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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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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @brijsingh
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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: Wallarm, The Register, Cyber Security News, Security Affairs, SC Media, 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: The Verge, BGR, The Desk, Android Police, and Cord Cutters News
Bluesky: @spokanerising.com. X: @leahlibresco. Forums: r/Roku, r/hardware, 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 … | 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 …
More: Daily Mail, MediaPost, The Wrap, and CBS News
Forums: r/Fauxmoi, r/popculture, r/technology, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
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 …
More: Political Wire. Bluesky: @isaacdovere, @newsjennifer, @karlbode.com, @karlbode.com, @bcmerchant, @davidoatkins, @maddow.msnbc.com, @stephenjudkins, @yasharali, @dansinker.com, @paleofuture, @clancyny, @brewedflames, @clancyny, @bobbyallyn, @thorbenson, @democracydied, @waldo.net, and @waldo.net. Mastodon: @HoustonDog@mastodon.world. X: @serobinsonjr
Forums: r/centrist and r/politics
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
President Trump's World Liberty Financial says it raised $250M in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550M — President Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto project said on Monday that it raised $250 million in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550 million.
More: Business Wire, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bloomberg, and Decrypt
| 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, Google Cloud, Simon Willison's Weblog, Hugging Face, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, The Decoder, and TestingCatalog
Bluesky: @nvondarza. X: @sophiamyang, @googlecloudtech, @olafgeibig, @simonw, @emollick, @itspaulai, and @kimmonismus
| 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
| 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, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Road to VR, Niantic Labs, Social Media Today, MacRumors, AR Insider, UploadVR, and Bloomberg
X: @tweetsfromasim and @spectacles
| 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
| 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 … | 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, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena, Android Central, Wall Street Pit, Benzinga, Android Headlines, and Livemint
X: @the_ai_investor, @amir, and @scroogecap
| 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 …
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X: @deedydas, @tanayj, @deedydas, @crispinhunt, @tmophoto, @ednewtonrex, @im_roy_lee, @ednewtonrex, @hugocguerra, @bindureddy, @glenngabe, @makofukasametv, @strongmoist, @nickadobos, @cocktailpeanut, @abdiisan, and @deedydas
Forums: r/singularity, r/Piracy, r/Bard, r/RunningCirclejerk, r/ArtistHate, r/technews, r/technology, beehaw.org, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: The Adobe Blog, PYMNTS.com, Platformer, Quartz, Sourcing Journal, The Verge, Chain Store Age, and MarTech. LinkedIn: Sameer Patel
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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