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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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Scrimshire:
🎵 Refuge
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https://scrimshire.bandcamp.com/track/refuge-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YYld6qQlziU48B8pO9Qjs

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fantinel/115991351707305503
Well-written post, especially the “About Phanpy” part 😉
Very cool to see this.

One in four full-time workers in Britain would be “better off swapping wages for benefits“, according to new analysis which featured on the front of The Sun.
The report – published by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) earlier this month – resurrects the spectre of the ‘#welfare #scrounger’,
a hypothetical …

Would a quarter of workers really be better off ‘swapping wages for benefits’?
Over six million workers earn less than an unemployed person on benefits, according to the Centre for Social Justice. Is it true?

On this trans day of visibility, I'm sharing my favorite podcasts with trans and/or nonbinary hosts. Some have a trans focus, some don't. They're all excellent.
Sharing in alphabetical order:
American Hysteria
https://www.chelseywebersmith.com/
Be Gay, Solve Crimes

American Hysteria

👍 👏 Zohran Mamdani Is Sworn In as Mayor of New York City - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-mayor-swearing-in.html

Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/autonomous-warship-s…

Autonomous Warship Startup Saronic Raising at $7.5 Billion Valuation
Saronic, a startup that builds autonomous warships, is raising as much as $1.5 billion in a financing that would value the company at about $7.5 billion, before including the investment, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Kleiner Perkins, the storied venture capital firm that ...