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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
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 …
More: Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Times, Capital Brief, Financial Times, CRN, The Information, CTech, The Verge, Investor's Business Daily, Silicon Valley Business …, The Straits Times, Ynetnews, TipRanks Financial, SiliconANGLE, and Yahoo Finance
Bluesky: @brijsingh and @quinnypig.com
LinkedIn: James Berthoty, Pramod Gosavi, Tyler Shields, Sid Trivedi, and Frank McGovern
Forums: Hacker News, r/StockMarket, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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 …
More: The Register, Wallarm, SC Media, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, and Cyber Security News. Mastodon: @AAKL@infosec.exchange
| 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.
More: Android Police, The Verge, BGR, and Cord Cutters News
Bluesky: @spokanerising.com. X: @leahlibresco. Forums: r/Roku, r/Roku, r/gadgets, r/technews, r/technology, r/enshittification, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to partner with Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek to design and produce its next-gen TPUs, set for 2026, but will still work with Broadcom — Google plans to work with a new firm to help design and produce some of its artificial intelligence chips: MediaTek.
More: Reuters, PhoneArena, Wall Street Pit, SiliconANGLE, Livemint, Android Headlines, Android Central, and Benzinga
X: @the_ai_investor, @amir, and @scroogecap
| 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: SiliconANGLE, Mistral AI, Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, TestingCatalog, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @nvondarza. X: @sophiamyang, @googlecloudtech, @olafgeibig, @simonw, @emollick, @itspaulai, and @kimmonismus
| 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 …
More: Snap Newsroom, TechRadar, Social Media Today, Niantic Labs, MacRumors, AR Insider, and UploadVR
X: @tweetsfromasim and @spectacles
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered restructuring Intel's AI approach and cutting staff to address a slow and bloated middle management layer — Intel's incoming CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered significant changes to its chip manufacturing methods and artificial intelligence strategies ahead … | New York Times: |
HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel — A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood partners with Kalshi to launch a prediction markets hub in the US for retail traders, starting with bets on the federal funds rate and March Madness — Prediction markets have grown in popularity among investors, spurred on by the surge of wagers ahead of the November US presidential race … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users report that Gemini 2.0 Flash is very good at removing watermarks from images; many models allow this but some, like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o, do not — Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google's new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images …
More: The Verge, BGR, Android Authority, Android Police, VICE, Android Central, Mashable, TechSpot, Trusted Reviews, Gizmodo, en.ain.ua, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, MEDIANAMA, WinBuzzer, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, TechIssuesToday.com, Moneycontrol, International Business Times, Tech in Asia, and Breakfast At Ralf's
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Forums: r/singularity, r/Piracy, r/Bard, r/RunningCirclejerk, r/technews, r/technology, beehaw.org, and Slashdot
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: US Commerce Department bureaus informed staffers 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 …
More: Benzinga
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Zoom unveils AI Companion 2.0, which adds agentic AI features, including calendar management, meeting tools, and document creation, rolling out by July 2025 — Zoom became a household name during the pandemic as remote work became the norm nearly overnight.| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Alphabet spins off laser-based internet company Taara from its X “moonshot” incubator; Taara, which raised new funding, has its origins in Loon, closed in 2021 — Taara start-up aims to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink to connect remote areas to the internet using light beams
More: X, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, DatacenterDynamics, The Logic, PCMag, WinBuzzer, The Verge, Sherwood News, and en.ain.ua
| 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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord launches a Social SDK to let developers offer friends lists, cross-platform messaging, voice, and more, with console and mobile support “coming soon” — An easier way to connect with Discord friends. … Discord is launching a way for developers to directly integrate … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first products he has overseen in the fall, talks of new premium devices, hints at wearables like AR glasses — The introduction of tonier hardware, which will coexist with lower- and mid-priced products, is a bid to give consumers more choice …
More: TechRadar, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, The Information, and AFTVnews. X: @morqon
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox open sources Cube 3D, the first version of its AI foundation model for generating 3D objects, trained on licensed and public datasets and its own data — The model, Cube 3D, creates 3D models from a text prompt. … Roblox is launching and open-sourcing Cube 3D …
More: Roblox Corporate, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Maginative, Gameranx, PocketGamer.biz, Game Developer, Roblox Corporate, VentureBeat, Axios, and TechCrunch
| Mike Pastore / Search Engine Land: |
Adobe: traffic from AI sources to US retail sites in February rose 1,200% from July 2024; 39% of US consumers used generative AI for shopping, 53% plan to do so — Traffic from generative AI surged to U.S. retail sites over the holiday season and that trend has continued into 2025, according to new Adobe data.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Walmart's OnePay says Klarna will replace Affirm to offer buy-now-pay-later to US shoppers later in 2025, and OnePay can buy a Klarna stake; AFRM drops 10%+ — Swedish fintech firm Klarna will be the exclusive provider of buy now, pay later loans for Walmart, taking a coveted partnership away from rival Affirm, CNBC has learned.
More: Klarna, The Information, Payments Dive, Entrepreneur, Retail TouchPoints, TechCrunch, Bank Automation News, Barron's Online, Fast Company, ZeroHedge News, RetailWire, Proactive, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com, FinTech Global, The Paypers, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, FinTech Futures, Finextra, and Yahoo Finance
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