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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Preservation can save the world! – Nectome’s Substack

tl;dr: Preservation offers a much safer option to those accelerationists who are rushing to AI in the hopes of saving the lives of people they love who have only a few years to live. Those people can be preserved, so there’s no need to rush anymore. Preservation gives everyone a place of psychological safety from which we can all work to do AI right even if it will take slightly longer. That’s why it’s important, today.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

OpenSSH flaw lets attackers log into password-disabled Linux accounts

A newly disclosed flaw involving OpenSSH and musl, dubbed “*sshole,” allows attackers to log in to certain Alpine Linux and other musl-based Linux accounts configured to block password authentication simply by entering an oversized password.

Demo days are back apparently. Because we’ve got two Oregon demo days, this week: Oregon Startup Center and Oregon UAS Accelerator. If you’ve got time midweek, you can catch the latest cohort of the OSC program who will be sharing their stories this Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton. Tickets are $25.

If you’re interested in attending an event this week, you have options. Lots of options. So before you get busy with all of the holiday festivities, please consider attending one or more of the tech and startup events happening in Portland, this week.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Silicon Florist watch party · Luma

It’s Friday evening. You’re wiped. But you’re still in the mood for something entertaining. ​Well, unfortunately, this ain’t it. ​But it is an opportunity to join folks from the Portland startup community for a little watch party — all from the comfort of your own keyboard.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Innovation Needs Infrastructure – by Paul O’Brien

Cities, founders, employees, and companies are burning an obscene amount of time and money digging up information and assembling homemade systems. They treat infrastructure and intelligence as more SaaS subscriptions to compare in a procurement cycle. Amusingly, AI is accelerating the expectation that you can and should just build your own solutions while simultaneously pointing out that you can’t, and shouldn’t, without the infrastructure. An application does one job. Infrastructure supplies the context that makes every application, and every AI model, worth using, so its return shows up across everything built on top of it.

Agility, the Oregon company that spun out of Oregon State University, has been heading for the public markets since June. Churchill Capital Corp XI shareholders approved the merger on November 2. Well, today’s the day. Agility’s common stock and warrants begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT. (With warrants trading under AGLTW.)

So you’ve got an early stage bioscience company in Oregon. You’re past the idea stage. You’ve got some early evidence. Now what…? Well, the Oregon Bioscience Incubator has an eight week commercialization program for just that moment. It’s called BioBuild. And applications are open now for Cohort One, which will include 10 companies. But you’re going to want to hustle. Applications close November 20, 2026. (Or sooner if 10 qualifying companies are selected first.)