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President Xi meets Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and others, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized private sector — - Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms — Xi promises relief from excessive fines, level playing field
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South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules — South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said it had temporarily suspended the domestic service of Chinese AI app DeepSeek since Saturday.
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X: @afp and @montezumachavez
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| Matt Binder / disruptionist: |
X shows error messages when trying to share Signal's Signal.me links in DMs, posts, and profile pages, and a warning page if users click on already posted links — Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
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Bluesky: @em.vg, @quillmatiq.com, @drewharwell.com, @cuthrell.com, and @j4ck.xyz
Mastodon: @privacyguides@mastodon … and @psoutham@infosec.exchange
| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ led by Greenoaks Capital Partners, which plans to invest $500M, at a valuation of $30B+ — - SSI raising more than $1 billion, including from Greenoaks — Former OpenAI chief scientist left the company last year| Financial Times: |
Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all the $12.5B in loans that Elon Musk used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt — Investor perception of debt has changed since Donald Trump's election victory — Wall Street banks have rid themselves of almost …
Bluesky: @bondhack.ft.com
| Reuters: |
Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, after KKR raised its offer earlier in February for the Japanese IT company, valued at $4B+ — U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital said on Monday it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft (9749.T) … | Financial Times: |
Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake — Surj Sports Investment will take stake in DAZN and help fund a Middle East broadcasting joint venture| Namanyay Goel / N's Blog: |
New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is missing, potentially creating future problems — 100k+ views 70+ votes 50+ votes — Something's been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it.
Bluesky: @seldo.com and @mariotoday
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, lobste.rs, and Slashdot
| Politico: |
X challenges a German court ordering it to share metrics such as likes and shares with researchers before the February 23 election, in a test of the EU's DSA — Elon Musk's X has challenged a German court decision that instructed the platform to share data with researchers, the court confirmed to POLITICO.
Bluesky: @k1k1
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — The Scoop — The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools …
More: The Verge, TechSpot, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, Beyond Search, and Pivot to AI
Bluesky: @billiejsweeney, @andantonius, @davidgerard.co.uk, @carnage4life, and @hypervisible. Mastodon: @kdkorte@fosstodon.org
X: @davidgerard, @maxwelltani, @thelincoln, @michaelsocolow, @rakeshsfnyc, @semafor, and @davidshepardson. LinkedIn: Jon Schubin. Forums: r/technology
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Chase plans to stop users making Zelle payments deemed “as originating from contact through social media”; the CFPB had claimed Zelle lacked adequate safeguards — JPMorgan Chase Bank (Chase) will soon start blocking Zelle payments to social media contacts to combat a significant rise …
Forums: Slashdot
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from ~$190M in 2023 — - Cybersecurity-focused firm raised $100 million in latest round — Dream targets $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025
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