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- Undecimal launches with $18M; Erlich reports mouse mRNA repression
Yaniv Erlich, in answers relayed by Lily Jeffery, told RuntimeWire that siRNA screen hits produced statistically significant target-mRNA repression in mice after subcutaneous delivery to extrahepatic tissues, but public materials omit key experimental details.
- Marklo Raises $5M, Says 45% of 100-Plus Brands Use Product Weekly
The Shopify-focused startup has opened a free tier and Pro trial after a restricted pilot, founder and CEO Jessica Herrin told RuntimeWire.
- Aonic opens a waitlist for its $149-a-year, at-cost supplement club
The San Francisco wellness startup was co-founded by fitness coach Senada Greca, Kim Kardashian's personal trainer, and entrepreneur Max Meier. Founding members pay $49 for the first year; Aonic has not announced a funding round.
- After data.world, Brett Hurt is asking what humans should become
An extended interview with the Austin founder about the experiences behind Love Conquers Fear, the limits of his optimism about AI and the responsibilities of the AI reporter asking the questions.
- Netflix moved live-ad enrichment off the serving path with a Flink rewrite
Published August 17th, the redesign replaces registry writes with Kafka and Flink joins; Netflix says a load test handled hundreds of thousands of events per second.
- Everything we know about OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan
The engineer accused of hiding a recorder in an OpenAI executive conference room had a career spanning Saudi talent programs, MIT, Meta and startup investing. His alleged purpose remains unexplained.
- Microsoft's cloud chief asks leaders to find 20% in cost cuts
The directive comes as Azure grows and Microsoft increases AI infrastructure spending, putting pressure on the company to expand capacity while protecting cloud margins.
- Yandex bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukraine strike
Yandex confirmed outages at facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir; a drop in its network's automated traffic does not establish that disinformation bots were disabled.
- Yandex says drone attack halted its Vladimir data center operations
A Bluesky user claimed bot traffic from Yandex's network had fallen near zero after the strike. Cloudflare Radar's accessible chart and a linked screenshot do not establish the drop's interval, baseline or magnitude.
- GitHub Copilot gains desktop-app controls in public preview
The feature lets Copilot use desktop interfaces across its CLI and Mac and Windows apps, but is off by default.
- Quilty brings connector to Claude, ChatGPT with access to broader research tools
A Quilty representative says the connector offers trend reports, IP intelligence and slate data in addition to screenplay analyses.
- GitHub launches ReviewBench; Copilot produced 45% of its answer key
RuntimeWire found Copilot Code Review supplied 1,185 of 2,623 true-positive findings. GitHub says its 96.6% validation figure covered only 1,500 findings already labeled true positive.
- Austin studies eVTOLs for EMS as traffic blocks responders
City officials are weighing aircraft-assisted emergency response; Austin was not selected for the FAA pilot, though Texas is testing routes and future medical logistics.
- Python 3.15 ships lazy imports, an upgraded JIT and free-threading support
Release manager Hugo van Kemenade oversaw a 5,643-commit cycle that also makes UTF-8 the default encoding and adds new profiling tools.
- Flock Safety plans 270 job cuts as surveillance backlash reaches its workforce
The reductions would affect about 18% of Flock's roughly 1,500 employees, after a voluntary buyout program and as local governments question its camera network.
- OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation's 26.10 release adds Release 17 NTN support and native 5G positioning
The OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation says 26.10 adds Release 17 NTN support; GEO NTN support appeared in 24.04. SRS co-founder Ismael Gomez chairs the project's technical steering committee, and the release notes still mark O-RU and end-to-end tests as outstanding.
- ASI wins a five-year Army contract with a $99M ceiling for command software
Founded by Phillip Buckendorf after he saw how flight dispatchers worked, ASI says the first Army order will support Corps-level fires deconfliction.
- Aurora gets five-year federal exemption for driverless-truck warning beacons
The Transportation Department approved the exemption late on October 7th, Reuters reported the next day; it lets Aurora and other autonomous trucking companies use cab-mounted beacons instead of roadside warning devices.
- Tesla kept Texas Robotaxi rides running after its ride-hailing permit expired
The permit lapsed in August; Texas regulators told KXAN Tesla submitted its renewal late and would owe $11,250, while its separate automated-vehicle authorization remained active.
- Meta's Muse code reveals a Trusted Network with invites and safety codes
RuntimeWire found references to contact selection, invitations and connection approvals across Muse's public web assets. Instinct already offers agent-to-agent coordination; Muse's code leaves its own behavior and availability unresolved.
- REK says California sent a cease-and-desist over its human-robot fight
Founder Cix Liv says the notice targets a September 18th San Francisco exhibition where a remotely piloted humanoid fought creator Frankie LaPenna.
- RuntimeWire is now on iPhone and iPad.
RuntimeWire product news: our free app is available on iPhone and iPad.
- Reddit will restrict Old Reddit to users active within six months
The coming rule exempts logged-in moderators and follows July's login gate as Reddit tightens access to curb scraping.
- We Traced What Happens When You Open 11 Tech News Sites
WIRED sent audience-segment events to Pinterest. Four publishers sent Meta page views. RuntimeWire's homepage scan reached two outside domains.