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Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for ~$30B; Alphabet was close to a $23B deal for Wiz last summer before talks ended — A deal worth some $30 billion could come together soon, after talks fizzled last summer — Google parent Alphabet …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploited, letting attackers take over servers via a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack “requires no authentication” — A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat tracked as CVE-2025-24813 is actively exploited in the wild …
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test — Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to the Roku OS home screen.
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| Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation — Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 enter the ring. — Qualcomm expanded its Snapdragon G series … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others “exploit” copyrighted works — More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy …
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Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns — Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM — French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
PitchBook: China led Asia with 715 AI VC deals in 2024, totaling $7.3B, South Korea followed with 308 deals worth $1.8B, and India with 306 deals totaling $1.7B — India emerges as Asia's No. 2 market for artificial intelligence dealmaking — PALO ALTO, California … | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobile apps and $10B+ in revenue across 1B+ transactions, shows most apps fail to reach $1K/month after two years — If you're frustrated by some of your favorite apps pestering you to sign up for a subscription, some new data may help you empathize with their developers more.
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: US Commerce Department bureaus informed employees in recent weeks that DeepSeek is banned on their government devices — U.S. Commerce department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek is banned on their government devices …
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS support for Lenses, improved hand tracking, an AR keyboard, and more — The augmented reality smart glasses can now point you in the right direction. … Lenses — what Snap calls the Spectacles' various AR effects …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a ~$4B valuation, doubling its $2B valuation from April 2024 — The new funding round is being led by 8VC, the Joe Lonsdale-backed venture capital firm, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations — Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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