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Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/ando…

Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together | TechCrunch
Ando has raised $20 million in pre-seed and seed funding from investors including Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence.

EDF 🇫🇷 provides French schools and kindergartens 🏫 with a € 400 grant for 🌀fans (up to 10 per school) as a quick summer relief measure
In addition, € 10000 per building is provided to supplement the existing government programme and help finance reversible air-air heat pumps for cooling and heating.

Most documents we encounter in the course of doing our work are somewhere between middling to terrible. A few years ago, I wrote "Make Better Documents", a simple set of guidelines for making presentations, reports, etc.
Now, I've turned that set of suggestions into a Better Documents skills.md file, an agent skill for those who use LLMs to help review documents. Naturally, it’s 100% free & open source, so I'd love for you to give it a try & let me know what y…

Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

🎨 10 code skills for different jobs: gpt-taste for stricter GPT/Codex rules, image-to-code, redesign-existing-projects, high-end-visual-design, minimalist-ui, industrial-brutalist-ui, full-output-enforcement and stitch-design-taste
🖼️ Three image-generation skills output reference boards only: imagegen-frontend-web for site comps, imagegen-frontend-mobile for iOS/Android screens and brandkit for logo, palette and identity boards — then hand the frames to a coding agent

As gas prices soar across California, the sign at the Fuel Depot gas station on Storke Road in Goleta flashed $3.00 per gallon for 87 grade gas on Tuesday morning.
Candidate Steve Hilton, running as a Republican to replace California Governor Gavin Newsom, was at the station pumping gas for constituents in an illegal attempt to sway their vote.
His campaign paid the difference in price — 87 grade fuel was priced at $5.86 per gallon at the station — for 150 cars, providing up to…

Goleta Gas Station Sells Drivers $3 Gas, Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton Paid the Rest
Republican candidate tried to win votes at the pump in Tuesday morning campaign event ahead of November’s election.

Before you leave for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US tightens oversight as AI moves deeper into cyber, warfare, and media,
--Russia kept using Cellebrite after sales ban,
--$3m stolen in Polymarket phishing attack,
--Poland busts SIM-swapping gang behind crypto thefts,
--Suspected Iranian hacker arrested in Montenegro,
--AYA Bank confirms limited data leak,
--Cyb…

US tightens oversight as AI moves deeper into cyber, warfare and media
Russia kept using Cellebrite after sales ban, $3m stolen in Polymarket phishing attack, Poland busts SIM-swapping gang behind crypto thefts, Suspected Iranian hacker arrested in Montenegro, AYA Bank confirms limited data leak, Cyberattack knocks Ukrposhta mobile app offline, much more

I recommend blocking shells.com in your search results and or DNS for misinformation in AI generated tutorials, here are two examples I found with hallucinationed installation steps that would damage your NixOS install if run
https://kb.shells.com/tutorials/nixOS_Latest/Go_IPFS/

Vel hjemme fra svedende varme Montpellier er det helt vidunderligt fŸrst at kŸle af i den nye havepool og så få skænket en kop luksuskaffe af gemalen. Imens jeg sipper den, overvejer jeg hvilke sydfranske snacks jeg skal spise fŸrst (nok ikke rent salt, dog):

If you set limits for a scale (e.g. x-axis) in ggplot, how would you like data outside of that range be handled? There is the oob parameter for that and a set of functions to use with it: https://scales.r-lib.org/reference/oob.html

NYC-based Confido, a provider of AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners (AlleyWatch)
https://www.alleywatch.com/2026/09/confido-raises-55m…

Confido Raises $55M to Scale Its AI Infrastructure Across the CPG Commercial Cycle
For decades, CPG software recorded the work but never did it, says Confido Cofounder and CEO Justin Hunter. Closing that gap between logging a problem and actually fixing it is what convinced 250+ CPG brands, from Dude Wipes to Unilever, to run their back office through Confido. The company just closed a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to $77M, on the back of 5x year-over-year growth. See what happens when finance, sales, and operations finally run on the same syst…