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★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window

What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes a significant difference in the day-to-day usability of MacOS.

MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, vs. $670M est., and forecasts Q1 adjusted earnings per share below estimates; MDB drops 22%+ after hours (Angela Palumbo/Barron's Online)

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online:
MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, vs. $670M est., and forecasts Q1 adjusted earnings per share below estimates; MDB drops 22%+ after hours  —  MongoDB stock was tumbling Monday night after the document database company provided disappointing first-quarter guidance.

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech  —  Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

World leaders are almost never killed in war. Why did it happen to Iran’s supreme leader?

The Israeli bombing that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday not only brought the demise of one of the central global political figures of the last half century, it also represented something almost unprecedented in modern warfare: the successful killing of an enemy head of state by a foreign military. You have […]

Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece  —  PayPay and a selling shareholder are aiming to raise as much as $1.1 billion in an initial public offering in the United States …