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Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and businessWednesday, September 23, 2026

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BOOKS AND BANKING* BELONG TOGETHER

Your books and your banking* have always lived in separate places. Another platform to log into, another set of data to translate across systems. The result: books that reflect last quarter's reality, not today's. Until now. Mercury Books is intelligent accounting, built directly into your banking.* [5] Transactions are categorized and reconciled automatically as they happen, erasing the manual work from the month-end close, and giving you a real-time view of your financial position. Sync thousands of external platforms like Stripe, PayPal, and Gusto, and invite your bookkeeper or accountant at no extra cost.

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TECH PROFESSIONALS HAVE TRAINED THEMSELVES TO IGNORE ADS. TLDR IS THE EXCEPTION.

Your buyers scroll past product pitches on social all day and have learned to tune most of them out. In TLDR, your ad is written in the newsletter's voice and appears alongside the stories they came to read. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities [11].

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AUTOMATE YOUR TEAM'S OFFICE LUNCH ROUTINE

DoorDash's automated meal calendar handles everything in the background – it picks restaurants, sends reminders, and checks out orders – so everyone gets what they want and you get time back.

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THE MOST FLEXIBLE AI MEETING APP NOW HAS AN MCP SERVER

Your meetings happen in hallways, coffeeshops, and restaurants. Granola moves with you to catch every detail from desktop to Apple Watch. And now the Granola MCP server [11] lets you ask Claude to update your CRM with meeting context, have ChatGPT organize tasks in Linear, and turn meeting insights into automated workflows. Start free [12] with code TLDR1MO

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WHEN THE MOST ADVANCED AI MODELS AND MOST VALUABLE DATA CAN'T MEET.

Enterprises won't expose sensitive data to infrastructure they don't control. Model builders won't put proprietary weights somewhere they can't trust. Learn how VAST Data is removing that trust barrier [18].

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WHO OWNS YOUR INTELLIGENCE? THE CEOS OF DIGITALOCEAN, OPENHANDS, AND DAYTONA TAKE ON THAT QUESTION IN SF, OCT 12–13

The argument isn't "is open source cheaper" anymore; it's "who owns the intelligence." Two days on exactly that at the Open Intelligence Summit, also featuring OpenRouter's Peter Walker on what developers

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BUILDING EDGE AI PIPELINES USUALLY STARTS WITH A BLANK YAML FILE AND BOILERPLATE SETUP. IT SHOULDN'T.

Setting up edge deployments means wrestling with model choices, pre/post-processing, and card enumeration. Most of your time goes into configuration rather than building. Voyager Wingman changes that by generating production-ready pipelines for Axelera hardware from natural language prompts. Read the breakdown to discover: * How to generate and run live edge pipelines on-device from prompts * Why Wingman operates as an SDK-trained copilot instead of guessing code * How to claim your free account and €25 token voucher

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PUSH YOUR PYTORCH SKILLS FURTHER

Two days of sessions on real performance gains, kernel-level techniques, and what's next for PyTorch, vLLM, and Ray - straight from the teams building them. Don't miss PyTorch Conference North America, Oct 20–21 in San Jose. See the full schedule [13]. Register [12] by Oct 1 with code TLDR25 to save 25%.

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BASETEN ACQUIRES BLAXEL TO BUILD THE CLOUD FOR THE NEXT TRILLION AGENTS

One platform to serve models and run long-lived agents, with sandboxes that wake in 25ms. The future of agent infrastructure.

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FLASHPOINT JUST NAMED A CUSTOMER FAVORITE IN THE 2026 FORRESTER WAVE™ FOR THREAT INTELLIGENCE.

Based on outstanding customer feedback in the all new Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026. Flashpoint also received the highest scores possible for the Fraud Intelligence, Executive Protection, and Pricing Flexibility and Transparency criteria. Access the report to see how top vendors scored across 23 criteria and learn why Flashpoint is ideal for customers seeking primary source access intelligence.

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ADD TLDR INFOSEC TO YOUR CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH PLAN

Your prospects will see cybersecurity ad after cybersecurity ad on social this October. In TLDR InfoSec, your ad reaches 410K cybersecurity professionals and is one of just three ads per issue. Learn more about our special Cybersecurity Awareness Month ad

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YOUR BUSINESS MOVES FAST. SO SHOULD YOUR MONEY.

Your business moves quickly. Your money should, too. Stripe Treasury brings payments and financial tools together, helping you pay vendors, send payouts, issue cards, and manage cash flow with less complexity. Build more efficient financial operations on the same platform your business already uses for payments as you continue growing. See how it

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A FIRST LOOK AT THE NEXT ERA OF ADVERTISING WITH STACKADAPT, OPENAI AND MORE

Advertising is evolving fast. StackAdapt's Co-Founder and CEO, OpenAI's VP of Monetization, and a leading AI/ML Computer Scientist & Educator will share their insights into the future of advertising at StackAdapt's _Innovation Forum_ [4]. What's on the virtual event's agenda: * How AI is changing the way campaigns are planned, launched and optimized * Gain tips from OpenAI on what's working, what's surprising and what marketers should know as of AI-native advertising evolves * Learn why some teams are turning AI experimentation into real business value, while others get left behind * Explore how StackAdapt is building AI solutions to help solve common marketing challenges

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GOOGLE ADS STILL WORK FOR BUSINESSES THAT MEET 3 CONDITIONS

Google has never seen a challenge like AI agents, and Google Ads no longer work for every business. This in-depth, ungated WordStream guide lays out what types of businesses Google Ads reliably works for, along with some free tools and calculators [9] to help you figure out

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GITLAB'S GUIDE TO CLEARING THE PATH FROM CODE COMMIT TO PROD

Everyone is working on the same thing: how to ship at agentic speed. This GitLab livestream [5] lays out the approach orgs like Hilton, Thrive Market, and Gitlab itself are using to ship faster, with evidence at each step. Watch live October 6th [6] to learn how to answer 3 questions: → Where did this build come from, and where does it live? → Who or what deployed it, and can it be trusted to? → What is inside it, and can you prove it?

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YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE HAS ENOUGH MOVING PARTS. YOUR VPN SHOULDN'T ADD MORE ROUTES, RULES, AND EXCEPTIONS TO MANAGE.

TAILSCALE REPLACES THE PATCHWORK WITH A SINGLE ENCRYPTED MESH: every resource gets its own identity and connects directly, no site-to-site tunnels, no overlapping subnets, no hairpinning. New clusters join with rules in place. Try Tailscale free.

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AI IS ACCELERATING CODE. WHO'S GOVERNING THE DATABASE CHANGES?

Liquibase Secure 6.0 brings human and AI-driven database change under the same governance, with centralized policy, visibility, and control

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