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Grizzly Bear:
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#GrizzlyBear
https://grizzlybearbrooklyn.bandcamp.com/track/speak-in-rounds
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ovGdvOGaSjuYiSLX0nIaY
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMethod Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/method-cyber-ai-venture-a16z
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialNothing better than watching #MAGA loser Jake Paul get KO'd by #AnthonyJoshua.
AJ is my hero for taking out this Trump-loving fraud. #JakePaul the coward ran away for 5 rounds until Joshua…
@hakona@im.alstadheim.noIf reading about the underpinnings of the new world order gets tedious, I can recommend just looking at the pictures here to get yourself going: https://www.thenerve.news/p/us-government-nazi-racism-fascist-meme-propaganda-homeland-secur…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDraftKings DFS cheat sheet: Rams duo tops their positions in value https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47610881/draftkings-nfl-dfs-values-divisional-playoff-rounds
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @Techmeme@techhub.sociala16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it "one of the best funds" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (Anjali Jain/Inc42 Media)
https://inc42.com/buzz/automation-startup-unbox-robotics-r…
@cdarwin@c.imSilicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/18/kraken-citadel-securities-ken-griffin-…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialIn a new Swedish V2G trial, parking enforcement vehicles will generate revenue not only during their money-making rounds on the streets, but also while parked in a garage: with #V2G, they will feed energy back into the grid at high prices and charge at low prices.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioSomeone sent my husband and I a box of chocolates with no note and we have no idea who it’s from….
It looks really good but I’m too suspicious to touch them 😅😅
Making the rounds asking family and friends to figure out who sent them!!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMaxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-accounti…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caPlease consider #socialBC on your #givingtuesday rounds. Any amount will help sustain us!
Thank you so much for all of your support in the past year!
https://socialbc.ca/@chris/115650919157021128
@servelan@newsie.socialMcDonald's hit by penny shortage, rounds cash transactions to a nickel
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/31/mcdonalds-penny-shortage-rounding-cash-transactions/87008678007/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI found MAKE celebrating Palmer Luckey to be disgusting, and I let them know it.
I never thought I would see MAKE celebrating evil people like him.
Feel free to let dale@make.co know if you're not a fan of this sort of thing.
https://makethings.make.co/p/what-a-luckey-man
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@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukNow running IPv6 from my desktops - I'm using internal ULA addresses with masquerading, partly to spite IPv6 people, but mostly so in theory I can flip to a backup connection easily.
That does mean I've had to change /etc/gai.conf to label the ULA range ( fc00::/7 ) the same as generic routing - i.e. a label of 1
(It also assumes my ISPs - YouFibre - IPv6 routing holds together..it took 4 rounds with support to get them to fix it, and others have complained about IPv6 i…
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.socialTusk: Urheberschaft von Friedensplan muss geklärt werden
Über den Ursprung des neuen 28-Punkte-Friedensplans für die Ukraine gibt es widersprüchliche Angaben aus den USA. Während US-Außenminister Marco Rubio öffentlich erklärte, der Vorschlag sei von Washington verfasst worden, widersprach der republikanische Senator Mike Rounds. Seinen Angaben zufolge sei der Plan von einem US-Vertreter lediglich entgegengenommen und an die U…
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@arXiv_csGT_bot@mastoxiv.pageSelling Privacy in Blockchain Transactions
Georgios Chionas, Olga Gorelkina, Piotr Krysta, Rida Laraki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08096 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08096
arXiv:2512.08096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study methods to enhance privacy in blockchain transactions from an economic angle. We consider mechanisms for privacy-aware users whose utility depends not only on the outcome of the mechanism but also negatively on the exposure of their economic preferences. Specifically, we study two auction-theoretic settings with privacy-aware users. First, we analyze an order flow auction, where a user auctions off to specialized agents, called searchers, the right to execute her transaction while maintaining a degree of privacy. We examine how the degree of privacy affects the revenue of the auction and, broadly, the net utility of the privacy-aware user. In this new setting, we describe the optimal auction, which is a sealed-bid auction. Subsequently, we analyze a variant of a Dutch auction in which the user gradually decreases the price and the degree of privacy until the transaction is sold. We compare the revenue of this auction to that of the optimal one as a function of the number of communication rounds. Then, we introduce a two-sided market - a privacy marketplace - with multiple users selling their transactions under their privacy preferences to multiple searchers. We propose a posted-price mechanism for the two-sided market that guarantees constant approximation of the optimal social welfare while maintaining incentive compatibility (from both sides of the market) and budget balance. This work builds on the emerging line of research that attempts to improve the performance of economic mechanisms by appending cryptographic primitives to them.
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@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialWill the rubbish soon amass on the streets of Duisburg?
The local #H2 station is closing down, meaning the fuel cell trucks won't be able to make their rounds to the incinerator.
Think of all the money that has been wasted on hydrogen for mobility. And now the waste trucks will be a waste, too.
@cdarwin@c.imRumors flew in the hours after a shooting at Brown University killed two students on Dec. 13.
One falsehood had it that one of the victims, a leader of the college Republican Club, was “targeted for her conservative beliefs, hunted, and killed in cold blood.”
Another was that it had been a terrorist attack, a claim that made the rounds when a Palestinian student was identified as a possible suspect two days later and hounded on the internet.
⭐️A churn of disinformation after…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL playoff schedule, projected bracket: Here's what to know in both conferences https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47440678/nfl-playoff-schedule-bracket-afc-nfc-tv-dates-locations-2026
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f989b72-0722-4b0a-9a50-876417abc06f
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/india-startu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSeneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/…
