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The Verge:
Alphabet acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B cash, its largest acquisition yet, pending approval; antitrust fears stalled a $23B deal in 2024  —  The acquisition is Alphabet's biggest yet, after a $23 billion takeover attempt stalled last year.
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Andrew Martin / Bloomberg:
Google says Wiz will join Google Cloud and that Wiz's products will continue to work “across all major clouds”, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud
David Pierce / The Verge:
Eric Migicovsky unveils two Pebble smartwatches, the $149 Core 2 Duo shipping July 2025 and $225 Core Time 2 shipping December 2025, running its open-source OS  —  Pebble's creator now runs a company called Core Devices, and it's getting ready to sell two new watches soon.
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Some owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks with Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can use the home screen; Roku says it is just a test  —  Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to the Roku OS home screen.
New York Times:
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which already has fiber cables, after SpaceX “donated” the service, as some cite security concerns  —  Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
Timmy Shen / The Block:
Solana deletes a social media video ad promoting its NYC conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues  —  - Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google updates its Gemini chatbot, adding Canvas, a space for users to create, refine, and share writing and coding projects, and Audio Overview from NotebookLM  —  They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree.  —  On Tuesday, the company added a feature …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times since their 2023 debut, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024  —  In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw to take over servers with a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack “requires no authentication”  —  A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat tracked as CVE-2025-24813 is actively exploited in the wild …
NVIDIA on YouTube:
A livestream of the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California  —  Watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote to catch all the announcements on AI advances that are shaping our future.Dive into the announcements and discove...
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google debuts new Search and Android health care features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma  —  Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search …
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
CISA scrambles to contact 130+ fired employees after court rules the layoffs unlawful but says re-hired staff will immediately be placed on administrative leave  —  The U.S. government's cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled …
More: CSO
Bloomberg:
Tencent releases five AI tools that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat  —  Tencent's five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users, the company said in a statement.
More: Reuters
New York Times:
Since Xi Jinping met DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng in February, Chinese officials have been racing to show they use its tech, like in courthouses and hospitals  —  Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek's A.I. technology since the company's founder met with Xi Jinping, China's leader.
Bluesky: @hargreaves-s
Bert Hubert's writings:
A look at Europe's options and potential issues to get a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult to build than the €15B Galileo satellite system  —  The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds …

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU is reviewing Paramount's WBD takeover under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, probing involvement of Middle Eastern funds; a decision is due by July 14

Reuters:
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by deeming Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on its website
Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS support for Lenses, improved hand tracking, an AR keyboard, and more
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox open sources Cube 3D, the first version of its AI foundation model for generating 3D objects, trained on licensed and public datasets and its own data
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