Zocks, an AI platform designed for financial advisors, has closed a $45 million Series B funding round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors. The round also drew participation from Illuminate Financial and all existing investors, including Motive Partners, Expanse Venture Partners, Entrée Capital, and 14Peaks Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to

Upwind, a cloud security company focused on runtime protection, has raised $250 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital joining as new investors. Existing backers including Greylock, Cyberstarts, Leaders Fund, Craft Ventures, TCV, Alta Park, Cerca Partners, Swish Ventures, and Penny Jar Capital

South Korea on Tuesday became the first country to implement a fully fledged 5G network, a milestone that highlights the intense competitive race by Western powers and their Asian rivals led by China to dominate the next generation of mobile communication technology. The new rules, which would point toward requirements for other countries to develop their

Developers have spent the past decade trying to forget databases exist. Not literally, of course. We still store petabytes. But for the average developer, the database became an implementation detail; an essential but staid utility layer we worked hard not to think about. We abstracted it behind object-relational mappers (ORM). We wrapped it in APIs.

For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It’s no different with machine learning and large language models. If anything, the open source ecosystem has grown richer and more complex, because now there are open source models to complement the open source code. For article,

When one compromised agent brought down our entire 50-agent ML system in minutes, I realized we had a fundamental problem. We were building autonomous AI agents without the basic trust infrastructure that the internet established 40 years ago with DNS. As a PhD researcher and IEEE Senior Member, and I’ve spent the past year building

Most engineers have heard the phrase “10x engineer” or “force multiplier“. In practice, the highest leverage is not solo heroics but whether your presence makes everyone around you faster, safer and more effective. That is force multiplication. Early in my time as a Senior Software Engineer, I didn’t have a clear framework for how to

A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that far. But “a Star Trek podcast by two guys just a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast” has now passed the milestone. January 25, 2026, marks a full decade since The Greatest

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A 20-year old man in Taiwan went to a dermatology clinic for a strange rash that had developed across his shoulders and chest. The raised, red, and itchy condition had been bothering him for a full month. By this point, he had also developed patches of pigmented skin interlaced with the red rash. According to