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Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/autonomous-boat-startup-saronic-ra…

Autonomous ship startup Saronic raises $1.75 billion in race to modernize U.S. military
Saronic's latest funding round more than doubles its valuation to $9.25 billion from the prior fundraising early last year.

As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Perplexity AI Machine Accused of Sharing Data With Meta, Google
Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws.

A smart drug that stops cancer cells “hiding” from treatment can shrink tumours by at least 30% in six of the world’s most common forms of the disease, early trial results show.
While immunotherapy treatments have improved survival rates for many patients,
their effectiveness can stall or fail when tumour cells hide and then spread.
Researchers in Oxford have developed a drug designed to stop cancer cells concealing themselves from the immune system,
allowing immunoth…

🤔 Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
https://www.404media.co/scientists-create-plant-that-produces-ayahuasca-shrooms-and-toad-psychedelics-all-at-once/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter

heise | Solarstrom mit den Nachbarn teilen: Was ab Juni 2026 möglich sein soll
Energy Sharing kommt: Privatleute und kleine Unternehmen dürfen ihren PV-Strom nun mit der Nachbarschaft teilen. Ein Überblick über Regeln, Chancen und Risiken.

Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once https://www.404media.co/scientists-create-plant-that-produces-ayahuasca-shrooms-and-toad-psychedelics-all-at-once/

NYT and Delta Air Lines partner to offer free NYT products to Delta SkyMiles members via airline seat-back screens and on personal devices using Delta's Wi-Fi (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/02/nyt-delta-air-lines-deal

NYT and Delta Air Lines strike distribution deal
The full portfolio of the Times' journalism and content will be accessible to Delta SkyMiles members via seat-back screens.

POL-HK: Schwarmstedt: Einbruch; Soltau: Einbruch; Munster: Kontrolle; Walsrode: Verdächtiger; Soltau: Unfall Heidekreis (ots) - 02.04.2026 / Einbruch in Tankstelle Schwarmstedt: In der Nacht zu Donnerstag kam es kurz nach 02:30 Uhr zu einem Einbruch in eine Tankstelle am Mönkeberg. Nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen warfen unbekannte Täter mit einem ... h…

California fire prevention money may shrink
After years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Wildfire resiliency advocates are warning that the loss of these funds will leave the state vulnerable to devastation and are calling on California’s next governor to take that threat seriously.
Currently, Cali…

Chartbeat data from 535 US and UK publishers shows growth in traffic from peer-to-peer sharing and push notifications in recent years, as search traffic falls (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publisher-traffic-surging-push-notificati…

Publisher Traffic Is Surging From an Unlikely Source
Push notifications and peer-to-peer sharing have grown dramatically, according to proprietary Chartbeat data shared with ADWEEK