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Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sierra-acquires…

Sierra Acquires Agent Startup ‘Takeoff’ to Diversify Its Business
In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay, “Value Driven Innovation at Shopify and the Incumbency Trap at Salesforce,” which argued against Salesforce’s subscription-based business model. He sent it to Bret Taylor, who at the time was ...

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Rust in a KDE project.
https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2020/12/21/rust-in-a-kde-project.html
saved 2020-12-28

#USpol #elections

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Byrne's Euclid.
https://www.c82.net/euclid/
saved 2020-04-27 https://dotat.at/:/YEFV2.html

Byrne's Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

Hong Kong’s national security law has already crushed the territory’s once-vibrant civic and political life.
But now the city’s hard-line authorities are making the law even more repressive for anyone caught in its net.

Under updates which took effect this week,
the city’s chief executive can classify any case as a national security crime under the 2020 law,
even when the alleged offense was committed before that law took effect.

For good reasons, people cann…

Hong Kong’s nightmare gets darker
At China’s behest, the city says people can now be charged retroactively for crimes that didn’t exist when they allegedly committed them.

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)
https://x.com/nixxin/status/2067100573648953610

Nikhil Pahwa (@nixxin) on X
A few additional thoughts on the Telegram ban in India: 1. Is this a permanent ban? It's unusual for the Indian government to issue a press release about the telegram ban: the precedence that I remember is when Chinese apps were banned in India in June 2020 including tiktok. A

June 2026 was the second-warmest June on record globally, 0.12°C cooler than the warmest June in 2024.
The average global temperature for the last 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

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Is TypeScript worth it?
https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-it/
saved 2020-01-15 https://dotat.…

Is TypeScript worth it? - LogRocket Blog
I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post.

"Was bewirkt Erschließung virtueller Ausstellungen? Begleitforschung (Q126456157)" von @…:
https://osl.hypotheses.org/23842

Vanha metsäjätti on saanut jättimäärän yritystukia viime vuosina – tutkija: Näin ylläpidetään vanhaa #politiikka

Valtio jakaa yhä yritystukia perinteisille firmoille, etunenässä metsäjätti – katso lista, jota tutkija kritisoi
Katso eniten tukia haalineiden lista vuosina 2020-2025. Eniten tukia saanut UPM kertoo, että tuilla on rakennettu sähkökattiloita ja hankittu biopolttoainetta.

Los Raiders firman al safety Treydan Stukes, elegido en segunda ronda https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-firman-al-safety-treydan-stukes-elegido-en-segunda-ronda

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Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/10/22/lets-build-a-high-performance-fuzzer-with-gpus/
saved 2020-10-22

Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
TL;DR: Can we use GPUs to get 10x performance/dollar when fuzzing embedded software in the cloud? Based on our preliminary work, we think the answer is yes! Fuzzing is a software testing technique that supplies programs with many randomized inputs in an attempt to cause unexpected behavior. It’s an important, […]

Los Raiders firman al safety Treydan Stukes, elegido en segunda ronda https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-firman-al-safety-treydan-stukes-elegido-en-segunda-ronda

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Unicode technical note 27: known anomalies in Unicode character names.
http://unicode.org/notes/tn27/
saved 2020-04-22 https://dotat.a…