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Each April, during the week of the new moon,
International Dark Sky (IDS) Week invites people to reclaim the experience of wonder
Timed for the darkest nights of the lunar cycle, the observance encourages individuals and communities to turn off unnecessary lighting and reconnect with the stars.
What began as a small grassroots effort has grown into a global movement with profound ecological, cultural, and spiritual implications.
The event traces its origins to 2003, …

Into the Night: International Dark Sky Week Begins
International Dark Sky Week begins as advocates urge a return to darker nights. As light pollution grows, the observance highlights ecological harm, threatened species, and even the spiritual loss of the stars that once shaped human ritual, story, and connection.

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/14/india-doubles-down…

India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund | TechCrunch
India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

Still using `npm init -y`?
May I introduce you to `npm init --init-type=module --init-license=AGPL-3.0-only -y`?
:awesome:👍 Free software license (makes “open” as in ”open for business” folks squirm)
:awesome:👍 ES modules (because it’s 2026)
#nodeJS #npm

I was once trapped in a public loo and thought I was going to die when its auto wash cycle started as I thought the whole room was sluiced, and mainly I thought how embarrassing it would be for my family to explain how I'd died. It was scary too, until the automatic lock opened and let me out. I'd love to say I was about seven when this happened but no, more like 47 😄 I once had to call the fire brigade when someone was trapped in a loo so y'know, form.
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WSJ and Dow Jones plan a new sports vertical that will debut alongside an exclusive, invitation-only sports economy event in New York City this summer (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/dow-jones-wsj-sports-vertical

Dow Jones and WSJ launch new sports vertical with live event
More media companies are leaning into coverage of the business of sports as a way to capitalize on the growing appetite for insights on the topic from business decision-makers.

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/india-has-100m-weekly-active-chatgpt-u…

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

The 72nd meeting of the Bilderberg group,
the elite and secretive policy conference that is the longtime subject of endless conspiracy theories,
was held at the weekend in Washington DC.
A security cordon went up around the opulent Salamander hotel for the notoriously media-shy summit,
which was packed as ever with prime ministers, military leaders, tech billionaires and the heads of giant investment companies.
Bilderberg, which since the 1950s has been the int…

As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues (Tripti Lahiri/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20