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Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/indi

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C | TechCrunch
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

Democratic congresswoman
Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution on Wednesday
urging the United States to join the international criminal court (ICC),
marking the first congressional pushback against the Trump administration’s pledge to
“systematically disable” the war crimes tribunal through sanctions and diplomatic pressure.
Omar’s bill came two days after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, vowed to dismantle the court.
“The ICC is a crucial tool for jus…

Ilhan Omar introduces resolution urging US to join international criminal court
Exclusive: bill from Democratic lawmaker comes two days after Marco Rubio vowed to dismantle war crimes tribunal

The AP confirms it is laying off an unspecified number of US-based journalists today; News Media Guild: of 120 journalists offered buyouts, around 40 took them (Jocelyn Noveck/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-ap-layoffs-3906d6f2c…

AP lays off small group of US-based journalists, part of restructuring plan
The Associated Press has confirmed it is laying off an unspecified number of U.S.-based journalists. The layoffs are part of a restructuring that would turn the news organization’s focus away from print journalism and newspapers to visual journalism and other revenue sources. The AP would not say how many employees were affected. The News Media Guild, which represents AP journalists, said 20 journalists had been laid off by midafternoon Friday. AP said the layoffs were in Iine with a restruct…

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Evan Moreso (@cheatlines.co)
I'm sure it's obvious from the picture but that sucker is not computerized (i can't even tell if it's motorized), it's a Singer industrial with the wildest free motion/hopping foot i have ever seen so it must be purpose built for embroidery [contains quote post or other embedded content]

AAA game launch is one of the most demanding stress tests any database can face. Jan Lehnardt (co-creator of Apache CouchDB) is at #bbuzz26 to talk through how they achieved 10x performance gains to meet exactly that challenge.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch/

Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick: expert analysis and pointed snark, well worth reading.
https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-may-12-61ce74840049?sk=48ca2769a468c7481db8f4211881cae8

Ukraine Update May 12
2026 — “The Legendary Russian Chaos”

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says #Indonesia

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says
Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 1237 nodes and 1735 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted