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a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/22/venture-gian…

Venture giant Andreessen Horowitz drops ‘crypto’ from name of blockchain fund, rebrands as ‘a16z Frontier’
The rebrand follows similar moves by Paradigm and Haun Ventures as crypto investors look beyond digital assets.

Guten Morgen, Wohlgesottene und Hartgesonnene.

This Flock security teardown would be comedy gold if it wasn’t so tragic. https://medium.com/@neonmaxima/flock-hardcoded-53-passwords-into-90-000-police-surveillance-cameras-d9466caa8517

The Battle of Britain's 'hardest day' https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/the-battle-of-britains-hardest-day/

Eagles still trying to salvage NFC East crown without Hurts as they host Cowboys on Monday night https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/eagles-still-trying-to-salvage-nfc-east-crown-without-hurts-as-they-host-c…

Saquon Barkley on Jalen Hurts situation: 'It sucks that people tried to make it an Eagles vs. Jalen thing'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saquon-barkley-breaks-silenc…

I read William Golding’s The Spire, a hardcover borrowed from the grad library’s third floor stacks. It’s a Serious Book by a Serious Author. When I read it 25 years ago, I followed the story but got many of the characters confused, missed most of the carnal and spiritual undertones, and was blind to grand metaphors woven across chapters where people and things reverse roles and act like things and people. And that’s just part of it! 1/3

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It tak…

Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, social reformer and #Northampton MP, often challenged the accepted social, political, and religious norms of the 19th century. A tour of 'Heretics Corner' in Northampton demonstrates that Bradlaugh was often closer to his opponents than is sometimes portrayed. #nonconformists

Charles Bradlaugh and ‘Heretics Corner’ - Miscellanea Edintone
Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, social reformer and Northampton MP often challenged the accepted social, political, and religious norms of the 19th century. A tour of 'Heretics Corner' in Northampton demonstrates that Bradlaugh was often closer to his opponents than is sometimes portrayed.

Poll: Low-information voters have turned hardest against Trump and the GOP (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-information-voters-have
http://www.memeorandum.com/261023/p50#a261023p50