Tootfinder

Upgrade, which offers online loans and other financial services, raised $165M led by Neuberger Berman at a $7.3B valuation and is "12 to 18 months" from an IPO (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/fintech-star…

Fintech startup Upgrade valued at $7.3 billion in new funding round
Upgrade raised $165 million in a new funding round that valued the fintech startup at $7.3 billion.

from my link log —
How GitLab.com upgraded PostgreSQL.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/11/gitlab-pg-upgrade/
saved 2020-09-12 https:…

How we upgraded PostgreSQL at GitLab.com
We explain the precise maintenance process to execute a major version upgrade of PostgreSQL.

On the Siemens KG34NA10GB Upright Fridge/Freezer: Review (2008) - Why we felt cheated after upgrading our upright fridge-freezer to save energy and for more freezer space. #frugal #fridge #freezer -

On the Siemens KG34NA10GB Upright Fridge/Freezer: Review (2008)
Why we felt cheated after upgrading our upright fridge-freezer to save energy and for more freezer space. #frugal #fridge #freezer

PSA: Forced upgrades to macOS 26 (Tahoe) will be rolling out soon, which might confuse those currently using Linux :tux: and Windows :windows:

Apple updates the Vision Pro with an M5 chip, rendering 10% more pixels, and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499 (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-vision-pro-upgraded-with-th…

Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band
Apple introduced the upgraded Apple Vision Pro, featuring the powerful M5 chip, the Dual Knit Band, and innovative features with visionOS 26.

Physics potential of the IceCube Upgrade for atmospheric neutrino oscillations
IceCube Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13066 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Physics potential of the IceCube Upgrade for atmospheric neutrino oscillations
The IceCube Upgrade is an extension of the existing IceCube Neutrino Observatory and will be deployed in the 2025-2026 austral summer. It will significantly improve the sensitivity of the detector to atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The existing 86-string IceCube array contains a dense in-fill known as DeepCore which is optimized to measure neutrinos with energies down to a few GeV. The IceCube Upgrade will consist of seven new densely-instrumented strings placed within the DeepCore volume to…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hatchie:
🎵 Liquorice
#Hatchie
https://hatchie.bandcamp.com/album/liquorice
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UFjrv4whPJ3mUQIzIoJcV

Another distro upgrade, another server not coming up after Debian bookworm -> trixie update.
As usual the box booted fine and the culprit was "predictable" network interfaces changing names again.
All of my configs refer to ens2f0 and ens2f1, while the NIC is now called enp25s0f0/1.

So my Windows 10 box will no long eat updates unless I upgrade to Win11?
Guess I'll just stick to doing everything on Android. 😞

Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant
Slack is piloting an upgraded Slackbot that will transform the tool into an AI companion that draws from your conversations, workspace, and files to provide customized assistance.