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| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Mitre, the nonprofit research organization behind the CVE program, says the US government funding needed to develop and operate CVE will expire on April 16 — The U.S. government funding needed for non-profit research giant MITRE to develop, operate and maintain its flagship Common Vulnerabilities …
More: CSO, Reuters, The Register, Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, Business Wire, The Record, John Hammond on YouTube, Forbes, Android Authority, Silicon Republic, VulnCheck, ITPro, Infosecurity, Cyber Security News, CyberInsider, The Hacker News, Security Boulevard, and SC Media
Bluesky: @cachiporra, @stimulusfunctions, @metacurity.com, @waldo.net, @slightlyflightyone, and @mmasnick. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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Forums: Hacker News, r/nottheonion, r/cybersecurity, r/news, r/france, r/programming, r/Military, r/DataHoarder, r/technology, and r/technology
| CVE Foundation: |
CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre — [Bremerton, Washington] - The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Help Net Security, and HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
Bluesky: @dcuthbert and @alexandrapaulus
| CNBC: |
SEC filing: Nvidia says it will record a $5.5B quarterly charge after new US rules to require a license to export the H20 chips to China; NVDA drops ~5% — Nvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations.
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X: @riddle245, @tradingthomas3, @buccocapital, @donmiami3, @divestech, @divestech, @garethsoloway, @stocksavvyshay, @spencerhakimian, @kobeissiletter, @smartertrader, @drjstrategy, @geoffreygertz, @thezvi, @samsolid57, @steveyonezu, @tysonbrody, @nikitabier, @ns123abc, @divestech, @amitisinvesting, @divestech, @firstadopter, @smartertrader, @tmtbreakout, @rsanti97, @danielnewmanuv, and @mackhawk
Forums: r/China, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, and r/technology
| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new US export rules on its H20 chips to China; the US told Nvidia about a week ago — Nvidia (NVDA.O) did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new U.S. export rules it was told about a week ago requiring …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B — The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.
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| Business Insider: |
Email: Mark Zuckerberg offered to buy Snapchat for $6B in 2013; Zuckerberg testified that he thought Snapchat “wasn't growing at the potential that it could” — - Mark Zuckerberg's failed Snapchat bid resurfaced in Meta's antitrust trial. — And the Meta boss seems like he hasn't fully moved on.
More: Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, Benzinga, Malay Mail, Digit, Fresno Bee, The Hill, The Verge, The Information, Futurism, The Wrap, and Vanity Fair
| Bloomberg: |
FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook — Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that the photo …
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Forums: r/news, r/NoShitSherlock, and r/technology
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales up 46% YoY to €7.74B, vs. €7.8B est., a €2.36B net profit, €3.94B net bookings, below €4.89B est., and warns of tariff uncertainty — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday missed order expectations and said that uncertainty …
More: Tech Monitor, ASML, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Fortune, CNBC, Euronews, Barron's Online, TechPowerUp, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters
X: @beuvingjordy, @mackhawk, @thetranscript_, @invesquotes, @asmlcompany, @techfund1, and @asmlcompany
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/europe
| The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback — Is Sam Altman ready to up his rivalry with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? … OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network …
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Bluesky: @hypervisible, @carnage4life, @mantzarlis.com, @jerthorp, @ernie.tedium.co, @prietschka, @snmrrw, @lorak, @garymarcus, @caseynewton, @vortexegg.com, and @karlbode.com. Mastodon: @ben@werd.social. Threads: @the_coach_life
X: @vxunderground, @simonmxtthews, @birdyword, @banklesshq, @btibor91, @scobleizer, @katienotopoulos, @raywongy, @altryne, @krzysztof_lysy, @zacbowden, @restoreorderusa, @garymarcus, @morqon, @andrewcurran_, @bindureddy, @pitdesi, @steph_palazzolo, @jukanlosreve, @briansolis, @davewiner, @jam3scampbell, @phantom, @scottnover, @polymarket, @nickadobos, @amitisinvesting, @sirodoht, @turnernovak, @danielnewmanuv, @rihardjarc, @billym2k, @alexeheath, @amir, @kyliebytes, and @kyliebytes. LinkedIn: Alison McCauley
| Reuters: |
Figma confidentially files for a US IPO, more than a year after Adobe's $20B acquisition failed; the company was valued at $12.5B in a May 2024 tender offer — Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States …
More: Crunchbase News, Figma, Analytics India Magazine, Tech in Asia, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, The Information, CNBC, and Bloomberg
X: @bgurley, @jaminball, @rrhoover, and @alexrkonrad
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to redirect all Search users to google.com over the coming months, saying “country-level domains are no longer necessary” — Historically, Google users around the world have visited country-specific sites like google.com.br (Brazil), google.fr (France), or google.co.uk (UK).| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Huawei's AI CloudMatrix 384 rack-scale system, which is less power-efficient than Nvidia's GB200 NVL72, though this is not a limiting factor in China — Huawei is making waves with its new AI accelerator and rack scale architecture. Meet China's newest and most powerful Chinese domestic solution … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
xAI unveils Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool for its Grok chatbot that can generate and edit documents, run code like Python and JavaScript, and more — Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.
More: Engadget, Analytics India Magazine, Tom's Guide, Blockchain.News, MakeUseOf, and Tech in Asia
| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
Infinite Reality, which recently bought Napster, acquires AI customer support startup Touchcast for $500M in cash and stock, valuing Infinite Reality at $15.5B — The acquisition comes just weeks after the company said it would buy iconic 2000s music brand Napster.
More: VentureBeat and Infinite Reality
| Reuters: |
River: China's local governments held 15,000 bitcoin worth $1.4B at the end of 2024, the world's 14th biggest holder, sparking a debate on how to handle it — China's growing pile of cryptocurrencies seized from illegal transactions is prompting local governments to find ways to dispose … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
OKX relaunches in the US and unveils a new crypto wallet for users, two months after a $500M DOJ settlement over insufficient anti-money laundering processes — Seychelles-based OKX announced on Tuesday that it is relaunching the U.S. version of its crypto exchange and unveiled a new wallet …
More: OKX, The Block, Yahoo Finance, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Blockhead, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, CoinGape, CoinDesk, and Bloomberg
X: @wublockchain and @okx
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out its text-to-video AI model Veo 2 to Gemini Advanced subscribers and makes its Whisk Animate tool available for Google One AI Premium users — A new Whisk Animate tool is coming to Google One AI Premium users, as well. … Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2 …
More: The Keyword, Tom's Guide, Moneycontrol, Benzinga, Analytics India Magazine, The Decoder, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, TestingCatalog, BGR, Business Standard, Phandroid, Livemint, Campaign Middle East, and Nairametrics
X: @sundarpichai, @googlelabs, @nearcyan, @google, @nearcyan, and @googledeepmind. Forums: r/singularity
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier for users to access their AI-generated images, rolling out to all Free, Plus, and Pro users — The new Library is rolling out now to all Free, Plus, and Pro users. … OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier … | Mohar Chatterjee / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts — Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says it suspended 39.2M US advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024, up over 3x from 12.7M in 2023, and took down 1.8B ads, aided by new AI tools — Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number … | Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Medicare broker Chapter, which was co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and uses AI to aggregate comprehensive plan data, raised $75M at a $1.5B valuation — Startup Chapter, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and previously backed by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, just closed a VC round valuing it at $1.5 billion.
More: Business Wire
| Bloomberg: |
US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales rose 29% YoY in March and 38% YoY in April's first 11 days, while Temu rose 46% and 60%, ahead of US tariffs — Online shopping giants Temu and Shein saw their sales rebound in March and April as US shoppers stockpiled products like makeup brushes … | Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
Starlink, which entered Nigeria in January 2023, ranks second among pure-play ISPs with 65K+ Nigerian subscribers in Q3 2024 due to reliable, high-speed access — Elon Musk's company is set to become Nigeria's top internet service provider. — In the sprawling electronic market … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Lyft acquires Hamburg-based taxi app FreeNow from BMW and Mercedes-Benz for €175M and says the combined operations will serve 50M+ riders annually — US group makes first major acquisition across the Atlantic as it continues competition against industry giant UberSponsor Posts
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