaching operational status in 2027-2028. Instead, they’re just now restarting the approval process after fourteen months of lost time.
The Globe and Mail sparked a debate when it reported that Canada’s GDP per capita has fallen behind Alabama’s. The comparison rattled Canadians and triggered a wave of criticism about the validity of using GDP per capita as a measure of national prosperity. Critics argue that GDP is a flawed metric, pointing to legitimate measurement challenges. But these measurement issues affect every country. The question is not whether GDP per capita is perfect but whether Canada’s trend relative to our peers signals deeper
In five or ten years, we may see almost no lending practices that resemble what is happening in this era. We will look back and say: that was a really bad way of conducting business. The question is whether we learn that lesson the clean way or the hard way.
William Faulkner once said, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” This week I had a chance to test that principle for myself, including a visit to Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. I spoke at the University of Mississippi’s The Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom about my book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.” As I often do, I decided to take some pictures as I explored the campus and the nearby environs of Ole Miss. This is an extraordinary place filled with the nicest people you could even hope to meet. I could not recommend a visit more highly.
The circuit didn’t change. The contract between software and hardware did.
The AI ecosystem is fragmented. Developers often re-invent tool definitions, system prompts, and safety rules for every project. Skillware supplies a standard to package capabilities into self-contained units that work across Gemini, Claude, GPT, and Llama.
Traces of Evil aims to serve as a comprehensive digital archive designed to visualise the geography of the Third Reich for students, educators, and historians through innovative then and now photography and animated GIFs, mostly resulting from actually cycling to the locations. Established nearly two decades ago, the site juxtaposes modern photographs of obscure and prominent historic sites against their archival counterparts to render the past tangible and illustrate the physical evolution not just of locations associated with the Nazi Party and the Holocaust, but going back into time from ancient history and place.
Nations are increasingly weaponizing economic strengths. Edward Fishman’s 2025 bestseller, “Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War,” catalogues how governments increasingly leverage tools such as sanctions, control over critical technologies and financial restrictions to advance foreign policy goals. The U.S. exploits its dominant chokepoints (e.g. dollar-based global financial networks, advanced semiconductor technologies, maritime insurance & trade finance, access to western markets, sovereign assets held in dollars) to pressure Iran, Russia & China, among others. China has followed suit, leveraging its own asymmetric advantages (rare earth elements & critical mineral production, pharmaceuticals & medical supply chains, electronics manufacturing, EV batteries & green energy materials) to counter U.S. pressure and “punish countries who offend it.”
As Edward Coristine (aka Big Balls) told Jesse Watters last year, this was the “least peaceful” of all the agencies to deal with, and that it used taxpayer funds for private jets, an armory filled with weapons, and contracts with the former members of the Taliban (!!)
And the official Microsoft support page for “Outlook search not working” tells users to open the Windows Registry Editor and manually create DWORD values.
Apple also benefited from earlier foundational shifts. Building a $599 laptop under the constraints of Intel processors would have been extremely difficult. The transition to Apple’s own silicon — combined with macOS being overhauled to run on Arm-based processors — ultimately made the MacBook Neo possible.
Average cost in the U.S. to fully charge a Tesla Model Y Premium: $14.22 (up to 357 miles of range).
Average cost in the U.S. to fill up a Honda CR-V Hybrid: $48.30 (about 518 miles per tank).
The New York Times has now amended its “Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses” headline, but it’s too late. Even in a world drowning in fake news, this particular masterpiece will live on in infamy.
The command structure is in freefall. After they killed a senior Hezbollah commander, the IRGC was so short on qualified personnel that they had to pull a retired general out of retirement, but the poor guy got killed almost immediately. You can’t make this stuff up.
Exxon, which has been incorporated in New Jersey since 1882, plans to ask its shareholders to vote on a proposal to redomicile in Texas. If successful, Exxon will follow Tesla, Coinbase Global and others that have reincorporated in Texas.”
Middle Eastern airlines and lessors have 1,710 airplanes on order. The Mideast represents 9% of Airbus’ backlog. It represents 14% of Boeing’s backlog. Airbus has a 43% share of the Mideast backlog, while Boeing has a 57% share. Embraer is a fractional player.
That, of course, was when he moved into the next phase of the attack. He texted me a link to review and cancel the “pending request.” The site, audit-apple.com, was a pixel-perfect Apple replica, and displayed the exact case ID from the real emails I’d just received. There was even a fake chat transcript of the scammers’ actual conversation with Apple, presented back to me as evidence of the attack against my account. At the bottom of the page was a Sign in with Apple button that he told me to use.
This is the lead “reporter” of that ridiculous CNN story. You will not be surprised to learn she uses “they/them” pronouns and graduated from Columbia’s journalism program.
The CBS News analysis reveals that over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in LA County, trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defined by the state.
Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off at AWS.
Yamaha Motor Corporation, known for creating motorized vehicles like motorcycles and WaveRunners, is set to relocate its headquarters to Kennesaw, Georgia, after more than 45 years in Cypress, California, where it first opened an office in 1979.
The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by Special Agent Aaron Spivack, who was trying to navigate the bureau’s complex procedures for handling digital evidence, according to the source and the documents.
Congratulations Apple on another insanely great product 50 years in the making.
People should be aware of these risks. I refused to run MDM software on any of my personal devices. The company needs to provide me with hardware if they want that. I personally isolate all corp devices to their own network too. If an adversary can get into the corp laptop, then can then get inside my network… there have been cases of it happening in the past.
The Chicago Transit Authority is deploying sheriff’s deputies on its trains, installing high-barrier entry gates to deter fare evasion, and starting “farecard inspection missions” after the agency’s federal funding was threatened.
The DfT has also allegedly attempted to conceal the document’s existence, despite requests made under Freedom of Information laws explicitly seeking its release. Ian Hudson is one of the few drone experts committed to uncovering further details about the Gatwick incident, and he has filed hundreds of these requests since 2018, including those that revealed the document’s existence.
After Schnur’s implosion with the revelation of his Stasi ties, the neophyte Merkel quickly accepted the patronage of Lothar de Maizière, member of a prominent family and the leader of the East German CDU. A respected figure, de Maizière headed East Germany for a few months in 1990 after the SED’s fall, in the run-up to national re-unification on Oct. 3 of that year. However, de Maizière’s cabinet post in Chancellor Kohl’s united government, a concession to German unity, collapsed a few weeks later when it was revealed from Stasi files that de Maizière, too, had informed for the MfS for decades as IM Czerny.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who once rhapsodized about geothermal and tidal power, has switched gears and endorsed nuclear.
I should be precise. They did not hack us. They logged in.
With patient, aligned capital and operators who understand both the problem and the business, we can build companies that the current financial market has decided not to fund. We can do it without losing money – in fact, we can generate real, compounding returns.
Reeling, Iqbal checked the news, where the shooting was being called an act of terrorism. The authorities had identified the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, as an Afghan refugee who had been part of the Zero Units — the shadow army of Afghan soldiers, funded and directed by America’s Central Intelligence Agency, that Iqbal himself had fought with for more than four years. Iqbal called his former intelligence chief, also now living in the United States, and asked him if Lakanwal had been part of their unit. The officer confirmed that he had, and so had his brother Ismail.
“The death of young Chadi Ammar grieves us deeply. He was part of our great family, who serve the most vulnerable with dedication and courage every day. His commitment and spirit of service will remain an example to us,” declared Grand Master Fra’ John Dunlap, expressing his sincere closeness to the family and all members of the Order of Malta in Lebanon.
Asked whether he feels compelled to follow the law on these matters, Fr. Rolland responded, “Yes, as long as the laws align with God’s laws, then it’s fine. It has been known in law from the very beginning that when the laws of the land and God’s laws conflict, God’s laws apply.”
Ryanair Refused To Pay A Delayed Passenger $1,182 — So A Bailiff Boarded Its Boeing 737 And Seized The Plane
In this piece, two researchers from PLA-affiliated National University of Defense Technology argue that Starlink will negatively impact global stability, in light of its clear military applications, increased risks of accidents and collisions in space, and SpaceX’s close relationship with the U.S. military. The authors foresee a worsening security dilemma as other countries react to broad U.S. deployment of Starlink, thereby impacting strategic stability in space.
“This story is fantastical and relies on false, unverified, anonymous claims.”
“Our Achilles heel, our blessing and our curse, is our bread,” co-owner Brian Perrone said.
Nothing about Operation Epic Fury occurred within a thousand miles of Tokyo. Yet no capital in the world stands to gain more from the wreckage of Khamenei’s regime than the one sitting across the East China Sea from Shanghai.
The results were stark. The range between the most expensive and least expensive mainstream supermarkets was a wallet-walloping 33%. If you counted warehouse clubs, the gap was even bigger. Those baskets carried the lowest price tags at Costco Wholesale and BJ’s Wholesale Club, both of which came in at 21% cheaper than Walmart.
As of February 23, 2026, of the 6,571 homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in unincorporated Los Angeles County, a total of 13 homes have been rebuilt.
“I think it’s really, really nice to see a new shape. I do find (the barrels) appropriate,” commission member Jessica Klehr said. “I find them scaled well. And I think it would be thrilling to see this.”
Josh Mandel: Every patient has a right to their complete Electronic Health Information — but there’s rarely an API or in-portal button to request it. I built an AI skill that handles the request workflow via fax, finding the right form, filling, signing, and submitting with a cover letter explaining the request in vendor-specific terms. Here’s how it works, how to try it, and why I built it as a “Skill” rather than an app.
The City of Starbase is teaming up with SpaceX to help protect more than 1,000 acres of South Texas coastal plains through the Rockhands Mitigation Bank. A conservation committee will care for this land and ensure its wildlife and habitats are preserved for generations to come. SpaceX will provide funding and resources to support the City’s role as long-term caretaker, ensuring this unique coastal environment remains protected far into the future.
In the letter, Andy Walz, Chevron’s president of downstream, midstream, and chemicals wrote “the proposed regulation will cripple the survivability of the state’s remaining refineries.”
Both Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) ran for the Senate in 1996 by promising to never serve more than two terms, insisting career politicians are bad for the country. Here they are 30 years later, still haunting the Senate, seeking more and more years.
However, Murphy’s abandoned phone was picked up during the break and found to be recording. I was told the court yanked her press credential and sent her packing. Talk about contempt!
“It is definitely more expensive to shoot down a drone than to put a drone in the sky,” said Arthur Erickson, the chief executive and a co-founder of Hylio, a drone manufacturer in Texas. “It’s a money game. The cost ratio per shot, per interception, is at best 10 to one. But it could be more like 60 or 70 to one in terms of cost, in favor of Iran.”. Iran has fired off more than 2,000 one-way drones since the United States and Israel started attacking it on Saturday, and some reached their targets, despite billion-dollar air defense systems. It’s a looming problem — not just in the Middle East, but everywhere. In a world where attack drones are cheap, and defending against them expensive, the bill could become unsustainable over time.
The head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power stepped down Wednesday as part of a “planned leadership transition,” Mayor Karen Bass’ office announced. Janisse Quiñones, who took the helm at DWP in 2024, is returning to Puerto Rico, where she is from, to help modernize the island’s electric grid.
Preservation Chicago released its annual Most Endangered Buildings list Wednesday. The nonprofit, which advocates for the preservation of local architecture, has released editions of the list since 2003, spotlighting buildings and structures that are “endangered” by demolition or neglect.
Burchett asked Ellison why didn’t he prosecute these nonprofits criminally. Ellison replied in the moment that he has no power to do so. That answer from Ellison contradicted statements he made under oath earlier in the hearing, admitting he does have the power to prosecute frauds, including frauds other than Medicaid cases.
In 1979, Atari and Texas Instruments (TI) established a new category of computer, which hybridized the features of the personal computer and video game console. Like a video game system, they had dedicated graphics and sound chips and cartridge-based software, but they were also programmable and expandable, with peripherals like tape cassette drives and printers. But neither of their computers hit the “everyman” price point that would clearly put them in a new market segment—the Atari 400, at $550, cost nearly as much as two well-established personal computers (the TRS-80 and Commodore PET), and the TI-99/4 had a budget look but a premium price: at $1150, it was in the same ballpark as the Apple II.
“Over the next five years, he expects data centers to shift away from bespoke construction toward more modular, repeatable designs — standardized blueprints capable of being replicated globally at unprecedented speed.”
During the 2022 transformation of the former Glenway Golf Course into The Glen Golf Park, the focus was on making the course more accessible to first-time and older players while still offering a challenge to experienced golfers, Beck said.
I got to try two banh mi sandwiches at Dreamy Teazy this past week, a barely spicy sesame fried chicken and the more classic barbecued pork. This cafe at 1297 N. Sherman Ave. (next to a Klinke Cleaners) is making the best banh mi I have had in the city so far — crusty yet pillowy bread, lightly pickled radish and carrot, plus tangy mayo make this one of my absolute favorite sandwiches. They’re $12 and huge.
Considering your position, it would really be appreciated if you could engage in the Supreme Court race for Lazar. Post on Milwaukee restaurants really aren’t helpful in that regard.
A similar change has taken place in Venezuela. Once a star of world oil and one of the founding members of Opec, today it can hardly even be called a petrostate. It produces less oil than the US state of North Dakota and a quarter as much as neighbouring Brazil.
For decades, the abiding image of American healthcare interoperability has been the fax machine—a whirring, beige anachronism sitting in a basement medical records department, spitting out unreadable PDFs. But while policymakers were busy trying to kill the fax, a new and far more complex combatant entered the arena. The next era of health data won’t be defined by paper, or even by human beings clicking through portals and EHRs. It will be defined by “agents”—autonomous AI software designed to read, analyze, and act on medical records without a human ever touching a keyboard.
Meanwhile Massachusetts remains the only state in the country where the governor’s office, the legislature, and the judiciary have exempted themselves from public records law. They refuse audits. They refuse transparency. They refuse to enforce laws voters passed. This is how democrats “save democracy”
The NYT figured out that the way to fund journalism in 2026 is to make sure you can’t quit the crossword.
Consumer agents began to change how nearly all consumer transactions worked. Humans don’t really have the time to price-match across five competing platforms before buying a box of protein bars. Machines do.
WARN Firehose scrapes, normalizes, and unifies mass layoff notices from all 50 states into a single searchable database — updated daily. 109,000+ notices. 12.9M+ workers affected. Data going back to 1998. Available as interactive charts, bulk exports (CSV, JSON, Parquet), and a full REST API.
The Geometry of the Scoop; An overengineered interactive notebook exploring the differential geometry, materials science, fluid dynamics, and manufacturing topology of the Tostitos Scoops™ tortilla chip — arguably the most structurally sophisticated snack food ever mass-produced.
Within five years, Operation Breakthrough, the ambitious, but ultimately costly, delay-ridden and politically unpopular federal initiative that had propped up the Kalamazoo factory and eight others like it across the country, ran out of money. The dream of the factory-built house was dead — not for the first time, nor the last.
Over the past decade, I’ve worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe. Combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, it’s become an important part of our daily lives.
The workflow I’m going to describe has one core principle: never let Claude write code until you’ve reviewed and approved a written plan. This separation of planning and execution is the single most important thing I do. It prevents wasted effort, keeps me in control of architecture decisions, and produces significantly better results with minimal token usage than jumping straight to code.
“The spending class IS the capital-owning class. The K-shaped recovery they fear actually stabilizes the demand base they say is collapsing. In the stable aggregate demand, the petit bourgeoisie finds ways to reinvent itself. I l ppl think the Citrini piece is excellent and worth reading. But history has repeatedly shown that periods of transformative productivity gains ultimately accrue to the consumer through lower prices, more leisure, and higher quality of life. Marx’s error wasn’t diagnosing the disruption, it was underestimating the system’s ability to adapt.”
The OpenClaw guy had five max subs and was losing 20k a month building and running his amazing project (because he was retired and had the money to set in fire) before AI labs banned this practice of having multiple subs. In case you just missed it: Because these agents are expensive as hell to run.
Keller and Abrams asked agents to eschew the doom and gloom of the current moment — home sales, they said, will likely be no better than 2025 — and think about the market in historical cycles, which show home values tend to trend up, building a solid source of wealth for homeowners. “Feelings — do not look at that,” Keller said. “Work with facts.”
Why should you care if you don’t own a tractor? Because when a combine goes down in the middle of harvest, it means fewer acres cut before the rain hits. It means grain that doesn’t get hauled on time. We like to imagine the food supply as a smooth conveyor belt. In reality it’s tight timing, thin margins, and a lot of heavy machinery that increasingly runs on proprietary software.
Understanding why businesses actually fail matters regardless of where you sit politically, because it is a matter of short- and long-term governance. When a retailer fails, state and local governments pick up the tab: lost sales tax revenue;, unemployment insurance claims, economic development incentives to attract replacement employers. If those failures are driven by demand shifts, that spending is a reasonable cost of economic transition. If they’re driven by capital structure decisions made at acquisition, taxpayers are subsidizing the back end of a private transaction they had no part in. If we misdiagnose Joann as a story about consumer preferences or e-commerce disruption, every downstream decision, from unemployment policy to pension allocation, starts from the wrong premise.
The initial architecture focused on brutal simplicity. I persisted a flat list of components that I would manually place by first sketching it out in Photoshop, and every frame the engine ran a minimal loop:
From a strategic standpoint, the US is not just an additional destination but a high-value test case for India’s transformation from a regional production base into a platform for global market access.
Permitting costs are widely cited, but little analyzed, as a key burden on housing development in leading U.S. cities. We measure them using an implicit market for “ready-to-issue” permits in Los Angeles, where landowners can prepay permitting costs and sell preapproved land to developers at a premium. Using a repeat-listing difference-in-differences estimator, we find developers pay 50 percent more ($48 per square foot) for preapproved land. Comparing similar proposed developments, preapproval raises the probability of completing construction within four years of site acquisition by 10 percentage points (30 percent). Permitting can explain one third of the gap in Los Angeles between home prices and construction costs. Keywords: building permit, land-use regulation, hedonic, zoning, capitalization. more.
We’re slowly losing one of the things that makes tennis genuinely great, surface diversity. This doesn’t show up in most audience analysis. In part because the creep of hard courts has been gradual, but also because it’s impossible to miss what you haven’t experienced. But there is an opportunity cost to having great players mostly ply their trade on one rather than three more evenly split surfaces, and an even greater cost to junior players optimising mostly for a hard court tour rather than a grass, clay, and hard court environment.
…The future of Substack is going to tilt toward writers with large audiences running completely unregulated pump-and-dump schemes through prediction markets. Buy low, tell your readers why X outcome is undervalued, sell high, pocket the difference. Not all Substack writers will make use of the Polymarket widget. But if you want the company to algorithmically promote your content, maybe you should try out this hot new gambling trend.
The cyberattack on Change Healthcare, first detected in February 2024, has grown into what appears to be the single largest exposure of personal health data in American history. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, has estimated that approximately 190 million people were affected by the breach, a figure that dwarfs every prior federal data incident on record. The scale of the compromise, the simplicity of the initial intrusion, and the cascading disruption to medical billing and pharmacy systems across the country have forced a reckoning over how the nation’s largest health conglomerate secures the data of more than half the U.S. population.
The first is Audio Transcription in Notes. It records audio, transcribes it in real time, and summarizes the whole thing into key points. It’s built for meetings, lectures, interviews, and anything you want to capture and keep. The second is Live Captions. It transcribes any audio playing on your phone, or any sound happening around you, in real time. FaceTime calls, YouTube videos, podcasts, someone talking to you across a table. It works across every app on your phone and it doesn’t record anything. It just puts live subtitles on your screen.
LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it’s around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.
New research shows that seasoned birders — including older adults — had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to attention and perception.
But when his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.
This article contends that the PE investment model imposes social costs in many portfolio companies through over-leverage, value extraction and short-term incentives. Part I shows how debt-driven acquisitions increase the probability of restructurings and job losses. Part II analyzes how profit pressure in PE portfolio companies can harm third parties including workers, healthcare patients, consumers, unsecured creditors, communities and the environment. Part III proposes limited, specific reforms—insurance and bonding requirements, minimum staffing and quality regulations, and increased disclosure requirements focused on sensitive industries and service sectors—that would require PE funds to internalize these foreseeable harms and provide federal and state regulators with the tools to identify and minimize related risks. This article concludes that these modest but targeted changes can preserve the benefits of the PE investment model while materially reducing externalized costs.
The Trump administration received at least 21 ideas to revitalize @Dulles_Airport. All would keep Saarinen’s iconic terminal but most would turn it into a ceremonial space with a new departures terminal elsewhere on airport grounds.
“South America has never offered me a deal good enough to seriously consider it. The Middle East has always been much better in terms of appearance fees. The European swing has also provided strong financial incentives. That makes a difference,” Tsitsipas, the former world No. 3, told CLAY.
Jane Street is also where SBF learned to trade before founding FTX and Alameda Research, and many of his future colleagues came from the firm or intersected with its networks. According to the lawsuit filed by Terraform’s bankruptcy administrator Todd Snyder, Pratt became the bridge between his former employer and his new one through a chat group that court filings describe as “Bryce’s Secret.”
The Gigacasting race isn’t just about tonnage. It’s about achieving the highest part reduction with the largest casting manufactured with the leanest process.
Pre-pandemic: ?,??? ????????? ??? ??? ??????? ??????. FY2025: ?,??? ????????? ??? ?? ??????? ??????. That’s 15% more staff serving half the customers. Per-employee comp is up 32%, from $140K to $171K. Any private company that lost half its customers and then grew headcount would be bankrupt. BART just asks for a tax increase.
Legacy platforms look very different. A typical mid-to-high-end vehicle still carries 70–120+ ECUs. The intelligent functions are spread across many specialized modules from multiple Tier-1 suppliers. Here is what changes when you drop in the Tesla box: Net effect: One Tesla box replaces the functional equivalent of 8–15 major ECUs or Tier-1 subsystems.
For the second year in a row, Trader Joe’s was the cheapest place to shop for groceries — this time by an even more significant margin. The same bag of items cost less than half as much as at Bi-Rite, this year’s priciest store. Independent grocers such as Mollie Stone’s, Luke’s Local and Gus’s Community Market all saw increases, though to varying degrees. We found nearly the exact same prices for most items at Safeway and Trader Joe’s as last year. Lucky was the only supermarket that saw decreases, though they were slight. (The Chronicle didn’t visit value-driven stores Grocery Outlet and Costco because of their inconsistent offerings, and omitted international grocery stores for the sake of direct comparison.)
The relevant bottleneck for humanoids is not “rare earths” in general, but the NdPr-to-magnet supply chain. China’s dominance in midstream processing and magnet manufacturing gives it leverage over the pace, cost curve, and industrial geography of embodied AI.
Massachusetts, long a bastion of progressive politics and high taxes, has quietly watched the equivalent of one-and-a-half Cambridges pack up and leave. A new analysis from the Pioneer Institute finds that more than 182,000 net domestic residents exited the commonwealth between April 2020 and July 2025, a sustained outflow that researchers describe as a lasting structural shift rather than a brief pandemic aftershock.
“If I recall, the timing between Apollo 7 and 8 was nine weeks,” the official said. “Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success. Certainly, making each one of them a work of art with some major configuration change is also not helpful in the process, and we’re clearly seeing the results of it, right?”
If Big Tech organized as a class, they could do it effortlessly, at personal costs they would hardly notice — but it’s obvious to anyone with even passing familiarity with these people that they will never do anything like this. Elon Musk is by far the most radical and iconoclastic of the Silicon Valley billionaires, and he’s nowhere near this — which would, itself, be an embarrassingly petty exercise of political power by the standards of the wealthiest men in history. (Or even in comparison with the industrialists of the turn of the 20th century.)
Covey died in a cycling accident in 2013, at fifty. When Bezos wrote about her afterward, the word he chose was not talented or dedicated. He said she had “a deep keel.”
The @SFBART board should be held responsible for their unconscionable mismanagement of the transit system, spending like drunken sailors as ridership plummeted by half, adding $100 million in new staff alone for an emptying system. Now they’re playing the nihilism doomsday card.
And with it came a pernicious culture that religiously believed that words, be they diplomas or diplomatic cables, defined reality. Not actions. Or physics.
Best advice you can now give Danish entrepreneurs is to leave the country before anything gets off the ground. Danes better hope Novo never falters.
Still, the liberal interventionist—and Catholic—in me approves: commit the sin, ask for forgiveness later. More crudely stated: always kick ’em when they’re down, because God knows they’d do the same to you.
