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Rickards: Buy the Dip (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-2-3

Sources: China's top memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, plan their biggest expansions yet as a global supply crunch lets them close the gap with market leaders (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-3 China

Sources: Telefónica and Liberty Global, co-owners of Virgin Media O2, are set to lead a ~£2B acquisition of UK's fourth-largest broadband network, Netomnia (t.co)
2026-2-3

Too casually, X tells us how Beijing is spamming Chinese users (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-3 China

The Rohingya case could redefine genocide and that matters for ASEAN (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-3

Trump moving to curb US reliance on Chinese minerals – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
2026-2-3 Trump China

A Century of Hair Samples Proves Leaded Gas Ban Worked (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 Ban

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal (slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 SpaceX

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
2026-2-3 WhatsApp

Reinvigorating Australia's Naval Reserve (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-3 Australia

Despite US offer, no “stable peace” with China (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-3 China

If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere (arstechnica.com)
2026-2-3 AI SpaceX

Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-3 SpaceX

In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-3 IPO

New START expiration: views from ASPI analysts (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-3

Crunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device (www.polygon.com)
2026-2-3

The SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles Musk's companies, creates the most valuable private company in the world, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-3 SpaceX

Leica Camera's Owners Weigh $1.2 Billion Sale of Controlling Stake (slashdot.org)
2026-2-3

Trump unveils a $12B critical minerals stockpile, called Project Vault, to minimize reliance on China, with participation from 12+ companies, including Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-3 Trump China Google

Managing, but never eliminating, security threats (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-3

Adobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-3 Adobe

Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “zero impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is “highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds” (x.com)
2026-2-3 Oracle Nvidia

Source: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-3 SpaceX

Feds Skipping Infosec Industry's Biggest Conference This Year (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3

Dramatic moment Sir Elton John's pilot has to take emergency action when 'huge' bird of prey divebombs private jet during take-off (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-3

Iranian shopkeeper, 26, who was set to be executed for protesting has been released after weeks in a hellhole prison (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-3 Iran

Trump threatens Iran with 'BIGGER' retaliation than his daring Venezuela raid that removed Maduro from power... as he tells the world to 'see what happens' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-3 Trump Iran Venezuela

Buddhist monks are 'caught with stash of porn, sex toys, penis pump and an escort list' in police raid at Thai temple (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-3 Thailand

Australian skier, 22, is killed in freak chair-lift accident when her backpack gets caught leaving her 'suspended' mid-air at Japanese resort (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-3 Australia Japan

The US cities Putin can vaporise in 18 minutes by flying nukes over Greenland - as Trump attempts to claim the territory: Interactive graphic shows level of devastation facing each location (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-3 Trump Putin

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