Excited to share the latest updates in our vcpkg package manager as of March 2025! 
With the recent 2025.03.19 registry release, we now have 2,564 total ports, 40 new additions, and 408 updates! Highlights include new commands for CI system PR reviews, improved resiliency for downloads, and documentation enhancements on authenticating to NuGet feeds.
A huge thanks to our 82 community contributors! Dive into our GitHub for more details and let’s keep building together! #vc
Albert Saniger, ex-CEO of AI shopping app Nate, has been charged with defrauding investors. Despite claiming near-total automation, Nate allegedly used humans in the Philippines for nearly all transactions. The startup raised $50M—now mostly lost.
#AI #Fraud #StartupNews #VC #TechScandal #Ecommerce #DOJ
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/
Moorpark Us101 N / Rancho Rd Ofr **Report of Fire** 10:55 AM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
Rule of thumb: if a company operating in a highly technical scientific space chooses to release its progress reports or results in an "exclusive" with a mainstream media outlet, rather than via a scientific journal, it's not a scientific company. It's a financial grift.
Midas List, Forbes’ ranking of the world’s top venture capitalists https://www.forbes.com/lists/midas/
#Investors qualify if portfolio companies hit $200M+ exits or $400M+ valuations in 5 years
19 founders and VCs working with Elon Musk’s #DOGE - #coup #AmericanCoup #VentureCapital #VC #politics #USPol https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/19-founders-and-vcs-working-with-elon-musks-doge/
Composting the #TechShit
The value of the #Fediverse isn’t in the tech specs. It’s not in the #ActivityPub protocol or the code itself, those are tools. The value lies in the culture that birthed it. The #Fediverse is the living embodiment of the #openweb, not some #VC Silicon Valley plaything. But as money floods in, as #mainstreaming forces try to turn it into another hollow platform, we risk losing the very thing that makes it powerful, its strong decentralized, trust-based roots.The looming battle is […]
Trying to "democratize" capitalism (ESPECIALLY venture capital) is like trying to make fire out of water. It's a contradiction in terms. The _structure_, the _artifact_ of #vc is broken and undemocratic.
Until tech workers realize this, we're gonna make 0 progress.
"mundus sine Caesaribus" can't happen in the #vc #VentureCapital space. It definitionally can't.
Like it becomes a point of contention, because first you'll have to dispel the arms race - and not that I don't think that's dumb, but humans are all incredibly dumb to begin with.
Guarantee me that someone won't come in and eat up my future with #AI - even despite the bubble that will hit us all inevitably. The thing is you can't.
But also, this is more of a fault of venture #capitalism - again - and you can't really skirt around that issue.
#VC gonna VC and disappoint, as usual.
Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 
(4/n)
....value anymore. The future of #Matrix always seems somehow, em.. unconfirmed? An interesting project. I wonder where it will go. There's been a LOT of #VC [#VentureCapital] funding up to now, one might assume some return is expected at some point. Maybe not though. I've run #Jabber servers in the past,...
This framework could, in theory, generate minimal synthetic organisms with novel properties, design specialized microorganisms for bioremediation or medical applications, or create semi-synthetic cells with expanded genetic codes that can produce novel proteins not found in nature.
The key innovation would be the AI's ability to work with the expanded GATCA system while maintaining biological coherence across scales from individual genes to whole-organism function.
I recon, I need about 1 Billion to spin up a viability evaluation project.
I could pick up some unemployed US scientists from the curbside for next to nothing.
So #VC folk, if you want to hop onto the #AI bandwagon, strap a rocket sled onto it, and get so fast ahead of the pack you leave any Ethics or morality behind, drop me a DM!
Pros: Attention Transformers encoded into Synthetic Bio Life.
Cons: #GrayGoo
6/6
I started reading "The Technological Republic".
They aren't hiding anymore. They're done pretending that technology isn't political. They're just saying the quiet part out loud now: their technology, which our society depends on, is anti-worker, anti-poor, and anti-democracy.
the american military is about to be run by venture capitalists and private equity bros (literally).
the #broligarchy is real.
For the first time, the VC space called out the rising overreach of AI powered bossware, catching YC by surprise.
Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/y-combinator-deletes-posts-after-a-startups-demo-goes-viral/
Moorpark Santa Rosa Rd / Hilltop Ln **Report of Fire** 12:50 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
@drtcombs.bsky.social For the people following on Mastodon, here's a screenshot of the Mark Cuban post that Tab was referring to (full text in the caption):
Marc Andreeson puts money into shady FinTech startups. Then, as Patrick Boyle explains, Marc goes on podcasts telling blatant lies about the regulatory bodies that exist to protect people from shady financial services. All to boost the short term value of his pump-and-dump "investments".
People might lose their live savings, but Marc walks away with a solid return. What a prize prick.
(3/?)
