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Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.

The Dali crew is still in Baltimore 2 years after Key Bridge collapse - The Baltimore Banner https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/dali-crew-key-bridge-collapse-LB5XY2XQJVADLBQMBVYSB6OP7I/

2 years after the Dali slammed into the Key Bridge, its crew is still here
Two years after the Dali cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, eight crew members remain grounded in Baltimore, among the longest stretches of time for any seafarers in recent memory.

(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night."

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c

Vuonna 1990 yleisiä kirjastoja oli 1151, mutta vuonna 2024 enää 715.
#kirjastot #lukeminen

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/hacking-disinformation-election-security
Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections

Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections
Weeks before the 2024 election, American military hackers carried out a secret operation to disrupt the work of Russian trolls spewing false information at US voters.

from my link log —
TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.
https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus
saved 2024-03-28 http…

Patriots re-signing backup QB Tommy DeVito to 2-year deal: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7094254/2026/03/06/tommy-devito-patriots-nfl-free-agency-2026/

Vanaf vandaag (eindelijk) op MUBI (abo): Megalopolis van Francis Ford Coppola
#Megalopolis #mubi

EU threatens TikTok with massive fine over addictive design features https://therecord.media/eu-threatens-tiktok-with-fine-over-addictive-features

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
beabadoobee:
🎵 There She Goes (6 Music Session, 9 Jul 2024)
#beabadoobee

Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, ~25% of total iPhone production as it shifts away from China to avoid tariffs (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
cg8:
🎵 ahhhh!hhhh! (i don't wanna go) (6 Music Session, 17 Dec 2024)
#cg8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Yard Act:
🎵 We Make Hits (6 Music Session, 4 Mar 2024)
#YardAct
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mYTcajvGEU4LZeHQ8V5w2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
NewDad:
🎵 Angel (Independent Venue Week 2024)
#NewDad
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kiw6IXeTauPy3L964yxoZ