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AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.

The parity trick that answers “exactly where?” and not just “something is wrong” Why should you care? Every frame crossing a cable or the air faces noise from interference, loose connectors or even a microwave oven. One flipped bit can turn a transfer of 100 into 900. The link layer’s first duty is to notice damage, and the receiver usually discards the frame and asks for a resend. On satellite or noisy wireless links, resending is slow and may fail again, so it would be bette...

An overnight breach of an older OpenCode system impacted 1.4% of Console users, resulting in unauthorized API charges exceeding $1,000 due to stored service keys. While the standalone app and CLI tool were unaffected, major providers revoked exposed keys and initiated refunds. The breach affected 1,4% of users of the online service OpenCode Console, where some stored digital access keys to artificial intelligence services. Overnight, developers began reporting on social media notificati...

Originally published in TinkerNews Issue #58 — free weekly DIY electronics. MatTris, MirrorBallBot, and the ESP32 Science Tricorder Issue 58 brings hands-on builds spanning a pocket Arduino arcade, a Raspberry Pi robot balancing on a ball, and an open-source ESP32 science tricorder—plus practical projects for… 🌐 Lead build: Build an ESP32 SHT41 Temperature and Humidity Monitor An ESP32 and SHT41 form a compact environmental monitor with simple four wire I2C con...

Eino is CloudWeGo's Go framework for LLM applications: chat models, tools, graphs and a ReAct agent, in the style of LangChain but written for Go. Its OpenAI component ( github.com/cloudwego/eino-ext/components/model/openai ) is the one most people use with self-hosted or hosted OpenAI-compatible servers such as vLLM, Ollama's /v1 endpoint, LiteLLM or a gateway. The setup is three fields. The behaviour around them is less obvious, so I tested eino v0.7.13 and the eino-ext OpenAI component v...

Hi! I’m Girish, an AWS Community Builder and cloud technology enthusiast. I enjoy exploring AWS services, building hands-on projects, and sharing what I learn with the community. As agentic development tools become part of enterprise engineering, governance is becoming just as important as productivity. Kiro IDE brings AI-powered capabilities to developers, but enterprise administrators also need control over how developers access these tools. Kiro already provides several governance contr...

I’m releasing Aureform UI under Apache 2.0 : a Next.js kit for dashboards, SaaS workspaces and internal tools, with editable source and a Figma companion. You can try the live demo or get the source on GitHub . The project includes 69 views, 44 core component families and 96 registry entries , built with Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4 and Base UI. All Aureform components, blocks and templates are part of the open-source release. The work between the scree...

In my last post, January's EIA-860M plans for 2017-2025 delivered 62% of their capacity in the planned year. For 2017, EIA's own count said 78%, and 86% for onshore wind against my 62.5%. Two pre-registered tests, both run in sealed jobs on PUDL's copies of EIA's data, now explain the gap. It is not how "online" is counted. Dating every generator in the January 2017 plan by the annual EIA-860 instead of the monthly survey gives 16,733 MW online in 2017 against 16,751 MW; onshore wind is ...

Accepting Crypto Payments for Real Services with Zero Dependencies: Inside Crypto Service Bots Most "accept crypto" tutorials end the same way: sign up for a payment processor, get an API key, pay a percentage on every transaction, and hope the provider doesn't freeze your account. Crypto Service Bots takes a different route. It is an open-source companion to the Crypto Service Store, and it lets a developer sell real services, get paid in USDT, and verify payment by reading the blockchain d...

Expert Analysis: Anthropic's Public Benefit Fund Initiative Anthropic's commitment to allocate 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund represents a strategic maneuver to address mounting public skepticism toward AI technologies. This initiative, designed to mitigate backlash and foster trust, is a critical component of the company's pre-IPO strategy. By linking financial success to philanthropic contributions, Anthropic aims to align its economic growth with societal expectations of corpor...

Google Trends is the go-to free source for "which of these is more popular?". But it has two limits that break any serious keyword research: Max 5 terms per comparison. Each request is rescaled to its own maximum = 100. So if you export 20 batches of 5 keywords and paste them together, a "50" in batch 1 and a "50" in batch 7 are different things. In a simulation with known ground truth (Google-style rescaling + integer rounding), that naive concatenation was off by more than 20 ...

Azure Policy GUIDs, role ids, Graph permissions, resource types in your Bicep, Terraform, ARM, PowerShell, YAML, markdown and shell files: hover them and the card tells you what they are and links to AzAdvertizer. It also flags deprecated policy definitions and initiatives in the Problems panel, and offers a quick fix for resource types on an outdated API version. Works in VS Code desktop, vscode/github dev and Codespaces. Lookups run locally against a bundled index that refreshes daily. N...

The Codename One backend is not Spring compatible. We use similar syntax to ease migration and porting, but familiar annotations do not tell you whether the ported application behaves the same way. Tests do. What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps from a single Java or Kotlin codebase. Learn more at codenameone.com . Write those tests in the original Spring application first. Capture the behavior your clients...

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