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Sources and docs: White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and other NSC members have conducted government business via their personal Gmail accounts — Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox.
More: Gizmodo, The Hill, Politico, Mashable, New York Post, Raw Story, The Register, The Gateway Pundit, Axios, HuffPost, San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent, The Verge, Engadget, American Oversight, New York Times, Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Fox News, Bloomberg, CNN, Defense One, Euromaidan Press, Daily Kos, Nextgov/FCW, and Foreign Policy
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The Wikimedia Foundation says the base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers — Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community - especially for the 144 million images … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google researchers say DPRK's IT workers are fraudulently securing remote roles at companies in Germany, Portugal, and the UK, after facing sanctions in the US — North Korea's IT workers have expanded operations beyond the United States and are now increasingly targeting organizations across Europe.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Arm has decided not to pursue a deal after recently seeking to acquire Alphawave, a UK-listed supplier of semiconductor IP that is exploring a sale — SoftBank-owned chip tech provider Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F) recently sought to acquire UK-based Alphawave (AWE.L) …
More: Silicon Republic, The Information, Neowin, UKTN, and Tech in Asia
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta is ramping up work on its first glasses with a display, codenamed Hypernova, which it could debut as early as the end of 2025 for $1,000 to $1,400 — The company intends to introduce its first glasses with a screen as early as the end of this year — a product it sees …
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| CNBC: |
Circle files for a US IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE under CRCL; Circle, which issues the USDC stablecoin, is reportedly seeking a $4B to $5B valuation — Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has filed for an initial public offering and plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z is in talks to join the Oracle-led frontrunner bid for TikTok's US arm, after being approached along with Blackstone Group and others — Venture capital group could join last-gasp bid by allies of Donald Trump to take control of video app owned by ByteDance
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk's X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street's usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides — The tech titan can follow his own rules when he is combining two companies he owns, but the merger is still raising dealmaker eyebrows
More: WinBuzzer, TheStreet, and The Information
| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
X users are asking Grok to fact check other users by tagging @grok, often on political or historical topics, as a new passive aggressive way to dunk on others — - People are replying to posts on X — asking Grok: “Is this true?” — It's a new form of dunking on someone on X, and it's making the old Twitter an even weirder place.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox rolls out new parental controls, including letting parents block and report specific people on their child's friends list, building on changes from 2024 — They'll be able to block specific experiences, too. … Roblox is introducing new parental controls that give parents more tools …
More: Engadget, Roblox Corporate, and BBC
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without a licensing agreement — OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog …
More: AI Disclosures Project, Beyond Search, AI News, Social Science Research …, and Asimov's Addendum. Forums: Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March — Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Monday.
More: Qualcomm, DealStreetAsia, Forbes, Tech in Asia, Yahoo Finance, Maginative, Android Headlines, SiliconANGLE, and DigiTimes. X: @qualcomm
| Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph: |
Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following a similar decision by NFT marketplace X2Y2; Token Terminal: daily NFT trading volume has dropped 70% YoY to $5.34M — Bybit is shutting down its NFT and inscription marketplaces on April 8, 2025, as part of a broader strategy to streamline its offerings amid declining market interest.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders — Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding startup Replit is in talks with investors to raise about $200M at a $3B valuation, almost triple its last valuation — The new funding round would bring in about $200 million, one of the people said. — Replit did not respond to requests for comment.| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Documents: the NLRB froze Janneke Parrish and Cher Scarlett's cases against Apple pending a review after Trump nominated an Apple attorney as general counsel — National Labor Relations Board freezes pair of disputes after Crystal Carey nominated as agency's general counsel| Financial Times: |
In a March 28 brief, X asked SCOTUS to shield user data from US law enforcement without “probable cause”, in Coinbase user James Harper's long-running case — Billionaire backs case brought by Coinbase client whose data was surrendered to authorities| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
Chef Robotics, which develops AI-powered robotic meal assembly systems, raised a $20.6M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and an additional $22.5M in debt — As the food service industry continues to struggle with labor shortages, a Silicon Valley startup has put together artificially-intelligent robots that are ready to clock in.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $27M — GeekWire's startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter …
More: Gable, VC News Daily, Pulse 2.0, FinSMEs, Computerworld, and VC News Daily
| Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: |
Leaked Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold renders show a design similar to its predecessor; sources: the 10 Pro Fold will feature a TSMC-made Tensor G5 chip and 16GB RAM — Update: We've updated this article with the dimensions of the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. … After having released renders of the Google Pixel 10 … Sponsor Posts
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