“Nvidia was hit with a shareholder lawsuit Monday after its stock price tanked 5 percent amid reports CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. The lawsuit claims Huang’s failure to disclose the affair artificially inflated share prices, possibly violating federal securities laws. The lawsuit also contends the national security concerns raised by the allegations present a material risk to the company’s reputation and future business prospects. … The litigation is the latest turn of events for Nvidia and Huang, who are facing new scrutiny in Washington surrounding the CEO’s involvement with Alice Huang, a businessperson associated with Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed.” (11/10/26)
“Across the country, data centers are going up in low-income communities. Fourteen percent of data centers are located within opportunity zones, according to a report from the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Among approved, permitted and under-construction data center projects, 17.3% are in the tax-incentivized zones. In total, 93 proposed data centers and 78 operating data centers are located in an opportunity zone, according to the nonprofit environmental research organization FracTracker Alliance. Data center operators can use opportunity zones to cut down their tax bills like any other business, making the program a potential boon for investors seeking tax benefits to support the industry’s rapid build-out. But political fault lines are emerging over whether data center projects fulfill the purpose of the tax break as investing in opportunity zones becomes more attractive than ever for data center companies.” (11/10/26)
“Even Swedes take the wrong lessons from their past, pushing them to make very non-strategic decisions when it comes to NATO and Ukraine today.” (11/10/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Silvaria Lysandtra Zemaitis
“Across the Western world, trans rights are under attack, from bathrooms, to sports, to basic medical care. We treat these attacks one-by-one, talking one day about the inherent privacy of bathroom stalls, the next about bones and muscle growth, the third about the proven safety of hormone therapy. We have missed the forest for the trees. While we talk about legal rights, legal protections, and so forth, there is precious little discussion about what trans politics is about.” (11/10/26)
“Myanmar’s military has seized a key resistance military command headquarters and 10 other bases in the south of the country, state media reported Tuesday, marking a new gain by the army in the civil war as it seeks control of regions long held by resistance forces. The capture of the bases in the jungle along the border between Mon state and the Bago region marks the latest setback suffered by pro-democracy armed groups and ethnic militias fighting the army. The reported capture could not be independently confirmed because the military does not allow journalists free access to the area, but the claim has not been challenged.” (11/10/26)
“In October 2004, the Iraq Survey Group presented its exhaustive report to Congress: Iraq did not possess any stockpiles of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons at the time of the American invasion; its active programs had been destroyed more than a decade earlier, shortly after the 1991 Gulf War. A month later President Bush was reelected, having successfully blamed the deadly fiasco on intelligence failures. Napoleon should have thought of that excuse for his fateful invasion or Russia. The ‘it’s not their fault’ talking point is so sturdy that Trump supporters and neocons are employing it again to disavow the role of the Iran War in one of the biggest electoral wipeouts in American history.” (11/10/26)
