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Europe's Anduril rival Helsing raises $1.8 billion at $18 billion valuation (cnbc.com)

2026-07-13 | by Arjun Kharpal | tags: billion, defense, funding

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NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: funding, nasa, space

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Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87 (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: astronauts, aviation, flight

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Money launderer accused of stealing seized crypto while in prison (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: court, cryptocurrency, fraud

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Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-10 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: elon, ex elon, funds

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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-10 | by Garisto | tags: directorates, funding, funds

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Aviation pioneer and space-travel record breaker Wally Funk dies at 87 (engadget.com)

2026-07-09 | by Kris Holt | tags: aviation, funk, glenn

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A possible future for Damn Interesting (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: damn, fundraiser, interesting

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A Possible Future for Damn Interesting (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: damn, fundraiser, interesting

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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-09 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: aggarwal, capital, firm

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‘This time, it’s the other way around’: how Indonesia is reclaiming the science of human history (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-09 | by Rochmyaningsih | tags: brin, funding, indonesia

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Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-08 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: billion, continue, crypto

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Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-08 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: firm, founders, fund

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Bezos' Blue Origin valued at $130 billion in first outside fundraising round (cnbc.com)

2026-07-08 | by Annie Palmer | tags: bezos, billion, funding

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Bezos' Blue Origin valued at $130 billion in first public fundraising round (cnbc.com)

2026-07-08 | by Annie Palmer | tags: bezos, billion, funding

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An indie developer says Steam's refund policy cost his well-reviewed game 55,000 refunds (techspot.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: collected, collected refunds, culprit doesn

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VC firm Chemistry is raising $500M for its second fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: chemistry, firm, fund

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Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: chemistry, firm, fund

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Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer PhDs, a Bad Sign For Science (slashdot.org)

2026-07-07 | tags: administration, federal, funding

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Deep-sea oddities and boatloads of other new species — June’s best science images (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: activity, beauty, fungi

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Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-05 | by Luke James | tags: april, berlin, federal

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There’s a Global Network of Fungi Under Your Feet. This Is the First Complete Map (wired.com)

2026-07-05 | by Marta Musso | tags: carbon, fungal, fungi

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Synthesis is harder than analysis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-04 | by Lorin Hochstein | tags: calculus, compute, frac

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Valve Open-Sources Steam Machine's E-Ink Display (slashdot.org)

2026-07-03 | tags: calling, don use, finished

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Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: programming paradigm, fuzzy functions, program-as-weights

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Sony Erases Digital Content From Libraries, a Reminder That You Don’t Own What You Buy (wired.com)

2026-07-03 | by Scharon Harding | tags: playstation, studiocanal, funimation

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OpenAI 'In Early Talks To Give 5% Stake To US Government' (slashdot.org)

2026-07-02 | tags: openai, sam altman, ai companies

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OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-02 | by Russell Brandom | tags: openai, sam altman, sovereign wealth fund

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OpenAI mulling giving US gov't a 5% stake in the company, days after Washington delayed GPT-5.6 — Altman reportedly wants every leading U.S. AI lab paying into an Alaska-style public fund (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-02 | by Luke James | tags: altman, equity, fund

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Quantum computing is about to get a lot more real (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: quantum computing, supercomputers, federal funding