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Circle aims to raise up to $624M in its US IPO, offering 24M shares at $24-$26 each, valuing it at ~$5.65B, or ~$6.7B fully diluted, at the top of the range — The New York-based company behind the second-largest stablecoin and some of its shareholders are offering 24 million shares for $24 to $26 each …
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Salesforce agrees to acquire cloud data management company Informatica for ~$8B, set to close in its FY 2027, one year after an earlier deal fell through — The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers … Explainers
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| Bloomberg: |
Texas enacts an online child safety bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages and secure parental approval before minors can get most apps or make IAPs — Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an online child safety bill, bucking a lobbying push from big tech companies that included …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a dedicated app for video games to replace Game Center and come preinstalled on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV devices later this year — Apple Inc. is planning a dedicated app for video games on its devices, seeking to sell gamers and developers on the idea that it's a leader in the market.
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| Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends: |
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| Liz Hoffman / Semafor: |
Sources: Neuralink raised $600M at a $9B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: the company was valued at $3.5B in late 2023 — THE SCOOP — Elon Musk's Neuralink raised $600 million in a deal that values the brain-mapping company at $9 billion before the new cash, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta launches a dedicated iPadOS app for WhatsApp, about 15 years after the messaging service and the first iPad launched — The first version of the messaging app built for iPads tablets makes it easy to chat while you browse. — Meta now has a dedicated iPad app for WhatsApp …
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| The Information: |
Sources on how Apple declined a deal from Elon Musk to use SpaceX instead of Globalstar for its iOS SOS feature and its 2015 plans to build satellite internet — Three years ago, Elon Musk approached Apple with an eleventh-hour offer. — Musk had heard that Apple was about to announce …
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| Nahal Toosi / Politico: |
Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting — It's the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: Meta reorganizes its AI teams into an AI products team and AGI Foundations; FAIR remains separate but one specific FAIR team is moving to AGI Foundations — Meta is restructuring its AI teams to speed up the rollout of new products and features, Axios has learned.
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| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Zscaler agrees to acquire Red Canary, a provider of managed detection and response services, for an undisclosed sum; the deal is expected to close in August — The deal reflects a growing trend in cybersecurity toward consolidation and integration. — Learn more.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The US FTC's antitrust trial against Meta ends; Judge James Boasberg, who is presiding over the case, says he will work “expeditiously” to issue an opinion — A landmark antitrust trial accusing the social media giant of cementing its dominance through acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp has concluded.
More: 9to5Mac, Bloomberg Law, The Verge, WinBuzzer, and Yahoo Finance
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| Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: |
Memo: nearly all of CISA's top leaders, including heads of five of its six operational divisions and six of 10 regional offices, have left or are leaving in May — Most of the leaders of the agency's operating divisions and regional offices have left or will leave this month amid …
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Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @telecom-terrorist.com, and @karlbode.com. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/fednews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Nathan Vifflin / Reuters: |
TSMC plans to open a design center in Munich in Q3 2025 to support European customers in designing chips for automotive, industrial, AI, and IoT applications — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chipmaker, said on Tuesday it will open a design centre in Munich …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/europe, and r/EU_Economics
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Mistral launches an API for agents, which can run code, make images, access docs, search the web, and “hand off” to other agents, similar to OpenAI's offerings — Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API. Big upgrade to Mistral's API this morning: they've announced a new “Agents API”.
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| Financial Times: |
European industrial groups Schneider, Siemens, ABB, and Legrand collectively added €151B in market value due to AI demand after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch — Electrical equipment makers including ABB and Legrand are surging thanks to a pivot to data centre infrastructure| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transferred critical autonomous driving tech and data to Chinese partners despite a 2022 agreement with CFIUS — TuSimple shared with Beijing a best-in-class autonomous driving system—and became a prime example of Washington's shortcomings in keeping critical technology in the U.S.| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue up ~50% YoY to ~$15.5B, above ~$15.17B est., as it invests heavily in autonomous EVs and growing its smartphone business — Revenue rose to 111.3 billion yuan ($15.5 billion), Xiaomi said in a statement Tuesday, beating the average analyst estimate of 109 billion yuan.
More: Reuters and Xiaomi Corporation
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
An Iranian man pleads guilty in US court to participating in the Robbinhood ransomware gang, compromising networks of US cities and orgs between 2019 and 2024 — An Iranian national has pleaded guilty to participating in the Robbinhood ransomware operation, which was used to breach the networks … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Store blocked $9B+ in fraudulent transactions over the past five years, with $2B in just 2024, and rejected ~2M risky app submissions in 2024 — Apple on Tuesday announced new figures related to its App Store's ability to protect app developers and consumers from fraud.
More: Apple, MacRumors, The Information, 9to5Mac, iDrop News, iPhone in Canada, Computerworld, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, BGR, PYMNTS.com, and Cult of Mac
| Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
Trump Media & Technology Group plans to sell ~$1.5B in stock and $1B in 0% convertible notes to buy bitcoin for its treasury, following Strategy's model — The company's shares fell 9.2% at $23.38 in early trading after rallying premarket following a Financial Times report on its plans …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block plans to roll out bitcoin payments on Square in H2 2025; the system runs on the Lightning Network and lets merchants accept bitcoin via Square's hardware — LAS VEGAS — Jack Dorsey's latest bitcoin vision is hitting the checkout counter — starting with a merch truck parked just off the casino floor inside The Venetian.Sponsor Posts
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