With more than $4.6 trillion of capital committed but yet to be invested across private markets (30 June 2025),[1] fund managers face growing pressure to deploy capital while maintaining discipline in due diligence. Buyouts and growth capital, in particular, are highly competitive, with approximately $2 trillion of dry powder chasing a limited pool of suitable…
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Rep. Thomas Massie is politically conservative. Donald Trump has been trying to tell the nation otherwise, but Massie is about as conservative as they come. Rep. Massie has also shown himself to be a person of principle who cares deeply about getting justice for the Epstein survivors. Massie has become the rare elected Republican who…
The playwright Tristan Bernard is said to have eaten lunch at the Eiffel Tower every day, but not because he liked the menu in its café: rather, because it was the only place in Paris with no view of the Eiffel Tower. His view wasn’t wholly eccentric in the decades after its construction, in the…
Michael Silverblatt, the longtime host of the KCRW radio show “Bookworm” — known for interviews of authors so in depth that they sometimes left his subjects astounded at his breadth of knowledge of their work — has died. He was 73. Silverblatt died Saturday at home after a protracted illness, a close friend confirmed. Although…
For someone like me, economics is everywhere, if only you know where and how to look. Where is “economics” when it comes to Valentine’s Day? Here are some of the less romantic suggestions: Some economists have tried to model “marriage” as joint production functions, implicitly modeling a marriage as a “firm” that “produces” things like…
SSHStalker uses IRC channels and multiple bots to control infected Linux hostsAutomated SSH brute-forcing rapidly spreads the botnet through cloud server infrastructuresCompilers are downloaded locally to build payloads for reliable cross-distribution execution SSHStalker, a recently discovered Linux botnet, is apparently relying on the classic IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol to manage its operations. Created in…
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom sat onstage at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday and described one of the primary ways he is responding as the Trump administration shifts federal climate priorities. “I’m showing up,” he said. In recent months, that has meant trips to Brazil, Switzerland and now Germany, where he has repeatedly positioned…
Adolescence writer Jack Thorne has adapted William Golding’s classic novel for his latest TV series about murderous male youth – but it’s a very different beast. Jack Thorne has long been an acclaimed and prolific playwright and screenwriter, with credits including mega stage-hit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Nevertheless, last year’s Netflix phenomenon Adolescence,…
AsianScientist (Feb. 13, 2026) – Ribosomes are the protein factories of our cells, translating messenger RNA (mRNA) into amino acids to synthesise the many proteins that sustain our bodies. Responsible for a wide range of functions, proteins catalyse biochemical reactions, act as chemical messengers, and form structures (including ribosomes) to make up our bodies. Since…
