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Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/aspora-ge…

Aspora gets $50M from Sequoia to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora | TechCrunch
Aspora (formerly Vance) is trying to build a verticalized financial experience for the Indian diaspora by keeping convenience at the center.

"Springer Nature Discovers MDPI" #OpenAccess

#Programming Myths We Desperately Need to Retire
https://amritpandey.io/programming-myths-we-desperately-need-to-retire/

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

Wie lang bis “Discover Religion(s)”? Schon das MPDI-Journal “Religions” war ja ein unverfrorener Rip-Off des tatsächlich renommierten Journals “Religion”. via @…
https://openbibli…

Lambert Heller (@Lambo@openbiblio.social)
Attached: 1 image "Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants). (...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...) Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the author…

Trump admin "disappeared" a gay stylist for propaganda. He hasn't been heard from since (Charles R. Davis/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/trump-admin-disappeared-a-gay-stylist-for-propaganda-he-hasnt-been-heard-from-since/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p83#a250716p83

"Plastic-Recycling Enzyme Discovered in Compost Heap Close to Commercialization Through German Startup"
#Plastic #Plastics #Germany

Plastic-Recycling Enzyme Discovered in Compost Heap Close to Commercialization Through German Startup
If successful, their 2030 plan will be four 350 cubic-meter reactors capable of processing 45,000 metric tons of PET plastic every year.

Cowboys' o-line must lead team by helping in one desperate area https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-offensive-line-must-lead-helping-one-desperate-area

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p5#a250716p5

Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that "was at risk of being exploited" (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-big-sleep-ai-tool-found-bug

Google says ‘Big Sleep’ AI tool found bug hackers planned to use
On Tuesday, Google said Big Sleep managed to discover CVE-2025-6965 — a critical security flaw that Google said was “only known to threat actors and was at risk of being exploited.”