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.
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.
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which already has fiber cables, 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 …
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 …
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
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Solana deletes a social media video ad promoting its NYC 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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Sources: Wiz and Alphabet agree to a $3.2B termination fee in the $32B deal, which lets Wiz run like an independent company if a lengthy antitrust trial happens
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Germany's Federal Court of Justice rules against Apple's appeal opposing a 2023 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 …
The former CHIPS Program Office director says repealing the CHIPS Act risks US national security, and tariffs alone won't revitalize domestic chip manufacturing
Tariffs alone will not achieve the goal of revitalising domestic semiconductor manufacturing
Sources: AI coding assistant Devin developer Cognition raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a nearly $4B valuation, up from its $2B valuation in 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.
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
A look at Europe's options and potential issues to get a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult to build than the €15B Galileo satellite system
berthub.eu/articles/pos... Rop Gonggrijp / @rop.gonggri.jp : I'm posting what I see so (maybe) I don't go nuts. — Meanwhile Bert Hubert (@berthub.eu) is doing the actual brainwork of getting Europe ...
Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by deeming Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on its website
If the thing's gonna kill me, how much work is it REALLY for you to just tell me about it? Just how often does this happen, anyway? [embedded post] @hypervisible : Amazon rejects the claim that they ...
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
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QCOM Quick Quote João Silva / KitGuru : Qualcomm introduces new Snapdragon G SoCs for gaming handhelds The Indian Express : Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon G series for ga...
Taboola strikes a deal with Microsoft to sell display ads for MSN.com, Outlook, Games, Office products, and more, as it expands beyond native advertising
Taboola struck a deal with Microsoft to sell display ads for MSN.com, Microsoft Outlook, Games and Microsoft's broader Office Suite … Bluesky: @iamli.am See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Liam Spradlin / @i...
Tencent releases five AI tools that 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.
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 48.8% YoY to ~$15B, above ~$14.4B est., adjusted net profit up 69.4% YoY to ~$1.2B, above ~$884M est., boosted by smartphone sales
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
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San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with employee-driven cars, as part of a phased approach targeting eventual commercial operations
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Since Xi Jinping met DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng in February, Chinese officials have been racing to show they use its tech, like in courthouses and 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. Bluesky: @hargreaves-s Bluesky: Stuart H...
Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS support for Lenses, improved hand tracking, an AR keyboard, and more
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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
SOTA. Multimodal. Multilingual. Apache 2.0 — Research Hugging Face : Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Base-2503 like 41 — Mistral AI_ 6.32k — Model Card for Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Base-2503 Google Cloud ...
Didi reports Q4 revenue up 7.1% YoY to ~$7.32B and a ~$180M net loss, down from a ~$6.2M profit in Q4 2023, as it recovers from China's $1.2B fine in July 2022
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
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AI coding assistant startup Graphite, now used by tens of thousands of staff at 500+ companies, raised an Accel-led $52M Series B; its revenue grew 20x in 2024
AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub's latest poll saying that they've adopted AI tools in some form.
Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto
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President Trump's World Liberty Financial says it raised $250M in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550M
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Chicago-based Nerdio, which helps manage remote workers, raised $500M led by General Atlantic at a $1.2B valuation, sources say up from $300M in December 2022
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Sources: US Commerce Department bureaus informed employees in recent weeks that DeepSeek apps and websites are “broadly prohibited” on their government devices
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A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobile apps and $10B+ in revenue across 1B+ transactions, shows most apps fail to reach $1K/month within two years
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica : Forums: Hacker News , Slashdot , and Ars OpenForum Forums: Hacker News : Sobering Revenue Stats of 70K Mobile Apps Show Why Devs Beg for Subscriptions Msmash / Slashd...
PitchBook: China led Asia with 715 AI VC deals in 2024, totaling $7.3B, South Korea followed with 308 deals worth $1.8B, and India with 306 deals totaling $1.7B
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