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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.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases QwQ-32B, an open-source reasoning model, on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming performance similar to DeepSeek-R1 with lower compute needs  —  Qwen Team, which is growing Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's family of open-source Qwen large language models (LLMs) …
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 …
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Apple debuts the M3 Ultra, built from two 3nm M3 Max chips, with Thunderbolt 5, an UltraFusion packaging architecture, an 80-core GPU, and up to 512GB of memory
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
After announcing the M3 Ultra, Apple says not every M chip generation will get an Ultra tier, suggesting the company will skip the M4 Ultra
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 …
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
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.
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.
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.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple aims to release its first book-style foldable iPhone in late 2026, costing $2,000+ with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a 5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design …
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
USCIS proposes to review social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's EO  —  People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government.
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 …
Ira Alok Puranik / The Economic Times:
India's Income Tax Bill 2025 grants income tax officers the legal authority to access taxpayers' email and social media accounts if they suspect tax evasion  —  Starting April 1, 2026, the income tax department will have the authority to access social media, emails, and other digital spaces to curb tax evasion.
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.
Forbes:
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing platform finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than traditional Google Search  —  AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic.  New data shows that's not the case.

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Minho Kim / New York Times:
Sarah B. Rogers, Trump's nominee to lead USAGM, says she would reinstate some agency employees; if confirmed, she would still serve in the State Department

Wall Street Journal:
UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40%+ over the past 12 months

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Swiss film producer Simon Afram sues Netflix for $105M, saying Netflix lost an unencrypted copy of a film starring Nicolas Cage that he spent $45M to produce

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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%+
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, including pledges to research AI discrimination and share info on managing AI risks
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
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
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