@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-14 00:20:54
Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/defense-unicorns-valued-1-…
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2026-03-10 00:31:11
I'm planning to set up a music room for $SPOUSE. Neither of us are audiophiles.
Looking for recommendations for amps that support Airplay, and work well with #HomeAssistant.
Must haves:
- local control - I don't want something that will have issues if its mothership turns off servers, or even just because my internet is out.
- AirPlay support
- Works well with Home Assistant
- Supports unpowered speakers
- Doesn't require an app to configure it
Nice to have
- Streaming support
- IOS app for control
Also looking for disrecommendations for stuff that doesn't work well with HA.
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-03-02 19:30:30
🛑 Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry
https://theconversation.com/hesitation-is-costly-in-sports-but-essential-to-life-neuroscientists-iden…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-04-04 17:17:04
I've had ideas rattling around in my head for a while but not quite hitting coherence.
What does a "rich terminal" mean to you as a developer? We're in a really weird place right now with regards to UI and UX, with chat as a normal mode of operation being everywhere, yet we're constrained to two major paradigms: the terminal user interface, and the instant message. Both come with really weird limits to their affordances.
And there's prior art here — light table, jupyter notebooks, observable hq, rich REPLs — but they're usually this weird hybrid of not quite transcript not quite live program that I find somewhere between unsettling and frustrating.
I do however think it's well past time we abandoned monospaced type as the core way we think about source code, and at the same time, built better user interfaces than that allows, without going full "this is a program with its own interface”
It's weird uncharted territory.
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com2026-03-06 08:49:47
New sticker
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-29 14:40:43
Whatever This Is, It Is Not Strategy -- Defending the nation will take more than sycophancy, slurs, and slop. (Eliot A. Cohen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/unserious-national-defense-strategy/685784/?gift=uknf6XP0NWAxCOSANNYObRx9HosyqhA7HBjYHRleMp8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p47#a260129p47
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-28 20:02:37
AI Gave Investors a Glimpse of the Future This Month.
And Then They Sold Their Stocks.
“The main story is still tech and AI uncertainty,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategist at Baird.
“It is making investors question the fundamental underpinning of the profitability of a lot of industries.”
Those worries have triggered several nauseating stock swings in recent weeks, some with relatively innocuous catalysts
—an incremental update to a particular AI tool, …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-04 12:46:06
TRM Labs, which helps law enforcement and companies track crypto and blockchains, raised a $70M Series C led by Blockchain Capital at a $1B valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/trm-labs-blockchain-analytics-fundi…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-03 20:05:54
Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.html
