Tootfinder

London-based Paid, which helps AI agent providers monetize and track costs, raised a $21.6M seed led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $100M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/28/paid-the…

Paid, the AI agent 'results-based billing' startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed | TechCrunch
Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing.

David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”

Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever. Sirota says that while the United States is now “immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decadeslong agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essent…

»Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 — Up to 3.7x Faster Than GNU Tools:
The Rust re-implementation of classic Unix tools achieves significant performance gains and improved security in version 0.3.0«
This is exciting because of course Rust is slower than C/C . As a human, this will certainly not really be noticeable when using the terminal, but the scripts will certainly be faster on servers as a result.
🦀

Rust Coreutils 0.3.0: Bis zu 3,7-mal schneller als GNU-Tools
Die Rust-Reimplementierung klassischer Unix-Tools erreicht in Version 0.3.0 deutliche Performance-Steigerungen und verbesserte Sicherheit.

Ukraine war latest live: 'Russia has not achieved planned result' in Pokrovsk, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraine-war-latest-live-russia.html

It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299321
Amended my 2022 post as a result:

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807811/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-…

Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work
Adobe has given us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Creative Cloud apps.

Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto...
So why are crypto prices plummeting?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-28/the-crypt…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3687fab7-3aea-4f81-9616-ed3d1f7be5b8

The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from its successful asset-light model, and prior booms have resulted in overinvestment (Kai Wu/Sparkline Capital)
https://www.sparklinecapital.com/post/surviving-the-ai-capex-boom

Surviving the AI Capex Boom
Big Tech’s AI buildout is transforming markets. Drawing on the lessons of past capex booms, we offer a playbook for investors.

Chegg plans to cut 388 roles, or about 45% of the workforce, citing the "new realities of AI", and says executive chairman Dan Rosensweig returns as CEO (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…