1921
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Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Arm announces public filing of registration statement for proposed initial public offering
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TimescaleDB raises $40M
We just raised a $40M Series B to bring our relational database for time-series to developers everywhere. Learn how we got started and what’s still yet to come.
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World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
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Fraudulent Advertising on Facebook
This story starts with Sidney Crosby. A professional hockey player and Canadian icon. I can neither confirm nor deny that I welled up like…
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DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
Today, DoorDash announced a new partnership with Waymo to launch an autonomous delivery service in Metro Phoenix and introduce a limited-time $10 Waymo promotion for DashPass members in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
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An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
Dear PSF, We, organisers in the pan-African Python community, would like to raise some concerns and frustrations that have been brought to a...
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Why I did not go to jail (2014)
A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be like. Here’s a piece that I wrote for the book that did not make the cut. I still think it’s a pretty good story and gives you a flavor. I just tell the truth so...
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Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing
The beautiful, lightning-fast and fully-native issue tracker that you will want to use. Effortless connectivity direct to your existing JIRA, GitHub or Manuscript server. You'll get more stuff done and your team will love that you now actually update your issues instead of leaving them hanging.
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Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
As announced previously, Factorio is now available for Nintendo Switch. You can find it on the Nintendo eShop in your region. I hope you will enjoy it. Remember that if you are not sure, you can try the demo. I recommend playing through the tutorial campaign even if you are a veteran player, as it gradually teaches…
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New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
Alston & Bird’s Dan Felz and Peter Swire look at the recent Wiesbaden Administrative Cou
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.
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PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.
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Quora in the next YC batch
This month, YC will be participating in Quora’s most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer’s YC batch. This is a new experiment for us; we’ve funded later-stage companies before, but none close to Quora’s stage. Our hope is that both the company and the YC community will get a lot of value out…
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Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Office.eu launches in The Hague as a 100% European alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, built on open-source technology and European infrastructure.
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CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
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On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
At Elastic, our focus is on building great products, form communities around them, and make our users successful.
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Trolls Are Real
In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we’re doing at EFF. Today, in light of recent developments at the U.S. Patent Office, we’re doing a deep dive into a single issue: recent changes to the patent system, and how it’s in danger of heading backwards.
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MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill
Fifty years after the War on Drugs was officially declared and psychedelic substance prohibition began in contravention of evidence supporting therapeutic use, the California State Senate has taken the first Legislative step to dismantle psychedelic prohibition with a 21-16 vote on June 1, 2021, in favor of Senate…
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