SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut was the largest US listing ever by a foreign company. It controls roughly 60% of high-bandwidth memory, which is the actual constraint on AI compute. The harder question is whether memory has really stopped being a cyclical business, and I don't think it has.
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Change Healthcare's Citrix portal had no MFA. Equifax had a free patch sitting on its own internal listserv for two months before attackers walked in. Companies don't fix vulnerabilities because the expected-value math, run honestly, genuinely points at inaction, and every breach press release that reads the same is what that math actually produces.
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Semis ripped in the first half of 2026 and then late June cracked. The honest answer is that AI demand is real and Nvidia is no longer the trade. Those two sentences are not a contradiction, and most coverage refuses to hold both.
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