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More ways to run and share Loops Loops automate product work by responding to changes in Linear and connected tools. You can now trigger them from Slack and GitHub, share them as templates, and customize their reasoning levels. Slack and GitHub triggers Events in Slack and GitHub

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins.

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The Scene Pascal Lamy negotiated China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 on behalf of the EU. A decade later, in a speech in Shanghai, Europe’s former trade commissioner lauded what he called a “win-win” outcome. But like a growing number of current and former European leaders, he’s

TV star's brother 'never recovered' from her death - Published The brother of TV presenter Caroline Flack took his own life having "never recovered" after his sister's death, an inquest heard. Paul Flack, 55, was found unresponsive at his home in Sandringham Road, Norwich, on 21

In a distributed system, you have components running in separate processes or machines. These components could be application services, database replicas, or even background workers. Since in distributed systems, we divide the system into so many components, it’s pretty common th

A commercial real estate deal passes through a long chain of hands before a commission lands: a tenant search, a tour, a letter of intent, a landlord, a co-broke split, a payment schedule. Most brokers track that chain across texts, notes, inboxes and general-purpose CRMs built f

Amazon has warned that vulnerabilities in a programming language that underpins much of the Internet, discovered using AI tools, are being “broadly exploited” as governments and companies rush to secure their systems. The world’s largest cloud computing provider on Wednesday said

Spotify confirmed the reports of its crackdown on Family Plan sharing during its third-quarter call with investors, calling its new method “a routine improvement” to its existing verification tools. Over the past several days, reports had surfaced indicating that Spotify was roll

In a cautionary statement, the Sebi said several unregistered individuals were operating closed WhatsApp groups, mostly through overseas mobile numbers, and circulating unauthorised buy and sell calls under the pretext of providing free investor education. The regulator said thes

Listen to this article in summarized format The AI lab is pressing ahead to hold its initial public offering as planned in the middle of next month after making its prospectus public as early as late October, people familiar with the matter said, cautioning the plan and the dates

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders So… what now? It seems to be the question many in the energy markets are asking. We are about to enter the ninth month of the Iran war. Or Iran "conflict." At this point, it's not very clear what to call it. The only thing right n

In today’s market, no single metric defines what a Series A is, or how to raise one. At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors offered founders advice on raising one, and one of them tacked on a warning. With money pouring into AI and revenue numbers being inflated to ju

DDN joins NetApp and VAST Data at Dutch neocloud Nebul Dutch neocloud Nebul is using DDN’s Infinia OS for KV caching work, but it's not its only storage offering. Nebul, a neocloud or AI CSP, based in Leiden, Holland, was founded in 2022 by CEO and data center specialist Arnold J

Bengaluru-based electric mobility startup Ultraviolette Automotive has launched the X-47 Venom electric motorcycle alongside a new 100V VX-100 platform. The motorcycle is priced at Rs 2.65 lakh under an introductory offer, with deliveries scheduled to begin in November 2026. The

Reliance Jio IPO subscription status day 1, day 2: Jio Platforms initial public offering continued to draw strong interest from investors across categories on day 2, i.e. on Thursday, October 22. Backed by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited, Jio Platforms IPO reportedly

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Silver prices crashed in Thursday’s trade, October 22, with the December delivery contract on MCX plunging ₹8,593 per kilogram to ₹2,00,575. This was the lowest level in seven months, as escalating tensions in the Middle East pushed oil prices higher, fueling expectations of furt

How Lufthansa Systems prototypes realistic maps for the cockpit with Figma Make Pilots depend on in-flight software to navigate routes, see air traffic, avoid turbulence, and more. To bring more dynamic prototypes to user testing, Lufthansa Systems turned to Figma Make. Share How

Micron skipping planned NAND generation Micron is accelerating its planned 3D-NAND technology roadmap by jumping a generation to provide additional die capacity, speed and energy efficiency faster. The company is currently shipping G9, its ninth generation, with 276 layers. The f

Employers might be overestimating the downsides of offering paid parental leave and underestimating the costs of losing employees by foregoing it, argues economist Emily Oster in a new report based on research she conducted with the advocacy group Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Ame

ShopOS, a Bengaluru-based AI startup backed by Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal’s 3STATE Ventures, has launched Sloosh.ai, an AI creative platform that generates product images, visual scenes, reels and creator-style videos from ideas, photos and videos. The launch comes after Sh

An RJ Reynolds subsidiary is promoting fruit-flavored vaping pods with colorful scented mailers that critics say are similar to the “scratch and sniff” ads the tobacco giant agreed to suspend 20 years ago, as part of a settlement with 39 states that had accused the company of vio

Supermicro announced the NVIDIA Vera CPU rack today, a 48U, 100 percent liquid-cooled rack that holds 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, 22,528 cores, and 45,056 threads and that Supermicro rates for up to 22,500 concurrent agent sandboxes. It is the newest member of the Data Center Building

Coast – $35M FINTECH Coast, a financial platform that provides corporate cards, expense management, and bill pay for construction, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, transportation, and utility businesses, has raised $35M in Venture funding led by Thomvest Ventures with participation fr

The indices, designed to track large and liquid Indian stocks and the financial services sector, respectively, use a multi-factor methodology that combines free-float market capitalisation, trading activity, beta and volatility, moving beyond a market-capitalisation-only approach

Coal India Q2 results date, time: Shares of Coal India Limited will remain in focus next week as Maharatna PSU is scheduled to announce its September quarter earnings next week. The state-run coal miner will also consider and approve interim dividend for financial year 2026-27.Co

The country's largest non-banking financial company-microfinance institution (NBFC-MFI) revised its return on assets guidance upwards to 5.2-5.8% from an earlier projection of 4.0-4.8% and return on equity guidance to 21–24% from 16-20%. Its total income jumped 26% at Rs 1905 cro

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns next month for its third season. Prime Video unveiled a teaser earlier this year at San Diego Comic-Con, but we haven’t heard much about the new season otherwise. We now have the official full trailer, and it’s jam-packed with a risin

Listen to this article in summarized format The company on Wednesday lowered its 2026 capex forecast to about $20 billion from more than $25 billion, after spending much less than expected on AI and robotics in the third quarter. The lower spending helped Tesla deliver surprise p

Dive Brief: - Less than half — 46% — of consumers rated their most recent experience with AI and chatbot channels positively, according to a Five9 survey released last week. - By comparison, consumers were more positively disposed toward live phone, email and in-person support, w

The area recorded 4,845 residential apartment registrations in September, down 9 per cent from 5,302 a year ago but up 2 per cent from August. Apartments measuring 501-1,000 sq ft accounted for 58 per cent of registrations during the first nine months, against 46 per cent in the

VAST Data announced the Agent Sandbox Foundation Stack with NVIDIA at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, a reference architecture that runs NVIDIA NemoClaw agents inside NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes on the VAST AI Operating System. OpenShell handles isolated execution and policy enforcement around

Net profit stood at Rs 109.54 crore a year earlier, according to a regulatory filing. Total income rose 19.35 per cent to Rs 2,902.49 crore from Rs 2,431.85 crore a year earlier. Expenses climbed to Rs 2,749.99 crore from Rs 2,284.32 crore. "Despite the challenging environment fa

Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 today in Delaware. Affiliates of the Getty family and Koch Equity Development will put in up to $533M in new equity and will own the whole company once the process ends, which Getty expects by the end of the year. Public shareholders are set to g

Update | October 22, 19:35 IST Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213 Cr IPO ended the second day of bidding with 5.57X subscription, receiving bids for 110.03 Cr shares against 19.75 Cr shares on offer, according to BSE data. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) led demand, bidding for 65.15 C

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: - Time to rethink software security because of AI? A series of high-profile security incidents and breaches took place in a single day, many fueled by AI. Attackers gain adv