Tootfinder

BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-open-ai-super-bowl-ads.html

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker's decision to bring ads to the platform.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-startup-just-lan…

This AI Startup Just Landed a Deal That Could Transform Newsrooms
Exclusive: An AI-based journalism platform aims to do it all. Can it deliver the accuracy and productivity it promises?

Sympa ce projet open-source : https://fluxer.app/
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/14/df664

Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.

Last Saturday, I was honored and delighted to give the keynote at Grazer Linuxtage #GLT26, a large #Linux event with a lot of history (23 years and counting!) and still a dedicated team behind it.
Title: "What can we learn from Android for other embedded Linux systems security?"
…

Travel giant Booking.com has issued a warning to Aussie customers after it suffered a major data breach – with the personal information of customers using the platform likely accessed by “unauthorised third parties”.
h…

I hate Discord. The platform is proprietary, the U/X is just completely confusing and it's difficult to find anything.
If you run a project, I love @… - it's open source, the U/X is great and you can archive everything in markdown (and much more).

GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - discourse/discourse

WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' custom GenAI models usage and applies safeguards, raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, taking its total funding to $85M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/witnessai-raises-58-million-for-ai-sec…

»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«
Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.
🤷

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

"The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury."
YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addiction-trial.html

#LinkedIn - the last bigtech platform I still have an account on - it getting worse and worse with ads and promoted posts. Every month I need to update my #ublock custom filters.

What the heck is wrong with :matrix: #matrix? We're looking for a platform for communication during a larger measurement campaign and from the featureset concluded with either #Mattermost or Matrix (subgroups, archivable, mobile/desktop/web clients, etc.).
But the

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

#Facebook aquires platform with fewer bots than their own one
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network

Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook
Facebook parent says Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Exact quantum scars of frustrated hardcore bosons for cross-platform realizations
Zhuoli Ding, Ruben Verresen, Zoe Z. Yan

"The report called for a public service social media platform, led by the BBC and European public service broadcasters,"
Can't help but think that the #Fediverse has much of the infrastructure to support that.
Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

"The report called for a public service social media platform, led by the BBC and European public service broadcasters,"
Can't help but think that the #Fediverse has much of the infrastructure to support that.
Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Heute habe ich einen 2. Versuch mit #Fontcrafter von @… gemacht. Diesmal ist das Ergebnis schon ziemlich gut! Nur das ß (Esszett) vermisse ich noch schmerzlich.
Und echte DE-Anführungszeichen („66/99“) wären mehr als ein netter Zusatz.
Trotzdem…

FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.

A few design decisions for a new chat platform - the sporks space
<https://sporks.space/2026/02/10/a-few-design-decisions-for-a-new-chat-platform/>
– via <

Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M (Catherina Gioino/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/tim-hwang-nitra-funding-ai-healthcare-platform/

This Harvard dropout took a company public before 30. Now he’s raising $205M to fix the business side of medicine
Tim Hwang, who's also a former Obama campaign staffer, now has his sights set on a $10 billion valuation, and the numbers suggest he might not be bluffing.

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addictio…

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.

Anybody know of a vendor that has dual socket Ice Lake server motherboards available? I can find uniprocessor ones without much trouble, but dual socket ones are in much shorter supply.
It's not *that* old a platform, there should still be some floating around...
EDIT: US based if at all possible to avoid import duties etc

Thinking about making my SwiftUI code cross platform, beyond Apple.
I don’t really want SwiftUI on every platform and dealing with the impedance mismatch of SwiftUI and the host - despite having a few OSS engines that do it.
What I have come to realize is that using SwiftUI @Observables is all you need: swap the actual front end for a tightly coupled UI to the host platform, but keep your logic shared.
And you can have an LLM do the heavy lifting for you.

Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance tech.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-…

Discord faces backlash over age verification
Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance ...

Webloc is a global geolocation surveillance system that monitors hundreds of millions of people based on data purchased from consumer apps and digital advertising.
It was developed by Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink.
In collaboration with the European investigative journalism platform VSquare, we reveal that Hungarian domestic intelligence has been using Webloc since at least 2022 and continues to use it as of today.
Webloc customers also in…

Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech - The Citizen Lab
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

From Translink
Elevator replacement work starts at Scott Road SkyTrain Station
East elevator closed for replacement; west elevator remains open
#Vancouver #Transit
Work begins Feb. 24 and is expected to take under four months to complete. During construction, an accessible route will remain…

I have several email addresses, some from a time before most people became aware of "the Internet".
I have long noticed that the spam load to these addresses has a distinct time/day signature. Most spam I receive comes in during early business hours (Pacific tine zone) on weekdays.
I am wondering whether others see a similar pattern.
(I have also noticed a massive increase in spam on all platform types, not just e-mail, since lawlessness became fashionable under …

Very cool - a few of us did some rather auspicious testing of our peertube instance for live streaming yesterday! It's an impressive platform by the good folks in the Framasoft community! Now we need to test how it scales.

Some Places with Snow III ❄️
一些有雪的地方 III ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

The Spectator has invested £1M in its subscription platform CoEditor, helping it reach an all-time high subscriber total and saving a projected ~£500K a year (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/how-the-spectator…

How The Spectator invested £1m in building own subs platform
The Spectator has invested £1m in CoEditor, a new subscription platform, which has reportedly saved the title around £500,000 a year.

I have not done any update on my sonlink interface in a while.
That's mostly because I use it all the time and I don't encounter much issues.
Maybe just a few minor ones
But I think this is mostly due to the fact it is optimized for my own personal use case :)
Is anyone else using it? and if so, do you have any issue with it?

Universal Music Link Generator - Song.link Interface
Transform platform-specific music links into universal links that work everywhere. Convert YouTube and Spotify links to song.link URLs with QR codes and custom templates.

Nathaniel Moore will speak on 'Running Containers with Open Source Akash Network, a Blockchain-based Distributed Computing Platform' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

Fucking Finally!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

For hackathon.lu, I was initially unsure what my main project would be, but I ultimately decided to focus on implementing the future GCVE BCP-10.
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
The idea is combine it with the cpe-guesser and have a registry to facilitate the interaction with the CPE values to handle vendor and product references.
#gcve

GCVE-BCP-10 : Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE Document ID: GCVE-BCP-10 Title: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE Status: Draft Category: Best Current Practice Updates: CPE-compatible naming and match semantics Author: GCVE.eu Intended use: Platform and product identification, applicability matching, vendor management, and synonym handling in the GCVE ecosystem Abstract This document specifies an improved platform enumeration format for GCVE. The format is intentionally…

I am not going to sit here and lie to you that I wrote this bash script all by myself. Yeah, I had it already (mostly), but got bored of reading man pages and borrowing from other people's scripts on the Internet and instead had THE best chat with Gemini ever, in which we both learned from our mistakes 😁
PS The sick CachyOS logo was entirely Gemini's idea. Good job AI buddy 😎

De leefomgeving vervuilen met giftige staalslakken. Het kan wel!
https://www.platform-investico.nl/onderzoeken/rijk-verbiedt-gemeenten-om-eigen-maatregelen-te-nemen-tegen-staalslakken

Rijk verbiedt gemeenten om eigen maatregelen te nemen tegen staalslakken | Investico Onderzoeksjournalisten
Gemeenten mogen het gebruik van staalslakken niet meer zelf aan banden leggen. Plaatsen die een verbod op gebruik van het vervuilende materiaal hebben ingesteld, moeten dat dit jaar nog terugdraaien.

Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/snap-gets-closer-to-relea…

Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses after years-long hiatus | TechCrunch
Specs has long been teasing the next version of its augmented reality glasses. A new partnership with Qualcomm promises some movement in that department.

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

there seems to be some ongoing feud between @… and the @… people https://

The Verification Theater: When Formal Methods Create False Assurance in Cryptographic Libraries
Formal verification of cryptographic implementations is frequently presented as providing "the highest level of assurance" against implementation defects. We examine this claim through a case study of Cryspen's libcrux and hpke-rs, two cryptographic libraries that are marketed as formally verified and high-assurance. We examine five vulnerabilities across these libraries. The first, a platform-dependent cryptographic output failure in SHA-3 intrinsics discovered by an independent researcher in…

Has anybody used Coolify? Have experiences or impressions to share?
I’m looking for a way to do some low friction, lightly managed hosting of small department-internal stuff and student-made web sites / apps in a way that doesn’t get us too entangled with one vendor.
On the one hand, Coolify looks like it might offer some of the same benefits as Heroku, but without the lock-in (and impending platform death). On the other hand, it gives me strong “What exactly am I installing here?!” vibes.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--The European Commission's mobile device platform was hacked, likely via Ivanti flaws,
--All four Singapore major telcos were hacked via China-nexus threat actor,
--Poland's most egregious database leaker has been busted,
--Romanian pipeline operator hit by a cyberattack,
--Germany warns of state-sponsored phishing attacks via mes…

The European Commission's mobile device platform was hacked
All four Singapore major telcos were hacked via China-nexus threat actor, Poland's most egregious database leaker has been busted, Romanian pipeline operator hit by a cyberattack, Germany warns of state-sponsored phishing attacks via messaging apps, much more

ESPN launches 'Year of the Super Bowl' to count down to February 2027 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7037450/2026/02/11/espn-super-bowl-2027/

Chrome’s developer properties have been problematic for years so this just corresponds to its descent into disrepute.
Ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07/dont-use-webdev-for-accessibility-info.html (it discusses developer•chrome•com)

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

Interesting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞

Interesting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞

🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/cross-platform-hostname
The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/mac…

🌐 GÉANT completes major migration of its pan-European IP backbone network
Delivered with partners Nokia and Nomios, the upgrade modernises GÉANT’s IP layer, enabling higher capacity, improved resilience & enhanced security for the European R&E community.
Key highlights:
🔹IP/MPLS backbone with support for 800G connectivity, including to the edges of Europe
🔹 Fully automated migration using the GÉANT Automation Platform (GAP)
🔗 Read more:

TikTok vindt dat overheidscampagne ‘Denk Vooruit’ vooral angst zaait en verwijdert video | Trouw
https://www.trouw.nl/cultuur-media/tiktok-vindt-dat-overheidscampagne-denk-vooruit-vooral-angst-zaait-en-verwijdert-video~b121b451/
Gelukkig deelde de overheid de campagne ook via een platform waar ze zelf verantwoordelijk zijn over wat er wel en niet wordt verwijderd.
https://social.overheid.nl/public/local
Ohh ... Wacht ... 🙃

Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/waymo-…

Waymo robotaxis are tracking potholes and sharing that data with Waze users | TechCrunch
Waymo and Waze announced a data-sharing pilot program that will funnel pothole data collected by robotaxis to a free Waze platform designed for cities.

RE: https://poliversity.it/@elettrona/116038036632511118
„ And if there is a commercial platform, it will say "did you enjoy licking Trump's ass? Tell me the taste, I'll give you better recipes"“
😆

Leaflet is a tool for shared writing and social publishing:
you create Leaflets
— directly shareable documents with rich media and multiple pages
— and Publications, similar to blogs or newsletters, that people can follow. 
What makes it different:
you can create a document without an account and share it immediately.  
Getting a publication live takes about thirty seconds.
No onboarding, no credit card, no dashboard full of settings to configure …

Publishing Without the Platform: What Leaflet.pub Does Differently Than Substack - Digital marketing
Leaflet.pub builds on the AT Protocol to give you something Substack never will: content you actually own. Here's what that means for European marketers.

I guess the lesson here is to not use the "new" TikTok when you're recording protests.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205956/americanized-tiktok-backdoor-ice-surveillance

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

So I'm wondering if long term it might make sense to move the VM server from a 2U to a 4U form factor.
I'd need to move the storage cluster and core router each down 2U into a currently vacant spot to free up another 2U next to where the VM server is, but that would let me fit a much taller (and less noisy) heatsink/fan on the CPU and also enable use of full height GPUs.
Not a "now" thing but if I'm targeting a many-year service lifetime for the platform it…

After a recent *terrible* first attempt at using matrix as communication platform for our rather big measurement campaign in summer, I just tried selfhosting Mattermost, and boy is it a smoother experience. It's as if it was made for team collaboration, funny eh 😅
Also my first time trying out nixos-containers, very nice to encapsulate or group services together independently of your host NixOS.
#Matrix

Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

Turning Point USA added 900K followers on YouTube between February 2 and February 9, the day after it hosted an "alternate" Super Bowl halftime show (Kyle Tharp/@kylewilsontharp)
https://x.com/kylewilsontharp/status/2021235406335811724

Kyle Tharp (@kylewilsontharp) on X
📈 FYI, about that half-time show... Turning Point USA has added nearly 1 million new YouTube subscribers in the past *week*, far more than any other political channel on the platform.

Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors (Kelly Tyko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/visa-ai-agent-payments-platform

Visa unveils AI agent payment platform
The platform enables AI agents to make payments across networks.

Professional networking platform LinkedIn has been quietly collecting detailed information about users' devices and installed browser extensions, a new security report has alleged.
https://www.

LinkedIn accused of covert data collection in 'BrowserGate' report
Professional networking platform LinkedIn has been quietly collecting detailed information about users' devices and installed browser extensions, a new security report has alleged.

I dropped my most recent album on mirlo which is yet another music publishing/sharing platform.
#music

Discord says that the "vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today" without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vas…

Discord says ‘vast majority’ of users won’t see its new age verification setup
Discord says the “vast majority” of people won’t need to scan their face or present their government ID to use the platform when it implements age verification in March.

MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company
The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This Startup’s Clever Way To Cut Health Costs Helped It Hit A $1.4 Billion Valuation
Garner Health uses data to identify the country’s best doctors based on quality and cost, then gives its customers’ employees financial incentives to go to them — which can save 12% on healthcare costs.

A YouTube study, Animation's New Wave, examines growth of independent digital animation based on interviews of creators and data from 16- to 49-year-old viewers (Abbey White/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube Report Details Struggling Animation Industry, Reveals Viewership Trends (Exclusive)
Maddy Buxton, Culture & Trends Manager at YouTube, discusses how creators and digital animation on the platform are global, fan-driven, popular among young adults, and driving innovation and experimentation. 

Social media reports earlier this week that CISA Director nominee Sean Plankey was fired from DHS, casting uncertainty over his CISA nomination, were solidified in a more detailed CBS News report yesterday.
Plankey, however, says he is gearing up for his CISA job.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on this development and other top infosec news, including
--European law enforcement busted up Tycoon2FA phishing platform,
--FBI and European cops take down cyberc…

Conflicting accounts emerge over Plankey's departure from DHS, future as CISA head
European law enforcement busted up Tycoon2FA phishing platform, FBI and European cops take down cybercrime forum Leakbase, Phobos admin pleads guilty to wire fraud, Lawmakers call for probe into decades-old TEMPEST attacks, IDF says it bombed complex hosting Iran's cyberwar HQ, much more

Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M (Seth Joseph/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethjoseph/20

Why Cleveland Clinic Chose This AI Startup To Rewire Key Healthcare Operations
The challenge for health systems now is finding an AI partner that can scale across use cases. That is the backdrop for Cleveland Clinic’s partnership with Luminai.

Universal Music Group signs a licensing deal with rights platform ClicknClear, easing the licensing process for athletes using music in choreographed sports (Agnieszka Flak/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sports/universal-music-clicknc…

South Korean online travel platform Myrealtrip aims to hit a $1B valuation in a Seoul IPO as early as H2 2027, per CEO Donggun Lee, amid a boom in tourism (Jihye Lee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Bettors on the prediction platform #Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28
-- the day Donald Trump announced a bombing campaign against the Middle East nation.
Bloomberg reported that six accounts on Polymarket
-- all newly created this month
-- “made around $1 million in profit” by betting on the timing of th…

'Insane This Is Legal': Bettors Make Huge Profits From Suspiciously Timed Wagers on Iran War | Common Dreams
"Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year."

Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/03/dify-raises-30m-in-series-pre-a-funding.html

Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk42i2ddbg

Reco raises $30 million Series B to secure AI SaaS adoption across enterprises
The funding aims to expand platform reach amid rising Shadow AI usage and regulatory scrutiny. 

Paris-based Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30M led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/09/qevlar-…

Exclusive: Qevlar AI raises $30M to help security operations
Its autonomous platform can investigate security alerts.

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company
The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.

Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2026

BCDR Firm Slide Raises $70M Series B To Fuel Global MSP Expansion: ‘The Train Keeps Rolling’
With new funding, Slide plans to expand into Europe, adds new platform capabilities.

Valve says 5,863 games made $100K on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that reached that mark in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users last month (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valve-says-5…

Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025
The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago.

Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-platform-…

OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform
OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched last year,

OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, available to select customers (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/874…

OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents
OpenAI launches its Frontier platform to manage AI agents for enterprises. 

TikTok partners with Apple to let users with an Apple Music subscription play full songs on TikTok without leaving the app, along with a Listening Party feature (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/apple-…

TikTok Teams With Apple Music to Allow Users to Stream Full Songs
Apple Music and TikTok have partnered to launch a feature that allows users of the latter to stream full songs on platform.

Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/202…

Trump's World Liberty Financial borrowed millions from a protocol its own advisor co-founded
Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.

Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/busines

Kickstarter’s C.E.O. on Running a Fully Remote Company With a Four-Day Workweek
Everette Taylor took over Kickstarter at a low moment for the crowdfunding pioneer, which made its name with small projects but now attracts major multinationals and celebrities.

UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools (Carter Johnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Pinterest fires two employees who it says "wrote custom scripts" that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k670n0ydo

Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track job cuts
The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04

Incognito Market founder Rui-Siang Lin sentenced to 30 years in crypto darknet drug marketplace case
U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools before investigators tied him to the platform through domain records and digital traces.

Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/…

Exclusive: Guild.ai raises $44M for AI agents
The platform allows companies to build and deploy agents in minutes.

Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst (Craig Chapple/PocketGamer.biz)
https://www.pocketgamer.biz/ares-interactive-raises-70m/

Ares Interactive raises $70m as it plots expansion plans and new game launch
Glu Mobile founder Niccolo de Masi’s new company Ares Interactive has raised $70 million to expand its operations and launch a new baseball game in 202...

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down
The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative projects in 2024, but will now close.

Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/0…

Exclusive: AI conversation intel startup Natter raises $23M
Natter expects to triple its workforce by EOY.

GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare

Cloudflare and GoDaddy join forces against Big Tech's AI bot swarms
Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering to give websites control over AI crawlers, aiming to fix the web's broken business model in the AI era.

True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/04/07/true-fo…

Exclusive: True Footage raises $40M for data-driven home valuations
The AI platform aims to make the appraisal process less subjective.

Bermuda-based crypto trading platform STS Digital, which caters to institutional investors, raised $30M led by CMT Digital, with Kraken and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/26/sts-digital-fundraise-30-million-cmt-digital…

Exclusive: Crypto trading platform raises $30 million from CMT Digital and Kraken
The fundraise for STS Digital, whose product is aimed at institutions, also included Arrington Capital and an investment arm of Fidelity.

Polymarket removes long-running markets letting users bet on the chances of a nuclear weapon detonating amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 market had $1.7M in volume (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymark…

Polymarket shelves nuclear detonation markets after outcry
Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren’t new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.

London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/05/bound-secures-245m-series-a-to-expand-fx-hedging-tools/…

Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Her…

Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/rural-commerce-startu…

Rural commerce startup Rozana raises Rs 290 Cr in Series B led by Bertelsmann
Rural omnichannel retail platform Rozana has raised Rs 290 crore ($31.6 million) in a Series B funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments.

Amsterdam-based Silverflow, a cloud-native card payment processing service with a single API to card networks, raised a $40M Series B led by Picus Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/03/05/silverflow-raises-40m-series-…

Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leaked a database of ~697K records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu