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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Sources: in a secret January order, UK security officials demanded that Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user globally has uploaded — Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content …
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LinkedIn: Mike Chapple and Tim Turner
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank is set to invest $40B in OpenAI at a $260B pre-money valuation; investors last valued OpenAI at $157B, when it raised $6.6B in October 2024 — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices| CNBC: |
Sources: Anduril is in talks to raise up to $2.5B, led by Founders Fund with a $1B commitment, at a $28B valuation; Anduril's revenue in 2024 doubled to ~$1B — WATCH NOW — Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” — President Donald Trump has paused the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence is in talks to raise funding at a $20B+ valuation, up from a $5B valuation in its September 2024 funding round — Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year …
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, Wall Street Pit, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch
Bluesky: @glinden. X: @readkrystalhu, @andrewcurran_, @kimmonismus, and @iscienceluvr. Forums: r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe competitor Rapyd is in talks to raise $300M from investors at a $3.5B valuation, a dramatic decline from its valuation of around $9B in 2021 — The high-profile startup is in talks for a funding round that would shave billions off its value.| Reuters: |
SolarWinds says it will go private in a $4.4B deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital; SWI closes up 21.8% — SolarWinds (SWI.N) said on Friday it would go private in a $4.4 billion deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital, the latest sign debt-funded deals were set to rebound this year as borrowing costs decline.
| Punchbowl News: |
Sources: Trump has tasked JD Vance and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok — Vance is in charge of “quarterbacking a deal to save TikTok,” according to a source familiar with the matter. Waltz and the National Security Council are in charge … | Bloomberg: |
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE, was fired from an internship at cybersecurity firm Path Network for allegedly sharing info with a competitor — Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm's servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them — Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …
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Forums: r/China, r/FBI, r/politics, r/StockMarket, r/economicCollapse, and r/neoliberal
| Thomas Escritt / Reuters: |
A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's national election — Elon Musk's social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday.
More: TechCrunch, Politico, Reuters, and Law.com International
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
WBD took $300M in gaming writedowns in 2024; current and former staff blame a lack of a strong, cohesive vision during former games chief David Haddad's tenure — Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery took $300 million in losses on gaming. The near future is rife with additional challenges.
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LinkedIn: Jeremy M. and Jason Schreier
Forums: r/PS5, r/Games, r/GothamKnights, r/DCU_, and r/gaming
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that attackers are using static ASP.NET machine keys found online to inject malware into ViewState, which controls web form state during reloads — Microsoft warns that attackers are deploying malware in ViewState code injection attacks using static ASP. NET machine keys found online.
More: Microsoft Security Blog, Help Net Security, PaymentSecurity.io, Hackread, Cybersecurity Dive, SC Media, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, CyberInsider, Security Affairs, and Cyber Security News
Bluesky: @tmjintel and @youranonriots
Mastodon: @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange and @screaminggoat@infosec …
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple settles a lawsuit against a former iOS Software Engineer who leaked Journal app details and more to journalists; the employee issues an apology on X — Last March, Apple filed a lawsuit against one of its former employees, an iOS Software Engineer who had leaked confidential information …
More: The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Android Headlines, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists — An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist …
More: arXiv.org and Nature
Bluesky: @daytontalk. X: @bennpeifert, @deryatr_, @hindookissinger, @umesh_ai, @deedydas, and @deedydas
| Bloomberg: |
Uber's stock jumps 6%+ after Bill Ackman disclosed that his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns 30.3M shares; Pershing started buying in January — Bill Ackman said his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns 30.3 million shares of Uber Technologies Inc. …
More: New York Post, Forbes, Financial Times, Sherwood News, ZeroHedge News, Wall Street Pit, Motley Fool, and Fortune
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic's funding round is oversubscribed and expected to raise $2B+, with Lightspeed set to invest ~$1B; Menlo, MGX, and others are in talks to join — - Oversubscribed deal is expected to raise more than $2 billion — Lightspeed is set to contribute about $1 billion in backing
Bluesky: @dude.computer and @edzitron.com
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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