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Our Farewell from Google Play
Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
Figma will IPO on July 31
Tomorrow, July 31, 2025, Figma plans to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FIG.”
Our $100M Series B
Raising our Series B round of financing
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”
Claude Code joins the AI pricing bait-and-switch
Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
Explore one of the world's largest and most discussed duopolies, from the origins of the credit card to its combined market value of $850 billion.
Developing our position on AI
This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.
Apple introduces AppleCare One
Apple today unveiled AppleCare One, a new way for customers to cover multiple Apple products with one simple plan.
Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
Plane Airgapped runs Plane on networks with no internet access. How it works, what you bring into the network, how licensing and upgrades work offline, and who it’s for.
Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition
RELEASE: Today the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild. The Guild will now begin the process to develop a contract.
We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation
We have made the conscious choice not to continue paying for accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). We realize that this may raise questions among our customers, and we want to explain why we made this decision. For years, people have been told to look for BBB accredited businesses, and that it somehow re
Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets
Airline pricing may seem mystifying, but behind every airfare is a complex system of fare buckets and inventory controls. Airlines don't just sell seats - they manage a dynamic inventory of fares, divided into booking classes (fare buckets) with different prices and rules. For the technically curious, understanding…
12ft.io Taken Down
The News/Media Alliance has successfully secured the takedown of notorious paywall bypass website 12ft.io.
Agents built from alloys
Learn how Alloy Agents improve autonomous vulnerability detection, boosting success rates and scaling offensive security testing with AI.
Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker
An interview with some of the creative minds behind Teufel's new open-source MYND speaker. Find the whole story straight from the source.
New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past
Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen…
The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s
The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies...
How and where will agents ship software?
Beginners are vibe-coding apps and experts are maxing out their LLM subscriptions. What does this mean for how we build software?
Claude for Financial Services
A comprehensive solution for financial analysis that helps finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make decisions.
Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.
Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
Acquisition will expand GF portfolio with cutting-edge RISC-V processor IP and software tools for real-time computing in autonomous mobility, industrial automation, datacenter and intelligent edge applications MALTA, N.Y., and San Jose, Calif., July 8, 2025 – GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced a…
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.
Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less
Discover how Batch Mode in Gemini API allows developers to submit large jobs, offload processing, and get results in 24 hours, offering simplicity, convenience, and cost-savings.