Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.

In parallel, the companies will explore how to leverage Waymo's autonomous technology and Toyota's vehicle expertise to enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles (POVs).

Automated driving and advanced safety technologies play a central role, exemplified by the development and global deployment of Toyota Safety Sense (TSS) — a proprietary suite of advanced safety technologies.

Waymo, the global leader in autonomous driving technology, now serves more than a quarter of a million trips each we…

PATH isn't real on Linux ​On a fresh installation of Debian 12 (bookworm), executing echo $PATH shows the following output:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin/usr/bin contains /usr/bin/cat , and /usr/bin is in PATH , so just typing cat will run /usr/bin/cat .

(flags & EV_EXIT) || have_traps ()) { INTOFF; jp = vforkexec (cmd, argv, path, cmdentry.u.index); break ; } shellexec (argv, path, cmdentry.u.index); // ... }shellexec in exec.c calls padvance :c void shellexec ( char ** argv , const char * path , int idx ) { // ... while ( padvance ( & path, argv [ 0 ]) >= 0 ) { cmdname = stackblock (); if ( -- idx < 0 && pathopt == NULL ) { tryexec (cmdname, argv, envp); if (…

About Modern RealtyWe are a YC-backed (S24) startup looking to disrupt the realtor space by creating a software platform that allows users to buy homes without a realtor.

About the roleTypeScriptWe are a YC-backed (S24) startup looking to disrupt the realtor space by creating a software platform that allows regular people to buy homes without a traditional realtor.

We're automate real estate agent workflows, including messaging, deal management, and customer interaction, all with AI.

Design, develop AI workflowsCollab closely with CEO and CTOPrompt engineer effective GPT prompts, fine-tune AI responsesUse new AI as it comes out.

QualificationsUses AI to ship code fastPreviously shipped cons…

In a major policy shift, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that vehicles with 85% or more domestic content will be fully exempt from new tariffs on automobiles.

That’s a steep threshold, and as of today, there’s only one automaker that qualifies for the exemption: Tesla.

Those are one cut of the Tesla Model 3 and two cuts of the Tesla Model Y with domestic content above the 85% mark.

Clearing that new 85% threshold is a massive win for any automaker, simplifying their supply chain, regulatory requirements, and most importantly, pricing.

While domestic content rules sound neutral on paper, the real-world effect of this policy is to carve out an exemption that only Tesla benefi…

A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment.

The idea that personal LLM use is environmentally irresponsible shows up a lot in many of the online spaces I frequent.

[...] If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early.

Notably, Andy's calculations here are all based on the widely circulated higher-end estimate that each ChatGPT prompt uses 3 Wh of energy.

At this point, one could argue that trying to shame people into avoiding ChatGPT on environmental grounds is itself an unethical act.

I can't pay rent because devs just don't care11 Feb, 2025Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid.

Better to be late a day or two with rent payment.

Shit, can't log in with without updating the app but I have no space on my phone, why's the new app bigger?

It lost my Digital Secure Key, can't log in, crap.

Rent's due today and computer said I can't pay it.

You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years.

People are tired of seeing generative AI being passed off as real but at the same time there is enthusiasm for new AI trends.

By the time sceptics and user experience catch up with one wave, there's another couple crashing into the news coverage.

AI companies keep talking about 10x productivity gains.

And maybe then product designers will stop trying to insert AI into every damn thing they make.

Neurox Control Helm ChartThis Helm chart is designed to install Neurox.

The instructions will install a free, self-hosted deployment of a single, combined Neurox Control + Workload cluster.

It will be fully ready-to-use with ingress, TLS certs configured and available at your Neurox Control Portal subdomain (https://random-words.goneurox.com).

By default, the install instructions bundle the Neurox workload helm chart with the Neurox control helm chart.

You can change this behavior by simply omitting the --set workload.enabled=true parameter in the Neurox control helm chart install command.

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BeatsyncBeatsync is a high-precision web audio player built for multi-device playback.

Currently, only desktop Chrome browsers are fully supported.

Mobile device synchronization is experimental and may be unstable.

QuickstartThis project uses Turborepo.

Fill in the .env file in apps/client with the following:NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:8080 NEXT_PUBLIC_WS_URL=ws://localhost:8080/wsRun the following commands to start the server and client:bun install # installs once for all workspaces bun dev # starts both client (:3000) and server (:8080)

Because the model holds the running sequence in memory as it responds, the cumulative cost of generation grows quadratically.

This “quadratic bottleneck” is often behind that frustrating lag between asking the model a question and getting an answer.

State-space models (SSMs), and transformers interleaved with SSM layers, have emerged as two possible solutions.

IBM Research has just open-sourced its first hybrid experiment: Bamba, a model that can run as quickly as an SSM and process long sequences as skillfully as a transformer.

Trained on 4,000-token sequences, Bamba can capably handle 32,000-token conversations.

CoRT (Chain of Recursive Thoughts) 🧠🔄TL;DR: I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself repeatedly.

CoRT makes AI models recursively think about their responses, generate alternatives, and pick the best one.

I tested it with Mistral 3.1 24B and it went from "meh" to "holy crap", especially for such a small model, at programming tasks.

txt export OPENROUTER_API_KEY = "your-key-here" python recursive - thinking - ai .

pyThe Secret SauceThe magic is in:Self-evaluationCompetitive alternative generationIterative refinementDynamic thinking depthContributingFound a way to make it even better?

During that time, we’ve surpassed one billion downloads and, most importantly, established Llama as a leader in the open source AI ecosystem.

Llama API provides easy one-click API key creation and interactive playgrounds to explore different Llama models, including the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick models we announced earlier this month.

Llama API is also compatible with the OpenAI SDK, making it easy to convert existing applications.

As more capable AI models become available, we believe this is an important effort to improve the robustness of software systems.

Meet the Llama Impact Grant recipientsThe Llama Impact Grants are aimed at fostering innovation and creating economic opportu…

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It’s absolutely true that the models will use EXIF data if it’s available, and may not tell you that.

But several comments intrigued me:You should also see how it fares with incorrect EXIF data.

For example, add EXIF data in the middle of Times Square to a photo of a forest and see what it says.

If anyone else is able to spoof EXIF data and have the models fooled, please show me how you did it.

So to put a bow on this:The o3 model isn’t smoke and mirrors, tricking us by only using EXIF data.

A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.

The local firm alleged that its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

The block of Proton Mail has yet to take effect, based on TechCrunch’s checks of Proton Mail’s website in India.

The Indian government’s IT ministry reportedly notified internet providers to block Proton Mail at the request of law enforcement.

Nonetheless, in October 2024, the Delhi High Court asked state police and the Indian government’s home ministry to investigate the alleged use of Proton Mail across the country.

Firefox tab groups now availableTab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect – our community platform – and thanks to thousands of votes, comments and passionate feedback, it’s finally here.

A feature the community asked for, loud and clearJust one day after Mozilla Connect quietly launched in March 2022, a request for tab groups appeared.

But the community found Mozilla Connect and rallied behind the request for tab groups.

Last year, we shared what we were working on – features that help you stay organized, like our handy sidebar, vertical tabs and tab groups.

With tab groups, you can drag and drop tabs into organized groups, label them by name or color, and stay f…

We’re launching a new Meta AI app built with Llama 4, a first step toward building a more personal AI.

The Meta AI app includes a Discover feed, a place to share and explore how others are using AI.

To integrate all our most powerful AI experiences, we’re merging the new Meta AI app with the Meta View companion app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and in some countries you’ll be able to switch from interacting with Meta AI on your glasses to the app.

Existing Meta View users can continue to manage their AI glasses from the Meta AI app – once the app updates, all your paired devices, settings and media will automatically transfer over to the new Devices tab.

This continuity across the Meta AI app, …

In the Afro-descendant town of Puerto Tejada, in the southern Colombian department of Cauca, a handful of master swordsmen represent one of the last bastions of the traditional martial art called “grima,” or machete fencing.

Here, in the Academia de Esgrima de Machete y Bordón, some of the last masters of an ancestral Afro-Colombian martial art propagate their teachings to younger generations dedicated to the survival of their heritage.

The masters dwindle in number as many young Afro-Colombians look to urban Colombia and mestizo culture instead of their own heritage.

This martial art overlaps with our gastronomy, our ancestral cuisine.

Perhaps the publicity, state programs, and funding tha…

ArkFlowEnglish | 中文High-performance Rust stream processing engine, providing powerful data stream processing capabilities, supporting multiple input/output sources and processors.

FeaturesHigh Performance : Built on Rust and Tokio async runtime, offering excellent performance and low latency: Built on Rust and Tokio async runtime, offering excellent performance and low latency Multiple Data Sources : Support for Kafka, MQTT, HTTP, files, and other input/output sources: Support for Kafka, MQTT, HTTP, files, and other input/output sources Powerful Processing Capabilities : Built-in SQL queries, JSON processing, Protobuf encoding/decoding, batch processing, and other processors: Built-in SQL q…

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is an AWS service which provides managed PostgreSQL clusters.

2 Test DesignWe adapted Jepsen’s test library for PostgreSQL for use with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with a small wrapper program.

3 ResultsUnder healthy conditions, with moderate concurrency, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 exhibited G-nonadjacent cycles every few minutes.

This suggests that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL might provide Parallel Snapshot Isolation, a slightly weaker consistency model.

This report is the product of a cursory exploration—we have not investigated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL behavior in detail.

Mining is the main anthropogenic cause of heavy metal soil contamination.

Now, a review of thousands of studies — and many more soil samples — reveals that this same 30-centimeter layer also contains toxic concentrations of metals in agricultural soil used to grow the food humans eat.

The researchers found that between 14% and 17% of the global cropland contains dangerously high concentrations of at least one of these metals.

The map shows the areas (in reddish tones) where the concentration of one or more metals exceeds toxic thresholds.

Among the metals, the most widely distributed on the map is cadmium, which is present in toxic concentrations in 9% of soils.

Vance, whom the Republican Party just nominated to be Donald Trump’s vice president.

If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted techno-authoritarianism to the White House, and one can imagine—with horror—what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas.

Trump’s first campaign was undoubtedly a watershed moment for authoritarianism in American politics, but some thinkers on the right had been laying the groundwork for years, hoping for someone to mainstream their ideas.

Yarvin was one of them.

Way back in 2012, in a speech on “How to Reboot the US Government,” he said, “If Americans want to change their government, they’re …

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Other AttacksBecause of the potential impact of the RCE vulnerabilities, this document is primarily focused on providing details on them.

Since plists are the main way of sending arguments to the AirPlay receiver, understanding them and their structure is crucial for understanding the protocol.

Disable AirPlay Receiver: We recommend fully disabling the AirPlay receiver if it is not in use.

‍We recommend fully disabling the AirPlay receiver if it is not in use.

Restrict AirPlay Access: Create firewall rules to limit AirPlay communication (Port 7000 on Apple devices) to only trusted devices, enhancing network security and reducing exposure.

They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it.

THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9% at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!

Seventy-two percent think it’s very or somewhat likely that his economic policies will cause a recession soon.

Seventy-three percent said the economy is in “bad shape,” while 53 percent said it’s gotten worse since Trump took office—and 41 percent said their own finances have been hurt.

Seventy-one percent think his tariffs are making inflation worse, 65 percent think Trump is actively ignoring federal court orders, and 64 percent think he’s going too far w…

They were inadequate to describe many of the tricks we thought a notation should be able to describe.

But nevertheless, all the evidence is that these were entirely new juggling tricks.

Alan O'DonnellCongruence notation (Gauss)Dirac’s bra-ket notation (1939)Einstein notationStructure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Gerald SussmansourceClassical mechanics is deceptively simple.

In order that the reasoning be clear and unambiguous, we have adopted a more precise mathematical notation.

I have been curious whether empirical historical laws can be found for mathematical notation.

Prolog NotesSome notes taken while working on Prolog (mostly SWI-Prolog)A TraditionFrom The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1832.

The Logic Programming LandscapeSo many modeling languages which are also programming languages, all a bit different.

Missed in the above:What is Prolog?

In a 2012 paper by Peter Van Roy, Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know, the following diagram can be found on page 13:JournalsLest I forget:NotesCode grabbagSome predicates which may be of general use can be found in the Code grabbagExternal ResourcesOn YouTube: "The Power of Prolog" by Markus TriskaList of Markus Triska's "Power of Prolog" YouTube videosP…

class Distance def initialize ( meters ) @meters = meters freeze end def update ( meters ) @meters = meters end end distance = Distance .

class Distance def initialize ( meters ) @meters = meters freeze end def expensive_method sleep 3 "hello" end end distance = Distance .

class Distance def initialize ( meters ) @meters = meters freeze end def expensive_method @_expensive_method ||= begin sleep 3 "result" end end end distance = Distance .

class AngleCache def initialize @cache = {} end def [] ( key ) @cache [ key ] end def []= ( key , value ) @cache [ key ] = value end end class Angle attr_reader :radians def initialize ( radians , cache :) @radians = radians @cache = cache freeze end def …

Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases

APL unifies the notations for certain mathematical constructs, while having a more consistent syntax.

Below are some examples comparing traditional mathematical notation (denoted TMN in this article) with the equivalent APL.

Compare the impression you get when reading the following two expressions which is both valid APL (though it has superfluous parentheses) and traditional mathematics:((x + y) × (x - y)) = (f ∘ g)(x, y) ( ( x + y ) × ( x − y ) ) = ( f ∘ g ) ( x , y ) {\displaystyle ((x+y)\times (x-y))=(f\circ g)(x,y)}Now note that they are identical, letter for letter.

It is notable that APL traditionally was written with a font wherein letters were always italicised, while everything el…

If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wrong garbage cans.

Because that’s where he found the donor machine for this project, and it wasn’t even the first one he’s come across in the trash.

For being a dumpster find, the Selectric II was actually in pretty decent shape.

The terminal speaks RS-232, as one would expect, and within the limitations of keyboard and character set differences over the 50-odd years since the Selectric was introduced, it works fantastic as a Linux terminal.

Hats off to [alnwlsn] for tackling a difficult project while maintaining the integ…

LispWorks is a Common Lisp implementation that comes with its own Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and its share of unique features, such as the CAPI GUI toolkit.

Layered products that are part of LispWorks Professional and Enterprise Editions (CLIM, KnowledgeWorks, Common SQL and LispWorks ORB) are not included.

LispWorks IDEThe LispWorks IDE is self-contained, but it is also possible to use LispWorks-the-implementation from Emacs and Slime (see below).

CL-USER 4 > (defun my-abs (x) (cond ((> x 0) x) ((< x 0) (- x)) (t 0))) CL-USER 5 > (step (my-abs -5)) (MY-ABS -5) -> :s -5 -> :s -5 (COND ((> X 0) X) ((< X 0) (- X)) (T 0)) <=> (IF (> X 0) (PROGN X) (IF (< X 0) (- X) (PROGN 0))) ;;…

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StarlingX is primarily an open source cloud computing platform that provides a comprehensive software stack for deploying and managing distributed cloud infrastructure.

This is why, for example, Verizon deployed thousands of 5G cell sites using StarlingX for its distributed cloud infrastructure.

As it turns out, those attributes also make StarlingX a good fit for enterprise cloud computing.

Notable users include T-Systems, which deploys StarlingX for edge computing use cases; Vodafone, which uses StarlingX for edge and 5G applications; and Xunison, where StarlingX is part of its smart home technologies.

For all of its edge strengths, don’t forget that StarlingX is more than just an edge clo…

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements — Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps. — From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …

Karen Freifeld / Reuters:

Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into tiers that help determine how many AI chips a country can obtain — The Trump administration is working on changes to a Biden-era rule that would limit global access to AI chips …

Samantha Cole / 404 Media:

Tests appear to show Instagram blocking minors from accessing AI Studio, its user-generated chatbot character platform, after recent reports on safety issues — Following Wall Street Journal investigations into the user-generated chatbots, AI Studio is inaccessible for users under 18 years old.

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Supermicro reports preliminary Q3 revenue of $4.5B to $4.6B, vs. $5.5B est., earnings per share of $0.29 to $0.31, vs. $0.54 est.; SMCI drops 16%+ after hours — Super Micro shares fell as much as 19% on Tuesday after the server maker announced preliminary results for the fiscal third quarter …

Michael Kan / PCMag:

Intel's next chip node, 14A, is slated for a 2027 release, will feature “Turbo Cells” and allegedly have 15-20% better performance-per-watt over the 18A process — The company previews the new chip node as Intel's foundry business tries to take on TSMC and recruit more tech companies as clients.

CNBC:

Snap reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.35B est., and declines to provide guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties; SNAP drops 12%+ after hours — Snap reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue Tuesday but declined to provide guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties …

Hugh Son / CNBC:

SoFi plans to bring back crypto investing in 2025; SoFi chose to drop it in 2023 to get a bank charter, forcing users to Blockchain.com or to liquidate holdings — SoFi CEO Anthony Noto said the fintech bank will bring back cryptocurrency investing this year after a “fundamental shift” …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

The latest update of GPT-4o is “now 100% rolled back” for free users and is currently rolling back for paid users, as OpenAI aims to fix the model's sycophancy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT …

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg:

Chipmaking equipment manufacturer ASM says orders in Q1 rose 14% YoY to €834M, vs. €808M est., but notes demand in non-AI-related segments was “sluggish” — Orders rose 14% from a year earlier at constant currency to €834 million ($951 million) …

Lauren Johnson / Adweek:

PayPal is expanding PayPal Ads to sell programmatic ads on the open web, using shopping data from its services to help advertisers target ads — The payment giant is extending its ad business beyond its owned properties — PayPal is unleashing its advertising business on the open web.

John Irish / Reuters:

In a first for the country, France blames Russia's GRU for a string of local cyber attacks, including on ministries, defense firms, and think tanks — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times, up from 1B downloads in March and 650M downloads in early December 2024 — In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024.

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy — WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:

SK Telecom announces free SIM card replacements to its 25M mobile customers following a recent USIM data breach, but only 6M cards are available through May — South Korean mobile provider SK Telecom has announced free SIM card replacements to its 25 million mobile customers following …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced — At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. — Available in limited preview …

Meta Developers on YouTube:

Livestream of Meta's LlamaCon 2025 keynote — Join us as we dive into the world of AI at LlamaCon 2025. This session features a keynote presentation with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, VP of Llama Manohar Paluri, and Llama Researcher Angela Fan. Together, they will explore the importance …

Bloomberg:

The UK government publishes draft legislation on cryptoassets, set to be finalized later in 2025, and says it will work with US officials on crypto regulation — The UK government will collaborate with US officials on plans to regulate the burgeoning crypto industry, distancing itself …

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Google updates Audio Overviews in NotebookLM to expand support beyond English to 50+ languages, including Spanish, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese — Now you can listen to Audio Overviews in over 50 languages, like Spanish, French, Korean, and more.

CNN:

Sources: President Trump called Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about reports that Amazon was adding tariff prices to listings — President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this morning to complain about reports that his company was considering displaying the cost …

Alayna Treene / @alaynatreene:

Scoop: Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning to complain about reports that his company was considering displaying the cost U.S. tariffs next to prices for certain products on its website, two senior White House officials told @CNN

Fortune:

Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site” — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during …

Alex Heath / The Verge:

Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI interactions that friends have chosen to share — The new Meta AI app puts a twist on social media. … Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant.

Jeff Stein / @jstein_wapo:

Amazon says showing tariff prices on the main Amazon site was never under consideration, but Amazon Haul has considered showing import duties on some products — New — Amazon Spox now saying this was never under consideration for the main Amazon website. Says Amazon Haul has considered listing import price duties on certain products

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:

Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, operating income of €509M, below its €548M forecast, Q2 MAUs forecast below analysts' estimates; SPOT drops 8%+ — Spotify Technology SA shares tumbled in early trading Tuesday after the streaming company reported operating profit …

Wired:

Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that may affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple patched its own devices — Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device …

Lightning-fast And Powerful Code EditorLapce (IPA: /læps/) is written in pure Rust with a UI in Floem.

FeaturesBuilt-in LSP (Language Server Protocol) support to give you intelligent code features such as: completion, diagnostics and code actionsModal editing support as first class citizen (Vim-like, and toggleable)Built-in remote development support inspired by VSCode Remote Development.

We also have Lapdev which can help manage your remote dev environments.

ContributingLapdev, developed by the Lapce team, is a cloud dev env service similar to GitHub Codespaces.

By clicking the button above, you'll be taken to a fully set up Lapce dev env where you can browse the code and start developing.

drawDBFree, simple, and intuitive database schema editor and SQL generator.

DrawDB is a robust and user-friendly database entity relationship (DBER) editor right in your browser.

Build diagrams with a few clicks, export sql scripts, customize your editor, and more without creating an account.

Getting StartedLocal Developmentgit clone https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb cd drawdb npm install npm run devBuildgit clone https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb cd drawdb npm install npm run buildDocker Builddocker build -t drawdb .

docker run -p 3000:80 drawdb

What is JumpServer?

JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) tool that provides DevOps and IT teams with on-demand and secure access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, Database and RemoteApp endpoints through a web browser.

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Anthropic coursesWelcome to Anthropic's educational courses.

This repository currently contains five courses.

We suggest completing the courses in the following order:Please note that these courses often favor our lowest-cost model, Claude 3 Haiku, to keep API costs down for students following along with the materials.

Feel free to use other Claude models if you prefer.

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An AI coding agent designed for large tasks and real world projects.

🔬 A cumulative diff review sandbox keeps AI-generated changes separate from your project files until they are ready to go.

Dev-friendly, easy to install🧑‍💻 REPL mode with fuzzy auto-complete for commands and file loading.

Plandex Cloud (BYO API Key) • Use Plandex Cloud with your own OpenRouter.ai and OpenAI keys.

git initNow start the Plandex REPL in your project:plandexor for short:pdx☁️ If you're using Plandex Cloud, you'll be prompted at this point to start a trial.

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.

Updates🌟 2025.04.16: We shared the latest progress of the UI-TARS-1.5 model in our blog, which excels in playing games and performing GUI tasks, and we open-sourced the UI-TARS-1.5-7B.

0.06 0.03 0.32 0.35 0.42 Kill Mobs (mooshroom) 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 (zombie) 0.4 0.1 0.6 0.7 0.9 (chicken) 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.6 100 Tasks Avg.

0.04 0.03 0.18 0.25 0.31Model Scale ComparisonHere we compare performance across different model scales of UI-TARS on the OSworld benchmark.

Given its enhanced performance in GUI tasks, including successfully navigating authentication challenges like CAPTCHA, UI-TARS-1.5 could potentially be misused for unauthorized access or automation of protected content.

What's nextW…

PocketBase is an open source Go backend that includes:embedded database (SQLite) with realtime subscriptionsbuilt-in files and users managementconvenient Admin dashboard UIand simple REST-ish APIFor documentation and examples, please visit https://pocketbase.io/docs.

Once downloaded, extract the archive and run ./pocketbase serve in the extracted directory.

Here is a minimal example:Install Go 1.23+ (if you haven't already) Create a new project directory with the following main.go file inside it: package main import ( "log" "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase" "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/core" ) func main () { app := pocketbase .

To build a statically linked executable, you can run CGO_…

Try Public APIs for freeThe Public APIs repository is manually curated by community members like you and folks working at APILayer.

It includes an extensive list of public APIs from many domains that you can use for your own products.

Consider it a treasure trove of APIs well-managed by the community over the years.

APILayer is the fastest way to integrate APIs into any product.

Works on most new cars OAuth Yes Yes⬆ Back to IndexVideo⬆ Back to IndexWeather⬆ Back to IndexLicenseMIT (c) 2022 public-apis

Featuring powerful AI capabilities and supporting various e-book formats, it makes reading smarter and more focused.

Run flutter pub get .. Run flutter gen-l10n to generate multi-language files.

Run flutter run to launch the application.

Code signing policySponsorsFree code signing on Windows provided by SignPath.io,certficate by SignPath FoundationLicenseThis project is licensed under the MIT License.

Starting from version 1.1.4, the open source license for the Anx Reader project has been changed from the MIT License to the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).

Hydra Launcher Hydra is a game launcher with its own embedded bittorrent client.

Table of ContentsAboutHydra is a Game Launcher with its own embedded BitTorrent Client.

FeaturesOwn embedded bittorrent clientHow Long To Beat (HLTB) integration on game pageDownloads path customizationWindows and Linux supportConstantly updatedAnd more ...

Download only .exe if you want to install Hydra on Windows.

Download .deb or .rpm or .zip if you want to install Hydra on Linux.

__init__ ( self , config = config ) OpenAI_Chat .

train ( documentation = "Our business defines XYZ as ..." )Train with SQLYou can also add SQL queries to your training data.

Vanna’s capabilities are tied to the training data you give itMore training data means better accuracy for large and complex datasets Secure and private.

The package allows you to connect to any SQL database that you can otherwise connect to with Python Choose your front end.

Extending VannaVanna is designed to connect to any database, LLM, and vector database.

After going through this study plan, I got hired as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon!

This is my multi-month study plan for becoming a software engineer for a large company.

You don't need to go super deep in the book (or even finish it).

There may be caveats:JavaScriptRubyHere is an article I wrote about choosing a language for the interview: Pick One Language for the Coding Interview.

PythonCoding Interview Patterns: Nail Your Next Coding Interview ( Main Recommendation ) An insider’s perspective on what interviewers are truly looking for and why.

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Like more young women than young men, she paid close attention to those around her—their moods, needs, unspoken cues.

The rise of artificial intelligence is a staple in the history of science and technology, and I’ve sat through my share of painstaking seminars on its origins and development.

That guess is the result of elaborate training, conducted on what amounts to the entirety of accessible human achievement.

We’ve let these systems riffle through just about everything we’ve ever said or done, and they “get the hang” of us.

She replied, “In the first circuits class, they tell us that electrical engineering is the study of how to get the rocks to do math.”Exactly.

Second, you may have realized while watching some of my demos that our tools aren’t designed for the volume of work AI can generate.

Our code review tools are designed for reviewing at most 5-10 PRs a day, not 50.

Work piles up in review queues, decisions get rushed or postponed, and we’re no better off than before adding AI tools into our process.

What would code review look like if optimized for 50 PRs daily instead of 5?

We must reimagine knowledge work as a high-velocity decision-making operation rather than a creative production process.

That means the government has at least some ability to map or re-create the past everyday movements of some American citizens.

But what can an American authoritarian, or his private-sector accomplices, do with all the government’s data, both alone and combined with data from the private sector?

Today, they argued, Trump is targeting law firms, but DOGE data could allow him to target individual Americans at scale.

Over and over, the federal experts we spoke with insisted that the very idea of connecting federal data is anathema.

These examples are all speculative and hypothetical, but they help demonstrate why Americans should care deeply about how the government intends to manage their priv…

Presentation slides for developers

But before you form another thought, you’re going to want to keep reading this five-hundred-word bumper sticker on my Tesla so you can fully understand why I am not a bad person.

So when that suddenly changed for me this year, I was just as outraged as any of you, as evidenced by this five-hundred-word bumper sticker prominently placed on my Tesla.

If I had that superpower of foresight, what I wouldn’t have is this bumper sticker on a Tesla that I still own.

What about the fact that I’ve never been to a Chick-fil-A?Or that I commissioned this bumper sticker from the Etsy shop of a woman who was fired from the EPA?

So sporting a bumper sticker clarifying that none of it is my fault is the le…

HOW TO PUT THE INTERNET IN A BOXInternet-in-a-Box “learning hotspots” are used in dozens of countries , to give everyone a chance, e.g.

in remote mountain villages in India.

It works without internet — like a community fountain, but for the mind — wirelessly serving anyone nearby with a smartphone, tablet or laptop.

Now you too can put the internet in a box and customize it with the very best free content for your school, clinic or family!

As for content storage, the Tonie Box keeps audio on an SD card, with Tonie figures acting as RFID tags that trigger specific audio files.

Finally, I added a cutout for the SD card socket, screw holes, and an indented area for the label.

ESP32-S3 board with power management and battery chargingBefore starting this project, I actually dabbled in designing my own ESP32-S3 board.

The USB-C voltage is 5V, while the battery voltage can range anywhere from 3-4.2V.

The bottom layer has 2.54mm headers into which I can plug the MAX98357A breakout board and the ESP32-S3 board.

The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the ObitsReading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

And as decades of creativity research suggest, the most original ideas often come from the most unlikely sources.

In February, I interviewed Yoed Kenett, who studies high-level cognition and creativity, for my podcast “The Science of Creativity.” His research shows that creativity thrives on making connections between very different concepts.

If you filter your reading by only choosing people who are like you, then you won’t be absorbing the most different, surprising new information.

Will any of th…

IntroductionThis is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web.

The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably the C programming language in particular.

Or could it be that you really are genuinely interested in the ancient art of writing text adventure games from scratch?

Trivial as it may be, the program does demonstrate the most important aspect of any text adventure: descriptive text.

A good story is one of the things that makes a good adventure game.

A groundbreaking study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality.

Based on a massive dataset of over 50,000 houses in some 1,000 archaeological sites worldwide, the study suggests that economic inequality is not an inevitable result of societal advancement, agriculture, or population.

Contrary to the conventional narrative—that inequality inevitably rises when societies grow larger, adopt formal leadership, or begin farming—the study found that inequality levels varied greatly across time and space.

But high degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies.”He noted that house size is a consistent …

They typically don't have a street number, but might have an interesting feature nearby to help with location.

That way, users can click on the word "Wellington" and find all the benches nearby.

Let's take a look at how one of the reverse geocoding services deals with transforming 51.476845,-0.295296 into an address:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sandycombe Road, Kew, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, Greater London, England, TW9 2EN, United KingdomThat is too much address!

Most mapping provider have a POI function - we can find nearby things of interest and use them as a location.

The POI address is:JSON { … "name" : "Central Park" , "coarse_location" : "Des Plaines, IL, USA" , …

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.

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

Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play.

It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired.

Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.

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Depot – Build faster.

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

Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play.

It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired.

Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.

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.

Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools.

Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond.

Depot – Build faster.

Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows.

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

Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools.

Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond.

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Check out the speedrun to get started in…

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Heroku – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications.

Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools.

Try it free at retool.com/changelogAugment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized…

Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools.

Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond.

Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights.

Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack.

It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interr…

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.

Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights.

Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack.

It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates.

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

Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play.

In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing.

This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.

On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business.

Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?

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.

Heroku – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications.

Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond.

Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows.

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

Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Ret…

Heroku – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications.

Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond.

Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows.

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

Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Ret…

OnePlus Nord N30 Matthew Miller/ZDNETMidrange smartphones like the OnePlus Nord N30 are a nice alternative to high-end devices like the OnePlus 13.

The OnePlus Nord N30 has 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage space, and a Chromatic Gray color scheme.

OnePlus' Nord N30 is a top-notch midrange smartphone that launched in 2023.

I have seen the OnePlus Nord N30 go for even cheaper in the past.

Show moreLooking for the next best product?

Maximizing your laptop's battery life is also part of its longevity, as it's best to keep it between 30% and 80% to optimize battery life.

HP laptops, particularly the OmniBook and EliteBook lines of devices are known for having better-than-average batteries.

You can game on any HP laptop, but you'll get the best performance from a computer designed for gaming, like the HP Omen 16.

However, if you truly want the best gaming laptop, there are a host of other options out there, especially for demanding games.

How do you access the BIOS on a HP laptop?

By entering the promo code HELLOMAY at checkout, you can shave $150 off the 512GB OnePlus 12, dropping it to $750.

Also: Why I recommend this OnePlus phone over most Android flagships - especially at its priceThe result?

My fondness for the OnePlus 12 is part of a bigger story.

The OnePlus 12 has all three of those features and a very competitive price, especially in today's market.

The OnePlus 12 looks and feels better to me than the Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus and Google Pixel 9 Pro, for example.

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETIn February, It's Foss News reported that a WSL image for Arch Linux was on its way, and as of now, it has become official -- Arch Linux is available.

Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer that allows the running of a full-blown Linux environment.

Don't try these 7 distros (yet)This new addition comes by way of several Arch contributors, particularly Robin Candau, who is the official WSL Arch image maintainer.

How to use the Arch Linux WSL imageTo use the Arch Linux WSL image, you need to have WSL 2 installed, as WSL 1 is not supported.

Also: If you're ready to pull the plug on Windows, I found an ideal Linux distro for new usersFor tho…

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETI woke up this morning to see that little indication in my Apple iMac menu that an update was available.

The update was for MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1.

This update was actually released on April 16, and I had already run it on my MacBook (completely ignoring my iMac).

Well, this morning I shrugged off the night's sleep and noticed the alert on the iMac, so I approved the installation.

Critical security fixesIt might not be exciting, but security fixes are probably the most important change for any operating system update.

ZDNET's key takeaways The Light Phone 3 is available now with support from many major carriers for $599.

Unlike the Light Phone 2, this is not an E Ink device, so there is no ghosting or laggy refresh rate.

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETAhead of the Light Phone 3 launch, I met with the two co-founders of Light: Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier.

They made it clear that email functionality on the Light Phone was not on the table.

Also: 6 small steps I took to break my phone addiction - and you can tooSecond, the 1,800mAh battery on the Light Phone 3 is rather limited.

The LG C5 OLED TV boasts a stunning picture and ultra-slim design, offering a refined viewing experience. But it's changes won't be revolutionary for all viewers.

We tested the best keyboards from Cherry, Keychron, Corsair, and more with features like RGB backlighting, hot-swappable keys, and tactile feedback. Here are our recommendations.

ZDNET's key takeaways The magnetic USB-C connector now supports a 180-degree swivel, and it's only $13 at Amazon.

$15.99 at AmazonThese handy 240W USB-C magnetic adapters come in a two-pack and are on sale for just $13 (with the clip-on coupon) on Amazon.

A hill I'm always willing to fight on -- and maybe even die on -- is that the magnetic breakaway USB-C connector is one of the best USB accessories out there.

So, a few years ago, when I stumbled across my first magnetic breakaway USB-C connector, I knew I had to try it out.

ZDNET's buying adviceI absolutely love magnetic breakaway connectors, and these 240W swivel USB-C magnetic connectors are a fantastic addition to my ever-growing toolb…

Lance Whitney/ZDNETMeta has unveiled a new AI app that combines chatbot features with a social media experience.

Launched on Tuesday for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, the Meta AI app offers most of the usual aspects of an AI app.

But it's the social media part that distinguishes Meta AI from its rivals.

Following the social media theme, Meta AI is also designed to keep you connected with other people.

To that end, the Meta AI app will merge with the Meta View companion app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

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Our editors thoroughly review and fact-check every article to ensure that our content meets the highest standards.

$79.99 at Amazon $79.99 at Walmart more buying choicesEarlier this year, I tested the $100 Amazfit Active 2 and thought that we had seen the least expensive compelling smartwatch that was possible.

It turns out I was wrong, and Amazfit followed that launch with the new Amazfit Bip 6, which is available for just under $80.

I compared the Bip 6 to the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Garmin Fenix 8 to validate the positioning accuracy and heart rate readings.

Matthew Miller/ZDNETEven though the Amazfit Bip 6 has a rather sizable 1.97-inch brilliant AMOLED display and ample 340 mAh battery, it is rather slim at 10.45mm in thickness.

Amazfit continues to impress with its extremely capable smartwatches, …

Taking a power station completely off-grid is the ultimate trial, and that's exactly what I put the new Anker Solix F3800 through. Here's my experience.

Also: The best HP laptops you can buy: Expert testedApple hardware is flashy and fun to use.

If you're a Windows user and want something similar, I suggest HP's new EliteBook Ultra G1i.

As you can see in the numbers below, the EliteBook Ultra G1i boasts faster processing and browsing speeds.

Geekbench 6 PCMark 10 Cinebench R23 HP EliteBook Ultra G1i 10,993 7,328 7,324 Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 10,861 7,196 10,094However, it isn't infallible.

Cesar Cadenas/ZDNETBecause it houses a Lunar Lake chipset, the Elitebook Ultra G1i has an NPU (neural processing unit).

Waymo and Toyota have agreed to explore a possible deal that could one day lead to a new vehicle designed for ride-hailing and even bring self-driving tech into consumer cars. The two companies have signed a preliminary agreement to look into developing and deploying an autonomous vehicle platform, according to a blog posted by Waymo. […]

Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of a robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company “is now # 1 most sought-after private stock in the secondary market.” But the company has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two brokers who run secondary marketplaces, those brokers told TechCrunch.These people said Figure […]

AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can be used to “cheat on everything” from job interviews to exams. But some startups are claiming they can catch Cluely’s users. And Cluely says it’s ready to develop hardware products like smart glasses, or even […]

As part of its Q1 2025 earnings release, Snap said it’s scrapping plans for a simplified version of its app. The news comes seven months after Snapchat began testing a redesigned version of the app without the Snap Map or Stories tabs. The new version consolidated the app’s navigation bar around three icons: chat, camera, […]

Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company says was trained exclusively on commercially licensed, “safe-for-work” images. The model, called F Lite, contains around 10 billion parameters — parameters being the internal components that make up the model. F Lite was developed in partnership with […]

Google Play’s app marketplace is losing apps. From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting about 3.4 million apps worldwide to just around 1.8 million, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. That’s a decline of about 47%, representing a significant purge of the apps that […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o, after complaints about strange behavior, in particular extreme sycophancy. “[W]e started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night,” Altman wrote in a post on X. “[I]t’s now 100% rolled back for free [ChatGPT] […]

CaaStle, the embattled fashion startup whose board of directors accused its founder, Christine Hunsicke, of financial misconduct, is starting to face lawsuits from a partner and a supplier over missed payments and more allegations of fraud. As first reported by Axios and by suits seen by TechCrunch, CaaStle is being sued by P180, a vehicle […]

In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta revealed that figure has reached 1.2 billion downloads. “We have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded […]

The first 27 satellites in Amazon’s effort to create a space-based internet network have finally made it to orbit, paving the way for the company to attempt to compete with Elon Musk’s well-established Starlink service. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off late Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in […]

Tesla board member and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia acquired about 4,000 shares of the automaker’s stock, a purchase that has a value of about $1 million and change, according to a regulatory filing. That’s not a significant stock purchase, and certainly not for the billionaire board member, as Electrek noted in its reporting. It’s notable […]

At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. Available in limited preview, the Llama API lets developers explore and experiment with products powered by different Llama models, per Meta. Paired with Meta’s SDKs, it allows developers to build Llama-driven services, […]

Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the experiments are still in the early stages, it’s possible that the company is looking to take on Duolingo with the help of Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model. The […]

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says a $254 billion state budget deal has been reached, including a "bell-to-bell" school cellphone ban. [...] The distraction-free policy would take effect next school year, making New York the largest state in the country with a "bell-to-bell" cellphone ban. Hochul says the plan will help protect children from addictive technology and improve their mental health. The New York State United Teachers union also came out in support of the ban, saying "we are at a crisis point." The governor previously outlined the proposal back in January, saying it would ban the use of smartphones and other internet-enabled devices…

LG will permanently shut down its Android smartphone update servers on June 30, 2025, ending all software, app, and security updates for its devices. If you're still using an smartphone, you'll want to install any remaining updates before that date, as no future updates will be available afterward. 9to5Google reports: When LG called it quits for Android smartphones, the company also committed to a few more updates. That included an Android 12 update for select devices, the last major update the company would put out, as well as security updates for at least three years after each device had been released. That three-year cutoff has long since passed for all LG devices, but any devices still…

In a blog post yesterday, Master I-ranked human GeoGuessr player Sam Patterson said that OpenAI's o3 model outscored him in a head-to-head match, "correctly identifying all five countries and twice landing within a few hundred meters." Geoguessing is a game -- most popularly known through the platform GeoGuessr -- where players are dropped into a random location in Google Street View and must figure out where in the world they are using only visual clues from the environment. With the release of its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI now does a surprisingly good job of analyzing uploaded images to determine their locations using nothing but subtle visual clues. "Even when I embedded f…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Today, open-source software powers the world. It didn't have to be that way. The Open Invention Network's (OIN) origins are rooted in a turbulent era for open source. In the mid-2000s, Linux faced existential threats from copyright and patent litigation. Besides, the infamous SCO lawsuit and Microsoft's claims that Linux infringed on hundreds of its patents cast a shadow over the ecosystem. Business leaders became worried. While SCO's attacks petered out, patent trolls -- formally known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) -- were increasing their attacks. So, open-source friendly industry giants, including IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and So…

Mastercard is working with Microsoft and other leading AI companies to give AI agents the ability to shop online and make payments on behalf of consumers. From a report: Under the new program, a shopper could prompt an AI agent -- Microsoft's Copilot, for example -- to search for a pair of yellow running shoes in a particular size. The agent would then search and offer the customer options, and then be able to make the purchase while also recommending the best way to pay, Mastercard said in a statement Tuesday. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Electronic Arts (EA) has laid off around 300 employees across multiple departments, including about 100 at Respawn Entertainment. IGN reports: IGN understands that these wider cuts largely impacted EA's Experiences team, which includes groups such as EA's Fan Care team and various others working on customer support and marketing, though other EA departments saw reductions as well. As with other cuts at EA, those impacted will be given the opportunity to apply for other roles internally prior to being let go. The roughly 100 jobs impacted at Respawn included individuals in development, publishing, and QA workers on Apex Legends, as well as smaller groups of individuals working on the Jedi te…

Firefox has launched its long-awaited tab groups feature, responding to the most upvoted request in Mozilla Connect's three-year history. The feature allows users to organize tabs by name or color through a drag-and-drop interface. Mozilla is now developing an AI-powered "smart tab groups" feature that automatically suggests organization based on open tabs. Unlike competitors, the company said, Firefox processes this data locally, keeping tab information on the user's device rather than sending it to cloud servers. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A new study [PDF] reveals AI-generated code frequently references non-existent third-party libraries, creating opportunities for supply-chain attacks. Researchers analyzed 576,000 code samples from 16 popular large language models and found 19.7% of package dependencies -- 440,445 in total -- were "hallucinated." These non-existent dependencies exacerbate dependency confusion attacks, where malicious packages with identical names to legitimate ones can infiltrate software. Open source models hallucinated at nearly 22%, compared to 5% for commercial models. "Once the attacker publishes a package under the hallucinated name, containing some malicious code, they rely on the model suggesting th…

South Korean telecom network SK Telecom is providing free SIM card replacements to all 25 million mobile subscribers following an April 19 security breach where malware compromised Universal Subscriber Identity Module data. Despite the company's announcement, only 6 million replacement cards will be available through May 2025. The stolen data potentially includes IMSI numbers, authentication keys, and network usage information, though customer names, identification details, and financial information remain secure. The primary risk is unauthorized SIM swapping attacks, where threat actors could clone SIM cards. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Carbon removal technologies, potentially a $250 billion market, are failing to gain traction as buyers remain scarce. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a need for 10 billion metric tons of carbon removals annually by 2050, yet only 175 million tons have been sold to date -- less than 2% of requirements. Microsoft dominates the market, accounting for 35% of all purchases and 76% of engineered removal solutions specifically. The market suffers from significant barriers: unproven technologies, vast price disparities ($80 per ton for forest projects versus $1,000 for direct air capture), and lack of standardization. Industry experts at a recent London gathering concluded th…

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed India's government to block Switzerland-based email service Proton Mail, citing national security concerns and law enforcement challenges. Justice M Nagaprasanna ordered authorities to initiate proceedings under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act to ban the service, while mandating immediate blocking of "offending URLs" until final decisions are made. The ruling followed a petition from M Moser Design Associates India, which claimed its female employees were targeted with obscene emails containing "AI-generated deepfake images" sent via Proton Mail. Petitioners argued Proton Mail operates servers outside India, making it inaccessible t…

Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure -- while smaller operations face even steeper costs of approximately $137,000 per coin. With Bitcoin currently trading around $94,703, the math no longer works for most miners. The economics become particularly challenging in high-electricity-cost regions like Germany, where mining a single coin requires approximately $200,000. Industry analysts suggest larger mining operations are adapting by optimizing energy consumption a…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit's top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an "improper and highly unethical experiment" by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in a popular debate subreddit. The University of Zurich told 404 Media that the experiment results will not be published and said the university is investigating how the research was conducted. As we reported Monday, researchers at the University of Zurich ran an "unauthorized" and secret experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview subreddit in which dozens of AI bots engaged in debates with users about controversial i…

Google's earnings were well-received, but they made me a bit nervous; Google is focusing all their energy on the race between Search + AI and AI > Search.

The best Stratechery content from the week of April 21, 2025, including Tech History and Apple's Future, Dithering on Google, and Hamsters and Antibodies.

Two worlds, two doors.

An interview with Eric Seufert about the impact of the trade war on digital advertising, the Google Ads antitrust case, and why the biggest platforms keep on winning.

Netflix's earnings and 2029 goals show new avenues of growth that are downstream from increased segmentation.

Помогите переверстать этот лютый треш!

A comic about a Terminator and a washing machine.View on my website

Apple is not doomed, but for the first time in a long time its long-term fortunes are cloudy; the time to make change is now.

Apple is not doomed, but for the first time in a long time its long-term fortunes are cloudy; the time to make change is now.

Composing across the stack.

Быстрый минутный эксель подбить гостей расходы за неделю, чтобы потом рассчитаться друг с другом. Залил просто по фану, но интересно услышать мнение, раз уж залил :-)

Яндекс, кроме айти-сервисов делает разные физические товары. Не только свой мерч, но и вообще много разного: инструменты Нокорд,

домашнюю технику Тувио,

компьютерные аксессуары Коммо,

домашнюю утварь Прагма и Хомсли,

какие-то игрушки с брендом Huina (не шучу) и много другое. Посмотрите, сколько всего: Их товары подвержены той же временности и эфемерности, которой подвержены программы. Физические вещи, которые должны жить годы, скисают и сгнивают как все вокруг в айти.

Например.

Аккумуляторная платформа Нокорд

Их инструменты Нокорд существуют пару лет от силы. За это время они уже успели поменять аккумуляторную систему. Недавно выпустили новую. Сделали удобную, макита-совместимую, но не совм…

Google lost its ad antitrust case; if the case is upheld, it has important implications for all Aggregators.

Коллега по работе сверстала документ, не редактируя текст: оставила повторы, ненужная буква Ё, нарушены «правила близости» и вообще. Рассказал, что работа с текстом — одна из основных работ, но безрезультатно. Как привить желание делать лучше? Понимаю, что вопрос сложный — все равно, что научить слышать, когда нет слуха.

The best Stratechery content from the week of April 14, 2025, including the three eras of Facebook, the NBA Playoffs, and the CHIPS Act.

Python regexes have a number of features that bring new power to text

manipulation. I’m not talking about fancy matching features like negative

look-behinds, but ways you can construct and use regexes. As a demonstration,

I’ll show you some real code from a real project.Coverage.py will expand environment variables in values read from its

configuration files. It does this with a function called

substitute_variables:def substitute_variables( text: str, variables: dict[str, str],

) -> str: """ Substitute ``${VAR}`` variables in `text`. Variables in the text can take a number of shell-inspired forms:: $VAR ${VAR} ${VAR?} strict: an error if no VAR. ${VAR-miss} defaulted: "miss" if no VAR. $$ j…

Шарю скрипт переезда из Скрапа в Игл

Я собирал картинки в Скрап. Собрал 4417 картинок. Но Скрап не развивается, поэтому я давно искал другую альтернативу.

Нашел её в лице Игла. Отличное приложение, синхронизация через внешний сервис (у меня — Яндекс-диск), с помощью простой автоматизации можно добавлять картинки и с телефона.

Подбешивало искать в двух копилка, так что я написал скрипт миграции, благо у Игла появилось веб-апи. Вдруг кому еще пригодится. Скрипт переносит все важные метаданные: Описание изображения

Адрес изображения

Исходный сайт

Теги, отдельно помечая публичные

Время создания github.com/mikeozornin/scrapp-to-eagle

Не расценивайте скрипт как сигнал «валите со скрапа», инфы о т…

An interview with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan about their work distributing CHIPS program money, and why they are optimistic about U.S. industrial policy going forward.

A comic about Hello KittyView on my website

It appears that Nvidia will never be allowed to sell AI accelerators to China again, even crappy ones, while Huawei makes its own supercomputer with outside help.

Hey HN,The idea is to run a slow, expensive computer use agent once and record each of the steps it took. Then we can rerun the cached actions again and again.Could be useful for QA testing or RPA maybe.I'd love to hear people's feedback or ideas! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43839369

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Hi HN - a while ago I became interested in the rising rates of loneliness and mental health issues among young people. I read some really interesting research showing that short in-person interactions, even seemingly trivial ones between strangers, can provide a significant boost to mood and well-being. So, with some others, we built 5 and Go! to help people increase the frequency of their interactions with friends and those around them.While we have gotten some incredibly positive feedback from a small number of users, we have struggled to build a user base and retain users (even those who reported a significant improvement in their mental health after playing for 1 week).Any feedback woul…

“I created Active-Pro after decades of working with tools that couldn’t show me what was really going on inside my firmware without breakpoints.

I needed something better.

Something that worked in real time, across multiprocessor and FPGA systems, and gave me real answers fast.

Skip forward to today, where it saves me (and the awesome Active-Pro super users) hours of debugging time every single day.

I’m so glad to get those hours back!”

📃Open API Specification For RailsOasRails is a Rails engine for generating automatic interactive documentation for your Rails APIs.

Dynamic : No command required to generate docs: No command required to generate docs Simple : Complement default documentation with a few comments; no need to learn a complex DSL: Complement default documentation with a few comments; no need to learn a complex DSL Pure Ruby on Rails APIs: No additional frameworks needed (e.g., Grape, RSpec)📽️ MotivationAfter experiencing the interactive documentation in Python's fast-api framework, I sought similar functionality in Ruby on Rails.

Now, with some free time while freelancing as an API developer, I decided to build…

READMEHow to fire this upOn Windows, it's recommended to use Powershell.

In the root directory of this project:python - m venv .env cd .env\scripts .\Activate.ps1Then install all of the libraries requiredpip install - r requirements.txt pip list # to list the libraries requiredThis will run the Flask development server with debug mode enabled, allowing you to see detailed error messages and take advantage of features like automatic code reloading when changes are madecd app flask run -- debugIf you add any new module to this web app via virtual environment of this project, just update the requirements.txtpip freeze > requirements.txtAs for the db viewer, it's recommended to use the sqlitebr…

I designed my portfolio page inspired by the Vim editor interface. I tried to vibe-code it from scratch using Lovable.Would love to hear your thoughts! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838270

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AI in ConniePad is optional and only be used with your consent.

ConniePad uses OpenAI's API to provide AI-powered features ( We could add more providers in the future ).

We don't store, use or share your data.

We don't allow your data to be used for any other purpose by providers.

Spectral.js is a lightweight JavaScript library for realistic color mixing based on the Kubelka-Munk theory.

🧭 Design PhilosophySpectral.js is built on the idea that realistic color mixing should be both accurate and accessible.

Color ( '#002185' ) ; let color = new spectral .

It enables real-time spectral color mixing directly on the GPU, perfect for generative art and WebGL projects.

Color ( '#FCD200' ) ; let mix = spectral .

I am the founder of 1Core Solution (“1Core”), based in Cupertino, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley.

Back in early 2000, childcare software was all desktop based with siloed back office functions and limited consumer facing interfaces.

I noticed a gap in the market and saw the potential for cloud-based software that could fundamentally change how software could be developed, delivered and supported in the childcare industry.

We built the first version of our solution by working with a few childcare providers in Silicon Valley.

You can learn more about my background and 1Core Solution:1Core sponsors a Youtube channel called The ChildCare Channel, a safe space designed to Inform, Inspire, and I…

This is what I am building today, and is what will eventually be the number 1 personal brand consultancy worldwide and have a team of 500 consultants.

The term personal brand was coined by a man named Tom Peters in 1997 in his article “The Brand Called You” which was published in FastCompany.

Within 3 months, the business appeared as if it was around for years and was already a trusted, vetted, personal brand consultancy.

I initially went on a podcast tour and was doing interviews that felt like every single day talking about MCG, writing more articles on industry subject matter, for example why you would hire a personal brand consultant, why you should build your personal brand, and how ou…

My name is Tony Wang, and I’m the general manager of The Cat Cafe in downtown San Diego.

We are the first cat cafe to open in Southern California and we are the fourth oldest continuously operating cat cafe in the United States.

We first learned about cat cafes when we saw an article about Le Cafe de Chats in Paris.

We are The Cat Cafe, as opposed to other cat cafes that have cute names.

But if you work hard enough at it, and you succeed, it will feel great.

We are a bit different in that we focus on German conversation/speaking classes - we don’t do traditional grammar classes.

We don't tell anyone this but what we really sell isn’t German classes, it is confidence!

To get around this and practice the German I was putting so much effort into learning, I thought I would start an online group for German learners.

But the issue was my German is intermediate - so half the people had German worse than mine and have better.

A poor decision of mine was not grandfathering in everyone who first joined (about the first 80 people) as free customers for life.

We are a Media and Consulting agency focused on the U.S. Latino demographic and are working towards building a marketplace for Latino-owned businesses.

We currently run a weekly newsletter and social media focused on elevating positive stories around the business, culture, and social impact of U.S. Latinos.

The newsletter started and is still currently free to readers.

To continue growing our audience and agency clients, I will double down on consistently posting across social media platforms.

Over the next 12 months, as I’m increasing agency and newsletter revenue, I’ll be focused on slowly building up the first iteration of the Latino-owned marketplace.

Because owning a self-storage facility didn’t seem like a real estate investment.

It sounded more like I would be running a small business.

The self-storage industry is interesting, because it benefits greatly from a lot of modern business practices.

We knew our focus coming out of the gates was to build a self-storage business with a heavy focus on technology and process optimization.

Our first Iron Storage facilityThe first storage facility we bought and revamped was about an hour from where I lived in Houston, TX.

I am Stefano Lodola, founder of Think in Italian, a language learning platform designed to help individuals master Italian through an immersive approach.

My research confirmed that there was a gap in the market for a more comprehensive and engaging approach to learning Italian.

However, many language app users have expectations that work against them (“where are the quizzes?

At its peak, my site had the largest amount of organic traffic among those focusing on teaching the Italian language with 130k visits/m.

Instead of those spammy “best xyz” listicles that any content writer can make up, I published hundreds of grammar notes to attract people who are serious about learning Italian.

Our current hero product is the Vonu Lounger, a multi-use lounger that helps with tummy time, reflux relief, burping, and gas relief, and encourages face-to-face time with your little one.

As of right now, we’re less than a year in, and over 10,000 babies and parents have found relief with the Vonu Lounger.

We ended up with the first Vonu Lounger which we called a “Burplee” at the time.

We use our social proof and UGC to build a community around the brand and the Vonu Lounger.

Davante, our co-founder, taught himself how to buy media a few months into building Vonu and has done an incredible job creating a paid media team around him.

What we had in mind was a simple, clutter-free email hub, where people could manage all their inboxes and reduce some of that email anxiety we all experience.

To this day, I believe it shows in the way Mailbird is built, its features, and the overall user experience.

Our customer base consists of two main groups:The heavy email users.

Part of the Mailbird team, in BaliWe launched Mailbird with minimal resources.

Mailbird - Last but not least, of course, we use Mailbird for our email management needs.

My son, Asher, and my wife, Paige, and I started our woodworking business four years ago: Frailey Woodworks.

Each of these skill sets are now focused on our high-end furniture making business where we specialize in full-scope design and build.

Soon, we ventured into other custom mid-century furniture, and our business took off.

Building our first hand-powered sit/stand desk took several iterations before we had a working prototype.

These customers took a chance on our company and we are very grateful for their trust.

Aithor helps with research, essay planning, sourcing trustworthy references, and adhering to specific types of writing.

We are broadening our focus to include content creators such as marketers and managers, while still supporting our existing student base.

It wasn’t until about four months after the product launch that we realized we were in the right place at the right time with the right team.

We quickly went to market, attracted new clients, and received valuable feedback, which led us to refine the MVP.

(1) Do it simply and quickly to sell it right away – bring the product to market faster.

Hey, my name is Kyle Bigley and I am the Founder of TxtCart, AKA the AI-Powered SMS Marketing company for Shopify stores.

We’re a unique SMS Marketing company pioneering conversational commerce with AI agents generating sales and resolving customers questions via text messages.

Now, we’re over $1M ARR while still bootstrapped and are setting our sights on $3M ARR by 2026 (whilst still bootstrapped).

So I started TxtCart right before graduating, and took a Project Management job out of college.

Holding out on external investment from either Angels, VCs or crowdfunding makes building a SaaS in an ultra competitive environment like SMS Marketing incredibly difficult.

My company specializes in designing and manufacturing modern, stylish flatpack furniture and other designery items.

This allows me to focus on what I'm good at – the creative process – and leave the manufacturing to experts.

The combination of life on the road and designing things inherently designed to travel or get deconstructed and reconstructed resonated with me.

I also use Notion for ideation and notes, Shapr3d for CAD design and drawings, Illustrator for logos, Pacdora for packaging design.

Natural curiosity is an essential tool for entrepreneurs: asking questions, seeking to understand how things work, and being eager to learn and inquire.

I was based out of Singapore and was working with an edtech founder and looking for ideas in the AI + edtech space.

Explored several ideas like vision AI based analytics for live tutoring classes, adaptive learning and AI generated quizzes.

A year later in 2022, I put together all my learnings in AI quiz generation into an Udemy course.

So I built the first version that just takes text input on a left textbox, calls an API behind the scenes and shows the output text (quizzes) on the right textbox.

There are so many things like influencer marketing, email marketing, paid ads, SEO, newsletter marketing etc.

Software development, nutrition, business strategy, economics, AI - I've obsessed over them all.

Free product feedback can be deceiving - they might not value it the same if they were paying.

Some crucial parts weren't ready (like, you know, showing people their AI generated headshots), but who needs a complete product, right?

As you can see from the screenshot below, we were ranking for an important keyword, ‘Ai headshot generator’, in April.

Install as many product feedback loops to drive insights about your target audience.

We are currently working on expanding the Treemly app into the U.S. market and are seeking a strategic partner to support this initiative.

Ideally, you are based in the United States and interested in contributing to the growth of a technology product within the accounting industry.

As part of the collaboration, we offer a profit-sharing model designed to reward long-term commitment and shared success.

However, our long-term vision is global expansion.

If you believe your background and interests align with our mission, we would be happy to connect and explore potential collaboration.

Because of that, I found the idea of building a promotion platform to promote without a budget (or almost) a pretty good one.

Social posting tool.

I need to automate as much as possible posting to many different social platforms.

And I want it to be cheap, with a lifetime deal, so I don't spend much money — because I don’t have a budget.

Right now, I’ve completed 60% of the platform, and it is live already: https://hypedesk.ioWhat do you think about the idea?

Yo IndieHackers 👋I'm building appi — a platform where people can sample real dishes from restaurants for $0.99.

Behind the scenes, appi uses precision AI forecasting to help restaurants predict customer demand, cut food waste, and save billions across the industry.

If this sparks your brain, hit me up!

🚀Let's change how the world eats and how kitchens operate.

Founder of appi

A few weeks ago, I decided to post on Reddit about how I used CoderUI to build a simple HTML5 game.

Instead, it got 36 upvotes, 51 comments, and… let’s just say, most of the comments weren’t exactly cheering me on.

If even 1% of people who see your post care enough to check it out, that’s a huge win.

One “bad” post can bring you real users.

If you want to see the original Reddit post that got bashed but still brought 200+ users, comment below — happy to share the link.

Who we are and why we started a cyberpunk brand in unsettled times?

Instead, we openly emphasize the aesthetic of our time - the cyberpunk era - with all its beauty, contradictions, and raw truth.

Our brand, Etheling, was born not from a desire to chase trends, but to reflect the world we see unfolding around us.

They are serious, wearable expressions of a cyberpunk reality - subtle enough to wear daily, strong enough to make a statement.

We need funding for:Strategic advertising and marketing campaigns;Content production (photography, video, brand storytelling);Developing and producing new collections.

Traditional UX audits meant scheduling calls, manually crawling pages, taking screenshots, and writing lengthy reports—often taking days for just one page and still leaving too much guesswork about what to fix first (LiftKit).

Studies show that regular UX audits can boost conversion rates by identifying and resolving friction points like slow load times, unclear CTAs, and missing alt text (The Impact of UX Design on Conversion Rates).

Studies show that regular UX audits can boost conversion rates by identifying and resolving friction points like slow load times, unclear CTAs, and missing alt text (The Impact of UX Design on Conversion Rates).

We built LiftKit because we needed it ourselves—…

We're looking for a true growth hacker — someone who lives and breathes virality, short-form content, and creative B2B sales tactics.

You’ll be responsible for creating high-impact viral videos, growing our audience rapidly, and driving qualified B2B leads.

ResponsibilitiesCreate viral short-form videos optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn.

Develop and execute creative B2B outreach and inbound strategies.

Test and optimize content, offers, and channels quickly based on feedback and data.

I turned my 40-tab research habit into an open-source tool — cleverb.eeHey IH 👋 I’m Nick, a CEO who spends too many hours collating sources for strategy docs.

I loved what OpenAI and Google did recently with their Deep Research tools, but the results I found quite disappointing, and still contained hallucinations, and were just a bit painful/wordy to read.

• Uses a tiered Gemini stack (2.5 Pro → analysis, 2.5 Flash → agent steps, 2.0 Flash → summaries).

It supports MCP tools, and cloud LLM or Local LLM (e.g.

I wanted full transparency on every agent step and a place for others to bolt on new data sources.

Instead of letting thoughts pile up, use Google’s Mind Map feature in NotebookLM to offload, organize, and make sense of your thoughts visually.

Generate a Mind Map: Click the Mind Map button in the Chat panel, and let AI organize your thoughts into structured categories.

Click the generated Mind Map in the right panel under 'Notes'.

Dive In: Explore the map, expand branches by selecting the arrows, download an image of the mind map.

As you add more daily morning pages as sources, you'll be able to create more clarity around recurring themes.

Stripe is building a new stablecoin.

The popular payments company is leveraging its recent $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge — a stablecoin infrastructure provider — to develop its first stablecoin-based financial product.

https://t.co/zK9dADvGhG — Patrick Collison (@patrickc) April 25, 2025Stripe and crypto:Stripe reintroduced crypto payments in 2024, allowing customers to pay merchants using stablecoins like USDC and Pax Dollar across Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon networks.

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison has described stablecoins as "room-temperature superconductors for financial services," which is nerdspeak for the following:Just as hypothetical superconductors would create breakthroughs …

How to set up AI-powered follow upsStep 1: Identify where AI follow ups are neededStart by finding the biggest gaps in your follow-up process:Where do customers usually go silent?

Review and test the AI agent’s responses to real customer queries to ensure that the responses sound natural.

Step 5: Automate follow ups across multiple channelsEveryone has their preferred way to stay in touch, so a single follow-up method just doesn't cut it.

Step 6: Monitor AI performance and fine-tuneEven the best AI agents need improvement over timeHow to track AI success:Monitor response rates: Are people replying to AI agent follow ups?

Make AI follow ups actionable, not just conversationalA follow up shou…

A small business ran an A/B test to check if US consumers would buy products made in the USA.

Afina, a showerhead manufacturer, conducted an A/B test offering its customers two identical products:One "Made in Asia," priced at $129, andAnother "Made in the USA," priced at $239:Everyone says they’d pay more for “Made in the USA.”I tested it.

I ran a clean A/B test:👇 — Ramon van Meer (@ramonvanmeer) April 24, 2025Despite widespread claims of support for American-made goods, nearly all of the 25,650 customers opted for the lower-priced, foreign-made option.

The million-dollar question has been simple: "Will US consumers choose to pay a premium for American-made goods?"

Not a perfect experiment:…

Appkodes offers a TikTok clone solution that’s quick and simple to launch—no coding knowledge required!

Get your app live in just 14 days.

Advanced Features - From video sharing to live streaming, the clone comes with all the tools to keep users hooked.

Market Leader - Launch a unique, competitive app and stand out in the video app space.

Ready to build your TikTok clone?

Think Incognito mode keeps you hidden?

Here's what it doesn't hide:Your IP address 🌍Sites you visit 🧭Your activity from your ISP, employer, or school 🔍What you download or bookmark 📂The name "private" is misleading.

It only hides history from others using your device, not the internet.

🔐 True privacy takes more: – Use privacy-focused browsers (Brave, Firefox)– Try VPNs or Tor– Say no to tracking cookies– Question what "private" really meansYou're not paranoid.

You're paying attention.

Hi everyone,I've been using sound effects in a few projects lately, and it's always a pain to find good sound effects and then handle them in the browser. So, I compiled my learnings into an easy-to-use React library. It currently has ~70 sound effects (MIT licensed) and I'm happy to add more if you have any requests. You can try them out at: https://www.reactsounds.com Enjoy! submitted by /u/e3ntity [link] [comments]

Hey, I wrote this more as a reminder/motivator for myself to encourage myself to share my work and avoid perfectionism. It dives into why we’re often our own worst critics. How the Curse of Knowledge can make us undervalue our own work and how sharing early (instead of chasing perfection) can speed up your progress. submitted by /u/one-wandering-mind [link] [comments]

After recently struggling with manually redacting a large PDF, and finding that existing automatic redaction tools either missed important information or over-redacted content, I created RedactMyPDF.com. My goal is to help make PDF redaction easier, by using AI to do the heavy lifting, but at the same time, keeping the user in charge. While AI does the intitial detection of sensitive information, the user gets to add, remove and review the redactions before finalising and downloading. This way, it is not just a wrapper around an LLM - it does use an LLM to detect sensitive info, but it also keep the user in-charge of what gets finally redacted. I was using OpenAI models initially, but switc…

I was testing the agentic storage feature in the AI project I’m working on, and it reminded me of those times when I needed to reach out to someone but their contact info was buried inside a PDF. So I figured, why not test that use case? To my surprise, it worked really well with just 2 prompts! tl;dr: it’s a project I’ve been working on, an advanced conversational AI named Nelima. She can browse the web, create files, schedule things, talk to APIs, and store, manage info like a personal OS + many other things I’m still discovering. For this test, I uploaded a research paper PDF and asked Nelima to: Pull the lead author’s email from the PDF> Summarize the paper> Find some very specific data…

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Пора отдохнуть: 6-7 ночей в Турции из Москвы от 26700 рублей с человека.

В цену тура включено:прямые перелеты из Москвы (с багажом);проживание;питание — все включено;трансферы;страховка.

Даты и цены:6 ночей со 2 мая за 28700 рублей6-7 ночей с 12 и 13 мая за 26700-28200 рублей6 ночей в 5* отеле с 15 мая за 29100 рублей.

Без доплат есть как минимум на 12 и 15 мая.

У них в базе куча предложений от разных туроператоров и самые низкие цены.

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.

Не то новое, не то продление старого промо (но какая нам разница?)

у лоукостера Volotea — билеты по 9 евро есть на май-июль.

И, о чудо — есть немало полноценных вариантов туда-обратно (это редкость)Традиционно напоминаем, что билеты по 9 евро достаются только обладателям подписки SUPERVOLOTEA, но вы можете оформить ее тестово и бесплатно на 15 дней:Вы можете отменить членство в любой момент, но потеряете при этом некоторые привилегии, например, ручную кладь, но сохраните свою скидку на проезд.

Главное, не забудьте потом отменить подписку.

Вот они, красивые:РазДваТриЧетыреПятьШестьСемьНу, и чтобы два раза не вставать: у Ryanair полно билетов по 14.99 евро без всяких подписок на май-июнь.

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.

Давненько уже не было билетов на Кубу дешевле 30к!

И вот: улететь из Москвы в Варадеро 16 мая можно за 29000 рублей.

Билеты берем через на сайте авиакомпании или через сервисы aviasales.ru / Яндекс.Путешествия.

Пример бронирования:На сайте авиакомпании:

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.

Агрегатор по поиску и продаже туров onlinetours.ru предоставляет возможность отдельно забронировать проживание в отелях Сочи (без перелетов).

Сегодня мы нашли двухместные номера в 3* отеле Бархатные сезоны в Адлере за 120 рублей.

Такая цена действует при бронировании на две ночи для двух взрослых с заездом 3 мая.

А билеты в Сочи можно взять через сервис aviasales.ru.

После перехода по этой ссылке у вас должна быть выбрана опция «Только проживание».

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.

Южане, этот пост для вас: прямой рейс из Минеральных Вод в Анталью за 4600 рублей.

А вернуться можно из Бодрума за 5200 рублейДаты полетов: туда — 17 мая, обратно — 28 и 31 мая.

Билеты берем через сервис aviasales.ru.

МинВоды — Анталья:Бодрум — МинВоды:

Авиакомпания Georgian Airways выкатила неплохие цены: отправиться из Новосибирска в Ереван или Тбилиси можно за 11200 рублей.

В обоих случаях брать билеты нужно в Ереван.

По пути стыковка в Тбилиси (почти сутки), здесь же можно и остаться.

Если вам нужно улететь в Грузию с багажом — на стойке регистрации в Новосибирске просите зарегистрировать его до Тбилиси.

Билеты берем через сервис aviasales.ru или на сайте авиакомпании (тут примут только иностранную карту).

У Malaysia Airlines по-прежнему остались мегадешевые билеты по Малайзии и Азии.

Как в экономе, так и в бизнесе.

Плюсов слишком много, чтобы игнорировать акцию: даты есть аж до следующей весны, а багаж и питание включены даже в экономе.

По Малайзии за 500 рублей с копейкой, по Азии в экономе от 2200 рублей, в бизнесе за десяточку и около.

РазДваТриЧетыреПятьТранзитом через КЛ из точки А в точку Б за тысячуЕщеЗарубежный эконом:НепалБангладешИз «регионов» чуть дешевлеХошиминПномпеньПхукетМьянмаБизнесМальдивыИз КЛ даже есть выборВсякие разные Пхукет-Хошимин-Катманду-Джакарта тоже есть, но уже за 13-18 тысяч рублей.

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.

Шли-шли и нашли 5 недорогих круизов по рекам России на май — да, вот прямо уже скоро.

«Недорогие» в этом году — это примерно 4-5 тысяч рублей с человека за сутки на борту.

За трехразовое питание, проживание и перемещение по воде.

Но и условия за такие деньги, чуть хуже чем на MCS, наверное.

4 дня / 3 ночи:Уфа — Агидель — Чайковский — Пермь, 6-9 маяЗАБРОНИРОВАТЬ (от 15000 рублей с человека в четырехместной каюте)12-15 маяНижний Новгород — Казань — Чебоксары — Нижний Новгород, ЗАБРОНИРОВАТЬ (от 15760 рублей с человека в четырехместной каюте)28-31 маяКазань – Елабуга – Сарапул – Ижевск – Пермь, ЗАБРОНИРОВАТЬ (от 14300 рублей с человека в четырехместной каюте)5 дней / 4 ночи:Ярославль – Кинешма…

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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.

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Spanish startup TaxDown has raised €4 million in fresh funding from Bonsai Partners to further develop its AI-powered platform and improve how people manage their taxes. The company, already generating over €10 million in revenue, plans to use the capital to grow its team, enhance its technology, and continue refining the user experience. Founded in […]

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CSignum, a Scottish specialist in wireless communications for submerged environments, has secured over €6.9 million in Series A funding to support the growth of its innovative EM-2 technology and expand its global operations. The funding round was led by Archangels, Par Equity, and Scottish Enterprise, with additional backing from British Business Investment (BBI), Raptor Group, […]

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Plenium Partners, an independent Spanish investment group focused on renewable energy, energy transition, circular economy, and social infrastructure, has secured over €25 million in funding from ING Italia to support its first biomethane plant in Italy. The financing was structured through a bilateral Project Finance agreement. The plant is located in the province of Pavia, […]

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It’s almost time! The EU-Startups Summit 2025 is just days away, and we want to make sure you’re fully prepared to enjoy everything Malta (and the Summit!) has to offer. From exclusive discounts to insider tips, this guide brings together all the key details you’ll need to navigate the event smoothly. Whether it’s your first […]

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Despite growing concerns around declining investment levels across the European startup ecosystem, a fresh wave of data highlights one sector that continues to defy gravity—artificial intelligence. This article draws on three recent studies that provide distinct but complementary views on the role of AI in Europe’s innovation landscape. Data from Dealroom analysed by Balderton Capital […]

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London-based Hammer Missions, an AI company innovating how owners, architects, engineers and contractors inspect built structures with drone technology, has raised €1.6 million in new funding to accelerate its AI technology development and strategic expansion into North America. The round saw participation from ACF Investors, and angel investors including Graham Hunter (Founder and former Chair […]

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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with David Nothacker, Co-founder and CEO of Sennder, Europe’s leading digital freight-forwarding platform. Sennder recently made a game-changing move by signing an agreement to acquire C.H. Robinson’s European Surface Transportation operations. With this acquisition, the combined business is projected to reach €1.4 billion in revenue, bring […]

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Berlin-based FinTech Pliant has acquired the Vienna-based Insurtech startup hi.health to enable Pliant to apply its payment expertise to the insurance sector while also gaining valuable industry-specific know-how. This marks the company’s second acquisition following the purchase of Friday Finance in 2023. hi.health will continue to operate independently, while benefiting from Pliant’s support and infrastructure […]

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Tallinn-based Esgrid, an ESG risk management platform, has raised €900k in pre-Seed funding to build the future of supplier management for SMEs and accelerate product development to cover a broader range of supplier workflows, with a strong focus on AI-supported automation. The round was led by new investor 2C Ventures and supported by earlier backers […]

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Lyft has announced its acquisition of German mobility platform FREENOW for €175 million, marking the U.S. company’s most significant expansion into the European market to date. The deal, confirmed on 16 April 2025, involves purchasing FreeNow from its current owners, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.​ This marks the end of FreeNow’s status as a European-owned platform and […]

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SuperLight Photonics, a Dutch provider of photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based laser technology, has partnered with Precision Technologies, a photonics distributor in Singapore.

The company focuses on developing high-performance laser technologies, including supercontinuum, ultrafast, and frequency comb lasers.

The company specialises in ultra-compact supercontinuum lasers that offer wide bandwidth, low noise, and small form factors.

The partnership with Precision Technologies is designed to meet the growing demand for high-performance photonic solutions in these sectors.​Rick Tan, Division Sales Director at Precision Technologies, highlighted the significance of SuperLight's ultra-compa…

Today I wanted to share the story of a startup with a difference - a Ukrainian defencetech publication.

They were hooked and became partners, and Defender Media launched in March this year.

In 2024, investments in Ukrainian defence tech increased tenfold compared to the previous year (reaching more than $59 million).

Why Defender Media?

This is also my experience; I've met many Ukrainian tech startups in stealth mode who don't even have websites.

Navro, a London-based fintech that facilitates international payments for businesses, has raised a $41M Series-B funding round.

Navro will use the funding to expand into several key international markets, including the United States, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India.

The company plans to enhance its payments curation platform by integrating over 30 digital wallets, expanding Automated Clearing House (ACH) corridors, and adding numerous real-time payment options.

The UK remains the leading destination for fintech investment in Europe, attracting more funding than France, Germany, China, India, Brazil, and Canada combined.

​Robert Hutchins, partner at Jump Capital, expressed confidence in Navro's …

London-based venture capital firm Verb Ventures has announced the closing of its second fund, a €25M vehicle for early-stage B2B marketplaces and data platforms that modernise global trade and supply chains.

Verb Ventures targets late-seed to Series A investments in companies addressing inefficiencies in traditionally opaque B2B markets.

Verb Ventures’ portfolio includes seven companies, such as SmartCat, a global B2B translation services marketplace; YardLink, a UK-based construction equipment rental platform; and Geomiq, a low-volume manufacturing marketplace.

To further support its portfolio companies, Verb Ventures offers the Verb MAP (Marketplace Analytics Platform), an internally deve…

Swedish fintech Trustly has formed a partnership with French payment specialist Paytweak to offer a unified Account-to-Account (A2A) payment solution for European businesses.

The collaboration aims to deliver faster, more secure, and lower-cost payment infrastructure at a time when recurring payments and digital payment adoption are becoming critical to business growth across the continent.

The joint solution, built on a 100 percent SEPA framework, integrates instant and recurring direct bank payments with a link-based payment interface.

By integrating our solutions within the Paytweak environment, we give French players direct access to the power of European A2A, in a simple, secure, and h…

Münster-based eeden, a German startup specializing in chemical textile recycling, has closed an €18M Series A round.

​The company's technology addresses a significant challenge in textile recycling: the efficient recovery of materials from cotton-polyester blends.

eeden's process enables the creation of high-quality fibers from textile waste, contributing to a more sustainable and circular textile economy.

​ eeden.worldThe new funding will enable eeden to scale its technology and establish strategic partnerships with key players in the textile industry.

​With increasing textile waste and growing regulatory requirements, eeden's technology provides a timely solution for the textile industry.

He might have cold emailed Marc Andreessen 53 times before the US billionaire investor agreed to appear on his podcast but last night Harry Stebbings admitted that he didn’t want his VC firm, 20VC, to be as big as US VC giant Andreessen Horowitz.

Stebbings said: “I want to be the best-performing fund in Europe, that is very clear.

I don’t actually want to be Andreessen.”Last year, the VC firm run by the young British podcaster turned investor, 20VC, raised one of Europe’s biggest funds, a $400m fund.

However, Stebbings cited that his “irritable” personality was not a good fit for running a giant VC firm encompassing HR, legal, compliance and other departments.

Last night, Stebbings also spo…

IXI was founded in 2021 in Espoo, Finland, to create eyewear that provides optimal vision in every situation.

The time for change is now"Jussi shared, "We're creating a new product category: auto-focus eyewear that provides optimal vision for every situation.

How IXI's core technology worksIXI's core technology is real-time eye tracking and adjustable optical power.

So, we developed a completely different method for eye tracking — one that's far more efficient."

The infrared sensors used for eye tracking are seamlessly integrated into the plastic of the lenses themselves.

Vinted Group, which includes the European C2C second-hand marketplace Vinted, has launched Vinted Ventures.

This dedicated investment arm will back the next generation of startups to accelerate re-commerce and reshape consumer behaviour in favour of second-hand.

Vinted Ventures will target companies at the Series A to C stage, offering funding from €500,000 to €10 million, with a selective portfolio approach.

According to Milda Jasaitė, Senior Director of Corporate Development at Vinted, Vinted Ventures supports ambitious founders whose products and services solve real problems and are ready to define the next frontier of how people buy, sell, and value the things they own.

The re-commerce …

French martech startup Reelevant has raised €6M in Series A funding to fuel product development, talent acquisition, and international expansion.

Founded in 2016, Reelevant specialises in marketing hyper-personalisation, focusing on what it calls the "last mile" of the digital customer experience.

It is exactly the same in customer experience: whatever the upstream strategies, it's the final interaction that makes the difference.

Reelevant has been profitable since the end of 2023, and global demand for real-time customer engagement solutions continues to rise.

Their last-mile customer experience technology is the solution I would have dreamed of when I was running La Redoute.

The O.S.I.R.I.S project, an initiative funded by Innovate UK, has announced a new partnership with BOW, a robotics software company.

The UK is a global leader in offshore wind energy, accounting for 43 percent of Europe’s offshore wind capacity, producing a record 49 TWh of renewable electricity.

However, offshore wind farms require frequent maintenance to ensure optimal performance, and these operations currently rely on costly, time-consuming methods that often involve human crews and manned vessels.

By 2027, the O.S.I.R.I.S project aims to deliver a fully autonomous inspection system that will not only support the offshore wind industry but could also be applied across the wider marine i…

Pistachio, an Oslo-based "automated awareness training platform" for cybersecurity, has raised $7M in a Series A round.

As cyber threats become more personalised and frequent - driven by increasingly sophisticated AI tools - organizations are rethinking their static, compliance-driven training models.

By tailoring simulations and feedback based on individual user behavior and learning patterns, Pistachio ensures that security education is both relevant and retained.

Its AI-powered platform runs autonomously in the background, delivering personalised training and simulated cyberattacks to employees via email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams.

Pistachio was built to challenge that status quo, and th…

Swiss cleantech scaleup DePoly has raised a $23M Seed round to launch a 500-tonne-per-year plant in Monthey, Switzerland, set to open in summer 2025.

DePoly’s technology revolves around a recycling process that breaks down PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) and polyester plastics into their original building blocks, or monomers, without relying on fossil fuels.

Unlike traditional mechanical recycling methods that simply shred and reprocess plastics into lower-quality materials, DePoly uses a chemical recycling method.

Samantha Anderson, Co-Founder and CEO of DePoly, commented: "The upcoming showcase plant validates our roadmap to creating a truly circular plastics market.

This raise and the s…

I spoke to Daniel Dippold, founder and CEO of EWOR, to find out more.

With Europe home to over 900 accelerator and incubator programs and counting, I wanted to learn why we need EWOR.

EWOR Traction Fellowship/strong>The EWOR Traction Fellowship is built for founders who have already launched a startup and gained initial traction.

“Still, for the traction fellowship, we’re very exclusive, and it's about to get even more selective because we’re doubling applicants but taking 10 per cent fewer people.”Why a fellowship?

This lets us enable top-tier hires exactly when founders need them.

ELVA11, a fast-growing software and AI developer, has raised €1,8 million ( SEK 20 million) funding, led by Tech Universal Ventures (TUV).

Founded by Jim Roslund, ELVA11 builds software solutions and advanced AI capabilities that help organisations streamline operations and enhance customer experiences.

TUV contends that ELVA11’s commitment to excellence, its strong technical culture, and its ability to execute across both AI and core software services “align with everything we look for in a long-term partner."

The collaboration aims to accelerate growth, fuel product development, and further position ELVA11 as a leader in transformative software and AI services.

Lead image: Jim Roslund, CE…

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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The European Commission (EC) says it has requested information from Elon Musk’s X related to the algorithms that determine the content it recommends to users. The EC wants to determine how those algorithms may or may not be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes key obligations on online platforms operating across the […]

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TikTok’s e-commerce Shop feature is going live in Spain, the company announced on Tuesday, marking the first step of a wider European rollout. The launch indicates that TikTok parent ByteDance is speeding up the expansion of the TikTok Shop in European markets as a potential U.S. ban looms. Users in Spain will now be able […]

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The European Commission (EC) has quietly closed a longstanding antitrust investigation into Apple over rules it enforces against third-party e-book and audiobook app developers. The EC opened the probe back in 2020 after receiving complaints over how Apple forced competing e-book and audiobook app developers to use Apple’s own in-app payment system, while also preventing […]

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It’s become a common refrain in political discourse: Europe needs to take radical action to remain competitive. On the long list of potential reforms, one that’s gaining particular traction is a new, EU-wide corporate status for innovative companies. Known (somewhat obscurely) as the “28th regime,” the innovation is being billed as Europe’s answer to a […]

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Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing blowback in Europe, particularly over pedestrian safety concerns. Euro NCAP, a voluntary but influential car safety assessment program in Europe, has not in any way tested the Cybertruck, but based on a visual assessment alone, raised alarms over its sharp, angular design, saying it could pose a serious threat to pedestrians. […]

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