Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundraising-social-network.htm…
Congratulations to Akhil Thomas for his succesful PhD defense today in Freiburg with a thesis on Data-driven analysis of microstructure-sensitive fatigue damage initiation! 🎉🥂🙌
#pmd #materialsscience #ai
Die Kabeldiagonale #Berlin hat einen wichtigen Bauabschnitt abgeschlossen.
Die #Tunnelbohrung unter der Hauptstadt ist beendet. Die Maschine „#Candela“ legte über 6,7 km zurück. Jetzt wird de…
Somehow I got myself on this mailing list, every month or 3 they send a list of used printing equipment in Europe. I actually enjoy glancing at it, definitely a Heavy Metal vibe, for example this thing, made in 2011, has printed 137M impressions, and can be yours for a mere 420,000€. Free shipping probably not available.
Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundraising-social-network.htm…
After its worst electoral defeat ever, the #LNP’s new direction is… to punch down?
Let’s set aside, for a moment, their eternal hate-boner for the unemployed and the disabled.
Howard relentlessly porkbarrelled seniors and created millions of middle-class welfare dependants who kept the LNP in power for 20 of the last 30 years. Now *they’re* fair game, too?
There’s nobody at the helm. Ley…
The World Shipping Council launches an AI tool to scan millions of bookings in real time to identify risks of cargo fires, which reached a decade-high in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e9c70f1-af80-4e9b-8171-59b1ad54aaf6
"Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels