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Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/18/apono-rais…

Apono raises $34M to tackle cloud privilege sprawl with Zero Standing Privilege model - SiliconANGLE
Apono raises $34M to tackle cloud privilege sprawl with Zero Standing Privilege model - SiliconANGLE

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/perplexity-ai-online-shopping-paypal.html

Perplexity AI announces free product to streamline online shopping
Perplexity AI announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week

I think people who use AI/LLMs for programming want to solve problems, but people who choose *not* to use AI/LLMs want to solve problems but also want to *understand* those problems.
We need more understanding in our world.

Americans don’t realize how much time is spent just getting water around the world.
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Dr. DioxiNation (@djzaber.bsky.social)
Want to feel good for a bit? Watch this. There is hope....and even optimism! I feel it. I hope you do also. https://youtu.be/UfHwZyE2GnM?si=gR8K_ZSljf34_dLR

There's an article in the Constitution about this
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Trump: We’re going to make the American Dream a word that—two words that you didn’t have. Remember when Biden said it’s all about three words: The American Dream. You don’t ever want to get in that situation.

An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (More Than Moore)
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic
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Solving The Problems of HBM-on-Logic
Future AI Accelerators Might Need To Be Slower To Be Faster

When you claim the unilateral authority to pay troops out of money specifically allocated for other purposes,
surprising things happen in the law.
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D.M. Ridley (@ridleydm.bsky.social)
It follows, however, that every single thing that is closed, and every person who is not paid, is Trump's and only Trump's fault. By his own logic, he could pay them, and he has decided not to.

Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-simple-whatsapp-security-flaw-…

A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.

This is not transparency with the American people
119 pages of black bars
What is Donald Trump hiding in the Epstein Files?
https://bsky.app/profile/davidleavitt.bsky.social/post/3maeumzk4p227

David Leavitt (@davidleavitt.bsky.social)
This is not transparency with the American people 119 pages of black bars What is Donald Trump hiding in the Epstein Files?

Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-organizational-p…

How OpenAI’s Organizational Problems Hurt ChatGPT
Over the past year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ...