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The Verge:
Alphabet acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B 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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Bluesky: @swiftonsecurity.com, @quinnypig.com, @anildash.com, @shmick.bsky.to, @quinnypig.com, and @brijsingh
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @harrymccracken@mastodon …, and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange.  Threads: @alexheath
X: @wiz_io, @probyshandilya, @ekmokaya, @jasonlk, @deedydas, @laurenthomas, @danprimack, @julianklymochko, @ingridlunden, @thomasortk, @eastdakota, @shomikghosh21, @jasonlk, @brexhq, @jumpforjoyce, @dougleone, @frantzfries, @alexrkonrad, @ourielohayon, @katie_roof, @ivanlevingston, @danielnewmanuv, @dougleone, @arashmassoudi, @vxunderground, @marktluszcz, @dougleone, @wiz_io, @benfritz, @rekdt, @romangold, @sequoia, @googlecloud, @pitdesi, @philvenables, @royalhansen, @altcap, @danprimack, @teddiew, and @sundarpichai
LinkedIn: Andy Price, James Berthoty, Pramod Gosavi, Sid Trivedi, and Frank McGovern
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/StockMarket, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
Andrew Martin / Bloomberg:
Google says Wiz will join Google Cloud and that Wiz's products will continue to work “across all major clouds”, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud
NVIDIA on YouTube:
A recording of the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California  —  Watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote to catch all the announcements on AI advances that are shaping our future.Dive into the announcements and discove...
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra, a family of AI chips shipping in 2025, and Vera Rubin, its next-gen chip featuring Nvidia's first custom CPU, slated for H2 2026  —  Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday.
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Nvidia announces Dynamo, an “operating system of the AI factory” that it says can boost token output by 30x per GPU when running DeepSeek-R1 on a large cluster  —  Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case …
CNBC:
GM partners with Nvidia to use Nvidia Drive AGX, Omniverse with Cosmos, and more across driver assistance systems and factory planning and robotics
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times since their 2023 debut, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024  —  In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Eric Migicovsky unveils two Pebble smartwatches running its open-source OS, the $149 Core 2 Duo shipping July 2025 and $225 Core Time 2 shipping December 2025  —  Pebble's creator now runs a company called Core Devices, and it's getting ready to sell two new watches soon.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google debuts new Search and Android health care 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 …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google updates its Gemini chatbot, adding Canvas, a space for users to create, refine, and share writing and coding projects, and Audio Overview from NotebookLM  —  They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree.  —  On Tuesday, the company added a feature …
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.
New York Times:
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which already has fiber internet, after SpaceX “donated” the service, as some cite security concerns  —  Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
CISA scrambles to contact 130+ fired employees after court rules the layoffs unlawful but says re-hired staff will immediately be placed on administrative leave  —  The U.S. government's cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled …
More: CSO.  Forums: r/cybersecurity
Bloomberg:
Crusoe: Stargate's first data center complex, in Abilene, TX, will finish in mid-2026 and have eight buildings, each designed for up to 50K Nvidia GB200 chips  —  - Developer Crusoe says construction will be done in mid 2026  — OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank partnering on AI infrastructure
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 deletes a video ad promoting its May 2025 NYC conference after online backlash from many deeming it insensitive about gender issues, too negative, more  —  - Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation:
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Nectar Gan / CNN:
Chinese nationalists and state media praise Trump's decision to dismantle VOA, RFA, and other US-funded media outlets that broadcast to authoritarian regimes

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