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Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/we-have-learned-nothing-startup-pundits/

Startup Punditry’s 25 Years of Failure
Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship. The Red Queen offers something better.

Schutz vor digitaler Gewalt: Entwurf in den Startlöchern
Ein besserer gesetzlicher Schutz gegen digitale Formen von Gewalt soll sehr zeitnah kommen. Die Debatte darum dauert bereits einige Jahre an.
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Stopping Wall Street from Competing with Main Street Homebuyers (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/stopping-wall-street-from-competing-with-main-street-homebuyers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p4#a260121p4

“Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/08/horizontal-scrolling-containers-are-not-a-content-strategy.html
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a designer, asking them to lov…

Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy
I should clarify that I am not talking about carousels. That said, because users often consider horizontal scrolling containers to be carousels, I will be talking about carousels. Also, this post is written by a monolingual American. While I discuss localization issues, there’s no way I can get into all…

Street Life
A street photography podcast hosted by John St and Mark Davidson...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

Vibe Coding auf der Nase: Entwickler steuert OpenClaw über Smart Glasses
Ein Entwickler gibt dem KI-Agenten OpenClaw über seine Smart Glasses Programmieranweisungen und hat dessen Fortschritt dank Display stets im Blickfeld.

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an "AI cloud" with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000 Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal
The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a “full stack AI cloud” to serve corporates and startups like Cursor.

Tim Cook had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better place than it has ever been as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/

Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.

Laser gegen Drohnen: Deutsches Start-up setzt auf Präzision und Beweglichkeit
Inleap Photonics adaptiert seine industrielle Laserstrahllenkung für Verteidigungszwecke und sieht darin technische Vorteile gegenüber bestehenden Ansätzen.

Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now a part of the design team at Apple, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ap

Apple Acquisition Talks, Fraud Accusations: Behind One App Startup’s Nasty Split
Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store. The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s ...