Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents (The Pew Charitable Trusts)
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p58#a260318p58
a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it "one of the best funds" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
This article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
aus der reihe "zufallserkenntnisse" heute nachmittag: wenn die sonne in einem bestimmten winkel auf ein rundes #weck-glas fällt, ergibt sich auf der tischplatte ein muster, das an das einer iris erinnert. ☀️
Microsoft only gets more and more likeable, eh. https://www.972mag.com/ice-microsoft-azure-leaked-files/
For those who haven't seen it:
Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863710/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-ap…
New to Indiekit? Read the full deployment guide — a step-by-step walkthrough covering server setup, DNS, configuration, first-run password creation, syndication, webmentions, and the full plugin set.
https://github.com/rmdes/indiekit-deploy/blob/main/docs/deployme…
Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol