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Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (Ami Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/startups/seed-st…

Seed-stage startup funding in Japan sinks 40% as investors grow selective
With TSE tightening listing criteria, VC firms look for safer growth-stage bets

Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Kneeland had early stage CTE at time of death https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/former-dallas-cowboys-defensive-end-kneeland-had-early-stage-cte-at-time-of-death

“Jews are execrable insects with parasite-hijacked brains.”
– Gad Saad, Zionist, at the World Symposium Against Antizionism
Zionism is antisemitic and always has been antisemitic.
To conflate antizionism with antisemitism is, itself, antisemitic.
Zionism is fascism.
Antizionism is antifascism.
(Oh, does it matter that he was only talking about “the wrong kind of Jews” – those who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people – while denying th…

Inside the ‘World Symposium Against Antizionism’: Where contempt for Muslims and leftist Jews took center stage
At a Toronto-area summit, Zionists like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad rebranded antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism, leaning on Islamophobia and far-right alliances while dismissing Palestinian dispossession as a “false expulsion.”

Smooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose

I captured the most magic moment/stage of Kallitype development as 4x slow-motion, the moment when you pour developer over the exposed image and you can see it for the very first time...
https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U
Most of the image becomes visible i…

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland had CTE, analysis concludes https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/07/cowboys-de-marshawn-kneeland-cte-analysis-stage-1/90832762007/

Wildfires raging across southern Europe have forced thousands to flee their homes
and prompted officials to ban spectators from a stage of the Tour de France,
amid warnings of “powder keg” conditions after a record-breaking early summer heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters are tackling blazes that have burned through almost 20,000 hectares (49,500 acres)
in Portugal, Spain, France and Greece.
Strong winds are forecast to fan the flames and temperatures are expect…

Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes
Tour de France spectator ban as country along with Spain, Portugal and Greece faces ‘powder keg’ after heatwave

Saw Soul Coughing and DEVO tonight, but during DEVO’s seventh song a tiny storm front moved in with lightning and we were sent to the underground parking garage to wait. Then they made us leave.
Energy domes are good rain hats. Bad for lightning.

The Bidens Return to the Stage: Online, in Bookstores and at a Best Western in South Dakota (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/biden-speech-sioux-falls-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p44#a260606p44

@… is up on stage now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eo4ZDQTAFs

Show In Progress With Jeremy Moses & Jimmy Bilenko
Join Melbourne comedians Jeremy Moses and Jimmy Bilenko as they brainstorm their next hit stage show - a process fraught with jokes, riffs, tangents and the occasional lightbulb moment...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustr…

Metro Vancouver is reminding the public that Stage 3 water restrictions are in effect while work continues on the First Narrows Crossing. This critical water supply pipe, linked to the Capilano and Seymour reservoirs, has been out of service since last fall as part of the Stanley Park Water Supply Tunnel project.
The regional water use target of 1.4 billion liters of water per day, is intended to reduce daily water use and maintain water pressure for essential services, including firef…

| Metro Vancouver

Former Cowboys edge rusher Marshawn Kneeland diagnosed with CTE after death at age 24

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/marshawn-kneeland-cte-diagnosis-after-death/

Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

At #TNC26, our CEO Lise Fuhr and Board Chair Gilles Massen announced the GÉANT Association Strategy 2026-2030 on stage, a big moment over a year in the making.
Prior to that, we sat down with them to hear what it means for GÉANT and for the membership, what it took to get here, and what comes next.
The conversation kept returning to one theme: how a strategy like this holds together acros…

Cowboys Defensive End Had Stage 1 CTE Before Suicide https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/defensive-end-marshawn-kneeland-cte-diagnosis/

"Climate change is here, we are living the consequences and it is only the start of July," said French fire service Colonel Eric Belgioino.
10,000 evacuated because of Pyrenees wildfire.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2026

Infernos devastate forests as Europe's temperatures rise again
Wildfires raged across southern Europe on Sunday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and prompting Tour de France officials to ban spectators from a stage of the race.

Another great---can I say somewhat daring?--- non-technical talk by @… "From terminal to table -- Communication skills for geeks and nerds" at @… on his personal lessons about communication; ever so helpful, possibly also for …

I just read up on the #European Processor Initiative (EPI) outcome.
https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/press-release-eu…

Press release: European Processor Initiative Successfully Concluded - European Processor Initiative
After four years of SGA2, EPI concludes second stage with the bring-up of RHEA and demos of EPAC

Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of staff this week, citing AI as a "major platform shift"; sources: 50-60 employees were cut, including its CTO (Nat Ives/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/vide…

🧠 2.6B parameters pre-trained on ~34T tokens, vocabulary doubled to 128K for non-Latin scripts, plus a dedicated 128K context-extension phase
🔬 Four-stage post-training: supervised fine-tuning, teacher specialization with RLVR, multi-domain on-policy distillation and agentic reinforcement learning inside real agent harnesses

Marshawn Kneeland diagnosed with CTE months after death by suicide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7428236/2026/07/07/marshawn-kneeland-cte-diagnosis-cowboys/

Subway? Subway.
#Wacken #SubwayToSally

Kris van Rens at @… "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"
After skipping very quickly through the technical section during the talk because of time constraints, afterwards Kris gave an interactive session on the technicalities for a handful of interested people. Lovely! Also: food for thought.

What Tour de France Riders Eat During the Race https://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/a71806549/tour-de-france-nutrition-rider-food/

What Tour de France Riders Actually Eat During the Race
Learn what Tour de France riders eat and drink before, during, and after each stage to fuel performance and recovery.

#today I must I must I must I must improve my paper (and try and get it to good draft stage, to share with supervisors). I will also be helping a friend with some legals, being a witness to a bit of admin. I also have a small wash of #NewScientist articles to read. Oh, and a bath, timed to hel…

Running a campaign in the pre-field stage is 20% endorsements, 20% fundraising, and 60% reminding people to fill out the When2Meet.

The spectral detection of the rocket stage #impact plume by the VLT (of which still no direct image has been released by anyone it seems) is mirrored by observations with Lowell's Discovery Telescope: https://www.leonarddavid.com/moon-impact-of-rocket-stage-observed/ - they "measured a response from the rocket stage impact as a sodium and lithium gas plume a few 10’s of kilometers in size lasting between 5 and 10 minutes after impact". EDIT: In https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-rocket-moon-collision/ the same scientist attributes these observations to the VLT instead but mentions a separate sodium detection in the U.S.; Lowell Obs. itself hasn't said anything yet.

Oh good, my employer is "advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale."
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-partnership-cohere-sets-stage-responsible-ai-adoption-scale

U of T partnership with Cohere sets the stage for responsible AI adoption at scale
The University of Toronto is advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale through an ambitious multi-year partnership with Cohere, a Canadian-founded, Toronto-based global leader in sovereign AI. This collaboration will help U of T meet a defining moment by taking ownership of its AI future.

Inventions that never made it past the idea stage:
The Ridiculizer - takes small to medium problems and ridiculize them into near non-existent and somewhat humorous issues.
#sillyness #humor #humour

"World Cup matches played in potentially dangerous heat as players’ union makes climate warning"
#Football #Sports #Climate

World Cup matches played in potentially dangerous heat as players’ union makes climate warning
Nine of the group stage games played in severe heat, analysis finds, as union points to lessons for the whole sport

Frank Turner at Cambridge Folk Festival. Captivating. #music #FrankTurner #folk

The office last night

I know you'll be shocked to hear that the stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.
#trump #freedom250

Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by $9M to $17M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/29/ex

Exclusive: Agentic coding startup Baz brings code reviews to the planning stage as it extends seed funding to $17M - SiliconANGLE
Exclusive: Agentic coding startup Baz brings code reviews to the planning stage as it extends seed funding to $17M - SiliconANGLE

Next stage of cognitive deference in the wild: not thinking is a virtue.
Builders build! Do not stop to think, just do things!

Van der Poel wins stage 21 of the Tour de France
It’s a photo-finish on the line but Van der Poel held on with Philipsen and Pedersen coming on strong! Wow, that was incredible.
Van der Poel won it with a lunge on the line. Philipsen had his arm in the air,
Did he think he won it or was he celebrating his teammate?

Tour de France 2026: Van der Poel wins incredible sprint on Champs-Élysées – live
Join Tom Bassam for reaction after Van der Poel takes final stage in dramatic photo finish on the streets of the French capital

This Dimbeby-presented podcast looks at how we went from a state run economy post war to free market capitalism in the 80s and is totally fascinating. I'm not too well-informed about economics despite spending years with a Cambridge economics graduate who went on to work in the City - perhaps that's why - so took it all for granted. This is an education.
The History Podcast: Invisible Hands: 1. The Chicken Farmer
Episode webpage:

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Invisible Hands, 1. The Chicken Farmer
The story of the chicken farmer who set the stage for Margaret Thatcher.

Kris Freedain and Carlos Juzarte Rolo will be taking the stage at #bbuzz26 to talk through what transition has looked like for the OpenSearch Software Foundation, what they have learned, and where the project is headed next.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/opensearch-software-foundation-1-year-of-open-governance/

Raiders TE Brock Bowers to take stage at music festival https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/18/raiders-te-brock-bowers-take-stage-bottlerock-music-festival/90146030007/

Scenario-conditioned flow matching for probabilistic generation of three-component ground-motion waveforms
Yi Ding, Jinjun Hu, Su Chen, Xianwei Liu, Zhongxiang Zhang, Zongchao Li, Xiaojun Li, Lili Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31340 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31340 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31340
arXiv:2606.31340v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Performance-based seismic risk assessment requires three-component acceleration histories compatible with specified source, path, and site conditions. Conventional ground-motion prediction equations provide scalar intensity measures, while many generative waveform models learn amplitude and waveform shape within a single high-dimensional target. We present WaveFlowGMM, a two-stage probabilistic ground-motion model that uses peak ground acceleration (PGA) as an amplitude interface between scenario conditioning and waveform generation. The amplitude stage uses physics-informed symbolic learning to estimate component-wise PGA medians and a full cross-component covariance. The waveform stage uses few-step AlphaFlow in an invertible wavelet-packet coefficient space to generate normalised three-component histories that are rescaled by sampled PGA. Tests on an event-level NGA-West2 holdout set show that the generated motions recover the main magnitude, distance, and site scaling, keep peak and spectral residuals close to zero, preserve three-component amplitude dependence, and yield velocity and displacement histories without systematic drift after integration of the generated three-component acceleration histories. The framework provides an interpretable and computationally efficient candidate component for waveform-level seismic hazard and risk analysis.
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"The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model with as many as 10tn parameters — three times larger than Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the biggest Chinese model released to date, according to three people with knowledge of the matter."
https://www.ft.com/content/9b8383b1-a28d-4940-8c4e-2f0cd21556ef?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Marshawn Kneeland diagnosed with CTE months after death by suicide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7428236/2026/07/07/marshawn-kneeland-cte-diagnosis-cowboys/

At the #concert of master #SteveHackett #music

How CAA is repositioning its marginal creator division to an urgent bet as it signs big names, poaches creator-focused agents, and attends Cannes Lions (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

YouTube Stars Take Center Stage at Creative Artists Agency
For years, creators were on the fringes at Creative Artists Agency, a Hollywood talent behemoth. Now the agency is putting them center stage.

I recently had the misfortune to learn about #frictionMaxxing, which is a horrible term to describe the beautiful experience of sitting in total silence with 1000 other people in the dark, watching a single person on a stage move their hands over a piano for 2.5 hours.
Nevertheless, I recommend it...

Replaced article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[2/2]:
- CASCADE Conformal Prediction: Uncertainty-Adaptive Prediction Intervals for Two-Stage Clinical De...
Ricardo Diaz-Rincon, Muxuan Liang, Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora, Benjamin Shickel

Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

Currently at the 'why should it work' debug stage; it's a 40/80 double stepper board and well, it's just oscillating and producing a constant stream rather than 2, and hmm, the schematic I've made that seems to make sense to me, so I wonder how it's supposed not-to. I guess I must have my schematic wrong somewhere (This is in a Cumana drive from about '86)

Porn platforms, payment processors, and opaque algorithms should not decide which bodies, desires, fantasies, or communities are allowed to exist online.
I am preparing a talk about decentralized networks, erotic art, privacy, furry and anime-inspired work, kink, fantasy, and creative freedom.
https://wr…

Privacy, Pleasure, and Sharing
Public space is not only made of streets. It is also made of rooms. Chairs facing a stage. People sharing the same air. A microphone ...

This #RustDuck #botnet thing is kinda cute.
https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/rustduck-en/

RustDuck: An In-Depth Analysis of a Two-Stage Botnet
Overview Since February 2026, the XLAB large-scale network threat perception system has detected a new malware family active in cyberspace that adopts a Loader + Core (two-stage loading) architecture. Currently, the family has spawned multiple variants, with the main core functionality being the execution of large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. It

We're up to the stage in the Kinship Carers assessments where we have to ask 4 of our friends to give us references (2 each) when CYF calls them. That's my task for this afternoon.
It's a difficult choice because:
1. No one I know likes to answer unknown numbers.
2. My closest friends are also friends with husband but he has no others.
3. I hate asking.
#Grandparenting

Old tech billionaire in leather jacket says more wild/out of touch things while on stage. More at 11.

But seriously, if humans just keep doing human maths and then they get stuck at something like the Jacobian conjecture that anytime can be solved by the push of a button, it's just completely unrealistic to think that nobody would push the button.
The paper has zero answers and zero workable proposals how to continue. To be fair, nobody (except big tech) has any answers at the moment.
Everybody who says 'everything is fine for me' or 'we just keep going' is at an earlier stage of grief.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto with star soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony take centre stage alongside a world premiere of Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zcwy

#Groenberg Weekend Comfort auf Stelzen
Es ist schon sehr bequem, nicht auf dem Boden rumkriechen zu müssen und trotzdem das Autodach frei zu haben!
https://www.andreas-edler.de/blog/2…

We had a very special weekend. Two concerts with a 15-year-old assistant concertmaster ❤️ and his violin, surrounded by an orchestra of talented young musicians, all playing together at a level that was pure joy to watch – and hear! ☺️

Harvard- and Yale-educated
Vivek Ramaswamy, whose parents immigrated from Kerala before he was born in Cincinnati in 1985,
received Donald Trump’s much-coveted endorsement for Ohio governor in February 2025
– nearly two years before the election
– to the shock of many in Ohio’s Republican establishment circles.
Having secured Trump’s endorsement, Ramaswamy then met little opposition in the Republican primary election last May, winning 82% of the vote.
But …

Can Vivek Ramaswamy count on Ohio’s Indian Americans as he struggles to connect with voters?
Ohioans of Indian heritage will see one of their own take center stage in race for governor, but their support amid a rocky campaign is not a guarantee

Where do Cowboys rank among the NFC East pass-rushing units for 2026? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/07/nfc-east-rankings-edge-rushers-2026/90438998007/

"A two-stage hybrid intelligence framework for subject indexing via semantic embedding and LLM collaborative optimization"
#libraries

Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsu…

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip
Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct ...

I have now reached the "how did this ever work?" stage of debugging.
#PHP #Programming

next project: Imperial Stormtrooper from #StarWars. Still in the bondo, sand, bondo, sand stage but it's getting there. Painting it is what I love the most about these projects, you see it come to live. #3Dprinting

"Most congregations have a more developed story about their past than about their future. But it is a fact that the times have changed … This calls for greater openness and receptivity to new leaders when they arrive with new perspectives."
—Jeffrey Haggray ’88 M.Div. in an open letter to historic congregations and their pastors, one of many great articles in the new issue of Reflections

Has any non-EU person successfully used the automated machines at airports? How? Both at entry and exit it stopped me at the fingerprint stage. Which is unsurprising, I've never given the EU my fingerprints. But how does one do that? No option to do that at manual control!

Australian #V2G pilot with Amber will grow from 50 to 1,000 participants, initially with BYD EVs but the scheme may expand to other car brands. BYD provides full warranty for bidirectional charging as part of the project.

ARENA expands Amber project to accelerate vehicle-to-grid rollout in Australia
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is boosting its support for Amber Electric to help take vehicle‑to‑grid (V2G) technology to the next stage in Australia. ARENA is providing an additional $13.6 million in funding to expand Amber’s EV charging project, bringing total funding to $16...

Meet our new GÉANT Security Innovation Lab 🔒
A new space in Hamburg for security experimentation and development.
Testing new security features, incubating ideas from the community, safely experimenting with tools and setups.
The lab is here, running, and already being used. What comes next will be shaped by the ideas it enables.
🔗 Learn more, connect with the team, and get involved:

I spoke on a very round stage

I was at the Power Center for an evening with Ira Glass

"In coastal Japan, one project is planting forests to stand against tsunamis"
#Japan #Tsunamis #Trees #Environment

In coastal Japan, one project is planting forests to stand against tsunamis
MINAMISOMA, Japan — Kazuo Monma stepped out onto the small stage and looked at the large crowd with a sense of relief. The weather report had called for rain all weekend, and the mayor of Minamisoma, a coastal city in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, worried that few would show for what had become an annual event for […]

Carbonaceous Chondrites Provide Evidence for Late-stage #Planetesimal Formation in a Pressure Bump: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6104 -> A Giant ‘Planet Factory’ Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System: https://gizmodo.com/a-giant-planet-factory-beyond-jupiter-may-have-churned-out-the-building-blocks-of-the-solar-system-2000765962 - the dust-filled region likely operated over a span of two million years, birthing plenty of space rocks.

https://bsky.app/profile/philipncohen.com/post/3mphbfk7z222k
alt: Mid-size stage in large grass field making the ~100 person crowd look paltry.
I wish I had wider shots from Kenmore Porchfest. There are twice as many people in the third pic, but most are out of f…

Microsoft just announced OpenCLAW for Enterprise use on #Windows or WSL.
It runs in "#Microsoft Execution Containers", providing an essential safety layer to control/block OpenCLAW actions like deletions.
Peter Steinberger, creator of #OpenCLAW joined Scott Hanselman on stage …

Trump's firings of federal officials set stage for next test of presidential power (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-firings-federal-workers-presidential-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260807/p50#a260807p50

The office last night

Sources: early-stage talks over a potential sale of iHeartMedia to SiriusXM have stalled after the two sides were unable to come to terms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/dealbook/anthropic-ai-openai.html#link-6b6052c3…

The $900 Billion Giant: How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast
The artificial intelligence giant was just valued at $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI. Here are the numbers behind its rise — and headwinds it faces.

Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/sili

No contract, no practice: Star RBs Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs stage hold-ins while awaiting extensions

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bijan-robinson-jahmyr-gibbs-hold…

#today I caught up on some admin around one project in advance of a Zoom call for it, had the next stage of a slow-mo fight with insurers for a proposed new #RepairCafé, and two of us had to wrestle with the cable TV company cancellations folk for an hour to avoid home phone cut off AND price …

Micah Parsons' injury news could set stage for primetime return vs Cowboys in Week 6 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/03/cowboys-micah-parsons-injury-update-week-6-possible/90…

With Raiders, Kirk Cousins Enters New Stage of Career https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-kirk-cousins-enters-new-stage-career

The official #TNC26 photos and recordings are now online!
From the opening plenary that set the tone for the week, to the Lightning Talks that we all love, to all those conversations that happened in hallways and at the Community Hub — #TNC26 gave us so much, and now you can relive it all.
🔗 Wat…

The office Friday night

Donald Trump has decreed that Republicans will stage their first ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections
-- a move aimed at energizing voters as the party fights to hold its narrow congressional majorities in November.
The two-day gathering will take place in Dallas on 9 and 10 September,
marking a break from the longstanding tradition of holding national conventions only during presidential election years.
Trump confirmed the plans on Tuesday in a Tru…

‘Historic Event’: Trump announces Republican midterm convention
President unveils plans for Dallas summit, in break with tradition of conventions only in presidential election years

Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/14/custom…

Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi launches with $43M in early-stage funding - SiliconANGLE
Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi launches with $43M in early-stage funding - SiliconANGLE

The office on Saturday

With Raiders, Kirk Cousins Enters New Stage of Career https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-kirk-cousins-enters-new-stage-career

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/cybersecurity/seed-trends-ai-security-startup-fund…

AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.

🧠 Why must we protect how we think?
That was the main thread through Samuli Könönen's closing keynote at #TNC26.
For him, protecting our thinking is one of the most critical skills of the digital age.
He calls it cognitive security: the ability to recognise, resist and respond to attempts to influence how we think, at a time when the information environment has grown faster an…

The plotters planned to stage a demonstration near the White House to distract law enforcement.
As Trump and other officials cheered on the UFC’s gladiators of mixed martial arts,
the plotters would bomb the event with drone-borne explosives,
causing a panicked evacuation toward an area where waiting marksmen would pick off “high-value targets”.
A “second wave” of attackers, according to court documents, would storm the White House.
It was to be, one of the all…

The UFC match plot: how a far-right group tried to assassinate Trump at his own event
Court files show how men connected through TikTok and encrypted apps planned attack on White House UFC fight

Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/05/11/robinhood-confidential-ear…

Exclusive: Robinhood files confidentially for earlier-stage public venture fund
This new fund will focus on early-stage companies.

LemonEdge, which provides fund accounting and operations tech for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/07/29/lemonedge-lands-21m-series-a-to-moder…

LemonEdge lands $21m Series A to modernise private markets
LemonEdge, a fund accounting platform designed specifically for the private markets sector, has secured $21m in Series A funding as it looks to speed up product development and deepen its footprint across the US and Europe. The round was led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, the early-stage venture arm of Blackstone, and included BNY, the global […]

Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffrieson Sunday unveiled the party’s
"Fighting for an Affordable America"
agenda -- as he kicked off
100 days until the midterm elections
and works to focus voter attention ahead of November.
The stakes are control of the House.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Kicks Off 100 Days Till Midterms With Affordability Agenda
The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania.

Researchers find several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware targeting credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and others (Rohan Prabhu/Step Security Blog)
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/multiple-redhat-cloud-servi…

Multiple redhat-cloud-services npm Packages compromised - StepSecurity
Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install. The affected versions span multiple packages across the RedHat Cloud Services frontend ecosystem. The payload is a sophisticated multi-stage credential harvester that targets GitHub Actions secrets, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, npm tokens, and CircleCI tokens

Dak Prescott’s heartfelt message sets stage for ex-Cowboys QB’s coaching return https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-predicted-will-grier-cowboys-coaching-staff-return/f…

Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100 students left amid chants of "Free, free Palestine" over Google's ties with Israel (Zain Khan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-ne…

Protest at Stanford University graduation as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage
Videos circulating on social media showed more than 100 students leaving their seats at Stanford Stadium.

Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth $3.2B and $1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-ipo-mints-two-billionaire…

Cerebras IPO mints two billionaires, sets stage for potential AI wave
Cerebras closed its first day of trading with a market cap close to $100 billion and turned two co-founders into billionaires in the process.