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40 Jahre „Castlevania“: Ein Liebesbrief an das fantastische Kino
Am 26. September 1986 legte Konami mit „Castlevania“ den Grundstein für eine vier Jahrzehnte überdauernde Spielereihe. Ihr Schöpfer blieb Fans lange verborgen.

40 Jahre „Castlevania“: Ein Liebesbrief an das fantastische Kino
Am 26. September 1986 legte Konami mit „Castlevania“ den Grundstein für eine vier Jahrzehnte überdauernde Spielereihe. Ihr Schöpfer blieb Fans lange verborgen.

Documents: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B in Blue Origin since 2000, including $2B in its first outside funding round, which has raised $10B at a $140B valuation (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/jeff-bezos-bl

@… based on industry trends, I think the point is pretty safe

Viele Geld fürs die Abschiebung von Asylsuchenden nach Uganda
https://zackzack.at/2026/08/22/der-ugandaplan

Der Ugandaplan
Noch bevor die Rückführungsverordnung in der EU beschlossen wurde, beginnt Minister Karner mit seiner Umsetzung und bekommt dafür ein Extra-Budget.

Wild that the guy who got a Nobel Prize for inventing the lobotomy previously represented Portugal at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and only returned to medicine after a political quarrel led to a duel. The 20th century was quite something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant�%B3n…

Maine Democrats hit reset on their chaotic Senate primary on Saturday
as Troy Jackson officially secured the party’s nomination.
He took the stage at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor to rapturous applause, a standing ovation
and Noah Kahan’s Northern Attitude blaring over the speakers.
“This is the absolute honor of my life,” Jackson said.
“If you’ve ever been ignored, underestimated, pushed around or told that you have to wait your turn while the rich cut t…

Troy Jackson secures Democratic nomination for Maine Senate seat after chaotic primary race
Progressive former state senate president gains nomination after Graham Platner dropped out over sexual assault allegations

"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead
by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business
product: a really sharp-looking report."
-- Dave Barry

Auf der Bodensee-Halbinsel #Höri gilt in den Ortsdurchfahrten künftig weitgehend #Tempo30.
Die Gemeinden Moos und #Gaienhofen setzen damit Maßnahmen gegen

Tempo 30 auf Höri: DUH fordert weitere Umsetzung von Tempolimits
• Bodensee-Halbinsel Höri nach jahrelangem Engagement endlich leiser und sicherer: In Ortsdurchfahrten gilt künftig weitgehend Tempo 30 • DUH unterstützte Anwohnende rechtlich und kämpft bundesweit gemeinsam mit Bürgerinnen und Bürgern für weitere Geschwindigkeitsreduzierungen• DUH klagt bundesweit für den Erhalt und Ausbau von Tempo 30 – unter anderem über wirksame Lärmaktionspläne in Städten

i like iron jonesy’s victorian machinist’s workshop https://youtu.be/hxwLA9Jns0o

FURBNET PROGRESS: database system has been rewritten, it's now *way* faster! MIDI previews are generated and cached on demand, as well! give it a try! https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva

“Rocky horror picture show” “Clue” or “Legend”
In addition to those, I will always remember him as “Poet Man” from “Lexx” - the artiste who chose* to remain on his doomed homeworld of Brunnis when the civilization fled
*well, ok, he got drunk the night before & when he woke up, everyone had gone😂

our daughter drew a picture of herself with the track pad.
and made it dance with this vocaloid web thingy lol.
....and if you wanna go yourself:
https://aidn.jp/wowa/

"Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables

Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge

POL-NOM: Akku-Winkelschleifer von Baustelle entwendet - Polizei bittet um Hinweise Northeim (ots) - Hardegsen (Fi) - Im Zeitraum zwischen Montag, dem 22.06.2026, 19.30 Uhr und Dienstag, dem 23.06.2026, 08.00 Uhr, kam es auf einer Baustelle am Gießeturm in Hardegsen zu einem Diebstahl. Bislang unbekannte Täter entwendeten einen ... https://www.…

Compré un disco duro por Amazon el 22 de julio y aun no lo han enviado. El mismo disco ahora estš listado a mšs del doble del precio al que yo lo compré. Sospecho que quieren que cancele la compra para aprovechar las ventas al nuevo valor...

So I can't get paid to talk nonsense online, but apparently a completely incompetent and vile idiot gets paid one hell of a lot of money to talk nonsense in the oval office?
Okay cool.

Wenn Die Linke eine Zeitung besitzt, Anteile dran hält, oder in irgendeiner Verbindung dazu steht, dann ist das irgendwie das Neue Deutschland, die Junge Welt, oder Jacobin. Zeitungen und Magazine die sich offen als Links bezeichnen und ehrlich über ihre politische Voreingenommenheit sind.
Wenn die SPD eine Zeitung besitzt oder Anteile dran hat, dann ist das Madsack, das Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), die Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). Zeitungen welche von sich selbst be…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/117330299030931528
Fuckers arresting the wrong people. Because fuckers.

Регулярно зустрічаю практику "переусвідомив своє життя, вайпнув старі репозиторії". Особливо часто це зустрічається у творчих людей (наприклад, художників або дизайнерів), але може бути з ким завгодно — наприклад, з фірмою, яка виготовляє комп'ютерні ігри. В підсумку залишається "стерильне" портфоліо, з якого можуть бути видалені роботи, які у мене були найулюбленішими.
Сам я ніколи цього не розумів. Ні, є деякі речі, які я сам робив і потім спалював. Є ті речі,…

Die wunderbare #DollyParton hat uns für immer verlassen.
Von wenigen Menschen haben wir so viel über das wahre #Amerika und seine Menschen gelernt wie von ihr.
Mögest Du in Frieden ruhen - #RIPDolly

The Cloudflare snafu was 2 years ago

we are the new joke of the nfl #packers #nfl #nflnews @Twisted Tea

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/22/companies/nichirei-cyberattack-ransomhouse/

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
RansomHouse has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on several Japanese businesses, including a ransomware attack in October on office-supplies retailer Askul.

Shopware 6: Moving your cart storage to Redis is standard advice for a busy shop — but the docs never answer the question that actually matters: what happens to the carts that exist right now? There's a built-in command for exactly this, in both directions.
http://

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #22: cart:migrate — switching cart storage on a live shop - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
Moving carts to Redis is one of the standard performance upgrades for busy Shopware installations — the cart table is one of the hottest write paths in the

Pawooで、自分のアカウントではない、他者のアカウントでログインした状態となり、新たにパスワード認証が必要となる操作（アカウントの削除とか引っ越しぐらいかな）以外は基本的に何でもできてしまう状態となる不具合が発生していた件について、
SujiYanからの解決したというアナウンスです。
PawooのWebFinger（他のサーバから、アカウント名でPawooのアカウントの正規URIを照会する機能）が、別人のアカウントURIを返す問題は修正されているようなので、一緒に解決しているのではないかと思います。
misskey.ioがPawooとの連合をブロックしているのもこの不具合の影響を抑えるためです。解決が確認されれば解除されることになっています。
（自分のものではないアカウントにログインしてしまう現象がこのアナウンス以降、まだ発生しているようなら教えてください）
QT:

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

Un train stationne Š Saint-Denis – Université vers Châtillon - Montrouge en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
🤖 25/07 00:09

163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Wildfires force more than 200,000 people in France and Spain to flee
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260724-spain-declares-state-of-emergency-and-france-seeks-eu-help-as-wildfires-rage

Spain declares state of emergency and France seeks EU help as wildfires rage
Wildfires fuelled by extreme heat and strong winds swept across western Europe on Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate in France, triggering a state of emergency in Spain's Madrid region and prompting Paris to seek emergency assistance from the European Union.

Cowboys Predicted to Cut Ties With Veteran Despite $2.5 Million Guarantee https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-sam-howell-2-5-million-guarantee/

Un train stationne Š Mairie de Montreuil vers Pont de Sèvres en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée .
🤖 25/07 00:19

#Whaleybridge #Whaleyfest

Be gay, don't admit to crimes on fedi

The #cost of the #ClimateCrisis is starting to appear to the public - not the purchase price of an EV, but the cost of food. That hits every day.
Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops

Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops
Record June temperatures expected to cut grain harvest by 9m tonnes to its lowest level since 2018

Started some new material with an #acting #coaching client and seeing them finding new bits of business from the direction and then starting building out the character's moves and vibe in even the first few takes was so entertaining. Love my clients.

We’re now enjoying Beethoven‘s Violin Concerto live at home, as Kid A1 has decided to practice it “just for fun” ☺️

Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/22/candid-

Candid Health raises $120 million to take on America’s $280 billion medical billing mess
The healthcare infrastructure startup tripled its valuation in 18 months as revenue grew nearly 200 percent.

from my link log —
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-22/dennis-meadows-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-publication…

Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
For the twentieth century, The Limits to Growth book changed the world in the same way On The Origin Of Species did in the nineteenth.

<jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named
stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-)
<stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386
with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman.
<stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor
* Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing
<stu> and..
<stu> double-height hard driv…

Did you drink enough 💧 today?

Deshaun Watson wasn't Todd Monken's mistake, but he's the coach's responsibility now https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7536117/2026/08/24/deshaun-watson-todd-monken-qb-decision/

とりあえずWebFingerはなおってるかな？

POL-OS: Belm: 22-jährige Sozia wird von Motorrad geschleudert und stirbt Osnabrück (ots) - Bei einem Verkehrsunfall auf der B51 hat sich am späten Samstagabend eine 22-jährige Sozia tödliche Verletzungen zugezogen. Nach bisherigen Ermittlungen ereignete sich der folgenschwere Unfall gegen 23 Uhr zwischen den ... https://www.

@… I suspect that I could also make a pretty good argument that I care too much 😅

Affäre „Pilnacek“: Wurm verurteilt, Rechtsstaat beschädigt
#Justiz

Affäre „Pilnacek“: Wurm verurteilt, Rechtsstaat beschädigt
Pilnacek-Gefährtin Karin Wurm ist nach ZackZack die zweite – nicht rechtskräftig - Verurteilte im Fall „Pilnacek“. Die „Einzelfälle“ ergeben immer mehr das Bild einer Strafjustiz in Schieflage.

Störung bei Instagram
Vor allem Chats bei Instagram funktionieren derzeit nur bedingt. Alte Nachrichten laden teilweise nicht, neue werden nicht verschickt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Stoerung-bei-Ins

Störung bei Instagram
Vor allem Chats bei Instagram funktionieren derzeit nur bedingt. Alte Nachrichten laden teilweise nicht, neue werden nicht verschickt.

Cowboys' undrafted rookie goes viral for emotional locker-room speech after preseason win https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/24/cowboys-rookie-shiyazh-pet…

Seriously, today's Metacurity is going to be totally lit, so please take a look at it when it comes out. I've been writing for three hours, and I've got a lot more to go.
I managed to build into the top three items everything you want to know about yesterday's AI news, and it's just tons of important stuff.

Seems like some smoke is blowing into the area. Particle counts outside are going way up and it smells a little funny outside.

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist overwhelmingly favored in the race for a House seat representing part of New York City,
was arrested Thursday while protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations.
Avila Chevalier, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D) in a June primary,
had been among hundreds of people who rallied outside the U.N. headquarters and blocked traffic with a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups.

Democratic House candidate arrested during Netanyahu protest in NYC
Darializa Avila Chevalier was among several progressive elected officials and nominees who protested Netanyahu's speech at the U.N.

San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.

San Francisco Sues to Stop Early Access to Trump’s Truth Social Posts
The city attorney argued that the service, available for up to $100,000 a month, could allow wealthy traders to manipulate the market, while leaving out everyday investors.

'It was very raw': Schottenheimer, Pete reflect on undrafted rookie OL's viral postgame speech https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49715273/dallas-cowboys-shiyazh-pete-brian-schottenheimer-postgame-speech

Doki Doki Mathematics Club

the awkward part of this post is that if these companies improve the performance of their websites it will change the meaning of the post (since those filmstrips update over time)
so far I’m about 5% worried about it

Brian Schottenheimer confident Cowboys have two capable backup QBs in Milton, Howell https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-confident-cowboys-have-two-capable-backup-qbs-in-milton-howell

「全部おんなじじゃないですか」

I riffed on the news a bit, hoping it would get the angst out of me. Instead I have this short article and a headache. Oops.
#USpol

War's Going Great
Brilliant gambit: the U.S. will now allow Iran to hit some of what they shoot at because that will surely lead Iran to capitulation. It has nothing to do with the fact we are running of of air defense interceptors (that's exactly what it is). Thankfully, the U.

POL-GÖ: (263/2026) Versuchter Einbruch in Einfamilienhaus in Dransfeld - Unbekannter wird von Bewohnerin überrascht und flüchtet - Polizei sucht Zeugen Göttingen (ots) - Dransfeld, Hoher-Hagen-Straße Samstag, 22. August 2026, gegen 23.05 Uhr DRANSFELD (ab) - Ein bislang unbekannter Mann hat am späten Samstagabend (22.08.26) gegen 23.05 Uhr offenbar versucht, in ein Einfamilienhaus an der ...

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A practical guide to having your voice heard, engaging your community, and driving change through civic action.

Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/rabbit-r1-os3-jesse-lyu/

Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App
Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.

Jaxson Dart rookie card sold for $500,200 a day before he got hurt https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7621358/2026/09/22/jaxson-dart-football-cards-prem1ere-patch-injury/

@… I added a recent Myspace Top 8 (top recent webmentions friends) and I spied you on it!

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer praises Joe Milton's growth in one key area https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/24/joe-milton-brian-schottenheimer-cowboys/91447581007/

「全部おんなじじゃないですか」

“The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”), accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone to “delete the digital contents,” prior to the device being seized.”
Untied indeed.
https://…

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

FW-AUR: Mülltonnenbrand zugleich mit Ölaustritt auf Gewässer Aurich (ots) - Zwei Einsätze zur gleichen Zeit beschäftigten mehrere Auricher Feuerwehren in den Montagabendstunden. Kurz nach 22 Uhr wurde zunächst die Feuerwehr Aurich nach Schirum gerufen. Am Ostfrieslandwanderweg im Bereich des ... https://www.presseportal…

Mike Rogers spent months bragging the Iran war was a "win-win-win."
Diesel hit $6.81 & suddenly he wants it to "end quickly."
Flip-flopping is panic & spineless.
Michigan doesn't need a rubber stamp who ducks reporters.
Choose El-Sayed
-- he actually shows up.
#BlueWaveIn40Days

Jules⚖️📨 (@northjules.bsky.social)
Mike Rogers spent months bragging the Iran war was a "win-win-win." Diesel hit $6.81 & suddenly he wants it to "end quickly." Flip-flopping is panic & spineless. Michigan doesn't need a rubber stamp who ducks reporters. Choose El-Sayed, he actually shows up. #BlueWaveIn40Days

Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/openai-works-understand-full…

@… Those are especially kind words, I’m not sure what to say. Thank you ❤️

The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered.
Once quantum computing becomes practical
(estimates for that range from 3 to 20 or more years),
the foundational security it provides will crumble.
New research has revealed a novel method that uses classical computing to reduce the current RSA security level to an unacceptably low threshold.
The practical risk is limited, but still significant.
Applying the attack against the d…

There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.

A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not "swaps" subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/u

The poverty rate among seniors rose for the fifth straight year in 2025,
"a trend no other age group experienced,"
according to an AARP Foundation analysis of a new Census Bureau report.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/24/nx-s1-5979857/senio…

Sources: AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-f…

Startup Founded by ex-Tesla Dojo Leaders Nears $10 Billion Valuation
DensityAI, an AI chip startup founded just a year ago by former leaders of Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer program, is in advanced talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a round that would value it at $10 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The valuation is ...

As Trump continues to test the extent of his power,
systematically going after the most vulnerable population in our country, and those who defend them,
he is now pushing the limits to attorney ethics.
This flippant abuse of power and attacks to decades of precedent is putting bar licenses
and more importantly the lives of children at risk.
Unaccompanied migrant children arrive at our border alone, fleeing dangerous situations,
and remain one of the most…

HHS is Making it Impossible for Lawyers to Protect Immigrant Children (Or Their Own Bar Licenses)
The Trump administration’s attacks threaten children’s safety – and legal ethics.

Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/09/24/datab…

Exclusive: Databricks buys spreadsheet startup RowZero
It's the first for the Genie platform as the company pushes into AI tooling for general work.

Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000328/google-gemini-ai-live-avatar-face

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
Google is rolling out a new Live Avatar feature for its Gemini 3.8 Live model, which shows an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and makes different facial expressions when it responds.

Three federal appeals courts have rejected President Trump’s go-to move in trying to install allies as United States attorneys,
the officials who lead the prosecutors’ offices in the nation’s 94 judicial districts.
In each case, the courts said Trump had violated a law that limits who can run the offices when there are vacancies.
Those decisions have complicated Trump’s efforts to investigate and prosecute his political foes.
👉 The administration this month asked the…

Trump’s Retribution Campaign May Face Supreme Court Test
The justices have been asked to rule on whether the president can appoint allies as top prosecutors.

Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/internal-mem

Internal memos: Microsoft shakes up communications as Nadella makes a push to build in public
Microsoft is moving communications out of its marketing group and under Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, as CEO Satya Nadella calls for a fundamentally new approach that makes employees a bigger part of how the company tells its story.

The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills (Megan Howard/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on "image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed" and "most" of the images have been removed (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2103587050347995581

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
We’ve shared details on how AI agents in our research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn’t have. Most of that data did not come from users. We have discovered 53 cases where images that people had uploaded were posted to image-hosting sites as l…

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/24/robotics-ai-generalist-200m

Scoop: Generalist raises another $200 million for AI robotics
This comes just weeks after it raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation.

Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/08/24/desc…

Descartes acquires transportation management system Tai for $100M
Transportation management is a hot spot for Descartes and other supply chain tech dealmakers.

At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-officially-enters-musk-era

Inside Musk’s First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called into an all-hands video meeting with the coding startup’s staff. Musk told them that SpaceX’s AI unit had fallen behind competitors and that he wasn’t used to losing. Unlike ...

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-a…

Meta Plans to Launch ‘Hatch’ AI Agent Platform in Coming Weeks
Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks and is targeting October for its latest AI model, called Watermelon, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. Hatch is part of Meta Chief ...

Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/24/apple-hide-my-email-domain/

Apple Won't Change Hide My Email Domain After Backlash
Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature. Emails sent using...

Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-c…

X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/prentis-new-a…

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M | TechCrunch
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/22/apple-backtracks-camera-feature-compatibi…

TSMC forecasts "several years" of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/trump-pressure-ai-chips-us-tsmc-margins.html…

Trump's push for American-made AI chips hits TSMC's margins
The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

Jensen Huang says "these Chinese models are excellent", "open-source models that are excellent should be used", and "free AI should be great for hardware" (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-o…

Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Huang told Axios that American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese models.

Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/glow

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era | TechCrunch
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/22/go

Google's robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots - SiliconANGLE
Google's robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots - SiliconANGLE

Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/22/binance-b…

Binance buys $100 million Circle stake in five-year USDC promotion deal
Circle sold 1.24 million shares at $80.84 each and will pay Binance a monthly fee tied to USDC held through its wallet infrastructure.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/north-korea-bitget-387-million-crypto-attac…

North Korea accused of plundering Bitget for $387 million in year’s biggest crypto attack
Hackers exploited Bitget’s wallet backend, using a flaw that made fraudulent withdrawals look legitimate.

Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/22/web-scraping-startup-firecrawl-closes-75m-investment/

Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment - SiliconANGLE
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment - SiliconANGLE

Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse "from scratch" but was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse "OpenClaw for normies" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/meta

Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw isn't a coincidence | TechCrunch
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.