2026-03-03 15:26:01
Israel-based Fig Security, which makes tools for companies to monitor their security stack, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/fig-security-emerges-from-stealth…
Israel-based Fig Security, which makes tools for companies to monitor their security stack, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/fig-security-emerges-from-stealth…
"Content creation is, at heart, about 'getting help to the people.' It's about trusting that if someone can be fully helped with an article, they don't need deeper help. And if they need deeper help, your generosity in your content creation helps them to trust that help is available. It helps them to know whether you are someone who can help them."
Mark Silver
#Zitate
Governor Pritzker urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help stranded Americans in the Middle East
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/03/04/…
Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren't Getting Help from the State Department (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/americans-stranded-middle-east-help-state-department-iran-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p94#a260303p94
It's Mage session time again:
The Chorister tries to build a Faraday cage out of nothing to help the Virtual Adept find out if two phones owned by Sisters of Hippolyta have been influenced by a techno mage.
He fails and is hit by a paradox flaw.
Since the Chorister was using a prayer about Mana, it starts raining Tamale.
When the Chorister want's to try a second time, a Sisters of Hippolyta offers to help:
SoH: »I'm aiming to get Nachos and Salsa w…
Home Builders Turn to White House for Help on Inventory Glut - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/home-builders-turn-to-white-house-for-help-on-inventory-glut-7e41e708?st=MYUJhb&refli…
aus der reihe "bemerkenswerte wissenschaftliche artikel" heute:
"‘The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back’: a survey of views on human research ethics reviews"
https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-20…
Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-explores-he…
Help Stop Cruel Sports Events at the Chitwan Elephant "Festival" #AnimalRights
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Beatles:
🎵 Help!
#NowPlaying #TheBeatles
https://ggeekbox.bandcamp.com/track/heal-me-overwatch-the-beatles-help-parody
https://open.spotify.com/track/6EdSN1iGtLPhcz43QDRkdK
Week 18 Rooting Guide shows 7 Saturday, Sunday games to help Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/03/cowboys-rooting-guide-week-18-7-games-to-watch/88005961007/
Help wanted: Bills request help from fans in shoveling Highmark Stadium https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47472959/buffalo-bills-help-shovel-snow-highmark-stadium-new-york-jets
Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Keep back.
DECIMA: Help us. Help us please.
[The door opens and Novara steps out. He raises his weapon and touches the Decima in the chest with it. The weapon discharges and kills the Decima.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/296 B7B2
"I volunteer in a repair cafe: we can help you learn to fix your broken Christmas gift"
#Christmas #RepairCafe
🛣️ Infusing asphalt with plastic could help roads last longer and resist cracking under heat
https://theconversation.com/infusing-asphalt-with-plastic-could-help-roads-last-longer-and-resist-cracking-under-heat-2641…
Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts.
Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.
In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism
Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-explores-he…
I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
#xml
"If Middle East deal with Putin, we’ll help them defend from Iranian attacks," — Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/quotif-middle-east-deal-with.html…
MN Reformer has more coverage:
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/02/hennepin-county-attorney-asks-public-for-help/
The story about the 13-year old Aussie boy who swam 4 kilometres and ran 2km more for help... to save his mom and 3 siblings. (this report has a little more detail than canadian outlets that I've seen, and it has a video of the boy telling his story himself)
Pretty amazing stuff.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/teen-speaks-after-saving-family-in-geographe-bay/106298798
so, i have something important to say. on 9th of December 2025, i woke up to someone who stalked me for eight years being inside my home, finding my address through means that are still not fully clear.
i know that several people reading this have in the past supported her (knowingly or not) or tried to "help" her after they learned of the stalking.
𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩. your goodwill (or sometimes spinelessness) is being exploited. all you're doing is adding to the harm do…
Contrast-Finder — Find correct color contrasts for web accessibility.
Opensource software and online tool for web accessibility.
There are lot of tools to find a good contrast on the web, but no one to suggest valid contrasts. Contrast-Finder is a tool which computes the contrast between two colors (background, foreground) and checks if the contrast is valid.
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What a relief - #researchfish is closing. Let's hope they're not coming up with a new desaster mess.
https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/re
The question is not whether Raiders need EDGE help it's how much help https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/02/raiders-team-needs-edge-rusher-free-agency/88950220007/
RE: https://fediscience.org/@eumbot/115831289980712405
Quick reminder from EuMetSat (Europe's *other* space agency), we only have one world. We share it with each other and it's beautiful. If you feel you need a regular reminder of this, the @… is there to help...
Two candidates in Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race
— one Democrat and one from the Legal Marijuana NOW Party
— accuse their primary opponents of being “plants”
The "Democrat" William Forbes allegedly to help Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts
and marijuana candidate Mike Marvin allegedly to help nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn.
Osborn and Ricketts are in a heated campaign.
Ricketts, a former two-term governor, faces a nominal primary involving four l…
Heiði, a Norse seeress, has trouble looking into the future. Praying to #Freyja for help, she never expected such a hands-on approach by the Mistress of Magic...
illustrated by Li Österberg:
https://eroticmythology.com/ill…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115806706662248195
Still wondering if anyone can help 🙇♂️🙇♂️
Otro disco nuevo de britpop «Yeah Yeah Yeah» de Cast
#Cast #AlbumReleases
The only way out of this mess is to exit this system. Economic pressure can lead to small adjustments. That can absolutely help. It can make things marginally better. Economic strikes have, thus far, proved to be some of the most effective in US history.
A general strike is the ultimate blow, but organizing something like that is hard. Don't wait for it. Do something now. And there are a *lot* of options between here and there.
Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…
Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.
👀💭 "Virginia Giuffre was called a liar. The other victims who testified to Palm Beach Police were called liars but what the documents also help to prove is that the system chose to protect the perpetrators instead of believing the victims.
That is what these January 2025 documents show. The question now is what we do about it."
There is an elf there:
ASMR - Goth Elf Heals You with Himari Tsukishiro
“[Florida's education commissioner] encouraged families to have conversations with students about the ‘importance of not allowing civic engagement to detract from time in the classroom.’”
AKA asking parents in a so called “parental rights” state to help suppress their children’s 1A rights to freedom of speech and assembly
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/02/03/florida-education-commissioner-gives-guidance-on-student-ice-protests/88495396007/
It's wild to me how funding in our country works. Untold billions (if not trillions) for police and ICE. Billions in funding for the dumbest of AI ideas. But basic science? My wife is scrambling to get less than a million dollars of funding to do studies on heat waves that could help save millions of lives.
Remember heat waves? The kind of thing that will only become more frequent and deadly as we fail to curb our carbon emissions?
Balcony Solar is very popular in Germany , and available in most of the EU. These are solar PV systems that plug into a regular outlet, providing electrical power behing the meter. Utilities hate them!
California might (if we nag our state Senators and Assemblymembers) actually allow us to install "Balcony Solar" - aka plug-in solar. That would be great for renters. SB868 (Wiener) expressly allows this, and blocks utilities from prohibiting their use. Please write your sta…
Balcony Solar is very popular in Germany , and available in most of the EU. These are solar PV systems that plug into a regular outlet, providing electrical power behing the meter. Utilities hate them!
California might (if we nag our state Senators and Assemblymembers) actually allow us to install "Balcony Solar" - aka plug-in solar. That would be great for renters. SB868 (Wiener) expressly allows this, and blocks utilities from prohibiting their use. Please write your sta…
I‘m actually surprised that Anthropic didn’t fold. But not surprised at all that eager Sam is picking up the slack with OpenAI.
Good to see this trending on the orange site today: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232927-how-do-i-cancel-my-chatgpt-subsc…
Pro-indy SNP supporters should vote for Scottish Greens on the list vote in May if they don't want to waste their 2nd vote and want to help keep Reform down:
"The [SNP]’s likely success in [constituency contests] would mean that, despite not being awarded a single list seat, the nationalists will have 45% or so of the seats in the chamber, well above the party’s 29% share of the list vote"
Crawling back to you.... #arcticmonkeys #doiwanttoknow - great waking up song!
https://song.link/d/70322130
Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…
Mij lijkt het een verschrikkelijk plan dat Rotterdam z'n kunstacademie verliest.
Onderteken de petitie:
https://savewdka.petities.nl/
Support for using picolibc as the primary C library with GCC landed today. Thanks much to Jeffrey Law and Andrew Pinski for their help improving the changes and getting them merged. https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=72274d0a421…
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How the Ohio State Buckeyes can help the Commanders in the draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48083665/washington-commanders-ohio-state-buckeyes-sonny-styles-arvell-reese-2026-nfl-draft-combine
UAE and Qatar Urge Allies to Help Trump Find Iran Off-Ramp (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/uae-and-qatar-urge-allies-to-help-trump-find-off-ramp-on-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p83#a260302p83
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rania40/116169906067620152
Aya is an outstanding student (she had a ~97% score on her university entrance exam) and one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified. She spends an hour most days helping other Gazans get verified to help …
Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while adhering to Apple's privacy standards (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-discus…
Prescott willing to do anything to keep George Pickens on the Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/03/dak-prescott-willing-get-involved-to-help…
RUSSIA ABANDONS ITS OWN: The Kremlin Did Not Help Iran, Just Like Venezuela and Syria | Explainer: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/russia-abandons-its-own-the.html
"Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence"
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hope-in-the-library-9798765136188/
"What is the role of the library in an increasingly complex information environment fill…
El regreso de Bruno Mars con disco nuevo después de 10 años. «The Romantic».
#BrunoMars
Why the Giants coaching search needs some AFC North help https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6936942/2026/01/03/giants-coach-tomlin-harbaugh-stefanski-afc-north/
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
GUARD: Hn. Maybe we can help you hear better. You can start with a couple of hours confinement. You'll be surprised how quickly your hearing improves. Seat eleven, confinement!
[A guard at the end presses a key. Blake's seat turns and two metal bars appear, and join at Blake's waist, so he can't leave the chair. Exterior shot of The London taking off.]
As if we’re not. What an asshole response to somebody fighting fascism and asking for help.
https://mastodon.social/@DavidBHimself/115834230277249478
SBResiste needs your help.
As the Trump administration launched its aggressive, often unconstitutional assault on immigrants early last year, community members formed SBResiste.
The organization aims to prevent kidnappings,
monitor ICE activities,
document violations,
notify community members of their rights,
and provide mutual aid to families devastated by detentions and disappearances.
Register here:
🐚 Scientists raise 300,000 surfclams offshore, proving open-ocean aquaculture can work
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-surfclams-offshore-ocean-aquaculture.html
❗️ Russia can't win! Recruiting FOREIGN MERCENARIES & TERROR against civilians WON'T HELP: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/russia-cant-win-recruiting-foreign.html
No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/travel/iran-middle-east-stranded-travelers-flight-cancellations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p148#a260304p148
Música nueva de los últimos días. Probablemente la mšs sicodélica de las bandas de la "armada britpop" noventera, Kula Shaker con «Wormslayer»
#KulaShaker
Bonfire of the Murdochs book excerpt: how Rupert Murdoch bought into 20th Century Fox and learned about Hollywood, with the help of Barry Diller (Gabriel Sherman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus…
Local non-governmental organizations who organize and help survivors on the worst day of their lives are the backbone of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in California.
By joining together and creating a "Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters" ( #VOAD ) group,
they start to take steps to communicating, cooperating, collaborating and coordinating future response and rec…
I think some people saw the OP and imagined their country doing some kind of unilateral full-out political/economic suicide mission against the US. No no no. My request, I remind you, was to “Start laying the political groundwork now” for pushback against the US. Help make appeasement feel less and less safe for your political leadership with every passing day.
Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization led by Maher Saba in its Reality Labs division to help bolster its superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-to-create
House Democrats help Mike Johnson end government shutdown (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/03/government-shutdown-ice-dhs-vote-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p92#a260203p92
Ad tech company Consumable acquires Radio.com and Mark Cuban's Fireside platform and plans to develop a streaming platform to help creators deepen audience ties (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/streaming/news/radio-com…
Otro disco de los lanzados en el inicio de este 2026: «FLORECE EN EL CAOS» de los uruguayos No Te Va Gustar.
#NoTeVaGustar
🥳 New Kitten release
Several but fixes, thanks to wunter8 (https://codeberg.org/wunter8):
• Default socket doesn't work when testing with a local mobile device (https…
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
TRAVIS: Keep watch, I'm going through.
SERVALAN: Right. [Travis moves off - Servalan looks uneasy as she hears various 'roars' from the tunnels.] Travis! Travis!! [Suddenly a clawed hand is placed on her leg.] Agh!! Travis! Travis, help me! [Travis shoots the creature. Servalan is shaking]
Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …
I appreciate the boosts on the thread above, which I take as support.
The defeatist replies make me despair a bit. Just to address some greatest hits en masse:
1. “Kick them out yourselves” − JFC, what the hell do you think we are trying to do, constantly, day after day, the amount of action and engagement against the federal invasion where I live is like nothing I’ve seen in my lifetime. WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP. Please do not be an ass about it.
Filing: Workday is cutting ~400 employees, or ~2% of its workforce, primarily in customer-facing roles, saying the move will help it invest in priority areas (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
Vance argues Venezuela attack will help curb fentanyl crisis (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/vance-venezuela-attack-fentanyl-00710281
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p48#a260104p48
Peter Gabriel anunció disco nuevo para 2026, que llevarš por título «O/I» y lanzó el primer single:
Been Undone - Dark-Side M,ix
#PeterGabriel
Amazon's Melania documentary opens with $7M at the North American box office, above pre-release estimates of $3M to $5M; Amazon spent $75M on the documentary (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-offi
David Montgomery trade grades: Texans secure much-needed help in backfield, Lions gain slew of assets
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/david-montgomery-trade-grades-texans-lions/…
Bengaluru-based Pronto, which offers on-demand home-help services like cooking and cleaning, raised a $25M Series B led by Epiq Capital at a $100M valuation (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
MERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-
Scoop: FBI chief heads to Tucson as Trump pledges help to find Savannah Guthrie's mom (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/savannah-guthrie-mom-trump-fbi-kash-patel
http://www.memeorandum.com/260204/p143#a260204p143
Otro de los lanzamientos de música de este año: «Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge» de Van Morrison
#VanMorrison
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/alaskas-court…
The State Department has urged all Americans in the Middle East to leave immediately,
but U.S. embassies in the region are telling people trying to flee that they are on their own.
U.S. allies within the region are at high risk of being targeted by Iranian missiles, with Iran strikes already occurring across Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, after the joint attack by the United States and Israel last weekend.
Meanwhile, Israel has bombed Lebanon.
⚠️ A…
Multiple US embassies are telling Americans they cannot evacuate or help them get out of the Middle East (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassies-say-they-cannot-evacuate-americans-middle-east-iran2026-3
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p135#a260303p135
Peter Gabriel publicó un nuevo adelanto de su próximo disco 👇🏻
Put the Bucket Down - Bright-Side Mix
#PeterGabriel
More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant,
-- but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients.
Additionally, many people with liver failure aren’t eligible for a transplant if they are not healthy enough to tolerate the surgery.
To help those patients, MIT engineers have developed ⭐️ “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver.
In a n…
The three largest benefit managers
— CVS Health’s Caremark,
Cigna’s Express Scripts
and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx
— collectively oversee some 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United States.
Employers and government programs hire P.B.M.s to negotiate with drug companies, pay pharmacies and help decide which drugs patients can get at what price.
Patients see the work of a benefit manager when they encounter denials for coverage of prescriptions or are f…
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)