Former diplomats say ministers must threaten action against any companies bidding to build E1 settlement of 3,400 houses in West Bank Britain must lead efforts to stop Israel’s annexation of the West Bank – full text of letter A group of leading former UK ambassadors and high commissioners has called on the UK government to threaten action against any companies bidding to build an illegal Israeli ...
Former diplomats say ministers must threaten action against any companies bidding to build E1 settlement of 3,400 houses in West Bank Britain must lead efforts to stop Israel’s annexation of the West Bank – full text of letter A group of leading former UK ambassadors and high commissioners has called on the UK government to threaten action against any companies bidding to build an illegal Israeli settlement “designed to divide the West Bank in two and destroy Palestine’s viability”. In a letter published in the Guardian, the 32 former diplomats said tenders for the planned E1 settlement, which would involve the construction of 3,400 houses on “Palestinian soil” as part of Israel’s “systemic West Bank annexation”, were due to be issued on 1 June. Continue reading...
Just look at all that vertical space. | Image: Google Google's Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode , which does what it already does in most other browsers: strip out a lot of website cruft to make pages easier to read. Reading mode is good, you should use it, a lot of websites are bad. The second featur...
Just look at all that vertical space. | Image: Google Google's Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode , which does what it already does in most other browsers: strip out a lot of website cruft to make pages easier to read. Reading mode is good, you should use it, a lot of websites are bad. The second feature is the big one: vertical tabs. Instead of having all your tabs in a row across the top of your browser, you can now right-click on the tab bar and select "Show Tabs Vertically" to have them appear in a sidebar instead. Vertical tabs are hardly a new idea about browsers - even the original Chrome team … Read the full story at The Verge.
Michael Vi/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Overview Rambus Inc. ( RMBS ) is a fabless semiconductor company that is focused on designing memory interface chips, high-speed silicon intellectual property and security solutions for chips and data. Rambus’ core focus is on data-intensive computing systems like AI infrastructure, data centers and high-performance computing. Rambus’ positioning is tha...
Michael Vi/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Overview Rambus Inc. ( RMBS ) is a fabless semiconductor company that is focused on designing memory interface chips, high-speed silicon intellectual property and security solutions for chips and data. Rambus’ core focus is on data-intensive computing systems like AI infrastructure, data centers and high-performance computing. Rambus’ positioning is that it helps transfer data faster, more efficiently and securely inside modern computing systems. Broadly, Rambus Inc has three business segments – memory interface chips (the product business), silicon IP (design and blueprint business) and licensing and royalties (patent monetization). The key components that Rambus makes include RCD which coordinates timing, PMIC which regulates power, and SPD Hub/Sensors which monitors and manages memory. According to management, memory modules are expected to become more complex which implies more Rambus content per module. The memory interface chips segment is the fastest growing segment for Rambus and is more cyclical based on semiconductor demand. This segment is lower margin than the IP segment but is scaling fast. In the IP business segment, Rambus provides three types of IP – memory IP, interface IP and security IP. Since designing these high-speed interfaces is complex, semiconductor companies rely on Rambus to have a faster-to-market approach given Rambus has decades of experience which provides it with a massive edge in the IP market. Therefore, one of the greatest benefits of this segment is the scalability. The last segment that acts as a stable source of revenue is the licensing and royalties which other companies pay to Rambus for using their technology. The figure below provides the revenue breakdown based on each business segment for the third quarter of FY25 and FY24. Rambus Sales Breakdown (Rambus Annual Report) The ecosystem integration right from owning the ideas, monetizing them to building on them provides a strong m...
ARLINGTON, Va., April 07, 2026--JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced that it is hosting a Mobile/Client/Edge Forum on Tuesday, May 12 and a Server/Cloud Computing/AI Forum on Wednesday, May 13 in San Jose, CA. Advance registration is required and space is limited. For more information and regi...
ARLINGTON, Va., April 07, 2026--JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced that it is hosting a Mobile/Client/Edge Forum on Tuesday, May 12 and a Server/Cloud Computing/AI Forum on Wednesday, May 13 in San Jose, CA. Advance registration is required and space is limited. For more information and registration, visit the JEDEC website.
Since the start of the artificial intelligence (AI) build-out, I viewed Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) mostly as an afterthought, a company destined to just live deep in Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) shadow. The company was the No. 2 player in the graphics processing unit (GPU) space, but the gap was so wide between it and Nvidia that it felt it would never make any serious inroads. After all, wh...
Since the start of the artificial intelligence (AI) build-out, I viewed Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) mostly as an afterthought, a company destined to just live deep in Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) shadow. The company was the No. 2 player in the graphics processing unit (GPU) space, but the gap was so wide between it and Nvidia that it felt it would never make any serious inroads. After all, when it came to AI, Nvidia had actually outmaneuvered AMD a long time ago, way before AI became mainstream. AMD got into the GPU game in 2006 when it acquired ATI Technologies. While AMD was busy integrating ATI into its business, Nvidia released its CUDA software platform to allow developers to easily program its chips beyond their original purpose of speeding up graphics rendering in video games. It gave the software program away for free and embedded into places that were doing early research on AI. This led to most foundational AI code being written on its software programmed for its chips. Image source: The Motley Fool. Continue reading
Investing in silver can be an effective way to diversify your portfolio and add stability to it over the long term. Over the past 12 months, the precious metal has been incredibly popular with investors, soaring from around $30 to now north of $70, and that's even with a sharp pullback in the market this year. The iShares Silver Trust (NYSEMKT: SLV) , which tracks silver, is up around 137% in the ...
Investing in silver can be an effective way to diversify your portfolio and add stability to it over the long term. Over the past 12 months, the precious metal has been incredibly popular with investors, soaring from around $30 to now north of $70, and that's even with a sharp pullback in the market this year. The iShares Silver Trust (NYSEMKT: SLV) , which tracks silver, is up around 137% in the past 12 months. Silver has been acting like a highly speculative asset recently, but what about if the market crashes -- could it be a safe-haven investment to be holding, and could it rise in value amid a downturn? Here's what history says might happen. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Sixth Street , the global investment firm, has made its first foray into UK football by agreeing a deal to buy a majority stake in Sunderland AFC Women, the second-tier English football team. The investment is being made via its Bay Collective subsidiary, a multi-club ownership platform dedicated to building women’s football clubs, according to a statement. The move sees Sixth Street add a UK team...
Sixth Street , the global investment firm, has made its first foray into UK football by agreeing a deal to buy a majority stake in Sunderland AFC Women, the second-tier English football team. The investment is being made via its Bay Collective subsidiary, a multi-club ownership platform dedicated to building women’s football clubs, according to a statement. The move sees Sixth Street add a UK team to its expanding portfolio of sports investments, which already includes strategic partnerships with global franchises like FC Barcelona , Real Madrid , the San Francisco Giants , and the Boston Celtics . Sunderland AFC, whose men’s team competes in England’s Premier League, will retain a minority stake in the women’s side. Bay Collective is led by Kay Cossington, a former Women’s Technical Director of the English Football Association. Sunderland Women becomes the second club in Bay’s global platform, joining Bay FC of the National Women’s Soccer League in the US. Bloomberg first reported on the deal talks last month . The investment underscores the institutional confidence in the commercial potential of women’s sport. Sixth Street co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Alan Waxman previously stated that he expects “professional women’s teams to become national and global consumer brands.” While many women’s football games struggle to gain meaningful attendance, Sunderland’s derby fixture against local rivals Newcastle United last month drew a crowd of 10,000 to the Stadium of Light . The deal also comes shortly after Bristol City Women sold a majority stake to investment group Mercury 13. Sign up for Bloomberg’s Business of Sports newsletter for the context you need on the collision of power, money and sports, from the latest deals to the newest stakeholders. Delivered weekly.
Readers respond to Elle Hunt’s review of Meta smartglasses, pointing out that the technology has a lot to offer to people with visual impairments or hearing loss I read with sympathy the concerns of Elle Hunt in relation to privacy issues around Meta smartglasses ( I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep, 1 April ). Clearly there needs to be ongoing development...
Readers respond to Elle Hunt’s review of Meta smartglasses, pointing out that the technology has a lot to offer to people with visual impairments or hearing loss I read with sympathy the concerns of Elle Hunt in relation to privacy issues around Meta smartglasses ( I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep, 1 April ). Clearly there needs to be ongoing development of technology and protocols that protect the public from ill-intentioned users. As the chief executive of a charity supporting people with a visual impairment, however, I would like to emphasise the point touched upon in your article: how transformative this technology is already proving for blind people. We are seeing significant numbers of our visually impaired staff and clients using Meta glasses in conjunction with their mobile phones to improve their ability to perform ordinary functions that most of us take for granted. A visual impairment can be disempowering and isolating. Having a tool that can read your bills to you, tell you when your bus is coming, make calls for you when your hands are full and read the cooking instructions on your dinner is offering a level of independence that many visually impaired people have lost. Continue reading...
Former ambassadors and high commissioners call on Keir Starmer to stand with European and Commonwealth partners against the unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory • Report: UK government urged to act over proposed illegal Israeli settlement While all eyes are on the US-Israel war on Iran, Israel proceeds with its systematic West Bank annexation. The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, recentl...
Former ambassadors and high commissioners call on Keir Starmer to stand with European and Commonwealth partners against the unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory • Report: UK government urged to act over proposed illegal Israeli settlement While all eyes are on the US-Israel war on Iran, Israel proceeds with its systematic West Bank annexation. The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, recently condemned “ annexation moves ”, including the illegal E1 settlement project designed to divide the West Bank in two and destroy Palestine’s viability. The Iran war and Israel’s military occupation of south Lebanon have delayed the publication of Israeli tenders to build 3,400 houses on Palestinian soil at E1 – but tenders will be issued on 1 June. Criticism by Britain, Germany, France and Italy does not deter this Israeli government, which has over decades grown used to rhetorical condemnation without consequences. So it keeps growing the illegal settlements, deliberately undermining the two-state solution – the policy of successive British governments and our European partners. As Jennifer Rankin has observed ( ‘Weak and pathetic’: why is the EU not using its leverage to stop Israel?, 2 April ), the EU is not using its leverage to stop Israel. Continue reading...
Mónica Joyce Moniz on the origins of marmalade. Plus letters from Tony Batcup and Mark de Brunner As a Portuguese-British citizen, I feel it is my duty to add to your explainer article ( Keir Starmalade, anyone? Will marmalade really have to be rebranded in UK?, 4 April ) and explain where the word marmalade originated from. Marmalade comes from the fruit marmelo (quince). And marmalade was and is...
Mónica Joyce Moniz on the origins of marmalade. Plus letters from Tony Batcup and Mark de Brunner As a Portuguese-British citizen, I feel it is my duty to add to your explainer article ( Keir Starmalade, anyone? Will marmalade really have to be rebranded in UK?, 4 April ) and explain where the word marmalade originated from. Marmalade comes from the fruit marmelo (quince). And marmalade was and is quince jam in Portugal. This jam began to be exported to England at the end of the 15th century. Only in the 17th century did the English start to apply the word marmalade to orange jam. As with many quintessential British things like tea, the English adopted it and made it their own. I like this story because my two countries are represented. Mónica Joyce Moniz Wyton, Cambridgeshire • Your article about the alleged rebranding of marmalade made me smile – it has always been incorrectly named. As it comes from Citrus x aurantium , and not Citrus x sinensis , it should be known as bitter orange marmalade – perhaps the EU and the UK can save the bitter talk for other more important differences? Tony Batcup Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Continue reading...
Don’t-shop Wednesday | Saved by the dog | Farage/Braverman birthday | Double-barrelled surname | Spelling test Perhaps the boss of Waitrose should leave his ivory tower and spend an extended period on the shop floor to experience the life of a shop worker and see the shoplifting epidemic that is happening day in and day out. He may then reach boiling point one day and react out of character. Perha...
Don’t-shop Wednesday | Saved by the dog | Farage/Braverman birthday | Double-barrelled surname | Spelling test Perhaps the boss of Waitrose should leave his ivory tower and spend an extended period on the shop floor to experience the life of a shop worker and see the shoplifting epidemic that is happening day in and day out. He may then reach boiling point one day and react out of character. Perhaps a “Don’t-shop Wednesday” at Waitrose, in support of Walker Smith ( Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs, 5 April ), might have some effect and reach top executives. Roy Wilson Harrow, London • The heartwarming column on how Beau the labrador saved his master’s life after he suffered cardiac arrest on a beach ( The pet I’ll never forget, 6 April ) reminded me of when we got our new collie. Arriving home, my husband went on ahead to open the house door and didn’t see that I had tripped and landed face down on our lane. The dog ran back and sat on guard until hubby returned to find the dog, and me. Jeanette Hamilton Buxton, Derbyshire Continue reading...
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now VIDEO 3:46 03:46 AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon’s AI investments: There isn’t just one winner Money Movers The Iran war poses ongoing challenges for cloud provider Amazon Web Services, its chief, Matt Garman, said on Tuesday. The Amazon division said in early March that drone strikes had damaged its data centers in Bahra...
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now VIDEO 3:46 03:46 AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon’s AI investments: There isn’t just one winner Money Movers The Iran war poses ongoing challenges for cloud provider Amazon Web Services, its chief, Matt Garman, said on Tuesday. The Amazon division said in early March that drone strikes had damaged its data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates . "It's a really difficult situation, and we're working incredibly hard," Garman told CNBC's Kate Rooney at the HumanX conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. "In fact, we have teams, 24/7, working to make sure that we can keep our infrastructure up for our customers in that region." Dozens of AWS services in Bahrain and United Arab Emirates continue to be unavailable, according to the company's status page. Last week, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Navy announced that it had targeted Amazon data center infrastructure in Bahrain. Amazon declined to comment at the time. Data centers, particularly those housing chips that can handle generative artificial intelligence models, consume large amounts of energy, which has become more expensive since the conflict began in February. Read more CNBC tech news Samsung shares rise after profit seen jumping 8-fold on AI chip boom Broadcom shares climb as chipmaker agrees Google and Anthropic deals OpenAI asks California, Delaware to probe Musk's 'anti-competitive behavior' ahead of April trial AI data center boom 'stress tests' insurers as private capital floods in On Monday, oil prices shot higher as President Donald Trump threatened attacks on civilian infrastructure if the Islamic Republic does not commit to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. "It's obviously hugely disruptive for the global economy, as we're all very dependent on energy, and also just distracting for industry, for us," Garman said. "You know, there's not short-term, immediate things, but it really is just the drag on the global eco...
AlizadaStudios/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Blackstone ( BX ) has followed its asset management peers lower in recent months, falling by 41% from its 52-week peak and swelling its dividend yield to a more than 2-year high. I have taken significant stakes in asset managers like Apollo Global Management ( APO ) and Blue Owl ( OWL ) on the back of the weakness and BX's overlaps with the underlyi...
AlizadaStudios/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Blackstone ( BX ) has followed its asset management peers lower in recent months, falling by 41% from its 52-week peak and swelling its dividend yield to a more than 2-year high. I have taken significant stakes in asset managers like Apollo Global Management ( APO ) and Blue Owl ( OWL ) on the back of the weakness and BX's overlaps with the underlying bullish thesis for these new stakes; the dip is overdone, and continued assets under management ("AUM") formation should drive positive long-term growth in fee-related earnings ("FRE") and distributable earnings. The Manhattan-based asset management firm last declared a variable quarterly cash dividend of $1.49 per share , with the trailing twelve-month dividend at $4.182 per share for a 3.72% dividend yield. This formed the third consecutive quarter of the variable dividend being ramped up from the prior payment. BX targets paying 85% of distributable earnings as a dividend to its common shareholders. The volatility is primarily reflective of the timing and extent of investment realizations. Seeking Alpha Data by YCharts BX is the largest alternative asset manager in the world, with its investment verticals focused on infrastructure, real estate, credit, private equity, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries, and hedge funds. The firm had $1.275 trillion in AUM as of the end of its fourth quarter, rising 2.42% sequentially from $1.242 trillion and up 13% from its year-ago comp. Fee-earning AUM was up 1.71% sequentially to $921.7 billion and by a larger 11% on a year-over-year basis, with perpetual capital AUM up 18% year-over-year to end the fourth quarter at $523.6 billion. This defines extremely sticky, long-dated AUM without a fixed exit deadline. It formed 41.07% of total AUM as of the end of the fourth quarter, up roughly 160 basis points from 39.46% of total AUM in the year-ago comp. Blackstone Fiscal 2025 Fourth Quarter Presentation Seeking Alpha Redemptions A...
France is moving to fast-track emergency legislation to protect its farmers from rising imports as Europe’s top agricultural producer faces a collapse in its food trade balance. The bill will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday before being debated in the National Assembly and Senate, with a final vote expected at the end of July, an agriculture ministry official told reporters o...
France is moving to fast-track emergency legislation to protect its farmers from rising imports as Europe’s top agricultural producer faces a collapse in its food trade balance. The bill will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday before being debated in the National Assembly and Senate, with a final vote expected at the end of July, an agriculture ministry official told reporters on a call. In the normal course, debates over legislation can take six months or more. Historically Europe’s biggest farming nation, France has increasingly been importing food, leading to a collapse of its food trade balance last year. That has fueled farmers’ protests , adding to the political pressures facing President Emmanuel Macron , who has struggled with a series of governmental crises. The war in Iran has worsened the situation, disrupting the flow of crucial fuel and fertilizers from the Persian Gulf, increasing costs for growers and stoking fears of a global food crisis. Read More: EU Pays for French Winemakers to Turn Unsold Stock Into Ethanol Extreme weather, US tariffs and animal disease have also hurt French farmers. In recent years, the anger has focused on the European Union’s free trade deals that they say lead to unfair competition, when they are bound by more stringent EU environmental and trade policies. The proposed legislation aims to address farmers’ demands with concrete measures to combat unfair competition and concerns about pesticides and water storage, the agriculture ministry official added.
Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini-powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page. AI Overviews has had a rough time since its 2024 launch, attracting user ire over its scattershot accuracy , but it's getting better and usually provides the right answer. That's a low bar, though. A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to as...
Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini-powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page. AI Overviews has had a rough time since its 2024 launch, attracting user ire over its scattershot accuracy , but it's getting better and usually provides the right answer. That's a low bar, though. A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to assess the accuracy of AI Overviews, finding it's right 90 percent of the time. The flip side is that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day. The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI models. The company used AI tools to probe AI Overviews with the SimpleQA evaluation, a common test to rank the factuality of generative models like Gemini. Released by OpenAI in 2024, SimpleQA is essentially a list of more than 4,000 questions with verifiable answers that can be fed into an AI. Oumi began running its test last year when Gemini 2.5 was still the company's best model. At the time, the benchmark showed an 85 percent accuracy rate. When the test was rerun following the Gemini 3 update , AI Overviews answered 91 percent of the questions correctly. If you extrapolate this miss rate out to all Google searches, AI Overviews is generating tens of millions of incorrect answers per day. Read full article Comments
There is no question that Trump’s threats, if carried out, would amount to war crimes. The international justice system is positioned to act Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes in Iran because he apparently thinks he can get away with them. Sadly, the US supreme court has given him reason to believe in his impunity within the United States. But there are international options for prosecu...
There is no question that Trump’s threats, if carried out, would amount to war crimes. The international justice system is positioned to act Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes in Iran because he apparently thinks he can get away with them. Sadly, the US supreme court has given him reason to believe in his impunity within the United States. But there are international options for prosecution that lie beyond the court’s lawless license. They are not easy to exercise, but the terrible precedent of the world’s most powerful president openly flouting international humanitarian law should compel action. There is no doubt that Trump is contemplating war crimes. As part of his plan to bomb Iran “ back to the stone ages ” and wipe out a “ whole civilization ”, Trump has threatened to destroy such civilian infrastructure as desalination plants, electrical-generating facilities and bridges. Continue reading...