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How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
As inflation-weary businesses raise prices to cover credit card interchange fees, the pain isn't universal, says research by Mark L. Egan.
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Agents for financial services and insurance
Ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, Microsoft 365 integrations, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance.
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Netflix’s Media Production Suite
Jesse Korosi, Thijs van de Kamp, Mayra Vega, Laura Futuro, Anton Margoline
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Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
Signaling a new chapter for Silicon Valley, two veteran R&D leaders are combining minds to advance and accelerate world-changing science and technology.
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Investor Day
Below is a copy of an email I sent to investors who attend YC’s Demo Day. It discusses some of the changes we’re making and how they will impact Demo Day. > YC Demo Day Investors,We’re making some changes to Y Combinator’s Demo Days – please take a minute to read below because they are material. As with previous…
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GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
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Shutting down a product? Open source it.
One month ago, we informed Copycopter customers that we would be shutting the...
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Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
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700M users and Premium
Telegram now has over 700 million monthly active users. Today we're launching Telegram Premium – a subscription that lets you support Telegram's continued development and gives access to exclusive additional features.
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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
NumFOCUS's Code of Conduct Committee's apology to Jeremy Howard
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Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
The membership has been shifed to a singuar donation.
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Apple acquires Buddybuild
Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
See all of the latest features and updates to the OpenAI API.
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Scaling YC
One of the most common questions I hear is: “why has YC continued to grow our batch size?”. For each twice-yearly batch, we receive thousands of applicants through our online application [https://www.ycombinator.com/apply]. We have always wanted to fund as many great founders as possible and are convinced that in the…
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Cortana available on iOS and Android
Cortana was created to be a truly personal digital assistant – available on the go, no matter where or when you need help, and on whatever device you carry. That’s why it’s important to us that we bring Cortana to not only the Windows 10 ecosystem, but to other platforms. Today, we’re excited to announce
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Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages
In a historic judgment in Italy, in a case initiated by FSFE supporter Luca Bonissi, Lenovo was ordered to pay 20,000 euros in damages for abusive behaviou...
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MemSQL is now free to use for databases with up to 128GB of RAM usage
SingleStore: Now Free to Use
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Does Sponsoring Daring Fireball Work?
This website is for sale! desk.pm is your first and best source for information about desk. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Welcoming Semmle to GitHub
Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.
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Facebook abandons Aquila, its internet drone
Today nearly 4 billion people globally do not have access to the Internet. It’s why Facebook, along with many other companies and governments, is investing heavily to address the three key ba…