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Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/21/pivot-raises-40m-to-expand-ai-pow…

Pivot raises $40M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform
Paris-based Pivot, an AI-powered procurement and finance operations platform, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound, procurement industry executives and existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club and Emblem. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised since its founding in 2023 to $70 million.Pivot develops an AI operating system designed to help e…

A fellow from SAP told me about this nice panel session from 2014 where representatives of variious languages - C , D, Go and Rust - discussed the future of programming, worth watching:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/lang-nex…

Panel: Systems Programming in 2014 and Beyond
C++, D, Go, Rust. Each of these languages are systems programming languages. By definition, a systems programming language is used to construct software systems that control underlying computer hardware and to provide software platforms that are used by higher level application programming languages used to build applications and services. Often, systems languages are used to build operating systems, compilers, device drivers, factory automation, robots, high performance mathematical software, …

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2701 nodes and 3515 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

In den letzten Tagen sind Details der umfassenden Programmreform im Deutschlandfunk bekannt geworden. Im Kern: alle Sendungen der Fachredaktionen werden abgeschafft, dafür gibt es Schwerpunkte.
Viele Hörer und Hörerinnen des DLF sind schockiert, weil sie ihre Lieblingssendungen künftig nicht mehr hören können. Einer hat spontan eine Petition gestartet, in dem auch die Änderungen beschrieben werden.

Die Programm-Reform des Deutschlandfunk (DLF) stoppen! - Online petition
Sehr geehrter Herr Raue, kürzlich haben Sie bekanntgegeben, dass das Programmschema des Deutschlandfunks zum 30.11.2026 grundlegend reformiert werden soll. Die bisher bekannt gewordenen Eckpunkte der Reform lauten: * Verschiebung der „Informationen am Morgen“ um eine Stunde nach hinten. Damit wohl Wegfall von „Europa heute“ und der Religionssendung „Tag für Tag“. * Auflösung der Fachsendungen wie etwa „Kultur heute“, „Wirtschaft am Mittag“ oder „Campus und Karriere“. …

Fox Corp.'s Red Seat Ventures becomes the latest entity to partner with Amazon to integrate its programmatic ad inventory into Amazon's demand-side platform (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-red-seat-vent…

Fox's Red Seat Ventures, Amazon Strike Programmatic Ad Partnership
Fox's Red Seat Ventures, Amazon Strike Programmatic Advertising Partnership

As a House committee debated Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year,
Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
also known as food stamps,
wouldn’t affect vulnerable people.
SNAP reforms would “restore integrity” to the program
and ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children,”
said Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson,
a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the H…

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

« Once an organisation accepts that the difficult software will be bought elsewhere, internal teams slowly lose the habit of building. Procurement becomes a substitute for strategy. Legal review becomes a substitute for leadership. Risk management becomes a substitute for execution. »
https://…

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Christian Parker's message on Caleb Downs should terrify NFL offenses https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dc-christian-parker-caleb-downs-minicamp/fb77617f91b3b24e762e71e0…

NIST is looking for a National Vulnerability Database Program Manager
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/876565100

National Vulnerability Database Program Manager
Join NIST as the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) Program Manager! You'll lead teams and software infrastructure while collaborating with global stakeholders to evolve vulnerability management standards. Identify ecosystem gaps and develop new technical guidelines and capabilities to strengthen our national cybersecurity posture. This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.