Taylor Farms Announces Recall Of Lettuce Shipped To 27 States Over Cyclospora Risk

Israeli Military Chief Warns Army Nearing Internal Collapse As Netanyahu Pushes Service Extensions In a surprising announcement splashed all over Israeli media front pages, especially given the ongoing censorship regimen related to the Iran war, Israel's military chief has sounded the alarm over a severe manpower crisis in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has warned the "IDF is going to collapse in on itself" during a security cabinet meeting this week, according to Times of Israel and others. This as Israeli forces are...

Europe's Deindustrialization vs America's Quiet Investment Boom Submitted by Thomas Kolbe German Chancellor Friedrich Merz appears disoriented, whiny-apathetic, and remarkably weak in leadership these days. Perhaps the chancellor senses that the project of his political generation is entering its final phase. Is he aware that the construction of eco-socialism has failed? That both his reckless debt policies and Germany’s rapid deindustrialization are consequences of this ideological insanity? The fact that Friedrich Merz still found the audacity — despite the catastrophic domestic political and economic situation at home — to publicly accuse...

The Upcoming AI Spend Slowdown? Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities We have been attacking this issue orthogonally for the past few weeks. Last weekend’s Cheap China Compute brought up several issues facing the AI Spend. On Thursday we published Braggawatts (which should probably be BragCompute or something), but the concept is that a lot of the announced deals are missing some, or all of the following: Enough electricity, especially at peak usage times, to fulfill their commitments. Access to water and other resources to function. Getting the various chips on time, connected and installed (hearing China is threatening to restrict exports of fiber-optic cables (another, in a long list...