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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 … | Bloomberg: |
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 — Informatica shareholders are set to receive $25 in cash per share, according to a statement on Tuesday.
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The Browser Company says it is pivoting away from its Arc browser to build AI-native browser Dia, citing Arc's complexity and limited mass-market appeal — On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year. — The Browser Company
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| Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could be done with ~20x fewer noisy qubits than previously estimated, though still far beyond current quantum tech — Google just dropped a new research paper, and Bitcoin maxis may want to do some quick math. The tech giant's quantum team found … | 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 … | Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Stablecoin operator Circle files for an NYSE IPO and plans to offer 24M shares at $24 to $26 each, raising up to nearly $250M; Cathie Wood's ARK may buy $150M — Circle Internet Group, the firm behind stablecoin USDC, has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, the firm said on Tuesday.| 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.| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for potential child safety DSA violations “as a matter of priority” — New rules compel large online platforms to do more to protect users from harmful illegal content| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Researchers detail an exploit in GitHub's official MCP server that lets hackers trick an LLM agent into leaking private information about the MCP user — GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (via) GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities …
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| Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator: |
The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times — I thought someone was gaming X's crowdsourced moderation; instead, they appear to be helping clean up the platform's mess for free.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn — Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta launches a dedicated iPad app for WhatsApp — 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, more than 15 years after the messaging service and the first iPad launched (2009 and 2010, respectively).
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Temu-owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$13.3B, below ~$14.4B est., and says it is fulfilling US orders exclusively via local warehouses and merchants — The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers … Explainers| 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 infrastructureSponsor Posts
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Introducing the sandbox environment: Safely test and optimize e-signature workflows — Changes are an inevitable part of any workflow. The average agreement workflow involves recipients across organizations …
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