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Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/motorola-leads-125m…

Motorola leads $125M round for Brinc, fueling 911 drone expansion amid U.S. import crackdown
Seattle-based 911 drone maker Brinc raised $125 million led by Motorola Solutions, at a valuation the company says has nearly doubled from a year ago. The funding will support expanded manufacturing and a new Seattle headquarters and factory later this year.

One of the typical scenes that we had throughout that day. The path wasn't always so well and broad like this. It often was narrow and more natural, but we also enjoyed walking along such sections.
The green was just amazing and calming. And I didn't even have to wait until there was noone else in the scene - it really isn't very frequented, so we could enjoy it all by our own

7/ The "old masters" is the classical house, the equivalent of Louvre or Kunsthistorisches, and can't really compete. But it's doubled-down on what it does well. It's naturally strong on southern Netherlandish and Flemish art, for which it has an outstanding collection. ↵

The Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points.
Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood.
This is an occupation.
Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php

The AfD is exploiting Germany’s fear of change
The Alternative for Germany has just achieved the best result of any far-right party in the country’s postwar history.
In regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt, a state in eastern Germany,
the party more than doubled its share of the vote,
and is projected to take about 44 percent,
likely just short of an absolute majority.

The result could put the state into a political deadlock.
It would take an extr…

The AfD is exploiting Germany’s fear of change
A political culture built on stability is failing in an age that demands disruption.

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

That feeling when your renderer can handle a component that outputs HTML inside link text in Markdown that’s embedded in HTML.
(Yes, I’m bragging.)
#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

If I do say so myself, I do love expressive I can be with Kitten.
This is me injecting raw HTML markup into a Markdown code block in a Kitten Markdown page to highlight specific lines in a code block¹.
(The string interpolation of the HTML as an array is a hack that bypasses Kitten’s default sanitisation and should only be used with trusted content.)
PS. I’m going through all the tutorials on the site to update them to reflect the current state of Kitten after the three-mon…

Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/worlds-biggest-domain-…