Second, competition erodes companies’ profits and thus starves them of the capital they need to overpower or outmaneuver their regulators.

Tech-like apps can obfuscate what’s really going on, sloshing a coat of complexity over a business that allows its owners to claim that they’re not breaking the law.

Regulators don’t need to look for holes in the arguments advanced by interested parties; they only need to assess the quality of the criticisms raised by other commenters who submit to the docket.

App-based lending platforms ignore usury law and say it doesn’t count because they do it with an app.

Thanks to intellectual property laws that ban “circumvention,” companies that embed undesirable…

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Functionality: Hosted feed readers serve many customers at the same time, which makes it necessary to have more complex infrastructure setups.

Some, but not all, hosted feed readers support newsletters out of the box.

It's a free hosted feed reader, with apps available for every major platform.

They usually provide some customization options, but focus on news and don't allow arbitrary feed subscriptions like feed readers do.

Many feed readers can do the same, but reading lists are optimized for that purpose.

This issue's main story has been cookin' for a minute: last month the news landed that MAME had finally properly cracked Hyper Neo Geo 64 support, but the celebration was a little bit premature.

Considering there are only seven Hyper Neo Geo 64 games, well, that's a week's worth of evenings sorted.

The Hyper Neo Geo comes to MAME: Now with working sound!

It was a ton of progress for a month, taking Hyper Neo Geo 64 sound support from messy and inaccurate to, at least, broadly playable without assaulting your ears.

Once MAME 0.282 releases, the Hyper Neo Geo 64 will well and truly be worthy of the "working" label.

ConsoleThe Vectrex Mini captures the full spirit of the original Vectrex in a case half the size.

Its plastic shell is made using injection molding, just like the console of the time, and each unit will come in packaging inspired by the original box.

On the technical side, the console features a built-in 5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600, delivering sharp and bright vector graphics.

Power is supplied via USB-C, so it can run on a wall outlet as well as an external battery.

The Vectrex Mini is powered by an ESP32, a modern and reliable microprocessor, powerful enough to run the entire Vectrex game library with performance beyond many arcade machines of the era.

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That’s why we’re announcing Gemini CLI extensions, a new framework that allows you to customize Gemini CLI and connect it to the tools you use most, all from the command line.

Instead of context-switching between your terminal and other tools, you can now bring those tools directly into your workflow.

In just three months since our launch, more than one million developers are building with Gemini CLI.

Personalize your command line with Gemini CLI extensionsGemini CLI is an open-source, AI-powered agent for your terminal, and extensions are its power-ups — pre-packaged, easily installable integrations that connect it to external tools including everything from databases and design platforms …

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Wasp is a compiler-driven full-stack web framework; it takes configuration and source files with your unique logic, and it generates the complete source code your the web app.

So our principle is simple: if a piece of test code matters enough to catch a bug, it matters enough to be well-designed.

They are an efficient way to gain high confidence in the generated output with relatively little test code, a good fit for code generation.

To test the entire framework end-to-end, we had to build additional Wasp apps — example apps.

We test each framework feature with playwright .

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Quiet Skies is just one of many travel surveillance and blacklisting programs.

The Quiet Skies program was ended in June 2025 by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noehm.

News reports, presumably based on DHS statements, described Quiet Skies as a “Biden-era” program even though its largest expansion came in 2018 during the first Trump administration.

Quiet Skies captures only part of the story.

Court cases challenging the no-fly list (ongoing since 2013, and now on remand following a unanimous favorable Supreme Court decision in 2024) and other travel blacklists and watchlists (ongoing since 2018) have been dragged out for years by the government.

They wanted to keep the same software stack for consistency, so I told them about our experience.

They asked for a quote, which I prepared (without mentioning Agency B, of course).

It’s open source.

The following Monday, the provider called Agency B and said, "We advise against working with non-EU companies - compliance can get tricky.".

I urged Agency B and C to investigate - not only legally, but ethically.

We've partnered with GitLaw to launch something that should have existed from day one: a Master Services Agreement specifically designed for AI agents.

The problem with using SaaS contracts for agentsMost AI agent companies are still using SaaS contracts which makes no sense.

You can access it directly in the GitLaw Community or ask the GitLaw AI Agent to generate a customized version for your specific needs.

Because the law around AI agents is evolving rapidly, treat this as a starting point, not a substitute for legal advice.

The AI Agent MSA is available now on GitLawThe template uses CommonPaper's Software Licensing Agreement and AI Addendum as a foundation, adapted for the unique chara…

Nowhere is the need for such harmony more acute than in modern urban warfare, where civilians, combatants, and national objectives share the same congested terrain.

Urban warfare places enormous pressure on the internal willpower of a combatant nation and that of its involved and invested allies.

Aleppo (2012–2016) offered a final case study in how urban warfare reshapes Clausewitzian dynamics.

John Spencer is chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute, codirector of MWI’s Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project Podcast.

He is the author of the book Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War and coauthor of Understanding U…

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After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives.

The policy, introduced earlier this year, made third-party HDDs from brands like Seagate and WD practically unusable in newer models such as the DS925+, DS1825+, and DS425+.

According to some reports, sales of Synology’s 2025 NAS models dropped sharply in the months after the restriction was introduced.

Drives from Seagate, WD, and others will work exactly as they did before—complete with full monitoring, alerts, and storage features.

Still, the return of open drive support is good news for anyone running a Synology NAS.

Today is the 8th of October 2025, just a day after the official release of Python 3.14.

One more detail that isn't related to Python 3.14 is that Pypy continues to blow my mind.

Let's see the detailed results on the 3.13 and 3.14 interpreters:fibo 4 threads Linux macOS vs. 3.14 3.13 37.20 33.53 0.81x 3.13 JIT 37.48 33.36 0.81x 3.13 FT 21.14 15.47 1.57x 3.14 32.60 24.96 -- 3.14 JIT 32.58 24.90 1.00x 3.14 FT 10.80 7.81 3.09xAnd this is quite nice!

The 3.14 JIT interpreter does not appear to provide any significant gains in speed, at least not with my test scripts.

Have you benchmarked Python 3.14?

A seek on the clustered index (the table itself) using the clustering key (PK) to retrieve the full row.

Secondary indexes are ideal for high selectivity queries, but also queries that can be serviced by the secondary index alone.

The query optimizer will see that the Country secondary index includes everything it needs and decides not to touch the clustered index at all.

These secondary indexes trade off read performance for space, write cost and maintenance cost overhead.

Each write must update the secondary indexes synchronously, and sometimes these indexes get fragmented and need rebuilding.

You’ll need to install Node, npm, and configure a few scripts, but it’s totally worth it.

J: Wait, Rails needs Node now?

Oh, unless you want server-side rendering — then you’ll need Next.js or Remix.

But you’ll need ActionCable configured, Redis running, and—J: Redis?

And if you want everything reproducible, you’ll need Docker Compose, maybe Fly.io for deployment, and a build pipeline with GitHub Actions.

Who needs git when you have 1M context windows?

I removed some working code and the LLM helped me to recover it.

Oh shit… My ML model was now making worse predictions than the original model… And I never committed the changes that got me the +5%.

There was someone else helping me: my good old friend gemini-2.5-pro , with an incredible 1M token context window, was there all the time.

Who needs git best practices when you have an LLM that remembers everything?

Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain [LWN subscriber-only content]Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber.

Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended BPF.

There has been a growing effort to add BPF support to the GNU toolchain as well, though.

GCC port statusMarchesi then shifted the discussion to the status of the GCC BPF backend (or "port" in GCC jargon); the goal of that project, he said, is to turn GCC into the primary compiler for BPF code.

Verification challengesMarchesi then moved on to the generation of code by GCC that can pass the BPF verifier.

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Why does the tech industry consistently generate fascists and fascist sympathisers?

Furthermore, while I don't believe that most of the tech industry or most "tech people" are outright fascists, reactionary centrism of the debate-bro flavour, or what noted race scientist Scott Siskind calls the "grey tribe", is distressingly common.

To understand this, we need to first understand what "tech" and "the tech industry" actually is , and that means understanding what coding is and how it relates to the work of technology as a whole.

And why do "tech" and "the tech industry" even things that we have to define and talk about in the first instance?

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devenv 1.10: monorepo Nix support with devenv.yaml importsdevenv 1.10 brings new capabilities for structuring monorepo projects:Absolute / parent path importsPaths starting with / are now resolved from your git repository root, and parent imports are also supported (#998).

This lets services consistently reference shared configurations:services/worker/devenv.yaml imports : - /nix/devenv.nix - ../api/devenv.nixThis is particularly handy in monorepos where projects are nested at different depths:my-monorepo/ ├── nix/ │ └── devenv.nix # Shared base configuration ├── services/ │ ├── api/ │ │ └── devenv.yaml # imports: [/nix] │ └── worker/ │ └── devenv.yaml # imports: [/nix] └── apps/ └── web/ └…

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Here, I hone my craft, sharpen my tools, expand my capabilities through curiosity, and for a while, escape into a trance-like flow.

But we can’t expect AI tools to have the same outcomes as programming languages.

I prefer my tools to help me with repetitive tasks (and there are many of those in programming), understanding codebases, and authoring correct programs.

To remove the agency of my own understanding of the software I produce, and to cut connections with my coworkers.

Even if LLMs lived up to the hype, we would still stand to lose all of that and our craft.

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Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin-powered payments in 170+ countries — The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries. — What to know:

Mark Hallam / DW News:

Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation into whether Temu is influencing the pricing of third-party merchants, potentially stifling competition — Germany's competition watchdog has announced an investigation of Chinese discount online retail site temu.com, suspecting it of influencing retailers' prices.

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

Filing: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M+ in unpaid severance — The settlement agreement over withheld severance is dependent on Musk meeting ‘certain conditions.’

Kerry Flynn / Axios:

Snappr, a visual content platform and a marketplace for professional photographers, raised a $28M Series B led by Foundry and expands to Europe — Snappr has expanded its visual content platform, along with its network of photographers, to Europe after raising a Series B round, CEO Matt Schiller exclusively tells Axios.

Pew Research Center:

A survey of US parents: 90% say their kids aged 12 or younger watch TV, 68% say their kids use a tablet, and 61% use a smartphone; 8% of kids use an AI chatbot — From YouTube to smartphones to tablets, tech is part of kids' lives. AI chatbots are part of the mix now, too.

Suzanne Smalley / The Record:

German officials say they will vote against the EU's “Chat Control” proposals, signaling the bloc will not have enough support ahead of an October 14 vote — German officials on Wednesday said they will vote against a European Union proposal to allow the scanning of private messages …

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Cisco unveils the Silicon One P200 chip and 8223 routing systems, saying they allow for faster data transfers across long optic cables, to compete with Broadcom — Microsoft and Alibaba evaluating Cisco's latest networking gear, the company says — Cisco Systems Inc. is releasing a new chip …

Lily Kuo / New York Times:

China's Cyberspace Administration launched a two-month campaign in late September to combat “excessively pessimistic sentiment” on social media, per a notice — As China struggles with economic discontent, internet censors are silencing those who voice doubts about work, marriage, or simply sigh too loudly online.

Annie Palmer / CNBC:

Jensen Huang says AMD offering a 10% stake to OpenAI is “imaginative” and “surprising” considering that AMD was “so excited about” its next-generation chip — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that he's surprised Advanced Micro Devices offered 10% …

CryptPad Blog:

Open letter: 40+ European companies oppose the EU's “Chat Control” proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors — Today we are adding our signature (and that of our parent company XWiki SAS) to a new open letter against the so-called “Chat Control” EU regulation.

Sam Clark / Politico:

A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU “Chat Control” laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps — A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's unifying vision, infrastructure deals, the investor mindset, ChatGPT apps, Instant Checkout, Sora, copyright, feedback, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview is with OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. I have interviewed Altman twice before …

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 — - Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the prediction platform raised $55 million in 2024 and $150 million earlier this year.

Amos Zeeberg / New York Times:

Researchers are investigating using synthetic diamonds to help cool AI data center chips; De Beers-owned Element Six has long used diamonds in satellite chips — Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say.

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:

Sources: Meta and Apple are close to settling two EU antitrust cases and agreeing a deal to change their business practices after a total €700M in DMA fines — US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:

Amazon announces Amazon Pharmacy kiosks to quickly dispense medications to patients after an appointment, initially rolling out in its One Medical offices in LA — Amazon is erasing the distance between the doctor's office and the pharmacy with the introduction of new Amazon Pharmacy kiosks …

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:

The European Commission outlines its Apply AI Strategy and AI in Science Strategy, aiming to speed up AI adoption in key industries and AI-driven research — There is concern the EU is too dependent on foreign tech companies — The European Union outlined plans to promote European adoption …

Bloomberg:

Russian-speaking ransomware gang Qilin says it was responsible for an attack on Japan's Asahi and stole ~27GB of data, including financial docs and contracts — A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers known as Qilin has claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack that hobbled Asahi Group …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for existing subscribers in Germany, Ireland, South Korea, India, and others, after announcing a 50% hike — Current subscribers in some European countries won't be affected by Microsoft's Game Pass price hikes just yet.

Dasha Afanasieva / Bloomberg:

US House lawmakers release a report criticizing ASML, Tokyo Electron, and other equipment makers for helping build China's chip industry; ASML fell more than 7% — ASML Holding NV shares fell after US lawmakers accused the Dutch chip equipment maker of boosting China's semiconductor industry …

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune:

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 — U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology …

Payloads All The ThingsA list of useful payloads and bypasses for Web Application Security.

Feel free to improve with your payloads and techniques!

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A Model Context Protocol server that supercharges tools like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and IDE clients such as Cursor or the Claude Dev VS Code extension.

Zen MCP connects your favorite AI tool to multiple AI models for enhanced code analysis, problem-solving, and collaborative development.

Gemini Pro in step 11 knows what was recommended by O3 in step 7!

Think of it as Claude Code for Claude Code.

With capable models (GPT-5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Pro), generates complete code / implementation- Brainstorm ideas, get second opinions, validate approaches.

Bitcoin Core integration/staging treehttps://bitcoincore.orgFor an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.

Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions.

Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.

Tags are created regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.

Automated TestingDevelopers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to submit new unit tests for old code.

Design patterns can speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms.

Reusing design patterns helps prevent subtle issues that cause major problems, and it also improves code readability for coders and architects who are familiar with the patterns.

Getting StartedThis site showcases Java Design Patterns.

The BookThe design patterns are now available as an e-book.

Find out more about "Open Source Java Design Patterns" here: https://payhip.com/b/bNQFXThe project contributors can get the book for free.

bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (e.g., BitNet b1.58).

usage: e2e_benchmark.py -m MODEL [-n N_TOKEN] [-p N_PROMPT] [-t THREADS] Setup the environment for running the inference required arguments: -m MODEL, --model MODEL Path to the model file.

-t THREADS, --threads THREADS Number of threads to use.

It is an optional argument with a default value of 128., : The number of tokens to generate during the inference.

It is an optional argument with a default value of 2., : The number of threads to use for running the inference.

HandyA free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription.

Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field—all without sending your voice to the cloud.

Handy was created to fill the gap for a truly open source, extensible speech-to-text tool.

If you don't meet the system requirements, the performance of the application may be degraded.

Scrapy is a web scraping framework to extract structured data from websites.

It is cross-platform, and requires Python 3.9+.

It is maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) and many other contributors.

Install with:pip install scrapyAnd follow the documentation to learn how to use it.

If you wish to contribute, see Contributing.

The open-source secret management platform: Sync secrets/configs across your team/infrastructure and prevent secret leaks.

IntroductionInfisical is the open source secret management platform that teams use to centralize their application configuration and secrets like API keys and database credentials as well as manage their internal PKI.

FeaturesSecrets Management:Infisical (Internal) PKI:Infisical Key Management System (KMS):Cryptographic Keys : Centrally manage keys across projects through a user-friendly interface or via the API.

Infisical SSHSigned SSH Certificates: Issue ephemeral SSH credentials for secure, short-lived, and centralized access to infrastructure.

General Platform:Getti…

It offers features like converting JSON to other formats (CSV, YAML), generating JSON Schema, executing queries, and exporting visualizations as images.

Visualizer : Instantly convert JSON, YAML, CSV, XML, and TOML into interactive graphs or trees in dark or light mode.

: Instantly convert JSON, YAML, CSV, XML, and TOML into interactive graphs or trees in dark or light mode.

Convert : Seamlessly transform data formats, like JSON to CSV or XML to JSON, for easy sharing.

JSON Schema : Create JSON Schema, mock data, and validate various data formats.

Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.

To stay up to date with future releases, you can simply run typst update .

typst compile file.typ # Creates PDF file at the desired path.

typst compile path/to/source.typ path/to/output.pdfYou can also watch source files and automatically recompile on changes.

typst compile --font-path path/to/fonts file.typ # Lists all of the discovered fonts in the system and the given directory.

It manages metadata directly in different sources, types, and regions, providing users with unified metadata access for data and AI assets.

🚀 Key FeaturesUnified Metadata Management : Manage diverse metadata sources through a single model and API (e.g., Hive, MySQL, HDFS, S3).

See: Iceberg REST catalog service🔌 Trino IntegrationGravitino includes a Trino connector for federated metadata access.

Clean build without tests:./gradlew clean build -x testBuild a distribution:./gradlew compileDistribution -x testOr compressed package:./gradlew assembleDistribution -x testArtifacts are output to the distribution/ directory.

More build options: How to build Gravitino👨‍💻 Developer Resources🤝 Contribu…

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FeaturesVideo Demodemo.mp4Also check out this video from Brodie Robertson that showcases a lot of the niri functionality: Niri Is My New Favorite Wayland CompositorStatusNiri is stable for day-to-day use and does most things expected of a Wayland compositor.

Floating windows : yes, starting from niri 25.01.: yes, starting from niri 25.01.

A tour of the niri scrolling-tiling Wayland compositor · July 2025An LWN article with a nice overview and introduction to niri.

InspirationNiri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.

Tile Scrollably ElsewhereHere are some other projects which implement a similar workflow:PaperWM: scrollable tiling on top of…

Infrastructure as Code in any Programming LanguagePulumi Infrastructure as Code is the easiest way to build and deploy infrastructure, of any architecture and on any cloud, using programming languages that you already know and love.

Code and ship infrastructure faster with your favorite languages and tools, and embed IaC anywhere with Automation API.

WelcomeGet Started with Pulumi : Deploy a simple application in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Kubernetes using Pulumi.

Secrets Management : Tame secrets sprawl and configuration complexity securely across all your cloud infrastructure and applications with Pulumi ESC.

Deploy to the Cloud: Run pulumi up to get your code to the cloud: $ pulumi up …

fish - the friendly interactive shellfish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, and the rest of the family.

Release packages are available from the links above, and up-to-date development builds of fish are available for many platformsTo install into /usr/local , run:mkdir build ; cd build cmake .. cmake --build .

sudo cmake --install .

CMake Build optionsIn addition to the normal CMake build options (like CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ), fish's CMake build has some other options available to customize it.

by setting FISH_BUILD_DOCS=1:FISH_BUILD_DOCS=1 cargo install --path .

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A cartoonist's review of AI artThis is a comic about AI art.

"This map is my best approximation of charting the relationships between VPN companies, media companies, and affiliate programs."

@sobeyharkerWho Owns VPN Companies?

This was Nord VPN's second merger, after acquiring Atlas VPN in October 2021.Who Owns Surfshark?

In 2022, Surfshark merged with Nord VPN but the two companies agreed to maintain separate brand identities.

Kape Technologies, formerly known as Crossrider, owns a number of VPN companies and VPN review sites.

Look in the older catalogues and you’ll be amazed at what you find.

In fact, you’ll probably even have a giggle or two.

Browse on to the 1980s IKEA catalogues and the trends have changed again, with shiny fabrics and other fancy materials.

In this way, the IKEA catalogues are a kind of time capsule for you to travel in.

When we look back at the most recent catalogues in 10 or 20 years’ time, we’ll probably shake our heads and give a sigh.

Clear ( ) ; instrumenting_agents_ -> RemoveSnitchAgent ( this ) ; return protocol :: Response :: Success ( ) ; } void SnitchAgent :: DidCanvasToDataURL ( ExecutionContext * context , const String & data_url , const String & frame_id , const String & context_id ) { if ( !

createElement ( 'canvas' ) const context = canvas .

createElement ( 'canvas' ) const context = canvas .

createElement ( 'canvas' ) const context = canvas .

createElement ( 'canvas' ) const context = canvas .

This post assumes you know algebra, but no linear algebra.

There are two big ideas I want to introduce in the first chapter: Gaussian elimination, (which is not strictly a linear algebra thing, and has been around for years before linear algebra came along), and row picture versus column picture, which is a linear algebra thing.

Well, in the linear algebra you just add the individual elements of each vector:And you end up with the answer.

That’s the first big concept of linear algebra: row picture vs column picture.

Additional readingCheck out Gilbert Strang’s lectures on linear algebra on YouTube.

I propose we call this vibe engineering, with my tongue only partially in my cheek.

If your project has a robust, comprehensive and stable test suite agentic coding tools can fly with it.

If your project has a robust, comprehensive and stable test suite agentic coding tools can fly with it.

Write good documentation first and the model may be able to build the matching implementation from that input alone.

Vibe engineering establishes a clear distinction from vibe coding.

Earlier this year, we mentioned that we're bringing computer use capabilities to developers via the Gemini API.

Today, we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, our new specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro’s visual understanding and reasoning capabilities that powers agents capable of interacting with user interfaces (UIs).

Developers can access these capabilities via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

To complete these tasks, agents must navigate web pages and applications just as humans do: by clicking, typing and scrolling.

How it worksThe model’s core capabilities are exposed through the new `computer_use` tool in the Gemini API and should be operated withi…

However, these organizations are dependent on a huge amount of “illegible” work: work that cannot be tracked or planned for, but is nonetheless essential.

Seeing like a software companyIt’s the same way in software companies.

This is why tiny software companies are often much better than large software companies at delivering software: it doesn’t matter that the large company is throwing ten times the number of engineers at the problem if the small company is twenty times more efficient.

Our small-but-efficient software company meets only one of these criteria: the ability to pivot to some immediate problem that needs solving.

Why are these capabilities so valuable to a large software compa…

gem.coopWe’re excited to introduce gem.coop – a new server for gems in the Ruby ecosystem.

We aim for fast, simple hosting, that is compatible with Bundler but optimized for the next generation.

All gems published to RubyGems.org are available, updated in real time.

Everyone from the Ruby community is welcome to contribute and participate.

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system.log$ cat features.txt[✓] Monospaced design for perfect alignment [✓] No descenders - uniform baseline [✓] Optimized for code and terminal use [✓] Retro aesthetic meets modern clarity [✓] Available in TTF, OTF, and WOFF2

Download the most recent draft of Napkin.

Following semver, the version number 1.6 indicates the addition of a few new chapters (and many typo fixes), as well as a pretty cover artwork.

You can also view the source code on GitHub; the most recent version is automatically compiled from that source.

The Napkin provides a general bird’s-eye views of main ideas of fields and what makes them cool or interesting.

There is a community working on both human-readable and Lean4 proofs of Napkin problems and examples.

There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I’m surprised I see it used so rarely.

shape-outside lets you break free from those boxes by enabling layouts that can respond to the contours of an image.

That shift from images in boxes to letting the image content define the composition is what makes using shape-outside so interesting.

CSS shape-outside enables text to flow around any custom shape, including an image’s alpha channel (i.e., the transparent areas):img { float: left; width: 300px; shape-outside: url('patty.webp'); shape-image-threshold: .5; shape-margin: 1rem; }First, a quick recap.

CSS Shapes — and especially shape-outside — give us a chance to treat ima…

pyscn - Python Code Quality Analyzerpyscn is a code quality analyzer for Python vibe coders.

# or pipx run pyscn analyze .

# Only complexity analysis pyscn analyze --select deps .

# Only dependency analysis pyscn analyze --select complexity,deps,deadcode .

# Quick pass/fail check pyscn check --max-complexity 15 .

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

LLMs really think there's a seahorse emojiHere are the answers you get if you ask several models whether a seahorse emoji exists, yes or no, 100 times:Is there a seahorse emoji, yes or no?

And they're not alone in that confidence - here's a Reddit thread with hundreds of comments from people who distinctly remember a seahorse emoji existing:There's tons of this - Google "seahorse emoji" and you'll find TikToks, Youtube videos, and even (now defunct) memecoins based around the supposed vanishing of a seahorse emoji that everyone is pretty sure used to exist - but of course, never did.

Maybe LLMs believe a seahorse emoji exists because so many hu…

Changelog News!

The software newsletter that's also a podcastThe software world moves fast... keep up the easy way!

Let us track changes & Jerod will let you know what's up each Monday.

Over the past two months, we’ve seen some of the most serious supply chain attacks in npm history: phishing campaigns, maintainer account takeovers, and malware published to packages with billions of weekly downloads.

What is going on?!

What can we do about it?

Our old friend, Feross Aboukhadijeh, joins us to help make sense of it all.

Charlie Marsh built Ruff (an extremely fast Python linter written in Rust) and uv (an extremely fast Python package manager written in Rust) because he believes great tools can have an outsized impact.

He believes it so much, in fact, that he started an entire company that builds next-gen Python tooling.

On this episode, Charlie joins us to tell us all about it: why Python, why Rust, how they make everything so fast, how they’re starting to make money, what other products he’s dreaming up, and more.

Changelog News!

The software newsletter that's also a podcastThe software world moves fast... keep up the easy way!

Let us track changes & Jerod will let you know what's up each Monday.

— CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs.

Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster.

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Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.

Voices of Oxide on the pod!

Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today.

Cliff Biffle is working on all Hubris and firmware.

Cliff says “There’s a lot that happens before the ‘main CPU’ can even power on.” Dave Pacheco is leading the efforts on Oxide’s “Update” system.

And Ben Leonard in charge of all things brand and design at Oxide.

Changelog News!

The software newsletter that's also a podcastThe software world moves fast... keep up the easy way!

Let us track changes & Jerod will let you know what's up each Monday.

— CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs.

Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster.

Start free at CodeRabbit.aiDepot – 10x faster builds?

Build faster.

Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.

— CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs.

Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster.

Start free at CodeRabbit.aiDepot – 10x faster builds?

Build faster.

Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.

Changelog News!

The software newsletter that's also a podcastThe software world moves fast... keep up the easy way!

Let us track changes & Jerod will let you know what's up each Monday.

Changelog News!

The software newsletter that's also a podcastThe software world moves fast... keep up the easy way!

Let us track changes & Jerod will let you know what's up each Monday.

Jim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart’s center) of the Ruby world for decades.

This fall, he’s organizing six (yes, SIX) XO Ruby confs all around the United States.

On this episode, Jim joins us to reminisce about the early days of Ruby and Rails, share what he’s learned from so many years of organizing events, and invite all of us to join him on his upcoming 7500 mile road trip.

Changelog News!

The software newsletter that's also a podcastThe software world moves fast... keep up the easy way!

Let us track changes & Jerod will let you know what's up each Monday.

Built by developers, for developers—Auth0 helps you secure users, agents, and third-party access across modern AI workflows.

Start building at Auth0.com/aiDepot – 10x faster builds?

Build faster.

Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.

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The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold officially goes on sale today, and it already faces stiff competition from the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7.

In comparison, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is rated IP48 for dust and water resistance, so it is protected against solid particles bigger than 1 millimeter.

You should buy the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 if…Kerry Wan/ZDNET1.

You want a polished suite of AI featuresThe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 can also run Gemini, but the Pixel 10 Pro Fold can't run Galaxy AI features.

You can also avail free six months of Gemini AI Pro to try Veo 3, NotebookLM, etc., with the Galaxy Z Fold 7.

The kiosks have a range of commonly prescribed medications, including antibiotics, inhalers, and blood pressure medications.

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

Zendesk has launched a new autonomous support agent that should solve 80% of support issues without human intervention.

Today on TechCrunch’s ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis was joined by ⁠Jeremy Neufeld⁠, the Director of Immigration Policy at the Institute for Progress, to break down what the recent H-1B change means for startups, founders, and the future of tech talent in America. Watch the full episode for more about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced […]

AST SpaceMobile is deepening its relationship with mobile carrier giant Verizon.

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States.

Moving accounts between Mastodon and Bluesky is about to get much easier, thanks to Bounce 2.

Ganiga's fleet of waste-sorting technology is meant to help companies track and reduce the waste they produce.

Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress, comes on Equity to talk H-1B changes.

To virtually try on a pair of shoes, users need to tap on any product listing on Google, select the "try it on" button and then add a full length photo themselves.

5 more VC leaders from Accel, 776, Lockstep, IVP, and more join the Startup Battlefield 200 judge panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Register now to join this intense startup pitch competition live, and to save up to $444.

SoftBank says this acquisition will help it dive deeper into robotics as it considers physical AI to be the next frontier.

American companies have begun cutting middle management positions at rates not seen in years. Google eliminated 35% of managers overseeing teams of fewer than three in August. Fiverr announced in September it would shed managers to focus on AI. Amazon trimmed its management ranks throughout the year and cut positions at its cloud-computing division in July. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has complained about managers managing managers since 2023. Phrases relating to reducing management layers appeared 98 times on earnings calls of companies in the S&P global index this year, twice the frequency of all of 2022. The cuts stem partly from an uncertain economic environment and President Donald Trump's …

A Pew Research Center survey, released today, found that TV remains the dominant screen for American children aged twelve and younger. 90% of parents reported that their child watches TV. Tablets are used by 68% of children in this age group. 61% use smartphones. The survey of U.S. parents also documented emerging technology patterns. About one in ten parents said their child between five and twelve years old uses AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Gemini. Roughly four in ten parents reported that their child uses voice assistants like Siri or Alexa. YouTube appeared in 85% of households. Half of parents said their child uses gaming devices. About four in ten reported desktop or laptop use. The…

South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a fire at a data center in Daejeon. From a report: As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea. Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the government's G-Drive may be gone for good. G-Drive, which stands for Government Drive and is not a Google product, was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space. According to a report from The Chosun, the drive was one of 96 syst…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that he's surprised Advanced Micro Devices offered 10% of itself to OpenAI as part of a multibillion-dollar partnership announced earlier this week. From a report: "t's imaginative, it's unique and surprising, considering they were so excited about their next generation product," Huang said in an interview with "CNBC's Squawk Box." "I'm surprised that they would give away 10% of the company before they even built it. And so anyhow, it's clever, I guess." OpenAI and AMD reached a deal on Monday, with OpenAI committing to purchase 6 gigawatts worth of AMD chips over multiple years, including its forthcoming MI450 series. As part of the agreement, OpenAI …

TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation, including free ad-supported streaming options and more for smart televisions. From a report: "As of Oct. 1, 2025, TiVo has stopped selling Edge DVR hardware products," the company said in an AI-based message. The recording said that the company and its associates no longer manufacture DVR hardware, "and our remaining inventory is now depleted." TiVo said it remains "committed to providing support for our DVR customers and will continue to provide support for the foreseeable future." TiVo in 1…

AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year -- a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember. Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use. However, Ember says the headlines mask a mixed global picture. Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation. This divide is li…

XXongo writes: A New York times article suggests that merging the diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome into the Autism diagnosis in 2013, thus creating the "autism spectrum disorder," was not helpful (paywalled; alternative source). That broadening of the diagnosis, along with the increasing awareness of the disorder, is largely responsible for the steep rise in autism cases that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called "an epidemic" and has attributed to theories of causality that mainstream scientists reject, like vaccines and, more recently, Tylenol. But the same diagnosis now applies to both people who are non-verbal, frequently engage in self-destructive behavior such as pounding …

NBC is developing a game show based on the New York Times' Wordle puzzle, with Today anchor Savannah Guthrie set to host and Jimmy Fallon executive producing through his company, Electric Hot Dog. The Times is also a production partner. From the Hollywood Reporter: Wordle, which the Times acquired in 2022 and logs billions of plays from the paper's games site annually, gives players six tries to guess a five-letter word, revealing only if letters are in the right place (via a green background) or part of the word but in the wrong place (with a gold background). Should it go forward, the Wordle show would join another Fallon-produced game show, Password, on NBC's unscripted roster. The Tonig…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and thousands of essays. And yet for all the millions of words he's published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: Enshittification. The term, which Doctorow, 54, popularized in essays in 2022 and 2023, refers to the way that online platforms become worse to use over time, as the corporations that own them try to make more money. Though the coinage is cheeky, in Docto…

OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.

Sora is going viral, suggesting there is a big opportunity in unlocking creativity. If that's true, that's good for humanity — and bad for Meta.

I saw a generative art piece I liked and wanted to learn how it was made.

Starting with the artist’s Kotlin code, I dug into three new algorithms, hacked

together some Python code, experimented with alternatives, and learned a lot.

Now I can explain it to you.It all started with this post by

aBe on Mastodon:

I love how these lines separate and reunite. And the fact that I can express this idea in 3 or 4 lines of code.For me they’re lives represented by closed paths that end where they started, spending part of the journey together, separating while we go in different directions and maybe reconnecting again in the future.#CreativeCoding #algorithmicart #proceduralArt #OPENRNDR #Kotlin — aBe …

I've come to appreciate Google's amorphous nature; what makes me bullish is the clarity of YouTube's AI opportunity.

I see new learners asking about “DSA” a lot. Data Structures and Algorithms

are of course important: considered broadly, they are the two ingredients that

make up all programs. But in my opinion, “DSA” as an abstract field of study

is over-emphasized.I understand why people focus on DSA: it’s a concrete thing to learn about,

there are web sites devoted to testing you on it, and most importantly, because

job interviews often involve DSA coding questions.Before I get to other opinions, let me make clear that anything you can do to

help you get a job is a good thing to do. If grinding

leetcode will land you a position, then do it.But I hope companies hiring entry-level engineers aren’t asking …

Анонс еще одного продукта, на этот раз для работы

Это приложение для голосовалок по картинкам (или видосам). Бывает, что нужно показать несколько вариантов и провести, так сказать, юикс ресерч. Знаю, как это решаю сам: почта, телеграм, эмодзи под сообщениями в чате. Собирать гуглдок не будешь, а без него агрегировать результаты — пытка. Я сделал сервис.

Что можно: Закинуть несколько картинок или видео в голосовалку.

Дать людям проголосовать и через некоторое время посмотреть результаты.

Есть плагин для фигмы, чтобы загружать картинки прямиком из фигмы.

Если хотите, можно не публиковать голосовалку ленту, доступ будет только по прямой ссылке.

Можно включить уведомления в чат (пока поддержива…

Apple's iPhone announcement was impressive, but no one was impressed, because Apple is increasingly peripheral to what is changing the world.

Я вижу много хайпа в попытках сделать более специализированное решение для дизайнеров, дата-саентистов, писателей, фронтов, бекендеров. Не ходите туда.

На днях увидел про курсор для дизайнеров, onlook.com. Несколько часов оно провисело на промте и потом сломалось. Ну окей.

На первый взгляд специлизированные тулы выглядят перспективно, они удобнее, лучше учитывают задачи конкретно вас. Возьмем тот же Фигма Мейк, болт, лавабл, реплит. Ощущение, когда ты написал промт и получил не кусок кода, а живой сервис — магическое. Первый раз это поражает. Я на 100% с вами согласен. Но потом инструмент начнет очень-очень жать. Захотите чуть отойти в сторону — все начнет ломаться и жать. Захотите написать…

Как арендовать страну, позвонить президенту, сделать пиратское радио и захватить собственный остров

Будучи ребёнком, я на эти курьёзы особенно не обращал внимания. Мама регулярно готовила бигос, но почему-то никогда так его не называла. Мы точно никогда не жили, как польская семья. До меня донеслось лишь эхо семейной истории, в которой там кто-то куда-то ехал, был сослан, работал много... Всё это было два или три поколения назад, я особо не разбирался, где-то в тайге кто-то жил, потом перестал жить, истории предков никогда не занимали моё воображение так, как будоражили его, скажем, романы Герберта Уэллса.

Почему раньше полезный контент работал, а сейчас нет?

This is my second batch of rejected New Yorker comicsView on my website

The best Stratechery content from the week of August 25, 2025, including the U.S. getting into the chip business, KPop Demon Hunters and the Netflix machine, and China's plan for AI chips.

Навайбкодил себе проект, вдруг кому будет полезен Зачем нужен

В рецептах обычно указывают количество ингредиентов на Х порций, а приготовить нужно на Y. В этих случаях приходится пересчитывать все ингредиенты рецепта, сохраняя пропорции.

Для этого дизайн-директор Злых Марсиан Рома Шамин написал приложение Recipe scaler. Мне не хватало в нем текста описания, чтобы вставить сам рецепт, а ждать обновлений как будто не приходится. Я написал для себя свое другое.

recipe-scaler.ru

Что я посчитал нужным добавить: Текст описания. Если в нем разметить ингредиенты, то будет актуальный рецепт на нужные пропорции

Десктоп-версию. Бывает, что удобнее записать рецепт с компьютера, особенно если нужно скоп…

У меня вопрос: как поставить дедлайн, если делаешь свой творческий проект, и единственный заказчик — это ты? Делаю свой сайт, и раз за разом хочется добавить новый блок или функционал, от чего релиз уезжает далеко за горизонт событий. Как понять, что нужно остановиться и что-то пофлексить, если хочется сделать лучше всех, выпендриться по максимуму?

Nvidia's earning continue to be governed by supply — and reasoning models make that even more the case. Plus, why Nvidia is so desperate to get back into China.

KPop Demon Hunters is the hit of the year. Sony missed out, but they didn't make a mistake; Netflix won the reward by being an Aggregator.

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

Привет, Бюро!

В нашем небольшом фитнес-клубе у дома на шкафах в раздевалке раньше были номерки. Шкафчики периодически добавлялись и заменялись. В итоге их номера встали рандомно. Например, за ящиком № 1 вполне мог пойти ящик № 6. Руководство решило навести порядок, но при этом добавить креатива и персонализированного подхода к клиентам.

Схема такая:

— вы приходите в клуб и на стойке администратора вытягиваете из вазочки ключ;

— на ключе надпись «Самая яркая», «Самая эффективная», «Самая способная» и прочее подобное;

— вы проходите в раздевалку и начинаете проходить квест «Найди свой ящик».

В результате, в небольшом помещении скапливается толпа людей, которые из 50 ящиков пытаются найти свой…

В основном, конечно, коллеги не теряются: вы сейчас запросто найдете, кто крутит рекламу в MyTarget, СберAds, TG-Ads, ведет блоги на Дзене и страницы в ВК, блоги на Рутубе и даже рисует там какие-то кейсы успеха.

To answer a long-standing coverage.py feature request, I

threw together an experiment: a tool to identify lines that have been excluded

from coverage, but which were actually executed.The program is a standalone file in the coverage.py repo. It is unsupported.

I’d like people to try it to see what they think of the idea. Later we can

decide what to do with it.To try it: copy warn_executed.py from

GitHub. Create a .toml file that looks something like this:# Regexes that identify excluded lines:

warn-executed = [ "pragma: no cover", "raise AssertionError", "pragma: cant happen", "pragma: never called", ] # Regexes that identify partial branch lines:

warn-not-partial = [ "pragma: no branch", ]…

Вопрос Ильяхову. Как бы вы сейчас залетали в «Телеграм» с нуля? О чем сейчас вести канал и какую выбрать стратегию, чтобы стать востребованным в текущей ситуации? Буду рад любым мыслям и подсказкам.

Иногда можно показать наличные иконкой доллара, но как быть если речь о рублях, евро или тенге?

Playwright: Playwright performs better because it speaks directly to the browser itself.

When testing across multiple languages and platforms, or when evaluating differences like system testing vs integration testing , Selenium provides a stable ecosystem.

AI-Powered Test Generation for Playwright and Selenium with KeployKeploy provides AI-powered test generation for both Playwright and Selenium.

Playwright: Playwright Test simplifies parallel test execution, allowing tests to run simultaneously without additional configuration.

Which one to should I choose for automation testing: Playwright or Selenium?

Hey marketersWe all know Q4 can make or break the year ad costs rise, attention drops, and only the most strategic campaigns stand out.

Some founders I’ve talked with are doubling down on email retention and micro-offers.

Others are leveraging AI tools to automate lead follow ups and scale personalized outreach.

If you’re still mapping your Q4 plan or looking for ways to make your marketing systems work harder not just cost more, I know an expert who’s helping founders set up campaigns that convert especially for eCom and SaaS founders who want measurable results.

What marketing angle are you testing this Q4 retention, automation, or bold experimentation?

Hey solo buildersQ4 is here the season where momentum either skyrockets or slips away.

For solo founders like us, that pressure hits differently.

Between product updates, marketing, and keeping your sanity it’s easy to feel stretched thin.

If that sounds like something you’ve been thinking about, I can connect you with someone who’s helping solo founders scale smarter without burning out.

What’s been your biggest challenge staying consistent and profitable this Q4?

For years, I ran that way: early mornings, late nights, and a Slack thread that never really slept.

What changed was deeper—a mix of mindset shifts, ruthless prioritization, and letting tools do work I thought only I could do.

Life before I knew betterBack then, I genuinely believed everything needed me:Every campaignEvery client check-inEvery Slack messageDelegation felt like giving away control.

I started with small, but critical, changes:Time blocking : I now protect 9–1pm as my focus zone.

I got fewer pingsUsers got faster, better answersI could focus on work that actually needed a humanIt didn’t just save time.

I built this site to help travelers stay connected easily — no physical SIM cards, no app downloads, just scan a QR code and you’re online.

✈️ Why I started this:I travel a lot and always hated wasting time at airports buying SIM cards or dealing with confusing roaming plans.

So I built eSIMKitStore to make that process simple, affordable, and instant.

2️⃣ Receive an eSIM QR code by email instantly3️⃣ Scan and connect before you fly🌍 Who it’s for:Travelers, digital nomads, and anyone who wants to stay connected abroad without hassle.

I’d love feedback from other founders who’ve launched in the travel or SaaS space — especially around SEO and community building.

Hey IH — here’s the exact ladder we ship with Cancel Guard (works with Lemon Squeezy; independent).

Ladder• Pause: offer a 30–60 day pause to recently active customers.

• Discount: if no pause taken, offer 10–20% off for 3 months.

• Downgrade: offer a lighter “Lite” plan with clear limits.

Pause—keep access, no charge.”• “Stay on your current plan with 15% off for 3 months.”• “Prefer leaner?

And trust is exactly what SaaS inbound marketing builds over time.

Inbound marketing isn’t about shouting the loudest.

But inbound doesn’t scale overnight.

That’s why smaller SaaS teams often struggle: they try to copy what enterprise brands do without understanding that inbound is built one authentic piece at a time.

I’ve seen startups collaborate with growth teams like MADX, who treat inbound not as “marketing” but as a system of education.

Overview of AI App Development Industry in the USAThe AI app development industry in the USA is booming, fueled by rapid advancements in generative AI, machine learning, and automation across sectors such as finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing.

A leading AI app development company in the USA plays a pivotal role in driving these innovations, ensuring safe, secure, and scalable AI adoption aligned with ethical guidelines and regulatory requirements.

This growth has made the USA a critical hub for AI app solutions development globally.

Leading AI App Development CompaniesEY (Ernst & Young)EY is a global professional services firm that leverages AI technology to enhance enterprise m…

After realizing I'm spending 17hrs/mo on SEO, I went back and analyzed my last 50 blog posts at Eightception.

Actually publishing, publishing, publishing.

Show search bots that you are serious about this blog!

Posts that solve a real problem (even if I ignored or forgot SEO research) - work great.

Looks like in 2025, SEO bots are smart enough.

I published a book introducing a novel and powerful general-purpose visual programming language "Pipe".

Please find details here: www.pipelang.comVisual Programming Language Pipe implements many novel concepts and unique features.

Usage of a general-purpose visual programming language Pipe to connect blocks containing AI-generated code can inspire the next generation of extremely versatile low-code platforms, as AI code generation followed by visual integration of generated components is a very powerful low-code framework.

On top of that, common visual programming language Pipe will ensure portability of low-code projects between different platforms.

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Hey Indie Hackers 👋After months of building and polishing Cachify, my privacy dashboard, I’ve finally started doing what I avoided for the longest time — marketing.

This week, I created and posted Cachify’s first real product video across YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

It shows how your browser silently leaks personal data, and how Cachify helps you check that in seconds.

Honestly, it feels great to see the product come to life outside my code editor.

👉 You can check out the site here: https://cachify.xyzWould love to hear — how did you start marketing your first product?

Hey IH community,After 8 months of grinding in legal tech, I'm selling my entire portfolio.

Not because they're failing, but because I got an opportunity I can't refuse.

Built LegalDeep AI.

Built PostPro AI.

Perfect For:Developer wanting to enter legal techAgency looking to expand servicesSomeone with better marketing skills than meAnyone who can focus on ONE product (learn from my mistake)Building in public, selling in public.

I am confident that Server-Sent Events as a Service for public data did not exist before I built it.

This is the first time I'm trying to make money from a side project.

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Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

с 2012 года мы ищем и находим дешевые авиабилеты, отели, туры и круизы.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Москвичи, такой цены не было уже давно: прямой рейс в Абу-Даби за 5985 рублей.

Билеты берем через на сайте Победы или через сервис aviasales.ru.

Москва — Абу-Даби:Дальше можно дешево улететь на Шри-Ланку.

Хамбантота — Москва (билетов МНОГО, а не один):Еще добавим рублей 500 на дорогу из Коломбо в Хамбантоту.

Итого — 22300 рублей за весь маршрут.

У авиакомпании Air Arabia продолжается распродажа билетов, а мы решили собрать все самое интересное в одной месте.

Билеты берем через сервисы trip.com / aviasales.ru или на сайте авиакомпании.

сайте Air Arabia на этапе оплаты добавляется сбор в размере 3% от цены любого билета.

Билеты в/из МосквыМосква — Шарджа:Москва — Шарджа на оф.

Найроби — Шарджа:Шарджа — Самара:Самара — Коломбо:Самара — Салала — Самара:Билеты в/из УфыУфа — Шарджа:Уфа — Шарджа — Уфа:Уфа — Бахрейн — Уфа:Уфа — Маскат — Уфа:Уфа — Пхукет — Уфа:Уфа — Коломбо — Уфа:Уфа — Найроби:Билеты в/из КазаниКазань — Шарджа:Казань — Шарджа — Казань:Казань — Доха — Казань:Казань — Пхукет — Казань:Казань — Аддис-Абеба — Казань:Казань — Най…

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

с 2012 года мы ищем и находим дешевые авиабилеты, отели, туры и круизы.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

У Азимута до сих пор в наличии куча билетов: полеты между Москвой и Псковом за 1160 рублей.

Билеты берем через сервис aviasales.ru или на сайте авиакомпании.

Москва — Псков в ноябре:Москва — Псков в январе:Москва — Псков в марте:Псков — Москва в декабре:Псков — Москва в феврале:Псков — Москва в марте:

Билеты в/из Турции отдают от 20 евро (1900 рублей), включая все сборы.

Россия тоже участвует — билеты в/из Питера от 81 евро (7800 рублей).

Плюс можно добавить нормальную ручную кладь или багаж за 5 евро.

Подобрать свои даты и купить билеты можно в моб.

Если иностранной карты нет — пробейте цены через сервис aviasales.ru, вдруг найдется что-то адекватное.

Неожиданно у Якутии появились билеты ИЗ Сочи и МинВоды (а не только В Сочи и МинВоды) — в итоге слетать из Москвы в Сочи можно в октябре-январе, а в МинВоды и в феврале-марте тоже.

От 2980 рублей в обе стороны.

На сайте авиакомпании билеты по 2000 рублей в каждую сторону — у агентов чуть дешевле.

Важно: иногда дешевле брать билеты туда и обратно по отдельности, а иногда — сразу вместе.

Тыц МинВодыТыц СочиТыц 8 мартаКартинкиМинВодыОбратноУ агентовТудаНа сайтеОбратноУ агентов дешевлеВ декабреОбратноИ МинВодыОбратноВ ноябреОбратно

Классика: сидим и смотрим как дешевеют чартеры в Анталью на конец октября — середину ноября.

Красиво дешевеют: уже от 3600 рублей за билет.

Прямо сейчас в подборке билеты с вылетами из 15 городов.

Тикеты на ЯндексПутешествиях или авиасейлсПо одной картинке на каждый город, но есть билеты и на соседние даты, ага.

Тюмень — АнтальяВладикавказУфаЕкатеринбургСамараСочиЧелябинскНижний НовгородВолгоградМинВодыКазаньНижнекамскОренбургПермьКраснодар

Салам, тут Etihad пошел ва-банк в неравной битве с китайскими и индийскими авиакомпаниями и выкатил чудо-тарифы на октябрь-ноябрь.

Видим дешевые билеты из Индонезии, Вьетнама и Таиланда в Абу-Даби / Дубай (выходите там, где вам удобно).

6900 рублей — пусть и без багажа — это шик-блеск.

Можно накинуть сверху еще немного денег и улететь красиво в МосквуНа сайте авиакомпании всё тоже имеется, только чуть дороже, чем у агентов+Российской картой дешевлеИ в Москву20 ноябряКраби — Дубай / Абу-ДабиИ в МосквуМедан — Дубай / Абу-Дабии в МосквуХаной — Дубай / Абу-Дабии в МосквуИ немного других дат на октябрь-ноябрь, велкоме!

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Шикарная цена от Etihad: из Ханоя в Москву от 15960 рублей.

Минусы тоже есть: вроде как всего две даты в ноябре, без багажа и с пересадкой в Абу-Даби.

Если это не останавливает — вперед на трипком, там дешевле всего11 ноябряТыц 13 ноябряАгентов на выбор много, на сайте авиакомпании значительно дороже

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«Магнит» договорился о покупке контрольного пакета в сети «Азбука вкуса». В сделку вошли магазины «Азбука вкуса» в Москве и Петербурге, пять фабрик-кухонь и три распределительных центра. Условия сделки не раскрываются. По оценке опрошенных РБК экспертов, стоимость контрольного пакета «Азбуки вкуса» может составлять 35—40 млрд рублей.

Совет директоров ВТБ рекомендовал направить на годовые дивиденды 25,58 ₽ на акцию. Такая выплата дает доходность больше 20%. Но сможет ли компания позволить себе это? Оцениваем риски накануне собрания акционеров.

Europe’s gaming landscape has evolved dramatically, from the nostalgic arcade machines of the 80s to today’s hyper-connected digital ecosystems. Behind this transformation stands a new generation of startups merging creativity, compliance, and cutting-edge tech. These ventures aren’t just building games; they’re reinventing how players engage, register, and stay secure in a market defined as much […]

The post From arcade to iGaming: Inside Europe’s evolving gaming ecosystem (Sponsored) appeared first on EU-Startups.

Bilbao-based startup Nymiz, which helps organisations embed privacy directly into their data infrastructure, has raised €2 million in a funding round led by Amsterdam-based TIN Capital. The round also saw participation from existing investors Swanlaab Venture Factory, Auriga Cyber Ventures, SWG Cyber & Defence Fund and CDTI. The investment comes just a year after Nymiz’s […]

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London-based startup Dragonfly has raised €3 million in a pre-seed funding round to make software decision-making faster and smarter through AI. The round was led by Episode 1, with participation from Dreamcraft and Portfolio Ventures, as well as angel investors including QuantumBlack founder and CTO Sam Bourton and Bolt founder and CEO Markus Villig. Dragonfly […]

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Paris-based biotech company Phagos has raised €25 million in a Series A funding round co-led by CapAgro, Hoxton Ventures, CapHorn and Demeter, with additional participation from Acurio Ventures, Citizen Capital, Entrepreneur First, Founders Capital and Station F. The company, founded in 2021 by Alexandros Pantalis and Dr Adèle James, develops bacteriophage-based therapies, a natural alternative […]

The post Paris-based Phagos raises €25 million to create a sustainable alternative to antibiotics appeared first on EU-Startups.

Cyberwave, a Milan-based startup developing an operating layer that connects AI agents with real-world machines, has raised €7 million in a funding round led by United Ventures, with participation from The TechShop, Vento (Exor), Pi Campus, and several angel investors. The funding comes ahead of the company’s official platform launch in October 2025 and will […]

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For many years, choosing an office came down to little more than location and cost. Today, workplaces are far more than four walls. They are an extension of a company’s culture, a retention tool, and a key part of business strategy. This is where Aticco has emerged as a trusted option for teams across all […]

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Darmstadt’s Energy Robotics, an AI software platform for autonomous inspection with robots and drones, today announced the successful close of €11.5 million Series A funding to commercially deploy their software across energy, chemicals, industrial, and security sectors. The Series A was co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment (CI), with participation from Futury Capital, […]

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Paris-based Keenest, a climate-focused investment club, has reached a major milestone: more than €10 million has already been raised to help finance impact startups, seven months ahead of its projected targets. Keenest has managed to double the investment amount raised in merely three months, when EU-Startups covered that the investment club had raised €5 million. […]

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The Amsterdam-based online clinic Fellos is scaling rapidly: the platform has raised over €2 million in growth capital from strategic investors, including a group of healthcare professionals, Dutch Operator Fund, and Capital Mills. The platform currently focuses on three areas where men often face barriers to seeking help: sexual health (such as erectile dysfunction and […]

The post Dutch Men’s health startup Fellos lands €2 million to tackle sensitive issues like ED and PE through telehealth appeared first on EU-Startups.

Across Europe, big companies are becoming strong backers of startup innovation, and corporate venturing is widely used as a buzzword these days. Beyond investing money, they open doors to customers, provide technical expertise, and create opportunities for small teams to test and scale their ideas. Programmes like the European Innovation Council’s Corporate Partnership Programme are […]

The post 50 European corporates backing startups on the path to growth, innovation, and global impact appeared first on EU-Startups.

Putignano-based Tuidi, a FoodTech startup specialising in the development of proprietary machine learning platforms for large-scale retail, has announced the closing of a €3 million Seed round. The funding round was backed by two institutional investors. Vertis SGR contributed through its funds Vertis Venture 6 Digital Sud (partially financed by the European Union’s Next Generation […]

The post Italy’s Tuidi secures €3 million to optimise grocery retail through AI-driven store management appeared first on EU-Startups.

The UK and India-based medical travel startup The Medical Travel Company (TMTC) has raised €3.8 million to bring a new full stack medical solution, offering UK patients world class and affordable treatments in India. The round has been led by prominent global VC Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from 4CAST, an athlete-led collective and investment […]

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Mannheim-based Resourcly, an AI-powered platform helping manufacturers harmonise parts data, eliminate redundancies and recommend qualified alternatives, has raised €2.7 million in Seed funding. Project A led the round, joined by Knut Alicke (former McKinsey Partner & Head of Supply Chain EU), Philip Harting (HARTING CEO), Gregor Stühler (Scoutbee CEO), FIEGE Ventures, along existing investors like […]

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Madrid-based carpooling platform TRIBBU, formerly known as Hoop Carpool, has raised over €2 million in a fresh funding round to transform daily commutes in Spain through efficient, sustainable, and community-powered mobility. The round led by Iberdrola and Grupo Ruiz, with legal support from Eleva Legal. Each of the two strategic investors contributed €1 million. The […]

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In a region famed for its collaborative spirit and global tech champions, byFounders has emerged as one of the most influential early-stage venture capital funds in the Nordics and Baltics.

“Since day one, we’ve focused on what we call the “New Nordics” — the Nordics and Baltics.

But in the last two years, AI has changed everything with the birth of globally competitive players building fundamental layers of the AI stack.

“We now have some of the best AI companies globally, both at the application layer and under the hood,” asserts Rywe.

“Infrastructure-wise, companies like DataCrunch are building GPU clusters in the Nordics using cold climates and renewable energy."

ABB Robotics will benefit from the combination of its leading technology and deep industry expertise with SoftBank’s state-of-the-art capabilities in AI, robotics and next-generation computing.

Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, said:“SoftBank’s next frontier is Physical AI.

As of the fourth quarter 2025, the Robotics division will be reported as Discontinued operations.

At the same time, the Machine Automation division, which together with ABB Robotics currently forms the Robotics & Discrete Automation business area, will become a part of the Process Automation business area.

The ABB Robotics division has a workforce of approximately 7,000.

Paris-based Phagos has closed a €25 million Series A funding round, four years after its founding.

Bacterial infections are a leading cause of human mortality, a major driver of animal deaths, and contribute significantly to food waste.

To meet this challenge, Phagos combines microbiology and artificial intelligence in a platform designed to create precise, personalised phage treatments.

Phagos has filed a patent for its AI technology, which analyses complete phage and bacterial genomes to predict their interactions and enable scalable, targeted phage therapies.

The company has also received authorisation to market personalised phage-based veterinary medicines, a notable regulatory mileston…

Deploying AI in the physical world remains slow and costly.

Cyberwave addresses this by transforming physical hardware into programmable digital twins, so developers can simulate, control, and orchestrate machines with minimal code.

At the core is a growing catalogue of digital twins that functions as a two-sided marketplace.

Simone Di Somma, co-founder and CEO, said:Our goal is to bring the speed of digital software to the physical world.

Just as SAP became the system of record for digital processes, Cyberwave is building the ‘system of actions’ for the physical world.

London-based Nexcade, an AI automation company for freight forwarders, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding and is emerging from stealth.

Nexcade develops agentic AI automation for logistics teams, simplifying pricing, quoting, and rate procurement to help forwarders operate faster and secure more business.

Founded by Dan Bailey and Tasho Kjosev, the team brings deep freight and AI experience from companies such as Xeneta, Raft, Gravity Sketch, Improbable, and UnlikelyAI.

Freight rates continue to compress after record volatility, leaving many with revenues halved over the past year and net margins near 5 per cent, so inefficiency cuts straight into profit.

Rates and contracts underp…

AI software platform for autonomous inspection with robots and drones Energy Robotics, has raised $13.5 million Series A.

Energy Robotics addresses this through its AI software platform for autonomous robots and drones that cuts operating costs by up to 40 per cent while significantly enhancing worker safety.

"This funding round will help us scale autonomy to serve the world's most critical infrastructure, giving energy, chemicals, utilities, and security operators greater resilience, safety, and efficiency," said Marc Dassler, CEO and co-founder of Energy Robotics.

The funding will accelerate the commercial deployment of Energy Robotics’ software across energy, chemicals, industrial, and s…

Qualcomm Technologies today announced its agreement to acquire Italian open-source hardware and software company Arduino.

By releasing both hardware and software as open source, Arduino quickly grew into a global platform for makers, educators, and developers.

Following this acquisition, the 33M+ active users in the Arduino community will gain access to Qualcomm Technologies’ powerful tech stack and global reach.

Meet UNO Q: Arduino’s most advanced board yet, powered by QualcommThe new Arduino UNO Q is a next-generation single board computer featuring a “dual brain” architecture—a Linux Debian-capable microprocessor and a real-time microcontroller—to bridge high-performance computing with r…

LIfT engineers these neutrophils so they can better find and kill cancer cells, and also help the rest of the immune system join the fight.

He recalled: “I conducted donor studies comparing immune cell types in “super donors” with no history of cancer versus those who had it.

Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that play a crucial role in your immune system by helping to fight infections and heal injuries.

They are the most abundant type of white blood cell, making up approximately 50 to 70 per cent of all white blood cells in the body.

Once produced, they are infused into the patient’s bloodstream via IV, providing a powerful, temporary boost to the body’s innate immune system to he…

Deep Tech Momentum has raised €1 million in funding for its deeptech capital and customer acquisition marketplace, aiming to establish Europe as a robust deeptech ecosystem.

Deep Tech Momentum (DTM) was founded in 2022 by Isabelle Flanagan, and Martin Schilling.

Centred around an annual conference in Berlin — in my opinion finally putting Berlin back in the race for great startup conferences — which functions as a growth engine for deeptech startups, investors, and corporate leaders.

DTM isn’t just a conference — it’s where deals get done, partnerships are forged, and Europe’s deeptech competitiveness accelerates.

In a post announcing the raise, DTM cited remarks by Mario Draghi:“A differen…

ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly active users, according to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which introduced a wave of new products and partnerships at its developer day conference.

In his keynote speech, Altman said: “Back in 2023, we had two million developers and 100 million weekly ChatGPT users and we were processing about 300 million tokens per minute on our API.

"Today, four million developers have built with OpenAI and more than 800 million people now use ChatGPT every week.

The 800 million figure marks an uptick on the 700 million weekly active users OpenAI said ChatGPT was expected to hit in August this year, which was up from 500 million in March this year.

These includ…

Germany’s Resourcly, an AI platform that harmonises parts data, removes redundancies, and recommends qualified alternatives for manufacturers, has raised a €2.7 million seed round.

Resourcly is an AI platform for manufacturers that harmonises complex inventories by standardizing parts data, removing duplicates, and recommending qualified alternatives.

Resourcly standardises messy inventory data without replacing existing systems.

Beyond cleanup, it creates liquidity by enabling resale and sharing through trusted networks, turning excess stock into working capital.

The funding will support hires across engineering, product, and sales, and accelerate platform expansion for large enterprise cu…

Paris-based Ewake, which develops an AI system to improve software reliability, has raised €2 million in a pre-seed round led by Connect Ventures.

Ewake develops an AI “teammate” for software reliability that integrates with production systems and works alongside engineering teams.

The product consists of a suite of AI agents that monitor production, investigate incidents, and assist with prevention in real time.

Their goal is to redefine software reliability through agentic AI.

Coming out of stealth, Ewake will use the funding to develop additional AI agents and expand its Paris-based team to support its growing customer base.

The UK and India-based medical travel startup, The Medical Travel Company (TMTC), has raised €3.8 million to bring a new full-stack medical solution, offering UK patients world-class and affordable treatments in India.

The Medical Travel Company offers a full-stack platform for medical travel, enabling UK patients awaiting elective care to access high-quality, lower-cost treatment in India.

The service includes UK doctor involvement throughout the care pathway, post-surgery insurance, and end-to-end logistics across travel, in-house aftercare, and recovery.

With private care often unaffordable, more than 500,000 UK residents travel abroad each year for faster, lower-cost treatment.

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Dutch agentic AI-powered platform Datamonk has secured a total of €1.6 million in pre-seed to date to address one of healthcare IT’s biggest challenges: moving and cleaning decades of medical imaging data.

Datamonk is tackling this challenge by replacing manual, consultant-heavy migrations with agentic AI.

Datamonk was founded by Jaap Gielink, Jai Bhatia, and Matthew Condron, whose backgrounds span healthcare data, cloud technologies, and AI.

He commented:We don’t just move imaging data, we clean it and make it usable so hospitals can trust it is ready for clinical workflows, research, and innovation.

The funding will support platform development, the advancement of AI capabilities, and tea…

Owlstone Medical is developing a breathalyser for disease, with the goal of improving non-invasive diagnostics for conditions such as respiratory and liver diseases, cancer, and digestive health disorders.

The company aims to save 100,000 lives and reduce healthcare costs by $1.5 billion through earlier detection and more precise treatment.

At the heart of this approach is the award-winning ReCIVA®Breath Sampler, which enables the reliable collection of breath samples.

Owlstone Medical aims to further develop tools, potentially leveraging its proven FAIMS microchip chemical sensor technology, to detect validated biomarkers of disease and enable earlier, more accurate diagnosis.

These will b…

Four major European airports in Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, and London continue to have flight delays due to a cyberattack on Collins Aerospace, a provider of check-in systems.

A cyberattack targeting Collins Aerospace, a provider of airport check-in systems, sparked delays and disrupted flights across Europe over the weekend.

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world.

Europe’s startup scene is having a moment, with European unicorns multiplying and American VCs setting up shop across the pond. But while European funding dominates the early stages, late-stage capital still flows primarily from the U.S. So what does this mean for European founders, and how is the continent carving out its own identity in […]

The companies want to launch the robotaxi services in Germany and the U.K. first, pending regulatory approval.

Europe’s fintech darling Revolut is looking to raise a new funding round that would give it a $65 billion valuation, the Financial Times reports. The UK-based company is reportedly in talks to raise around $1 billion by issuing new shares and selling existing ones. The US-based firm Greenoaks is said to be leading the round, […]

The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

The Italian government claims that accepting Paragon’s help would have compromised national security and classified information.

All Thibault Launay and his wife Simi wanted nearly five years ago was to build a dream home in Portugal, where they both now live. But what they encountered instead was a broken system. “Fourteen months of delays, 20% budget overruns, and endless stress managing over 10 subcontractors,” Thibault recalled. They bought the land in […]

This week on StrictlyVC Download, Strictly VC’s Alex Gove speaks with Eric Slesinger from 201 Ventures, a firm focused on seed-stage defense tech startups in Europe. They discuss Slesinger’s journey from CIA to investor and how he recognized the untapped potential in European defense tech while others were dismissive. They also chat about how he’s […]

As the AI Summit got underway in Paris on Monday, some 60 European companies — from incumbent industrial giants to AI startups (including France’s LLM-maker Mistral) — signed up to an initiative to help establish Europe as a leader in AI. But the fact that they felt the need to sign up at all highlights the […]

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Following allegations of potential abuse, Paragon Solutions has cut off Italy from its spyware systems.

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OpenAI on Thursday launched data residency in Europe, allowing European organizations to meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the AI company’s products. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data. Most tech giants and cloud providers offer European […]

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WhatsApp said users in several European countries were targeted with Paragon spyware, according to the Italian government.

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Despite news that Andreessen Horowitz closed its London crypto-focused office, the VC reportedly still has dozens of scouts in Europe looking for startups.

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