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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 …
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’
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.
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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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 …
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.
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 …
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024
Reuters:
China mandates regulatory approvals for autonomous driving-related OTA software upgrades, aiming to prevent automakers from hiding defects or avoiding liability  —  Autonomous driving-related over-the-air software upgrades will be subject to regulatory approvals, China's industry ministry said on Friday …
Julie Zhu / Bloomberg:
Socure, a digital identity verification company, says bad actors are increasingly using social media selfies and generative AI to create more realistic fake ids  —  Generative AI has made it possible to create better fake IDs in minutes, and the ready availability of selfies on social media has aided those efforts.

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New York Times:
Sources: an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson

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Hugh Son / CNBC:
Filings: CFPB employees say the agency's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency
The Verge:
AMD unveils the $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon 9070 XT GPUs, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe 5.0, and FSR 4 support, shipping March 6
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
The SEC says that most memecoins are not securities, are akin to collectibles, and memecoin purchasers and holders are not protected by federal securities laws
The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini
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