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@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2026-02-02 16:02:04

I donated to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone.
developafrica.org/about-develo
"we provide education, child sponsorship, leadership development, workforce empowerment, and more to poverty-stricken African communities. We aid in br…

About Develop Africa
Develop Africa was founded with the aim of facilitating development in Africa. with a focus on impacting and changing lives. Develop Africa is currently reaching Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Liberia, with hopes of expanding to other countries in the future! Develop Africa focuses on education, which will directly impact the poverty level across the nation.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-01 15:46:21

Sources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M in annualized revenue, up from $10M in Oct. (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/st

Startup That Helps Developers Pick AI Models Nears $1.3 Billion Valuation
As more AI apps and agents shift to using multiple AI models, startups that help developers choose the right ones are gaining traction. In the latest example, OpenRouter, which helps AI app developers access hundreds of models from a single application programming interface, is in talks to raise ...

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2026-03-02 17:29:29

"UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries" theguardian.com/environment/20
What, why?? We pump billions in "genAI" but remove funds for

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries
Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-03-01 16:53:08

Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
theguardian.com/technology/202

Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions
Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-04-01 15:38:15

A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool
to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios,
which developers rely on to allow their software to connect to the internet.
The affected library was hosted on npm, a software repository that stores code for open source projects…

North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware | TechCrunch
A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-03-03 11:09:15

So #Fortipwn is now declared #secure.
(a bit tongue-in-cheek here, they have had a not that great track record over the last years, just like Ivanti, Palo Alto et al)

Fortinet Achieves IEC 62443-4-1 ML2 Certification for Secure Product Development | Fortinet Blog
Fortinet has achieved IEC 62443-4-1 Maturity Level 2 certification, validating its Secure Product Development Lifecycle and reinforcing trust for IACS, OT, and critical infrastructure customers.…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-04-01 22:00:48

Highly optimized code is of course extremely expensive to develop — both to build and maintain. But now even just-average-performance code is the more costly alternative.
And sure, grinding out a vibe-coded LLM horror so you can check that business box may leave you with code that’s not only especially buggy but RAM-hungry and CPU-hungry. And sure that’s expensive to deploy. But hey: your cloud spend is already preposterous, right? And high deployment costs are more predictable than high development costs…right?
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-02 17:24:50

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday
#ArrestedDevelopment
ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/a
open.spotify.com/track/6JvodgY

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-02 16:10:54

Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)
blog.google/innovation-and-ai/

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-03 00:25:43

Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic Acquires Startup Coefficient Bio for About $400 Million
Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The startup’s team will be joining Anthropic’s health care life sciences group, which is aimed at developing tools for biotech workflows ranging from drug ...