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Google acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B in cash, its largest acquisition yet, pending approval; antitrust fears stalled a $23B deal in 2024 — The acquisition is Alphabet's biggest yet, after a $23 billion takeover attempt stalled last year.
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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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Forums: r/politics, r/centrist, and r/economicCollapse
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Ahead of the Pixel 9a's rumored March 19 debut, a YouTuber posts a video of the alleged phone, showing a flat rear panel, minimal camera bump, and large bezels — - Detailed Pixel 9a unboxing and hands-on videos have been published on YouTube. — One YouTuber has put the phone through its paces … | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Some owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks with Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can use 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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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw to take over servers with 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 … | Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Solana deleted a social media ad for its conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues — - Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later.
More: CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph
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Germany's Federal Court of Justice rules against Apple's appeal against a regulatory assessment that opens Apple up to stricter controls in the country — Apple (AAPL.O) lost an appeal on Tuesday against a regulatory assessment that opens the iPhone maker up to stricter controls in Germany … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” — AI start-up's product head Mike Krieger says $60bn company is preparing to release features aimed at enterprise market
More: PYMNTS.com and TechCrunch
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A look at Europe's options for building a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult than the €15B Galileo satellite system, and potential issues — The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds …
More: CIO.com. Bluesky: @halvarflake and @rop.gonggri.jp
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A former CHIPS Act program officer says Trump repealing the program risks US national security and tariffs alone will not revitalize domestic chip manufacturing — Tariffs alone will not achieve the goal of revitalising domestic semiconductor manufacturing
More: Washington Post. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. LinkedIn: Atissa Ladjevardian. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.| 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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Tencent releases five AI tools to turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat — Tencent's five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users, the company said in a statement.
More: Reuters, Business Insider, and SiliconANGLE
| 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 … | MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto — - The web3 workflow protocol developer Halliday raised $20 million in Series A funding led by a16z crypto.
More: VentureBeat and CoinDesk
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches new Search and Android health features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma — Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search …
More: ZDNET, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Keyword, The Keyword, MediaPost, Tech in Asia, and Wall Street Pit
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Since Xi Jinping met DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng last month, Chinese officials are rushing to use the AI model, including in courthouses and in hospitals — Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek's A.I. technology since the company's founder met with Xi Jinping, China's leader.
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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 …
More: Mistral AI, Hugging Face, Google Cloud, Analytics India Magazine, Maginative, SiliconANGLE, and The Decoder
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