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Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

A post from the archive 📫:
Making production diagnostics easier with Source Link
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/making-production-diagnostics-easier-with-source-link

Deutschland-Stack: Open-Source-Bündnis warnt vor „Souveränitäts-Washing“
Die OSB Alliance kritisiert Schlupflöcher für Hyperscaler und fordert eine ausnahmslose Open-Source-Strategie für die neue staatliche Technologie-Plattform.

from my link log —
Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/…

Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, sustainable smartphone
The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html

Digital savings startup Vestwell raised a $385M Series E co-led by Blue Owl and Sixth Street, after a $125M Series D in 2023, taking its total funding to $660M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/digital-savin…

Digital Savings Startup Vestwell Lands $385M, Doubles Valuation
New York-based Vestwell, a digital savings platform, has raised $385 million in a Series E funding round co-led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street Growth.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-serge…

FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/freeform-raises-67m-series-b-…

Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing  | TechCrunch
“I think we're the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site."

Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-startup-candex-raises-4…

Exclusive: Candex Extends Series C To $40M+ To Help Enterprises Easily Onboard Global Vendors
New York-based Candex, a startup that helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors without the administrative headache or risk that comes with onboarding them, has grown its July Series C raise to $40 million via a strategic investment from HSBC.