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Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/zipline-snaps-up…

Zipline snaps up another $200M to fuel its drone delivery expansion | TechCrunch
The funding adds to a previous round, announced in January, that valued the drone startup at $7.6 billion.

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting
Rust's signature achievement is memory safety without a garbage collector. It accomplishes this through a disciplined ownership system — but that system deliberately has an escape hatch: reference counting.
🦀 https://slicker.me/…

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting
Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/bengaluru-f…

Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M: its third round in 18 months | TechCrunch
Swish has more than doubled its valuation in a year as its full-stack, hyperlocal model positions ultra-fast food delivery as a high-frequency habit.

#LLM tools let you write code faster, but LOCs has NEVER been the bottleneck to value. The bottleneck is organizational coherence.
Instead of working towards that alignment, we are encouraged to "just #AI it." The result? AI makes everyone work MORE, with no real productivity gains.
Te…

Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places)
Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.

Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo.
The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.
Dan F.'s daughter told him in sporadic messages
– when the USS Tripoli reached a pocket of internet service
– that members were rationing their food supplies on the ship.
Fresh produce was nowhere to be found, she told him.
After his daughter told him the coffee machine on board had broken down,
Dan …

Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo
Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

Great news from Jisc 🎉
This month, Jisc has reengineered its connectivity between Janet and GÉANT, now delivered via a single 400Gbit/s port — strengthening the digital bridge connecting the UK's research and education community to the rest of the world.
👏 Congratulations to the Jisc team on this milestone!
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Today for the first time ever I added fake film grain in post while editing my photos.
I reached the point where noise reduction in low light situations makes my photos look noticeably worse, especially when people are involved. They start looking like wax figures and I hate that.
At the same time, as a digital kid, I wasn't a fan of adding fake grain to my photos. Everyone and their dog knows I don't shoot film. And what's the point of making my photos look worse.
Today something clicked in my brain and I decided I'd rather have some texture and deliberate imperfection in my pictures.
Especially when all this generative AI bullshit these days is about making things look so smooth and perfect it hurts.

Development of Electroformed X-Ray Optics Bridging Synchrotron Radiation Technology and Space Astronomy: #FOXSI mission, a US-Japan rocket program to observe the Sun: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/japan-delivers-its-sharpest-x-ray-telescope-for-the-foxsi-mission-a-us-japan-rocket-program-to-observe-the-sun/

So, after some deliberation and a few beers I decided to actually put all of the package build stuff into a Forgejo pipeline. Still very weird to me that I need to install `nodejs` to use things like `actions/upload-artifact`, but right now it's working pretty well. Did have to rebuild the runner because it kept running out of disk space.
#forgejo

A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Kingsland has been charged with attempted murder,
the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law.
The arrest comes two months after Alexia Moore was rushed to the emergency room in Camden County, pregnant and in extreme pain.
Doctors at the Southeast Georgia Health System hospital delivered a severely premature baby girl who lived for approximately two hours, according to police.  
On March 4, …