The Israeli military said on Saturday it had begun striking “Hezbollah infrastructure” in Beirut after it destroyed a bridge in eastern Lebanon to prevent the Iran-backed group’s reinforcements from crossing. Two loud explosions were heard in the capital within half an hour early on Saturday, with smoke billowing from one of them. Local media reported two strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a lo...
The Israeli military said on Saturday it had begun striking “Hezbollah infrastructure” in Beirut after it destroyed a bridge in eastern Lebanon to prevent the Iran-backed group’s reinforcements from crossing. Two loud explosions were heard in the capital within half an hour early on Saturday, with smoke billowing from one of them. Local media reported two strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a locality that has been a target of Israeli strikes in recent days as the military presses on with its...
The comedian hits the stage with ponderings aplenty – and a virtuosic laser harp performance. Plus: Riz Ahmed hosts Saturday Night Live UK. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
The comedian hits the stage with ponderings aplenty – and a virtuosic laser harp performance. Plus: Riz Ahmed hosts Saturday Night Live UK. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Thesis Summary In 2026, the companies powering AI are the most important businesses. Micron ( MU ) now sits in a privileged position, as it is one of the few companies that can supply the market with memory. Back in the early 1990s, the bottleneck was compute, CPUs, and Intel ( INTC ) was the dominant hardware company. But in the last two decades, Intel has...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Thesis Summary In 2026, the companies powering AI are the most important businesses. Micron ( MU ) now sits in a privileged position, as it is one of the few companies that can supply the market with memory. Back in the early 1990s, the bottleneck was compute, CPUs, and Intel ( INTC ) was the dominant hardware company. But in the last two decades, Intel has lost its relevance. It spread itself too thin, let competitors pass it by and overall lost its direction. The way I see it, Micron could become the next Intel, which is both good and bad. Intel peaked in 2000 as the tech bubble imploded, and has been dead money for the last two decades. Could this be Micron’s fate, too? I recently laid out a path to $1000, which I still believe in. But what happens over the next decade will depend on Micron. The New Stack: Micron And Nvidia In the 1990s, Intel and Microsoft, “Wintel,” dominated the tech market. One controlled the hardware while the other controlled the software. Today, we have two new companies sitting at the centre of all the action. Nvidia ( NVDA ) owns the compute layer, and Micron owns the memory bandwidth. The key thing to understand is that memory bandwidth is not a secondary consideration; it is central to system design, and this creates a reinforcing dynamic. As Nvidia scales, Micron scales with it. Not just in volume, but in technological importance. Each new generation of GPUs increases the demand for more advanced memory solutions. Memory Unlocks AGI Memory is becoming the true limitation. Large language models and agentic systems are fundamentally data problems. Performance is dictated not just by compute power but by how quickly systems can access and transfer massive datasets. This is what Jensen Huang has been pointing to when he talks about data movement becoming the core challenge in modern computing. And High Bandwidth Memory now sits at the center of that shift. It is not just another component but rathe...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Thesis Summary In 2026, the companies powering AI are the most important businesses. Micron ( MU ) now sits in a privileged position, as it is one of the few companies that can supply the market with memory. Back in the early 1990s, the bottleneck was compute, CPUs, and Intel ( INTC ) was the dominant hardware company. But in the last two decades, Intel has...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Thesis Summary In 2026, the companies powering AI are the most important businesses. Micron ( MU ) now sits in a privileged position, as it is one of the few companies that can supply the market with memory. Back in the early 1990s, the bottleneck was compute, CPUs, and Intel ( INTC ) was the dominant hardware company. But in the last two decades, Intel has lost its relevance. It spread itself too thin, let competitors pass it by and overall lost its direction. The way I see it, Micron could become the next Intel, which is both good and bad. Intel peaked in 2000 as the tech bubble imploded, and has been dead money for the last two decades. Could this be Micron’s fate, too? I recently laid out a path to $1000, which I still believe in. But what happens over the next decade will depend on Micron. The New Stack: Micron And Nvidia In the 1990s, Intel and Microsoft, “Wintel,” dominated the tech market. One controlled the hardware while the other controlled the software. Today, we have two new companies sitting at the centre of all the action. Nvidia ( NVDA ) owns the compute layer, and Micron owns the memory bandwidth. The key thing to understand is that memory bandwidth is not a secondary consideration; it is central to system design, and this creates a reinforcing dynamic. As Nvidia scales, Micron scales with it. Not just in volume, but in technological importance. Each new generation of GPUs increases the demand for more advanced memory solutions. Memory Unlocks AGI Memory is becoming the true limitation. Large language models and agentic systems are fundamentally data problems. Performance is dictated not just by compute power but by how quickly systems can access and transfer massive datasets. This is what Jensen Huang has been pointing to when he talks about data movement becoming the core challenge in modern computing. And High Bandwidth Memory now sits at the center of that shift. It is not just another component but rathe...
Investing.com -- In a significant diplomatic gesture, the United States has repatriated a Chinese drug-smuggling fugitive to Beijing, marking a rare moment of law-enforcement cooperation between the two superpowers.
Investing.com -- In a significant diplomatic gesture, the United States has repatriated a Chinese drug-smuggling fugitive to Beijing, marking a rare moment of law-enforcement cooperation between the two superpowers.
sergeyryzhov/iStock via Getty Images Originally published on April 1, 2026 A year ago at this time, consumers were just starting to get relief from a record spike in egg prices caused by a bird flu that tore through the hen population. Ground beef prices were also elevated at more than $5.50/lb. While egg prices collapsed back down to earth, beef prices have continued to tick higher, up to $6.73/l...
sergeyryzhov/iStock via Getty Images Originally published on April 1, 2026 A year ago at this time, consumers were just starting to get relief from a record spike in egg prices caused by a bird flu that tore through the hen population. Ground beef prices were also elevated at more than $5.50/lb. While egg prices collapsed back down to earth, beef prices have continued to tick higher, up to $6.73/lb. At this point, the backyard burger is becoming a delicacy. Make sure to enjoy every bite this summer! Below is a look at the percentage change in both cattle futures and ground beef prices since 2007 (as far back as we have data for both). The two have tracked each other closely over time, although we saw less of a decline in ground beef in the 2010s when cattle futures fell quite a bit. While cattle futures saw their last record high in August, that has yet to translate to any relief at the butcher counter. Up until the early 2010s, ground beef was the cheaper protein option than chicken. That relationship certainly doesn't apply any longer, with ground beef costing 60% more than chicken breast. Since spiking above $4.50/lb in 2022 as inflation raged throughout the economy, chicken breast prices have pulled back some and remained stable in the low-$4 range. Getting back to egg prices, below is an updated look at the national price for a dozen large eggs delivered to warehouses. After spiking to a record $8.50/dozen in late February last year, prices plunged to as low as $0.67/dozen this January! Prices have more than doubled off those lows back up to $1.51/dozen, but current levels still look extremely cheap compared to what consumers experienced a year ago. Original Post Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha editors.
Ray Blanchette admits he may be a ‘little crazy’ as he outlines chain’s hopes of building 1,000 outlets globally “I am a little crazy maybe,” admits Ray Blanchette, a former TGI Fridays kitchen manager who has taken on the revival of the bar-restaurant chain’s UK business in the face of blasting industry headwinds. Blanchette’s family investment firm, Sugarloaf, rescued the Dallas-based parent bus...
Ray Blanchette admits he may be a ‘little crazy’ as he outlines chain’s hopes of building 1,000 outlets globally “I am a little crazy maybe,” admits Ray Blanchette, a former TGI Fridays kitchen manager who has taken on the revival of the bar-restaurant chain’s UK business in the face of blasting industry headwinds. Blanchette’s family investment firm, Sugarloaf, rescued the Dallas-based parent business from administration in 2025. He then went on to pick up its UK arm in January after the local franchisee got into difficulties, retaining 33 UK restaurants but closing 16, with the loss of 456 jobs. Continue reading...
When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – which is why these images caused such a stir Words can tell a story, but it’s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is the power of a photograph; the ability to strip away illusions, to illuminate something hidden, and sometimes force us to accept unpalatable truths. When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – occasionally even to the p...
When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – which is why these images caused such a stir Words can tell a story, but it’s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is the power of a photograph; the ability to strip away illusions, to illuminate something hidden, and sometimes force us to accept unpalatable truths. When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – occasionally even to the point that a picture changes the course of history. How might life have been different for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had he not been photographed clutching the midriff of the 17-year-old girl he would later claim he had never met? Without this haunting triptych of the former prince, the late Virginia Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell, hovering in the background, there would have been nothing physical to connect the then prince with a trafficking victim. Though for years Andrew’s friends insisted that the photograph must have been doctored, buried within the Epstein files recently released by the US Department of Justice is a note from Maxwell that appears to confirm it is real. Continue reading...
Rachel, 32, a consultant, meets Josh, 34, an accountant What were you hoping for? A lovely meal on a misty Saturday, hopefully with someone I’d like to see again. Continue reading...
Rachel, 32, a consultant, meets Josh, 34, an accountant What were you hoping for? A lovely meal on a misty Saturday, hopefully with someone I’d like to see again. Continue reading...
The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth must be seen as an ethical issue. It’s a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a role That combative old hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is not much heard these days, though it was once a favourite with church congregations and school assemblies. Written in 1865 by Sabine Baring-Gould, an English clergyman and religio...
The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth must be seen as an ethical issue. It’s a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a role That combative old hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is not much heard these days, though it was once a favourite with church congregations and school assemblies. Written in 1865 by Sabine Baring-Gould, an English clergyman and religious scholar, its belligerent refrain urges the faithful on to battle, victory and conquest: “Onward, Christian soldiers / Marching as to war / With the cross of Jesus / Going on before!” Its martial tone suited the Victorian zeitgeist but it made succeeding generations uneasy (though it was still sung in my primary school in the early 1960s). Nowadays, this sort of triumphalism gives religion a bad name. Pete Hegseth, US defence secretary, and a leading Christian soldier, would certainly disagree. He probably hums it on his way to work. At a recent Christian worship service in the Pentagon – an irregular event, given the constitution’s dislike of anything smacking of state religion – Hegseth, referencing Iran, prayed for “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy”. Hegseth’s creed is killing . He describes Iranians as “religious fanatics”. And he should know. His intolerant brand of evangelical Christian nationalism is extreme even by US standards – yet has Donald Trump’s backing. Trump was a Presbyterian until 2020, when he abruptly declared he wasn’t. God knows what he is now. Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...
Citizen science data reveals early flowering, nesting and insect activity as global heating accelerate seasonal change Bluebells are flowering, swallows are returning and orange-tip butterflies are flying in what could become Britain’s earliest recorded spring. Records for early spring occurrences are being smashed as 2026 looks to be the earliest this century for frogspawn laying, blackbirds nest...
Citizen science data reveals early flowering, nesting and insect activity as global heating accelerate seasonal change Bluebells are flowering, swallows are returning and orange-tip butterflies are flying in what could become Britain’s earliest recorded spring. Records for early spring occurrences are being smashed as 2026 looks to be the earliest this century for frogspawn laying, blackbirds nesting, brimstone butterflies emerging and hazel flowering, according to Nature’s Calendar , which has logged citizen science records of seasonal change since 2000. Continue reading...