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Sphere, which raised a $4.3M seed as an edtech marketplace, pivots and raised a $21M Series A led by a16z to develop an AI tax compliance software service (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/a16z-leads-21m-series-…

a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere | TechCrunch
Sphere helps automate registration, calculation, filing, and remittance obligations for companies.

from my link log —
Rust's huge compilation units.
https://pingcap.com/blog/Rust-s-Huge-Compilation-Units
saved 2020-06-23 https://

Rust's Huge Compilation Units | TiDB
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "Rust's Huge Compilation Units" here.

I’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
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This white paper provides a comprehensive analysis of modern warfare through five interconnected characteristics that have been prominently displayed throughout the Ukraine conflict:
- The rise of autonomous systems and their impact on force architecture
- The information domain as a critical battleground
- Electronic warfare and spectrum superiority
- The challenges of sustaining logistics in contested environments
- The evolution of air defense strategy
…

Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict: Modern Warfare in the Age of Autonomy, Information, and Resilience
As warfare evolves, the Ukraine conflict offers policymakers a blueprint for modern defense strategy—emphasizing autonomy, contested logistics, electromagnetic superiority, and adaptive organizational models.

There are many good reasons to switch from Whatsapp to Signal, here is another one.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html

3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.

NASA’s #SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-spherex-observatory-completes-first-cosmic-map-like-no-other/ - the space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

The Trump Phone Delivers on Its Promise of Being Complete and Utter Bullshit
https://gizmodo.com/the-trump-phone-delivers-on-its-promise-of-being-complete-and-utter-bullshit-2000701261

Broncos playoff win could complicate Raiders and Ravens head coach searches https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/broncos-playoff-win-complicate-raiders-ravens-head-coach-sear…

Ro Khanna says this Epstein 'document dump does not comply with' law to compel full release of Epstein files
“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my 'Epstein Transparency Act',”
Ro Khanna, the California congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday,
said in a video statementposted on social media.
By way of …

“The New York Times contacted
Ms. Farmer about a report stamped with the date of Sept. 3, 1996.
She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said.
“I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
-- klasfeldreports.com
https://www.

Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
Newly released files show how Maria Farmer, who worked for Mr. Epstein in the 1990s, had urged the F.B.I. to investigate him. The case went nowhere for years.