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Lux Capital, a 25-year-old VC firm known for its investments in frontier science and defense technology, has closed a $1.5 billion ninth fund, the largest fund in the firm’s history. Despite 2025 marking a 10-year low for the number of new VC funds raised in the U.S., according to PitchBook, it’s not hard to see […]
Most developers spend their days fixing bugs, shipping features, and jumping into the next sprint without even thinking about it. After a while, you begin to ask yourself, “Is this still what I want to be doing?” This article looks at how you can move into a new direction in your career without starting from […]
Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? That appears to be MSI’s mantra with the new MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 gaming monitor, which was on full display this week at CES. As its name implies, the MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 (say that three times fast) uses a 5th-generation QD-OLED panel with […]
from the this-arsonist-seems-bad-at-firefighting dept We’ve noted repeatedly how right wing billionaire Larry Ellison hired an unqualified troll named Bari Weiss to run CBS News for a very obvious set of reasons: to coddle wealth and power (particularly Trump and Netanyahu), validate and amplify right wing grievance and engagement bullshit, divide and distract the electorate, and undermine […]
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify Messages now offers an opt-in Listening activity feature, allowing connected friends and family to see what you are playing in real-time. A new Request to Jam button has been added to chats, making it easier to coordinate and start remote shared listening sessions. The features are rolling out […]
Anker introduced a nifty little charger at CES 2026, which is a refresh of the pre-existing Nano Charger. It’s already on sale for $30, which is a discount of $10. These are preorders, however, with shipments officially going out on January 20. The 45W charger includes a smart display that shows real-time data like power […]
Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves KFF Health News Scientists just cracked the multiple sclerosis code after decades of searching. Two specific gut bacteria are triggering the disease, and they’ve proven it using identical twins and mice. This changes everything we know about MS: pic.twitter.com/1YOHkSekqv — Craig Brockie (@CraigBrockie) January 6, 2026 South of […]
When a model is trained, each word in its vocabulary is assigned a numerical value that captures the meaning of that word in relation to all the other words, based on how the word appears in countless examples across the model’s training data. Each word gets replaced by a kind of code? Yeah. But there’s […]
Jan 07, 2026Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Financial Fraud Threat actors engaging in phishing attacks are exploiting routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to impersonate organizations’ domains and distribute emails that appear as if they have been sent internally. “Threat actors have leveraged this vector to deliver a wide variety of phishing messages related to various […]
Building a Production-Ready Rate Limiter with Redis in NestJS (Part 2: Workspace-Aware Business Logic) In Part 1, we built the core Redis rate limiter with atomic Lua scripts. Now we’ll add the intelligence that makes it production-ready for a multi-tenant SaaS application. What we’re building: Workspace-isolated rate limiting (Slack-style) Plan-based limits (Free, Pro, Enterprise) Security-focused […]
