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Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/10/22/formic-50m-robotics-deployme…

Exclusive: Formic raises $50M to expand robotics deployments
Formic's latest financing combines a Series B round with asset-backed capital as it looks to scale factory automation.

A useful critique about why #MayorLurie's props D, E and F really don't clean up City Hall - but rather gives City Hall & the very wealthy more power. Please, if you're a San Francisco voter, vote NO on this power-grab trio
Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, & F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 

Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, and F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 
Mission Local looks into some of the dire warnings and big promises in advertisements for San Francisco's Props D, E, and F.

A useful critique about why #MayorLurie's props D, E and F really don't clean up City Hall - but rather gives City Hall & the very wealthy more power. Please, if you're a San Francisco voter, vote NO on this power-grab trio
Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, & F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 

Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, and F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 
Mission Local looks into some of the dire warnings and big promises in advertisements for San Francisco's Props D, E, and F.

Health authorities in France reported the first-ever recorded human infection and death associated with the Shamonda virus.
The patient passed away in a hospice in Lyon and was reportedly already suffering from a serious underlying illness.

France's agricultural and health departments have stated that they do not see a health risk to the general population at this stage, as the virus is not considered highly transmissible to or between humans.

Die selektive Empathie geht mir auf den Keks! Ich soll ein brennendes Rathaus in Frankreich bedauern und traurig sein über die „Gewalt” der französischen Proteste, währenddessen ich mir für Jahre anhören musste warum die Zerstörung Gazas gerechtfertigt und Verteidigung sei? Unsinn.
Um das was die Demonstrierenden in Frankreich tun als Gewalt zu betiteln müsste ich erstmal staatliche Gewalt im In- und Ausland unsichtbar machen.

Quad9 is retracting from France by 2026-11-24 to avoid having to censor DNS.
(They will continue to fight in court in the meantime.)
"Quad9 is a Swiss public-benefit, nonprofit foundation established for the explicit purpose of protecting the cybersecurity of internet users" and operates a public DNS resolver at 9.9.9.9
#Quad9

The record warm Mediterranean - due to climate change - strikes again. 191 mm of rain in one hour on Corsica.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
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Floods in southern France cause havoc, kill at least one
In Haute-Corse, a person went missing in Ghisonaccia on Tuesday evening; another was found dead in Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts in the Bouches-du-Rhône. #EuropeNews

San Francisco's Speed Camera program has been very effective - on the streets where we have them. We need to change State law if SF is to use speed cameras to reduce the speeding that happens on other streets. Walk SF has a petition campaign asking the City to engage with the state to change those laws. If you are a SF resident, please sign at:

Ask City Leaders to Act Now to Pursue Expanding San Francisco’s Speed Camera Program
Dangerous speeding is the #1 cause of severe and fatal crashes in San Francisco – and every solution possible is needed to address this. San Francisco’s speed camera pilot program has proven highly effective at changing driver behavior at speed camera locations with the share of drivers speeding 10 MPH or more above the speed limit down 84% across camera locations. City leaders, including Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors, have committed to expand the use of automated safety technolo…

San Francisco's Speed Camera program has been very effective - on the streets where we have them. We need to change State law if SF is to use speed cameras to reduce the speeding that happens on other streets. Walk SF has a petition campaign asking the City to engage with the state to change those laws. If you are a SF resident, please sign at:

Ask City Leaders to Act Now to Pursue Expanding San Francisco’s Speed Camera Program
Dangerous speeding is the #1 cause of severe and fatal crashes in San Francisco – and every solution possible is needed to address this. San Francisco’s speed camera pilot program has proven highly effective at changing driver behavior at speed camera locations with the share of drivers speeding 10 MPH or more above the speed limit down 84% across camera locations. City leaders, including Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors, have committed to expand the use of automated safety technolo…