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DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/wond

Wonder scores a $425 million partnership with DoorDash as it builds its food empire | TechCrunch
Founded by veteran e-commerce entrepreneur Marc Lore, Wonder is slowly building a massive portfolio of restaurants and delivery companies.

from my link log —
A design space exploration of async/await.
https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/
saved 2026-09-15 https:/…

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven modern runtimes agree on what even the simplest async programs should do! In this paper we map the design space of async/await so you can find out where your language stands.

«Mass Scanning Targets Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS Keys and Azure Tokens:
[…] Honeynet telemetry recorded 807 session-grouped attacks and approximately 32,000 raw events during the monthly analysis period. […]»
It is becoming more and more that passwords / passkeys are not stolen or hacked, are their generated tokens. Many of them, in my opinion, say too much about the users and their use.
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Mass Scanning Targets Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS Keys and Azure Tokens
Attackers aimed to extract cloud credentials, environment files, and infrastructure state data by exploiting a critical file-read vulnerability known as CVE-2026-39364.

Let’s talk about the billionaires
— the folks cutting the line while the rest of us pay the bill.
They don’t need another champion in Congress.
I’m not going to the Senate to fight for guys like Elon Musk,
and I don’t believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest people on the planet.
That might not be a popular opinion in Washington, but here in Maine, the vast majority of folks would agree.
Except Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has hardly met a billionaire…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

Paramount, California AG Rob Bonta, and the WGA schedule a two-day meeting for settlement discussions about the WBD deal, starting October 14 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

It’s a Date: Paramount, California AG and Writers Guild Agree on Meeting for Settlement Talks
The Oct. 14 talks will be the first time the two sides formally sit down to discuss a resolution to the case.

Hyperbolic Geometry Part 2:
How to get seriously lost.
Topics:
How to fit an infinitely long stick between a pair of nearly-closed crocodile jaws.
How "directions" get messed up. Why it is that even if you can get everybody to agree on where "North" is, that won't tell you **anything** about "South"
(i.e., **every** non-North direction will be "South" — as in 180° away from North — for **somebody**).
What you need…

@stf@chaos.social
2026-08-15 10:43:42

@… i agree 99% with you. however in my https://klutshnik.info tool, there is a homomorphic operation, that allows to update a key-encryption-key without having to de and then reencrypt the…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-15 05:25:51

Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/dynatra…

Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts | Constellation Research
Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million. The acquisition is just the latest data point indicating Dynatrace has momentum. Arize has a strong open source community and works across all major AI frameworks. Dynatrace, a leading observability platform, said Arize will give it the ability to continuously improve AI applications across the lifecycle and connect them to infrastructure health and business processes.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-08-16 17:25:35

US attorney general Todd Blancheon Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump.
“No, I’m not going to pledge that,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”
Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line
– after the president dismissed his…

Todd Blanche declines to pledge independence from White House
US attorney general says no one in his role ‘should ever’ make this vow amid concern over Trump steering DoJ

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-15 11:20:57

Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20