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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Source: Bybit hackers planted malicious code to manipulate transactions by compromising a developer's computer at crypto wallet provider Safe, used by Bybit — On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his computer to approve what appeared to be a routine transaction.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants — The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
More: Reuters, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, CryptoNinjas, New York Magazine, CoinGape, Time, Bitcoin Insider, NBC News on YouTube, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, NBC News, World News, Townhall, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, PYMNTS.com, Daily Mail, CoinDesk, The Hill, Coinpedia Fintech News, CNBC, Benzinga, Agence France-Presse, and NewsBTC
| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
The US OCC says banks can engage in some crypto activities, rescinding prior guidance that told them they should clear such activities with regulators first — The U.S. regulator overseeing national banks clarified Friday that banks can engage in some crypto activities …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company — It's a muggy morning the day before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is stuck in parade traffic and not happy about it.
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| Bloomberg: |
As Japan copes with a labor shortage, its market for service robots, which assist people with tasks like waiting tables, is expected to almost triple by 2030 — As Japan copes with a labor shortage, the service robot market is expected to triple in the next five years.| Reuters: |
Sources detail the nearly 10-hour-long tech meltdown of the European Central Bank's main payment system on February 27 due to a piece of malfunctioning hardware — The European Central Bank's payments crash last week meant salaries and welfare funds were delayed for thousands of people.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crogl, whose AI agent helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents, raised a $25M Series A and a $5M seed — AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field … | Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Elon Musk is set to be questioned under oath on April 3 in an investor lawsuit alleging his Twitter buyout flip-flop was a ruse to lower its stock price — After attorneys for the world's richest person initially balked at making him appear in person for a deposition … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: activist investor Mantle Ridge has built a $1B+ stake in Cognizant and believes the tech services firm, which has a $41B+ market cap, is undervalued — The investor has been working behind the scenes at the tech-services firm and isn't currently planning to nominate directors
More: The Economic Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| CNN: |
China plans a “state venture capital guidance fund”, expected to attract ~$138B over 20 years from local governments and private sector, to support AI and more — Hong Kong CNN — Fresh off the global success of DeepSeek's latest artificial intelligence reasoning model …
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, and The Quantum Insider
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| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
The FTC told a US district judge it is still determining who Amazon's competitors are for its 2023 antitrust lawsuit and the list could include Walmart and eBay — Lawyers for the company and the agency appeared Friday before US District Judge John Chun in Seattle to provide a high-level overview … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Freed, which offers an AI scribe that automates clinical notetaking in real time and is used by 17K+ clinicians, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital — For Erez Druk, who spent almost four years working at Facebook, building health-care startup Freed has been a labor of love, quite literally.
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