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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia …
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
Recent incidents indicate the US no longer characterizes Russia as a cyber threat; source: CISA analysts were told not to follow or report on Russian threats — Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023 — After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging …
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| Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch: |
Intel delays the opening of its first Ohio chip factory to 2030 due to financial struggles; the $28B project was originally scheduled to begin operating in 2025 — Intel's promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio has been delayed again, this time by several years.
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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Memo: Sergey Brin says Google could reach AGI if employees worked harder and were in the office more, saying “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” — The tech giant's co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android, developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbia to unlock phones — Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sesame, headed by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, exits stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding, unveiling an AI speech model and plans for AI glasses — Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe's next act: AI glasses that carry a conversation. … I tell Amazon's Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Taara, a project under Alphabet's moonshot X lab, unveils a new silicon photonic chip that uses light to transmit high-speed data through the air — The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Grubhub CEO Howard Migdal says the company is laying off about 500 employees, or ~23% of its workforce, following its takeover by Wonder in November 2024 — Grubhub is cutting about 23% of its workforce and set the stage for more changes at the company following its takeover by Wonder Group Inc., the owner of Blue Apron.
More: Grubhub, Reuters, The Information, Reuters, Chicago Sun Times, and New York Post
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI — Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser's new Terms of Use, which critics have called …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
When asked about UK's order for an iCloud backdoor, Trump says he told PM Keir Starmer that UK “can't do this” and it is something “you hear about with China” — President Trump has chimed in on the UK's attempt to force Apple to add a global backdoor to iCloud …
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| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
A US court finds that Byju's and founder Byju Raveendran's brother violated a fiduciary duty to lenders by fraudulently hiding $533M from them — - Company, brother of Byju's founder wrongly hid $533 million — Ruling is latest loss for Indian tech firm navigating US court| Teresa Xie / Bloomberg: |
Crypto reserve bills have failed in Montana, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, and Wyoming over the last month; Bitcoin Laws: such bills have been introduced in 24 states — - South Dakota's measure for a Bitcoin reserve failed this week — Trump and Lummis first introduced the notion in July
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