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Sources: Substack is pitching investors on a round between $50M and $100M that would value it above its ~$700M last round price, and is generating ~$45M in ARR (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-substack-in-talks-to-raise

SCOOP: Substack in Talks to Raise Financing as It Taps Into the Zeitgeist of Trump II
Substack is generating about $45 million in annual recurring revenue: sources

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
Shlomi Dolev, Amit Hendin, Maurice Herlihy, Maria Potop Butucaru, Elad Michael Schiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12900

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine fault-tolerance}, because not all participants can be assumed to be honest, (2) r\textit{ecurrent transient fault-tolerance}, because even honest participants may be subject to transient ``glitches'', (3) \textit{accuracy}, because the results of quantitative queri…

Sources: Substack is pitching investors on a round between $50M and $100M that would value it above its ~$700M last round price, and is generating ~$45M in ARR (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-substack-in-talks-to-raise

SCOOP: Substack in Talks to Raise Financing as It Taps Into the Zeitgeist of Trump II
Substack is generating about $45 million in annual recurring revenue: sources

OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-in-annualized-revenue-fueled-by-chatgpt-growth.html

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth
OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson

One of the constant recurring topics on social media are stories of someone saying they don’t wash their legs, or they don’t use a washcloth, or they don’t take showers for a week. I wrote about why those stories always blow up. https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/29/who-is-clean/…

Who washes their hands?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

#EroticMusings Week 6 (July 6-12) Setting: Do you prefer to work with constrained settings or expansive? Revisit locations or move on?
Expansive locations, with some recurring. I want to evoke a sense of familiarity and homecoming - describing a place for the second, third, fourth time giving the reader a cozy feeling of having been there so often, that every part of the place is kn…

Two folks here on the Fediverse, @… and @…, have set up a giving circle to help several families trying to survive in Gaza. This is direct mutual aid, with a direct impact.
I set up a recurring donation. If you have a little money yourself to chip in, it will have an impact.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Evaluating Structured Output Robustness of Small Language Models for Open Attribute-Value Extraction from Clinical Notes
Nikita Neveditsin, Pawan Lingras, Vijay Mago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01810

Evaluating Structured Output Robustness of Small Language Models for Open Attribute-Value Extraction from Clinical Notes
We present a comparative analysis of the parseability of structured outputs generated by small language models for open attribute-value extraction from clinical notes. We evaluate three widely used serialization formats: JSON, YAML, and XML, and find that JSON consistently yields the highest parseability. Structural robustness improves with targeted prompting and larger models, but declines for longer documents and certain note types. Our error analysis identifies recurring format-specific fail…

Harnessing Patterns to Support the Development of Hybrid Quantum Applications
Daniel Vietz, Martin Beisel, Johanna Barzen, Frank Leymann, Lavinia Stiliadou, Benjamin Weder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00696

Harnessing Patterns to Support the Development of Hybrid Quantum Applications
Quantum computing provides computational advantages in various domains. To benefit from these advantages complex hybrid quantum applications must be built, which comprise both quantum and classical programs. Engineering these applications requires immense expertise in physics, mathematics, and software engineering. To facilitate the development of quantum applications, a corresponding quantum computing pattern language providing proven solutions to recurring problems has been presented. However…

Two folks here on the Fediverse, @… and @…, have set up a giving circle to help several families trying to survive in Gaza. This is direct mutual aid, with a direct impact.
I set up a recurring donation. If you have a little money yourself to chip in, it will have an impact.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Build It Clean: Large-Scale Detection of Code Smells in Build Scripts
Mahzabin Tamanna, Yash Chandrani, Matthew Burrows, Brandon Wroblewski, Laurie Williams, Dominik Wermke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17948

Build It Clean: Large-Scale Detection of Code Smells in Build Scripts
Build scripts are files that automate the process of compiling source code, managing dependencies, running tests, and packaging software into deployable artifacts. These scripts are ubiquitous in modern software development pipelines for streamlining testing and delivery. While developing build scripts, practitioners may inadvertently introduce code smells. Code smells are recurring patterns of poor coding practices that may lead to build failures or increase risk and technical debt. The goal o…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10528 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Pixel column issue in the ATLAS Inner Tracker modules
Pixel modules are currently being built for the ATLAS ITk Pixel detector upgrade. During the preproduction phase, recurring chip malfunctioning was observed during electrical testing. It was possible to bypass this issue by disabling some pixel core columns in the ITkPix readout chip. Therefore the issue is called "core column issue" which is a direct disqualifier for a pixel module. A concerning number of cases has been observed in pixel modules with ITkPix v1.1 as well as v2 chips which signi…

I've been using ClickUp for a few months now...and like every other productivity tool I've used over the last number of years it has its pros and cons.
It's got a lot of features but sometimes pretty basic features don't "just work" - and that makes me unhappy. 🙁
For example, right now I have some recurring tasks that will not allow an update to their due date manually. If I set a new date it resets back to the original date. Even more concerning is that this isn't clear from the UI.
The UI acts as if the change was successful but a page refresh reveals the change didn't save.
But the real reason I wanted to post wasn't about ClickUp particularly but about chatbots in general. They verified that my issue was an actual bug and created a ticket for it but the way I've been instructed to view the ticket status is by opening the chatbot, telling it I want information on my ticket (pasting in the ticket ID) and after doing all that I get this
5/6: Umm, no. I want to see an actual ticket please. I don't want to have to talk to a chatbot to see it. Chatbots really are great for a lot of things (during the free trial of ClickUp I found the chatbot quite helpful in learning how to do things without searching through docs) but this sort of "there is a direct record", please no. Or let me paste it in and do the lookup immediately - and provide a permalink so I don't need to chat every time!
I'm sticking with ClickUp at the moment, but one of these days when I magically get a large amount of free time, I'm going to write my own solution...I've only been saying that for a few years now. ;-)
#clickup #productivity #chatbots #projectmanagement #tasks