@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/10/19/prism-data-20-million-series…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117462786268939981
Fuckers of a feather…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Simone21@mastodon.socialHab ich's mir doch gedacht:
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-vor-10/video/10-vor-10-vom-18-08-2026?urn=urn:srf:video:6ddfe5c7-f24a-45b0-a391-3aa002763b17
Wer sicher sein will, dass er der …
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Making dns_erlang fast: binary tricks for the BEAM.
https://blog.dnsimple.com/2026/10/making-dns-erlang-fast/
saved 2026-10-19
@cdarwin@c.imAs fall sets in across the country,
the bill is coming due for the hottest summer on record in the United States.
The last three months were about three degrees above average,
hotter than the Dust Bowl summer of 1936
and the heat dome of 2021,
💥and tens of millions of people can’t afford to pay for the air-conditioning that helped keep them safe in the deadly heat.
🆘 About one in six U.S. households is already behind on its utility bills, according to fe…
@anildash@me.dmA new little project from me: Dashboard Touch, which lets you make a Touch ID-style sensor for your Mac using off-the-shelf parts, so you don’t need an Apple Keyboard. By emulating keyboarding typing in your password, it works anywhere that macOS asks for authentication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXN-JzjkgY
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWorth reading:
Opinion: Why labor supports Connie Chan for Congress - 48 hills
https://48hills.org/2026/10/why-labor-supports-connie-chan-for-congress/
@Dragofix@veganism.socialLegal gaps allow rampant pet trade, poaching reptiles and amphibians towards extinction https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/legal-gaps-allow-rampant-pet-trade-poaching-reptiles-and-amphibians-towards-extinction/
…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deThe enemy is not fighting on the battlefield!
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI think this is totally legit: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1960612/the-voting-power-of-the-overseas-electorate I think it'd be entirely appropriate having someone in Gov't representing the interests of N…
@publicvoit@graz.socialI think you should really reconsider your past decisions what platforms you contribute to:
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in #WebForums
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-fo…
@noellabo@fedibird.com「俺は詳しいんだ」
@gevoel@mastodon.greenEn zo gaat het met alles:
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/19/hoe-de-voedingsindustrie-ruim-baan-krijgt-om…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialUpcoming American hi-fi single ( written by late Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne)
https://www.reddit.com/r/poppunkers/commen
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"AI fluency in librarianship: Strengthening professional practice and ethical engagement"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103352
"[…] The article positions AI fluency as a developmental extension of AI literacy. It positions academic librarians as reflective …
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialNeues Upgrade am Klo 🚽
@jby@ecoevo.socialNEW PREPRINT: Climate trends over the last century and a quarter have increased the frequency of Joshua tree's mass-flowering years—but not how often they produce fruit. That may mean their specialized pollinators aren't keeping up with the trees' climate-changed behavior. Master's thesis research by Pryce Millikin
https://
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialEurope’s breakthrough Ozempic for weight loss is beyond the reach of many people, America has risen to the challenge by launching an accelerated gastrointestinal distress formula in every lettuce
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ Tim Bray · Life During Class Wartime
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgI found a talk from 10 years ago where I travelled back in time to explain the post-AI future. Unfortunately time travel is difficult and I wasn't very coherent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2TfgBtHFo
@ebinger@bildung.social
@crell@phpc.social
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… woah! Printrun wann, @… ?! 🤗
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialEr is een redelijke grote kans denk ik dat we de komende maanden een verdere escalatie gaan zien rondom Oekraïne waarbij ook de EU-landen meer actief bij de oorlog betrokken zullen raken. Poetin heeft een belang bij horizontale escalatie van het conflict. Ik hoop dat we er klaar voor zijn.
Daarbij hoort ook nadenken over wolfraam.
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social☕ 🍵 Guten Morgen, liebe Communities, hier kommt Euer kuratierter wöchentlicher Überblick:
🔸Mo., 19.10.: @… Talk: Software Management Plans (DMP4NFDI), online
🔸Mo, 19.10.: Europeana Webinar: Bringing audiovisual heritage online
🔸Di., 20.10. – 21.10.: @…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL season: Top 10 contenders for Comeback Player of the Year https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-season-top-10-contenders-for-comeback-player-of-the-year
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaO porco é o único animal que se queima com o sol além do homem.
@selea@social.linux.pizzaAnyone else that experience problems with #Akamai today? Atlteast two of their POPs is giving timeouts...
@bourgwick@heads.socialhey, mission of burma reunited (again) (briefly) last week! https://artsfuse.org/333113/concert-review-mission-of-burma-reunites-for-a-fenway-recordings-homecoming/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe doom-cycle of contemporary democracy and social lethargy:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTown, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/ai-assistant-startup-town-nabs-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imThe law is now more skewed toward the executive branch,
thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Trump v. United States.
Its main holding was that former presidents, including Trump,
enjoy absolute criminal immunity for actions in connection with their core constitutional powers
and presumptive immunity for other official acts.
In short, the president could not be criminally prosecuted for any “official” actions he undertook while in office.
There…
@Dragofix@veganism.social @noellabo@fedibird.com真似をしたい人たち（マネタイズ）
@publicvoit@graz.socialRE: #Mastodon or the
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKorean data-center company Elice falls 30% in Kosdaq trading debut; sources: Australian data center operator AirTrunk delays real estate investment trust IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-20/data-cen…
@bourgwick@heads.socialon some of the earlier versions of "stella blue" from their recent tours, gillian welch & david rawlings sing "i've prayed in every blue-light cheap motel," which might be accidental because they correct to "stayed" on later shows, but it's kind of a solid tweak (they keep "motel" though)
@stefan@gardenstate.socialAh, yes, back to Hoth then. Excellent.
#starwars
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialDevelopers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-…
@cdarwin@c.imTexas woman is using a state law banning the transport of abortion pills to sue members of the anti-abortion organization Students for Life of America.
In the suit filed Tuesday in a Harris County district court, plaintiff Maria Puerto, a 26-year-old mother of two using a pseudonym to protect her family,
alleges that four anti-abortion activists had ordered abortion medication on their phones in March 2026 outside of the Space Center Houston.
The lawsuit cites, among other t…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialCountries most vulnerable to fossil fuel phaseout generate just 6% of global output, climate analysis finds https://phys.org/news/2026-10-countries-vulnerable-fossil-fuel-phaseout.html
@noellabo@fedibird.com@… @… 抜けがあったの…
@stefan@gardenstate.social"Rogue” AI Is Not Inevitable. It’s a Choice. by Cal Newport
#ai
@publicvoit@graz.socialSportliche Ertüchtigung der Jugend ist doch etwas, wo man sein #Steuergeld gut angelegt sehen möchte ... 😊
Doch dann:
Pyrotechnik und #Gewalt überschatten Derby in #Graz
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which will have ~1M GPUs at full scale and was used to train its Muse foundational models (Engineering at Meta)
https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/19/data-cente…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Dragofix@veganism.socialPlastic industry bookkeeping plans hide chemical recycling harms, critics say https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/plastic-industry-bookkeeping-plans-hide-chemical-recycling-harms-critics-say/
@cdarwin@c.imGallup found that world opinion of the United States has fallen to its lowest point in 20 years.
When Pew Research asked people across 36 countries this spring if they trusted various world leaders to do the right thing, Trump was trusted least
— less than Putin, Xi Jinping, and Netanyahu.
https://www.publicno…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8K by the end of this year, up from 4K today, and to 20K by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month (Ellen DiMauro/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/19/2026/waymo-plans-to-quintuple-its-fleet
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Dragofix@veganism.socialStudy finds overlooked 'forever chemicals' widespread in New Jersey tap water and bottled beverages https://phys.org/news/2026-10-overlooked-chemicals-widespread-jersey-bottled.html
@cdarwin@c.imSome conservative states that have rejected hardship exemptions for the new Medicaid requirements may be choosing not to due to political reasons, experts say.
New federal work requirements for Medicaid, slated to come into effect on 1 January,
mean that adults enrolled through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion will have to work,
attend school, volunteer, or take part in another qualifying activity at least 80 hours a month to maintain their coverage.
T…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRamp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Dragofix@veganism.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialSurvey: the chatbot gender adoption gap among US adults has closed since 2024, though men are more likely to use them daily; ChatGPT has identical use rates (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/10/16/the-gender-gap-in-ai/
@cdarwin@c.imConrad’s political awakening came when he saw firsthand how political decisions harmed working families.
He watched his public school close after local officials broke promises on funding.
He experienced higher education cuts that left him without classes he needed.
He saw his mother stay in a job she hated simply because it provided healthcare coverage.
Even today, Conrad struggles to access affordable healthcare.
And he watched as politicians gutted the pr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: 11K accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/nyregio
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAmazon deforestation falls 42% to a record low #Amazon
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117463881521363550
Perhaps the bleakest factoid is that the US is even less popular as a tourist destination than Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-10-18-world-la…
@cdarwin@c.imSteven Levitsky, author of “How Democracies Die,”
recently argued that the US has
“crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism during Donald Trump’s second presidency.”
“What matters for us in terms of distinguishing between a democracy and a competitive authoritarian regime is,
do you see people’s behaviors start to change, such that the political playing field starts to tilt?” he said.
“When you see the media begin to change its programming out of anti…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-19/nsca…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFour years after the promises of Cop15, our biodiversity targets are slipping away https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/14/four-years-after-the-promises-of-cop15-our-biodiversity-targets-are-slipping-…
@cdarwin@c.imVolodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday thanked the Trump administration for resuming intelligence sharing between the two countries,
but maintained the US had intentionally throttled its Starlink satellite internet access so that Donald Trump could send a “message” in his ongoing feud with the Ukrainian president.
In an interview on NBC, Zelenskyy said the US had “unblocked” intelligence on impending Russian ballistic missile strikes, which have pounded the country’s energy infrastructure…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/
@Dragofix@veganism.socialRevealed: VW, Ford and Tesla batteries linked to destructive deforestation of indigenous lands https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/16/vw-ford-tesla-batteries-deforestation-indigenous-lands
@cdarwin@c.imTom Homan,
Donald Trump’s “border czar”,
has said that the Republican presidential administration could
❌ “of course” strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her.
Homan’s comments during a Saturday appearance on Fox News were the first remarks
explicitly mentioning denaturalization and deportation
in connection with Omar that were attributed by name to a top Trump administrationofficial since federal agents raided the Minneso…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-19/eric-s…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialQuick And Crispy Zucchini Fritters With Avocado Crema #plantbased
@cdarwin@c.imBeach erosion has become a crisis all along the southern California shoreline this year,
with towns from Dana Point and Long Beach to Malibu sustaining dramatic damage.
But San Clemente is a particular flash point.
It’s the place where the major regional train line,
which carries $1bn in freight a year and is the nation’s second-busiest passenger line,
runs right along the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Severe waves and high tides during big storms at the be…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGTCR and Elliott agree to acquire and take private CCC, a Nasdaq-listed car insurance software provider, for $4.6B; the deal values CCC at $6.1B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/gtcr-elliot…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Environmental Protection Agency has quietly backtracked on a claim that the US has phased out two of the most dangerous Pfascompounds
– Pfoa and Pfos.
The EPA has found that virtually no level of exposure to either in drinking water is safe,
and the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies Pfoa as “carcinogenic to humans”
and Pfos as “possibly carcinogenic”.
Still, the EPA is allowing Houston-based Inhance to produce containers from which Pfoa…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s justice department has aggressively inserted itself into the midterm elections in the contest’s final weeks,
shattering the department’s longstanding practice of political neutrality
and leaving little doubt about the department’s willingness to help should the president attempt to subvert elections where his party is forecasted to lose seats and ultimately control of Congress.
In the last few weeks, federal agents have raided the home of a Democratic congresswoman …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFoxconn agrees to acquire a 50% stake in Mitsubishi's automotive components unit for ~$727M; Mitsubishi will provide autonomous tech for Foxconn's EV platforms (Reed Stevenson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVinted faces an influx of listings suspected of containing stolen goods following widespread French riots, which targeted Sephora, Louis Vuitton, and Burberry (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@cdarwin@c.imThe reported success of an experimental drug that uses messenger RNA to deliver personalized skin cancer vaccines could herald a wave of new treatments that harness the potent technology for a range of cancers, researchers say.
Drugmakers Moderna and Merck this summer announced that a cancer vaccine,
intismeran autogene,
had succeeded in a Phase 3 clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma,
a result experts celebrated as a breakthrough for mRNA-based canc…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected IPO in mid-Nov. and aims to raise ~$30B; the round could value it at $1.4T (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/openai-seeks-accelerate-f…
@cdarwin@c.imNot another Trump sycophant': Democrats lambast Trump's nomination of Overton for FDA chief
And we’re already getting some sense from senators of how that might go. Democrat Patty Murray, of Washington, who sits on the Senate health committee, shared this on X:
Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA.
The American people deserve someone who will put science and facts FIRST,
not another Trump sycophant who will …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-19/ai-chip-st…
@cdarwin@c.imThe fall of once-mighty McClatchy newspapers underscores California’s news crisis
Dan Walters describes working for the Sacramento Bee several decades ago as “like living in Sweden.”
The newspaper had a bustling office in California’s capital replete with a cafeteria,
a gas station,
a credit union,
and a medical clinic, where staff could get their vaccinations and seek care for typing-related hand injuries,
recalls the longtime columnist,
who worked…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u
@cdarwin@c.imRule Lets Fossil Fuel Companies “Unintentionally” Kill Polar Bears and Walruses
Oil and gas companies will now be permitted to kill polar bears and Pacific walruses off the northern coast of Alaska so long as such killings are “unintentional,” according to a new Trump administration rule
This is much like letting ICE "unintentionally" kill innocent citizens
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBusiness intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/16/veridion-lands-20m-to-take-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breach probe; WTC falls 8% (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Ted Sarandos complained for months of a lack of new hit shows at Netflix and US watch time being down; it just fired its film chief and content chief (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netf…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/clairic-extraction-model/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/openai-pause-astra-preparedness-framework
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/googles-new-cc-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/data-stripe-link-how-ai-assistants-spend
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet's own fee-collecting wallet drove 99% of the FIFA-partnered prediction market's activity since late August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTel Aviv-based doubleAI releases its debut code execution model to optimize GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M and acquired 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending (Denny Thomas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its February 2027 retirement timeline (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/china-ax…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its roughly $10B target as banks compete for roles on the company's upcoming IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/anthropic…
