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Paris-based Zama, which is developing fully homomorphic encryption tech for blockchain and AI apps, raised a $57M Series B at a $1B valuation (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/25/zama-becomes-1st-i-fhe-unicorn…

Zama becomes 1st fully homomorphic encryption unicorn with $57M raise
French open source cryptography company Zama today announced a $57 million Series B funding round co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital, bringing Zama’s total funding to over $150 million, and its valuation to north of a billion USD.  Founded by Dr Pascal Paillier and Dr Rand Hindi, the company is building state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without…

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Winning the NFC South: Reasons why Buccaneers, Falcons, Panthers, Saints can take division

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/winning

A systematic characterisation of canopy density based on turbulent-structure penetration
Zishen Chen, Ricardo Garc\'ia-Mayoral
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19223

A systematic characterisation of canopy density based on turbulent-structure penetration
Turbulent flows over canopies of rigid elements with different geometries and Reynolds numbers (Re) are investigated to identify and characterise different canopy density regimes. In the sparse regime, turbulence penetrates relatively unhindered within the canopy, whereas in the dense regime, the penetration is limited. A common measure of canopy density is the ratio of frontal to bed area, the frontal density $λ_f$. This is effective for canopies with no preferential orientation, but we obser…

Cowboys, Panthers named top trade suitors for Jaguars’ surplus at running back https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/jacksonville-jaguars/news/cowboys-panthers-named-top-trade-suit…

ok, so, you know how the standards (C/POSIX) allow malloc(0) to return NULL?
i went to refresh my memory after a discussion of a security issue today and as best as i can tell, no commonly used OS has ever had malloc(0) return NULL, including historical ones¹. windows, glibc, musl, BSDs, all return a non-NULL pointer to some object
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Trump VERY TOUCHY About His Little Bunker Busters’ Inability To Penetrate
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-very-touchy-about-his-little

Xbow, whose AI tool automates penetration testing and topped HackerOne's US leaderboard for finding and reporting software bugs, raised a $75M Series B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

Former Cowboys playmaker could be intriguing emergency QB for Panthers https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/news/former-dallas-cowboys-playmaker-rico-dowdle-intriguing-emergency-qb-carolina-panthers