Hardware driver updates can be a blessing and a curse. When they're good, they can fix bugs, improve performance, and add new capabilities, giving your PC a minor upgrade without requiring any extra effort or investment. When they're bad, they can make a once-reliable PC slower and unstable, handing you a one-way ticket to blue screen town (or whatever color the Windows error screen is these days ...
Hardware driver updates can be a blessing and a curse. When they're good, they can fix bugs, improve performance, and add new capabilities, giving your PC a minor upgrade without requiring any extra effort or investment. When they're bad, they can make a once-reliable PC slower and unstable, handing you a one-way ticket to blue screen town (or whatever color the Windows error screen is these days ). While gamers and other enthusiasts may be in the habit of downloading and installing new driver updates for their systems, most PC users just let Windows Update handle driver installation and updates. PC manufacturers can submit their own tested and validated versions of drivers for distribution via Windows Update, which (at least in theory) should maximize stability and minimize problems. But mistakes happen, and sometimes a driver update is distributed that causes more problems than it fixes. Normally when this happens, the company either needs to submit an updated fixed driver to Windows Update, or the user is on the hook for either rolling back the update or finding and downloading a better driver themselves. Read full article Comments
The critically ill Nobel peace laureate should be released. Iranians’ human rights are under attack from both the regime and the US-Israel war “Authoritarian regimes do not always need an executioner’s rope,” the Iranian Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi observes in a forthcoming memoir smuggled from her cell. “Sometimes, they simply wait for the human body to fail – and then make sure no help...
The critically ill Nobel peace laureate should be released. Iranians’ human rights are under attack from both the regime and the US-Israel war “Authoritarian regimes do not always need an executioner’s rope,” the Iranian Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi observes in a forthcoming memoir smuggled from her cell. “Sometimes, they simply wait for the human body to fail – and then make sure no help arrives, or they create conditions in which death can come easily, helping it along by standing in the way of life-saving care.” Long denied adequate treatment, Ms Mohammadi is now in a critical condition. She was found unconscious in her cell after a suspected heart attack in March and had been experiencing chest pain, loss of consciousness and extreme weight loss. She was finally moved to hospital this month, with authorities approving her transfer to specialist care in Tehran only this week. Supporters fear that she will be sent back to prison if her condition improves. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
A small Texas county outside Dallas approved a one-year moratorium on new data center and energy storage developments, pushing back against the growing number of large-scale projects fueling the artificial-intelligence boom across the state. Hill County had been approached by several data center builders in recent weeks, and feared the potential impact to local water supplies and quality of life, ...
A small Texas county outside Dallas approved a one-year moratorium on new data center and energy storage developments, pushing back against the growing number of large-scale projects fueling the artificial-intelligence boom across the state. Hill County had been approached by several data center builders in recent weeks, and feared the potential impact to local water supplies and quality of life, County Commissioner Jim Holcomb said in a meeting Tuesday. The County Commissioners Court passed the pause after hours of negative testimony from people at the meeting. “The data center folks have found a sweet spot in a state that has limited regulations, limited enforcement, limited code, and they’re coming faster than we can keep up with,” Holcomb said during the proceedings. “This is a public health, public safety matter that the Commissioners Court needs to take on.” The moratorium amounts to a rare rebuke in growth-friendly Texas as lawmakers and Governor Greg Abbott position the state as a leader in the data center boom. OpenAI’s and Oracle Corp.’s flagship Stargate campus is being built in Abilene, adjacent to a 700-megawatt data center that will be leased by Microsoft Corp. Hill County’s move appears to be a first for Texas, according to The Texas Tribune , which reported on it earlier. Abbott’s office declined to comment. Legislators in at least 14 states are considering moratoriums on data centers, and a proposal from Senator Bernie Sanders and US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would put data center development on hold nationwide.
(RTTNews) - The Treasury Department finished off this week's series of announcements of the results of its long-term securities auctions on Wednesday, revealing this month's auction of $25 billion worth of thirty-year bonds attracted below average demand.
(RTTNews) - The Treasury Department finished off this week's series of announcements of the results of its long-term securities auctions on Wednesday, revealing this month's auction of $25 billion worth of thirty-year bonds attracted below average demand.
Getty Images I came across one of the most interesting data points I have encountered in my recent reading and research on Monday. It was from an entry over at the Daily Diary on Real Money Pro: Peter Brockvar, Real Money Pro - 05/11/2026 It reminded on what a unique market backdrop is currently present. And I believe one of two things will happen in the quarters ahead. Either the market will cont...
Getty Images I came across one of the most interesting data points I have encountered in my recent reading and research on Monday. It was from an entry over at the Daily Diary on Real Money Pro: Peter Brockvar, Real Money Pro - 05/11/2026 It reminded on what a unique market backdrop is currently present. And I believe one of two things will happen in the quarters ahead. Either the market will continue to buck history to trade at even more extreme valuation levels. Or equities will follow the path of every other boom and bust cycle triggered by a huge technology paradigm shift. Of course, the last time that happened was during the Internet Boom from 1995 to 1999, which triggered the Internet Bust in March of 2000. Before the market bottomed late in the summer of 2002, the NASDAQ had given back just over 80% of its value peak to trough. Shiller PE Ratio (Multpl) And looking at many traditional valuation measures, we appear to be in the same bubble territory as in late 1999. By some metrics, we have already surpassed those boom-era valuations. AdvisorPerspectives.com Before Tuesday's three percent pullback in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index ( SOX ) , the semiconductor index had gone absolutely parabolic. This move has reminded long-term investors of the moves of the networking stocks like Cisco Systems ( CSCO ) at the tail end of the Internet Boom. Barchart - 05/11/2026 A recent article noted the semiconductor complex is already pricing in projected earnings in FY2028. As of Friday, the iShares Semiconductor ETF ( SOXX ) had moved up 244% from its recent April 2025 low. Some of the moves in individual chipmakers have been even sharper. The shares of Micron Technology ( MU ) are up over 700% over the past 12 months. Intel ( INTC ) shares doubled in April following blowout Q1 results. The equity now trades at just over 110 times forward earnings. MU - 1 Year Chart (Seeking Alpha) The AI Revolution is resulting in massive increases in tech spending being utilized to ...
X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later tool.
X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later tool.
Cannes film festival: The Irish actor plays a disillusioned Circassian chef with a knack with animals in Kantemir Balagov’s clunky third film All talented directors are allowed an off moment in their careers – and this is the stage arrived at by Kantemir Balagov, whose earlier film Beanpole was such a triumph. This follow-up – his third feature in fact – is his first English language movie, set am...
Cannes film festival: The Irish actor plays a disillusioned Circassian chef with a knack with animals in Kantemir Balagov’s clunky third film All talented directors are allowed an off moment in their careers – and this is the stage arrived at by Kantemir Balagov, whose earlier film Beanpole was such a triumph. This follow-up – his third feature in fact – is his first English language movie, set among the expat Circassian community in New Jersey; it features star names and one colossally self-conscious icon cameo unsubtly signalling cinephile importance. Butterfly Jam is contrived, tonally uncertain, implausible and frankly plain silly in its underpowered kind of magic-unrealism, with some clunky secondhand Mean Streets mob-fraternal dialogue and pedantic ethnic-foodie cred, and elliptically positioning key scenes off camera for no obviously satisfying reason. Barry Keoghan plays Azik, a widower who with his longsuffering pregnant sister Zalda (Riley Keough) runs a Circassian food diner in Newark; as chef he cooks a sublime delens a delicious cheese and potato dish to his own (secret) recipe, accessorised with delicious jams, one of which, he whimsically announces, is made of butterflies. (He is presumably kidding but he has an amazing touch with the natural world, as we will see.) His teen son Temir (Talga Akdogan) is a talented wrestler who dreams of Olympic glory and he has a sweet crush on fellow wrestler Alika (Jaliyah Richards). Continue reading...
Investors snagged 5% yields on 30-year Treasuries for the first time since 2007, as surging energy prices push inflation — and expectations for more of it — higher. A $25 billion auction of new 30-year bonds on Wednesday was awarded at 5.046% based on the yields that bidders said they were willing to accept. The result, which was slightly above the level seen in trading immediately before the auct...
Investors snagged 5% yields on 30-year Treasuries for the first time since 2007, as surging energy prices push inflation — and expectations for more of it — higher. A $25 billion auction of new 30-year bonds on Wednesday was awarded at 5.046% based on the yields that bidders said they were willing to accept. The result, which was slightly above the level seen in trading immediately before the auction, showcased middling demand as US government yields reach their highest levels in nearly a year. Sales of three- and 10-year Treasuries earlier in the week were met with lower demand than expected. The last 30-year Treasury to carry a 5% interest rate was sold in 2007, on the brink of the global financial crisis and US economic recession. Since then, no 30-year Treasury has carried an interest rate higher than 4.75%. The lowest 30-year fixed rate in the past 20 years was 1.25%, set by an auction in May 2020 following the onset of the pandemic. That bond trades at less than 50 cents on the dollar to entice buyers. The fixed interest rates on Treasury notes and bonds are determined by auction results, and a result between 5% and 5.124% dictates a coupon rate of 5%. It’s not the only Treasury security to carry a 5% interest rate during the past two decades. Twenty-year bonds, reintroduced by the US government in 2020, have traded at higher yields than 30-year bonds for much of the time since then, reflecting weaker investor demand. As a result, a 20-year bond sold in May 2025 carried a 5% interest rate. The US government’s longest-maturity securities have traded at yields higher than 5% at various points in the past five years, initially breaching the level in October 2023 after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by more than five percentage points to throttle the last inflation outbreak. A ramp-up in Treasury auction sizes during that period contributed.
Spring is snail season in Seville. Caracoles in southern Spain differ from the well-known French escargot — they're smaller and eaten directly from the shell. And everyone has a favorite tapas bar that serves them.
Spring is snail season in Seville. Caracoles in southern Spain differ from the well-known French escargot — they're smaller and eaten directly from the shell. And everyone has a favorite tapas bar that serves them.
Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI, a sum that underscores the significance of the software maker’s role in the AI company’s growth. That figure includes Microsoft’s original investments in OpenAI, as well as the costs of building infrastructure and hosting OpenAI’s computing, Microsoft deals executive Michael Wetter testified on Monday. It is cumulativ...
Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI, a sum that underscores the significance of the software maker’s role in the AI company’s growth. That figure includes Microsoft’s original investments in OpenAI, as well as the costs of building infrastructure and hosting OpenAI’s computing, Microsoft deals executive Michael Wetter testified on Monday. It is cumulative through the current fiscal year which ends in June, he said. Many of these costs were incurred before receiving any revenue, Wetter said. “We needed to build Azure infrastructure in advance of providing those services to OpenAI,” he said, referring to Microsoft’s cloud-computing division. Wetter was testifying as part of Elon Musk ’s high-profile case against OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in Oakland, California. In a 2024 lawsuit, Musk accused fellow OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of abandoning the startup’s founding mission as a nonprofit to benefit humanity when it took steps to operate as a for-profit business. The world’s richest person alleged that Microsoft aided that alleged betrayal. Read More: Musk Testifies He’s Suing OpenAI to Stop Altman’s ‘Looting’ Microsoft invested about $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker through early 2023 and has been its primary cloud infrastructure provider. Last week, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said that the company targeted a $92 billion return from its large early investments in OpenAI. The investments “worked out well because we took the risk,” Nadella said during his testimony. Since then, OpenAI’s valuation has skyrocketed to $852 billion as of the end of March. As of October, Microsoft’s stake in the company was valued at about $135 billion. Microsoft and OpenAI have squabbled over the terms of their partnership and over time have come into more direct competition with one another. As part of OpenAI’s restructuring last year, Microsoft received a 27% ownership stake in the startup. OpenAI, Altman...
Shares of JD.Com Inc (NASDAQ:JD) surged on Wednesday after the company posted strong first-quarter (Q1) results. Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang said the Q1 results and second-quarter outlook point to "a clear earnings inflection point," with profitability growth "firmly back on track." The JD.Com Analyst: Jiang, reiterated a Buy rating and raised the price target from $38 to $42. The JD.Com Thesis:...
Shares of JD.Com Inc (NASDAQ:JD) surged on Wednesday after the company posted strong first-quarter (Q1) results. Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang said the Q1 results and second-quarter outlook point to "a clear earnings inflection point," with profitability growth "firmly back on track." The JD.Com Analyst: Jiang, reiterated a Buy rating and raised the price target from $38 to $42. The JD.Com Thesis: Despite a challenging backdrop, the company delivered modestly better-than-expected revenue, margin
Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) has significantly lagged the broader market over the past two years, losing more than 60% of its market value. However, the drugmaker's shares have performed well over the past month. The company's recent first-quarter update, released on May 6, helped push the stock even higher. Can Novo Nordisk sustain this recent momentum? Novo Nordisk's first-quarter results don't look...
Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) has significantly lagged the broader market over the past two years, losing more than 60% of its market value. However, the drugmaker's shares have performed well over the past month. The company's recent first-quarter update, released on May 6, helped push the stock even higher. Can Novo Nordisk sustain this recent momentum? Novo Nordisk's first-quarter results don't look great on the surface. The company's adjusted net sales decreased 10% year over year to 70.1 billion Danish kroner (about $11 billion). Adjusted earnings per share dropped 3% year over year to 6.63 DKK ($1.03). But here's the thing: Novo Nordisk had already projected that its revenue and earnings would decline this year. The surprise in the company's quarterly update was that, although poor financial results were already baked into the stock price, things weren't nearly as bad as the market expected. Novo Nordisk can thank oral Wegovy, which it launched in January, for that. Oral Wegovy has experienced strong adoption, with over two million patients already on the pill. Image source: The Motley Fool. Continue reading
An outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship recently sparked a bit of a rally in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. While no one hopes this will become a global health crisis, if it does, those companies that develop and market effective vaccines for the hantavirus may be financially rewarded, so the argument goes. However, at this stage, it is likely not a good idea to buy into this ra...
An outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship recently sparked a bit of a rally in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. While no one hopes this will become a global health crisis, if it does, those companies that develop and market effective vaccines for the hantavirus may be financially rewarded, so the argument goes. However, at this stage, it is likely not a good idea to buy into this rally. Let's consider three reasons why. Image source: Getty Images. While this is an evolving situation and we may not have all the facts yet, the information we have suggests that this is unlikely to become a global health crisis on the scale of the coronavirus pandemic. Here's why. COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets from an infected person. The hantavirus, by contrast, is primarily transmitted by contact with the saliva, droppings, or urine of infected rodents. Continue reading
Anduril is being valued at $61 billion in a $5 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz to invest “aggressively” in manufacturing capacity, research and development and infrastructure. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to discuss on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
Anduril is being valued at $61 billion in a $5 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz to invest “aggressively” in manufacturing capacity, research and development and infrastructure. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to discuss on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)