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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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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @harrymccracken@mastodon …, and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Threads: @alexheath
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LinkedIn: Andy Price, James Berthoty, Pramod Gosavi, Sid Trivedi, and Frank McGovern
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| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
More: CRN, Help Net Security, Barron's Online, SC Media, Reuters, WebProNews, The Futurum Group, International Business Times, Business Insider, Associated Press, Proactive, The Wrap, Cyber Security News, DeviceSecurity.io, CTech, CSO, The Cyber Express, Livemint, Axios, Benzinga, Jewish News, The Motley Fool, WinBuzzer, The Independent, NBC Connecticut, Android Headlines, Finance Magnates, YourStory, Channel Futures, Yahoo Finance, Semafor, and Mobile World Live. X: @danprimack
| NVIDIA on YouTube: |
A recording 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...
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Threads: @yannlecun. X: @benbajarin, @iancutress, @iancutress, @theaustinlyons, @iancutress, @iancutress, @iancutress, @iancutress, @iancutress, @benbajarin, @iancutress, @iancutress, @engadget, @theaustinlyons, @engadget, @engadget, @iancutress, @benbajarin, and @jeffmcleod. Forums: r/singularity
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra, a family of AI chips shipping in 2025, and Vera Rubin, its next-gen chip featuring Nvidia's first custom CPU, slated for H2 2026 — Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday.
More: The Verge, CNN, TechCrunch, Quartz, Proactive, Yahoo Finance, Arm Newsroom, and TipRanks Financial
Forums: r/hardware and Slashdot
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Nvidia announces Dynamo, an “operating system of the AI factory” that it says can boost token output by 30x per GPU when running DeepSeek-R1 on a large cluster — Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case … | CNBC: |
| Rajesh Pandey / Android Police: |
Ahead of the Pixel 9a's rumored March 19 debut, a YouTuber posts a video of the alleged phone, showing a flat rear panel, minimal camera bump, and large bezels — - Detailed Pixel 9a unboxing and hands-on videos have been published on YouTube. — One YouTuber has put the phone through its paces … | 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.
More: Thurrott, Investor's Business Daily, Social Media Today, Forbes, Meta, Seeking Alpha, and Analytics India Magazine
Threads: @zuck, @sebastianraschka, @chriscox, and @yannlecun
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Eric Migicovsky unveils two Pebble smartwatches running its open-source OS, the $149 Core 2 Duo shipping July 2025 and $225 Core Time 2 shipping December 2025 — Pebble's creator now runs a company called Core Devices, and it's getting ready to sell two new watches soon.
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Android, and Slashdot
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk invested $150M to acquire more X shares in 2024 at a valuation close to his 2022 purchase price and “expressed willingness” to buy more shares — - Musk “expressed willingness” to buy more shares, filing shows — Musk initially purchased X for $44 billion including debt
Bluesky: @wilkos
| 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.
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| Reuters: |
Germany's Federal Court of Justice rules against Apple's appeal opposing a 2023 regulatory assessment that opens Apple up to stricter controls in the country — Apple (AAPL.O) lost an appeal on Tuesday against a regulatory assessment that opens the iPhone maker up to stricter controls in Germany …
More: Global Competition Review, RTÉ, MacRumors, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and Tech Xplore
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which already has fiber internet, 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 …
More: The Verge, PCMag, emptywheel, Washington Examiner, Vanity Fair, New Republic, The Guardian, Jalopnik, Raw Story, WinBuzzer, Metacurity, and Political Wire
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X: @serobinsonjr and @sundaedivine
Forums: r/somethingiswrong2024, r/economicCollapse, r/centrist, and r/politics
| 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 … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” — AI start-up's product head Mike Krieger says $60bn company is preparing to release features aimed at enterprise market
More: Analytics India Magazine, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and Digital Trends
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle is weighing a TikTok proposal that would have it provide security assurances and take a small stake while leaving the algorithm in Chinese hands — - Plan emerges as deadline nears for deal to save TikTok in US — Oracle would offer security guarantee if China keeps algorithm| Bloomberg: |
Crusoe: Stargate's first data center complex, in Abilene, TX, will finish in mid-2026 and have eight buildings, each designed for up to 50K Nvidia GB200 chips — - Developer Crusoe says construction will be done in mid 2026 — OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank partnering on AI infrastructure| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the man Rippling has accused of feeding stolen customer and employee info to Deel was Keith O'Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager in Dublin — Rippling manager allegedly fed stolen customer and employee information to company's rival — Keith O'Brien used to appear … | 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GrubMarket, which offers food logistics AI tools, raised a $50M Series G at a $3.5B+ valuation, up from $1.2B in 2021, and is on track for $2.4B in 2025 revenue — U.S. President Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid an uncertain public mood … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Adobe debuts an agent orchestrator with 10 initial Experience Agents for its Adobe Experience customer data management and marketing suite, to rival Salesforce — Adobe Inc. is taking aim at its rival Salesforce Inc. in the customer experience department with the launch of a new tool …
More: CIO.com, Moneycontrol, Reuters, ZDNET, diginomica, Unite.AI, Ad Age, Analytics India Magazine, and CRN
| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Solana deletes a video ad promoting its May 2025 NYC conference after online backlash from many deeming it insensitive about gender issues, too negative, more — - Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later.
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