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Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/sach

Sachin Bansal's fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment | TechCrunch
The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

from my link log —
The maturing of QUIC.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic
saved 2019-11-14 https://dotat.at/:/CW74X.htm…

The Maturing of QUIC | Fastly
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.

Way to go!!
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/19/japan/ai-training-data-disclosure/

Japan to require AI firms to disclose training data
A draft code has been drawn up amid growing concerns that texts and images may be used to train AI models without consent, potentially infringing on copyrights.

I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)

Laguna Garzón Bridge - Wikipedia

I recently acquired an old Dell server for my homelab setup. I haven't touched real enterprise hardware in quite a long time. It's been a good [re]learning experience.
Let me just say this, though: putting a second computer inside the server for management (IPMI/iDRAC in this case) is genius, and it's a REALLY nice safety net.
(Short version for the unaware: independent console access and server configuration in a web UI on its own ethernet port. e.g. can reboot serve…

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/nscale-ai-cloud-provider-ipo-nscl.html

AI cloud provider Nscale files to go public
Nscale is the latest artificial intelligence neocloud to turn to public markets.

After a month on Kalpa and a bit on my NixOS spin it's time to shake that KDE install up and go for sth else. One KDE and one Slackware tilers box are the 'production' kits here, I spend around 80% of my time there. Fedora 45 beta, Arch, TuxedoOS? Enough to choose from. First the slackosundries, updating some Slackware pkgs!

Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (Joann Muller/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/may-mobility-public-spac-atlas-credit-partners-a…

May Mobility to go public in SPAC deal at $1.4B valuation
Self-driving tech company May Mobility has reached a deal to go public via a merger with a SPAC affiliated with Atlas Credit Partners.

Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/09/16/raindrop-crv-…

Exclusive: Raindrop raises $35 million to monitor agents
AI safety is top of mind these days, and no one wants a rogue agent to go unchecked.