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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild; attackers with admin privileges can chain the flaws to escape the virtual machine's sandbox — Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Apple updates the $999+ 13" and $1,199+ 15" MacBook Air with an M4, offering a 10-core CPU and 8-core GPU, and a sky blue color option, shipping from March 12 — Upgrades at a lower cost. I'll take it. … Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/gadgets, r/apple, r/MacOS, r/mac, and MacRumors Forums
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
The new M4 MacBook Air supports two monitors of up to 6K resolution each, plus the built-in display simultaneously, addressing a limitation of previous models — The new M4 MacBook Air fixes what's been a key problem with the line, and now supports up to two external monitors … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple updates the Mac Studio with an M4 Max for $1,999+ and an M3 Ultra for $3,999+, with up to 32 cores, including 24 performance cores, shipping from March 12 — Two generations of Apple silicon, one computer. — After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio …
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Forums: r/StableDiffusion, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MacOS, r/LocalLLM, r/MacStudio, r/apple, r/mac, and MacRumors Forums
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Shares of the chipmaker SiTime closed up 19.53% on Wednesday after an iPhone 16e teardown revealed that its timer chips are used in the smartphone — The appearance of SiTime Corp. components in the new iPhone 16e is fueling a stock rally for the little-known chipmaker, sending the shares up as much as 17% on Wednesday.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Sales Agent and Sales Chat AI agents, available in public preview in May, designed to work with Dynamics 365 business apps and with Salesforce — Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce announces Agentforce 2dx, letting AI agents work proactively and autonomously across enterprise systems without constant human supervision — Salesforce announced Agentforce 2dx today, a major update to its digital labor platform that enables autonomous AI agents to work proactively behind … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs — The Justice Department claims 10 alleged hackers and two eChinese government officials took part in a wave of cyberattacks around … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers — Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI's ChatGPT Search.
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| Mahmoud Itani / Macworld: |
Apple introduces AI-generated summaries of app reviews in the App Store, first available in the US in English, with the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 betas — Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 18.4 beta 2, featuring a new pause/resume button for active downloads in the App Store.
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| Jack Greenberg / YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube debuts an $8/month Premium Lite tier in the US, offering most videos ad-free and music with ads, and plans to launch in Thailand, Germany, and Australia — Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US. Premium Lite gives viewers a new …
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI told some investors about plans for new agents: $2,000/month for knowledge work, a $10K/month for coding, and $20K/month for PhD-level research — OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
Amazon announces an “AI-aided dubbing” pilot program on Prime Video, starting with dubbing in English and Latin American Spanish on 12 movies and series — To start, AI dubbing will only occur in English and Latin American Spanish. — In an effort to make movies and TV shows …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Avride, a Yandex spinoff, partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for ride hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs in 2025 — The autonomous vehicle operator is aiming to build 100 driverless Ioniq 5s this year.
More: Avride, NewsBytes, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and USA Today
X: @modestproposal1, @avrideai, @jason, @_balaji_km, @alexroy144, @jason, and @natlungfy. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
MongoDB Q4: revenue up ~20% YoY to $548.4M, vs. $519.6M est., and projects the slowest growth for FY 2026 since going public in 2017; MDB drops 16%+ after hours — MongoDB shares sank 16% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker issued disappointing guidance.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Italy is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5B deal with SpaceX for Starlink in light of the US' pullback from commitments to European security — The Italian government is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) deal with Elon Musk's Starlink …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are relaunching Digg, after acquiring the site from Money Group for an undisclosed sum — Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
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X: @digg, @alexisohanian, @kevinrose, @alexisohanian, @can, @alexisohanian, @martyswant, @kevinrose, @alexisohanian, @mg, and @jasonfried. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/technology, and r/technology
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Marvell reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.8B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue of ~$1.88B, below the highest $2B est.; MRVL drops 13%+ after hours — Marvell Technology Inc. declined in late trading after delivering a revenue forecast that fell short of the highest estimates … | New York Times: |
Sources: Discord is in early talks with bankers about a potential IPO that could come as soon as in 2025; Discord was last valued by investors in 2021 at ~$15B — The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users. — Discord, the social chat app popular …
More: Financial Times, The Information, and Benzinga
X: @mikeisaac and @laurenshirsch
Forums: r/technology and r/discordapp
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor — And Meta, Snap, and X are applauding it. … Utah became the first state in the country to pass legislation requiring … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Bolt says Ryan Breslow has been reinstated as CEO with the board's “unanimous approval”; Justin Grooms, the interim CEO since March 2024, is now the president — Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT — Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
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X: @demishassabis, @marloscmachado, @werner, @georgiachal, @stevesi, @avivtamar1, @pcastr, and @theofficialacm
Forums: r/programming, r/uAlberta, and r/MachineLearning
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