Tootfinder

Cambio, creator of AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, raised an $18M Series A led by Maverick Ventures at a $100M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/real-estat

Exclusive: Cambio Lands $18M At $100M Valuation For AI-Powered Commercial Real Estate Software
The startup, which has built AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, has raised $18 million in a Series A round at a $100 million valuation.

Timeline cleanser, some photons I caught on my driveway.
This is Cederblad 214, part of the "Question Mark" nebula in Cepheus (I can't fit the whole question mark on my field of view with my telescope!).
#astrophotography

Now that my email signatures are fully sorted out, I'm considering moving to p=reject as my DMARC policy. I am pretty sure none of my mail will be rejected, I send everything via Gmail with valid signatures. Any hidden gotchas I should think about?

An idol has left her group in order to contest a seat in the upcoming Japanese parliamentary elections. Nana Matsuura suddenly left "dela" and her agency on January 21, and the following day announced her candidacy for the Aichi Prefecture 9th District seat in the House of Representatives, representing the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin). Her profile describes her as a graduate of Nanzan University's Faculty of Law, and a former IT company employee. She says "I'm 25-years-old, a member of the…

I know that following a hashtag is part of the Mastodon protocol itself, but since I'm in @… the majority of the time - it feels like it would be cool to:
- Offer a "follow for a week" / month option
- "We'll ask you when time's up"
mechanism (maybe the ask part is configurable? maybe the client could also just handle it when next it runs?)
I hit this time and time again for moment in time events where during the thick of it, I'm invested and interested - conferences, world news, etc - but after which there's no more signal in the hashtag and it's just detritus putting load on a server somewhere.
Ideally this is something that should be in the protocol itself, but it feels like similar to quote replies that @… could bring a better user experience in advance of adoption of something like that

Je t'offre mes services,,
Tu penses chercher des réponses, c'est moi qui te trouve.
Tes clics font ma fortune,
Tes data sont la dope que je deale aux méchants,
Je connais tes angoisses,
Tes recherches Š 2h du mat',
Tu m'as ouvert la porte en un clin d'œil,
J'écoute tes conversations,
Je te suis dans tes déplacements,
Je sais où tu étais mardi dernier,
Je suis plus totale que la Stasi,
Mais tu ne me contestes plus.…

Comment l’industrie de la publicité en ligne alimente en secret la surveillance d’Etat
Des entreprises proposent aux forces de l’ordre de pister des utilisateurs de smartphones grâce à leurs données publicitaires. « Le Monde » a assisté à des présentations confidentielles de ces nouveaux outils de surveillance.

I like to sleep with the temperature low in the house and multiple blankets over me. When I woke up, I found the cat under my blankets. I don't blame him. I'm probably a pretty good heat sink.

Autodesk plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or ~7% of its workforce, as part of a global restructuring plan seeking to strengthen sales and marketing (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/a…

I've been making a point of wearing LGBT flare in the US this last year, but no one seems to notice or care. Fine! But on this trip in Rome I'm pretty sure several folks have been friendlier to me on seeing my rainbow watchband. Lots of flirty waiters.

Yelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/yelp-buy-ai-agent-startup-300-million<…

Yelp to Buy AI Agent Startup for $300 Million 
Recommendation app Yelp on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire AI agent startup Hatch for $300 million, or roughly 12 times the startup’s annual recurring revenue. Hatch charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments. Yelp, which has a $1.8 billion market capitalization, said it plans to operate Hatch as a standalone business as well as