Tootfinder

Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle, raised a €30.1M Series B led by Portage (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/berlin

Berlin-based bunch bags €30.1 million Series B to modernise Europe’s private markets infrastructure | EU-Startups
bunch, a Berlin-based FinTech startup offering end-to-end infrastructure for European private markets, has closed its €30.1 million ($35 million) Series B

International Expert Panel Sets Plant-Based Diet as Minimum Standard for Global Healthcare https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/international-expert-panel-sets-plant-based-diet-minimum-standard-global-healthcare/

International Expert Panel Sets Plant-Based Diet as Minimum Standard for Global Healthcare - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
An international panel of experts, led by the University of Innsbruck and the Tyrolean University of Education, has published two complementary reports that

from my link log —
ggsql: A SQL extension for declarative data visualisation based on the Grammar of Graphics.
https://github.com/posit-dev/ggsql
saved 2026-04-20 https://…

GitHub - posit-dev/ggsql: A SQL extension for declarative data visualisation based on the Grammar of Graphics.
A SQL extension for declarative data visualisation based on the Grammar of Graphics. - posit-dev/ggsql

Predicting Raiders’ Midseason Moves Based on 2026 Schedule https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-predicting-midseason-moves-based-2026-schedule

U.K.-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware is responding to a cyberattack
in which hackers stole a “significant volume” of customer data from its systems, the company said on Monday.
The company said the hackers appear to have been expelled from its systems, but its investigation into the breach is ongoing, according to a statement filed with the London Stock Exchange.
Craneware’s flagship accounting and billing software is used by thousands of clinics, hospital…

Hackers stole 'significant' amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies | TechCrunch
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.

Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (John Timmer/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/two-…

Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data.

If you use Quarto to make presentations for a professional setting, it is important to choose the right theme, e.g. #rstats

GitHub - EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-nes-theme: A Quarto reveal.js theme based on NES.css
A Quarto reveal.js theme based on NES.css. Contribute to EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-nes-theme development by creating an account on GitHub.

Writing a CM system is all fun and games until you realise you're using Unix and its a shitshow.
> The bug is most likely this: Store() uses fchown on the open temp file descriptor (tf.Chown(uid, gid)), while the chown CLI uses path-based chown. On certain bind-mount setups (Docker Desktop for
Mac/Windows with gRPC FUSE or VirtioFS, NFS, FUSE-backed mounts), fchown can silently no-op or fail to persist while path-based chown works fine.

Ranking top 10 NFL rookie wide receivers based on projected 2026 impact

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-rookie-wr-rankings-2026/

English is a funny language… terms and phrases can mean more than one thing based on usage.
Take “I’m apolitical”, for example.
When it expresses that you only care about this quarter’s profits while the planet burns, it means “I’m stupid.”
When it’s that you can’t be bothered about the plight of people less fortunate than you, it means “I’m privileged” and “fuck you, I got mine.”
And when it shows that you’re neutral about – and thus actively complicit in – genocide,…

The best and most humane economic system ever created, folx

from my link log —
Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/24/modelling-bbrs-interactions-with-loss-based-congestion-control/
saved 2020-01-25 …

Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.

#potd Fat Freddy's Drop @ Arena, open air, family outing; great gig playing Based On A True Story (and some more, including a Happy-Birthday-Interlude); RIP DJ MU aka Fitchie https://domm.plix.at/potd/2026-06-18.h

Can't wait for all the people who never read the Odyssey to have opinions about the Odyssey based on a movie loosely based on the Odyssey!

No, you did not send a numeric code to my email to help me sign in "for my security." You did it because you couldn't be arsed to implement proper app-based authentication.
Control of any email address collapses down to a single factor for authentication. Do better.
#TuesdayCyberGrouse

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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
http://www.maptap.gg
> Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

@… Just saw this, and had no idea this exists: ESP32 Bit Pirate Inspired by the Bus Pirate of old, a modern version: https://l…

ESP32 Bit Pirate update adds WiFi Hotspot mode, Pirate Assistant, and Web Flasher
The ESP32 Bus Pirate project has been renamed ESP32 Bit Pirate as part of its continued development as an ESP32-S3-based multi-protocol firmware platform. The open-source project, developed by Geo-tp, turns supported ESP32-S3 boards into debugging and experimentation tools for wired protocols, radio interfaces, scripting, and browser-based interaction. The project remains inspired by the original Bus […]

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Listening to the Revolutions podcast and there are so many things that happened based on some mistake or misinterpretation then cascade faster than anyone expects. Honestly, after all the evil shit the oligarchs are doing, I really think it'll end up being some obscure parody or just misinformation that kicks off the insurrection in the US.

Ad tech company Viant partners with Ad Fontes Media to help advertisers target connected-TV news inventory based on scoring of political bias and reliability (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/viant-ad-fontes-media-bias-reli…

Viant Taps Ad Fontes Media to Bring ‘News Bias’ Targeting to CTV
The integration scores news programs on reliability and bias, giving buyers a more granular way to activate against inventory

It will also impact updates in pedagogical practice. I've been thinking about modifications to evaluation based on recent experiences. Normally I'd spend time the couple of weeks before classes figuring this out, but now I have to do that months in advance or not at all. Not at all will often win.

If a bat that weighs 7 g eats half its body mass in insects every night (typical), I think that works out to 1400 mosquitoes needed based on a 2.5 mg mosquito. So more than 2 mosquitoes every minute if hunting for 10 hours. [Please check my math.] Doable, perhaps, in a room packed with thousands of mosquitoes but in the real world that bat would starve to death. Because it takes more energy to find and hunt down a tiny fly than it gets from the fly. Small bats DO eat mosquitoes but never enough to be important in control. My 2 cents.

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116608130977908244
Part 2 of our miniseries on South Africa, based on my travels there last year. Grid geeks gonna love this one!

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/05/19/circuithub-series-a-electronics-manufact…

Exclusive: CircuitHub raises $28M to scale electronics manufacturing
The company can ship fully assembled circuit boards in a matter of days.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116607407985786811
If you were on this board I am fascinated by what you would do?
based on this story it seems like officials trying to navigate a real problem and getting threats over it.

The ResearchWorks Podcast
Designed for health professionals in the area of child health, where we discuss emerging, modern, evidence based research - the behind the scenes stories, interviews with world renowned authors and researchers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…

Honey, wake up, another episode of Cultures of #Energy dropped, a #waste one!!
Highly recommended, with haunted insights from landfills in Czechia, based on Dan Sosna’s book “Europe’s Disappearing Waste.” Lovely, lovely stuff!

H H forgot the most important point to managing stress, "Try guillotining the Epstein class."

GTG PDCST 044 | Petter B
Petter B is a Swedish DJ and producer based in Gothenburg and started out behind the decks back in 1996. Being brought up in the era when Swedish techno had its own sound and prolifc artists such as Cari Lekebusch, Adam Beyer and Joel Mull, to name a few, really put a face to that sound, it became a big source of inspiration to him.

Set up a second wall panel for #HomeAssistant based on a Lenovo tablet. I have no idea how people actually use android tablets in practice - the amount of abusive features, bloat, and rampant disregard for user consent is shocking. No wonder no one uses android tablets, I was once again close to shucking it out the window a few times, and I was just trying to get Fully Kiosk installed.

I’ve installed Cotypist today as I’ve read some reviews praising it.
Now I learned that starting next week it will be a subscription based app at $96 or $144/year with an intro pricing of $72/$120 per year.
There is no server component.
Models are running locally on my machine.
oh well

📋 More than skills — manage rules, commands, prompts & any file-based resource through the extras system
🌍 Install from anywhere — pull skills from #GitHub, #GitLab, #Bitbucket, Azure…

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Barrell Jones
London-based drummer, percussionist and bandleader Jas Kayser is sitting in for Soweto Kinch, sharing some of the exciting jazz releases from the UK and around the world.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w7tl

2026 NFL Draft: Ranking the QB prospects based on Tom Fornelli's college football performance formula

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/nfl-dra…

Inspired by @… to show kindness on the internet
1. I constantly but slowly develop my #BeetsStatistics further. It shows stats based on your @…

I heard on Iowa Public Radio this morning that Gov Reynolds signed a bill permitting over-the-counter Ivermectin sales.
Great, let's all take Ivermectin as a 21st century cure all, for viruses and cancer and anything else our whim strikes! Why would we use evidence-based science to guide us!?
Meanwhile Covid-19 vaccines, some of the most researched medicine ever, Republicans have made harder to obtain at the pharmacy.

Dear reply-and-block hasbara bot at @coffeebits@101010.pl (please feel free to report and block),
Zionism is not a race.
Zionism isn’t even a religion.
Zionism is a settler colonialist, genocidal ideology.
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.
And it’s not libel if it’s true.
#israel

London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a $100M Series C led by Sofina (Damisola Sulaiman/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/primer-raises-100m-series-c/

Balderton-backed payments startup Primer raises $100m Series C
London-based payments infrastructure provider Primer has raised $100m in a Series C funding round to make payments fully AI-enabled.

yes trump this or trump that but i can't stop telling people how much i HATE gusanos marco rubio and ted cruz with a burning passion.
both (!!) fled cuba under BATISTA, ted cruz's father was even tortured in prison by batista's regime, marco rubio arrived in the US years before the communist revolution took place.
batista was the puppet dictator installed by the US, and his regime's slave based society is what the likes of fidel castro and che guevara fought against, yet these u…

The vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many script…

Gemini-based agents reportedly carried out hundreds of simulated crimes, while Grok-based worlds collapsed within days.

It's funny how ive been a systems person forever, and homelabbing forever, using Linux forever, but these days I'm not a power user at all. I just don't have much drive to fine tune my user experience at all.... Even kicking the tires on an path for RSS-based consumption makes me realize how much fine-tuning I need to do in terms of managing and filtering content, workflow, etc.
But this is the price I guess I have to pay if I want to detox from doom scrolling.

This is, uh, pretty niche spam...?

"In May, solar topped coal nationwide for the first time. In California, solar is fast displacing natural gas."
California has invested heavily in solar and batteries and it is displacing fossil fuels quickly.
Interesting to see solar top coal-based energy production nationwide in May.
https://www.

Anyone know how to get rid of an old ionization smoke detector (Am-241 based) in or near kitsap county WA? My local household hazmat site won't take them for some reason

The Department of Homeland Security is attempting to use eminent domain to seize 14 acres of desert from a Catholic diocese, based in Las Cruces, N.M., so it can raise about 1.5 miles of new wall.
The church claims a towering steel barrier would desecrate a holy landmark and violate the religious liberties of those who wish to worship there.
Countless pilgrims from around the world journey to the sacred site just on New Mexico’s side of the southwestern border,
but Mr. Cast…

A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump’s Border Wall
In a battle of symbols, the Catholics of Las Cruces, N.M., argue that religious freedom should stop the wall from scarring a mountain that has attracted pilgrims for nearly a century.

umm what is this weird timeline? Whoever’s incharge of this reality, I’d like to speak to your manager. What are you spoking?
Why would vim need GTK toolkit support? It’s meant to be a TERMINAL based editor!!!
I realise there might’ve been similar functionality with Qt and/or GTK3 but I don’t know man, this feels weird.
https://

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…

such a pleasure to read a thoughtful interview with the great & inventive drummer joe westerlund from the improv trio setting & many other projects. https://ashevillestages.com/music/interview-joe-westerlund-setting

Interview: Joe Westerlund (Setting) — Asheville Stages
The Durham-based improvisational, instrumental band plays AyurPrana Listening Room on May 16.

The Hollywood Reporter launches an Australia edition headed by EIC Sean Sennett, in partnership with Raine Media (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/the…

The Hollywood Reporter Launches Australian Edition in Partnership With Raine Media
Veteran journalist Sean Sennett joins as editor-in-chief of the Sydney-based title, which will cover Australia's booming screen sector across digital, print and video.

15-Minute Herby Olive Butter Bean And Lentil Salad #plantbased

15-Minute Herby Olive Butter Bean And Lentil Salad
This plant-based and high-protein herby olive butter bean and lentil salad is just what you want to eat as spring blooms in full force

RE: https://nerdculture.de/@tynstar/116781190514549458
I want everyone to realize that we have no evidence that such an intelligence is computationally possible.
Edit: this seems to be a parody quote or misattribution based on some folks checking the actual video for the quote.

“9to5Mac’s Take: Data brokers are a form of business which quite simply shouldn’t be allowed to exist.”
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/ai-companies-and-data-brokers-even-resort-to-fake-forms-to-keep-selling-our-data/…

For decades, the Soviet Union promoted the unorthodox views of Trofim Lysenko,
an agronomist who used his close ties to the political leadership to spread misinformation denying Mendelian genetics.
What followed was a disaster:
many years of poor harvests based on unsupported science and suppression of the teaching and practice of modern genetics throughout the Soviet bloc.
A similar threat now hangs over U.S. science.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 308401 nodes and 385164 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Fresh Cherry Tomato And Chickpea Salad #plantbased

Fresh Cherry Tomato And Chickpea Salad
Vegan News: Plant Based News is the world's leading vegan news media, and plant-based health education platform. Vegan Celebrity stories, interviews with the leading vegan and plant-based doctors.

When We’re in Charge is a no-bullshit guide for the next generation of leaders on how to show up differently,
break the cycle of bad leadership,
and navigate the changing demands of those in power
and the evolving expectations people have of their workplace.
Based on Amanda Litman’s experience as a founder and executive (and mom of two who’s trying desperately to have a life outside of work),
and informed by conversations with more than 100 next-gen leaders acr…

When We're in Charge (Paperback)
Featured on Forbes, Morning Joe, Teen Vogue, Pod Save America , and more From Amanda Litman, cofounder of Run for Something, “a refreshingly candid,…

Beautiful palettes based on art for R and python: #rstats #ggplot

SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M (Caroline Petrow-Cohen/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/bu…

This startup wants to bring driverless freight trucks to California's roads, but drivers are pushing back
Founded in 2025, Humble Robotics is building self-driving freight trucks with no steering wheel, driver's seat or gas pedal.

2027 NFL mock draft: Early first-round predictions for college football's top stars -- with a twist

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2027-nfl-mo…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has circulated a
“Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide,
targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral.
The subject of the alert, known as a “Bolo”, was
Ben Palmer, a Nashville-based standup comedian and prankster who created a parody anti-immigration tip website.
His revealing videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants to US Immigr…

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/he-made-your-…

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he's doing that for robots. | TechCrunch
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

USA: Introducing Psycho Killer Clowns, Inc.
EU: We need an EU-based Psycho Killer Clowns, Inc.

Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/20…

Exclusive: Empirical Security raises $25M
The cybersecurity startup uses AI modeling to stay ahead of attacks and vulnerabilities.

A new report by the national research organization Public Agenda found that many young men are skeptical of higher ed’s value and are more likely than their female counterparts to believe colleges are better designed for women.
The report, called “Listening to Young Men,” examines the attitudes of American men on higher ed and other topics. Its findings are based on a survey of 3,559 American adults aged 18 or older fielded in November. Public Agenda also conducted three online focus gr…

Bills WR Keon Coleman describes 2026 season as 'make or break' for his future in Buffalo https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-wr-keon-coleman-describes-2026-season-as-make-or-break

Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ant-international-raise…

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows #plantbased

Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows
As climate change accelerates and global temperatures continue to rise, a new randomized clinical trial provides compelling evidence that one of the most powerful climate solutions may be on our plates. A study published in Current Developments in Nutrition shows that adopting a low-fat vegan diet reduces diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and cumulative energy demand by 44%—dramatic reductions achieved in just 12 weeks.

Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launched a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/…

Since Trump’s decision to snatch Maduro in January and reboot relations with his successors,
the five-star hotel has become the nerve centre of Washington’s efforts to steer a country some now call a US protectorate
– and which Trump has even said he hopes to turn into the 51st state.
“It’s [effectively] the US embassy.
I don’t think anybody’s going to work at the actual embassy,”
said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based political analyst for Crisis Group.

Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised $63M led by GC, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/indian…

General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India's travel payments market | TechCrunch
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.

dbpedia_all: DBpedia network (v3.6)
A network among all entries in DBpedia, a project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia. Nodes represent entities in DBpedia and an edge connects two entities based on DBpedia's notion of their relatedness. The data is extracted from the version 3.6 of the database.
This network has 3966924 nodes and 13820853 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Australia-based Syenta, which aims to use electrochemical "stamping" to speed up chip manufacturing, raised $26M and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan's Substack)
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-phila…

The third wave of American philanthropy
AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have real work to do to make the most of it.

American Medical Association Votes to Put More Plant-Based Food on Doctors’ Plates https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/american-medical-association-votes-put-more-plant-based-food-doctors-plates/

American Medical Association Votes to Put More Plant-Based Food on Doctors' Plates - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Neal Barnard, MD, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said, "The old adage, 'Physician, heal thyself,' now really means something.

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

malaria_genes: Malaria var DBLa HVR networks
Networks of recombinant antigen genes from the human malaria parasite P. falciparum. Each of the 9 networks shares the same set of vertices but has different edges, corresponding to the 9 highly variable regions (HVRs) in the DBLa domain of the var protein. Nodes are var genes, and two genes are connected if they share a substring whose length is statistically significant. Metadata includes two types of node labels, both based on sequence st…

Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A pastor aligned with the hard-right Reformed theology of influential Christian nationalist Doug Wilson
is promoting and pursuing a plan to fulfill the “dominion mandate”
by moving like-minded people into sparsely populated rural counties, colonizing and discipling
“Christian settlements,”
and building miniature civilizations based on their religious worldview.
Raymond Simmons, a pastor and podcaster based in Red Oak, Iowa, is the author of
“The Confession…

The Dominionist Plan to Create Theocratic ‘Confessional Counties’ in Rural U.S.
Rooting out pluralism is central to the strategy for colonizing sparsely populated rural counties.

Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/368608/crypto-exchange-blockchain-com-files-ipo-us

Crypto Exchange Blockchain.com Files for IPO in the US
Long-running crypto exchange Blockchain.com has confidentially filed to take its business public via the U.S. markets.

Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/itali…

Italian AI LegalTech startup Lexroom raises €42.9 million Series B eight months after €16.2 million Series A | EU-Startups
Lexroom, a Milan-based LegalTech startup focused on civil law jurisdictions, today announced a €42.9 million ($50 million) Series B round, eight months

Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M deal (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/anth

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch
Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially for a US IPO, set for later in 2026; SF- and Finland-based Oura had an $11B valuation in September 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

Oura, Maker of Popular Smart Rings, Files Confidentially for IPO
Oura Health Oy, a maker of popular smart rings that track health, fitness and sleep, filed confidentially for a US initial public offering, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Security incident disclosure — July 2026
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

How PayPal CEO Enrique Lores, appointed earlier in 2026 to revive the payments pioneer, may handle Stripe and Advent's takeover offer, based on his HP tenure (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/paypal-sale-ceo-enr…

Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-huma…

Exclusive: Humanoid, UK-Based Robot Maker, Becomes a Unicorn
Humanoid raised $150 million in the first tranche of a Series A funding round that values the London-based robotics company at $1.2 billion, excluding the new funds, according to someone with knowledge of the funding. The tranche closed earlier this week and the company is aiming to raise between $80 and $100 million in an extension round by September, the person said. The funding round is

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/moonshot-ai-seeks-…

Moonshot AI Seeks Investor Approval to Begin IPO Process
Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently distributed a shareholder resolution regarding its IPO plan, according to the people. The timing of its

Mistral acquires Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial offerings in Europe; Emmi raised €15M in Austria's largest round in 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra…

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…

Comand AI raises €32M for its C2 software, adds Saab as a strategic backer
Europe is betting big on artificial intelligence playing a significant role in how defence will be planned and executed in

Milan-based Webidoo, which develops an operational layer designed to help SMBs access AI tools, raised $25M led by IXC3 for North American expansion (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italia

Italian AI company Webidoo secures €21 million to scale SMB-focused automation platform | EU-Startups
Milan-based Webidoo, the AI technology company focused on making advanced digital tools more accessible and viable for SMBs, today announced the closing

Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying "Nothing changes for now" (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-paus…

Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/pa…

Paris-based Lithosquare raises €22 million to accelerate transition-critical mineral discovery with Geology AI | EU-Startups
Lithosquare, a Paris-based startup that deploys Geology AI and geologist-led intelligence to amplify and accelerate the discovery of transition-critical

A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place users into age-based accounts starting this month, amid controversy over user privacy (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-roblox-age-verification-efforts-rc…

How old are you really? Inside Roblox’s new campaign to verify user ages
Roblox gave NBC News an exclusive look at the biometric age-checking tool that, starting this month, will be used to place the platform’s users into age-based accounts.