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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 …
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @telecom-terrorist.com, and @ericjgeller.com. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Forums: Slashdot
| 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 …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup, WebProNews, and iClarified
| 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.
More: The Information, Fortune, and WinBuzzer
| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
More: WinBuzzer, The Crypto Times, Analytics India Magazine, Cointelegraph, WebProNews, and Cryptopolitan. X: @pranavdixit
| Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company: |
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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Forums: r/apple, r/ArcBrowser, r/swift, and Slashdot
| 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 — The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers … Explainers
More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Informatica, The Information, Bloomberg Law, CNBC, Le Monde, RTÉ, The Register, Wall Street Journal, CRN, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, WebProNews, RetailWire, Reuters, CIO.com, Quartz, Times of India, Fox Business, Morningstar, Inc., MarketWatch, Analytics India Magazine, Techstrong.ai, Hindustan Times, Constellation Research, Proactive, Barron's Online, Yahoo Finance, from ITPro in, FXStreet, Channel Futures, TipRanks Financial, Wall Street Pit, The Economic Times, and Mobile World Live
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on search's future, seeing “overall query growth”, AI agents, not altering search rankings or AI Mode answers to favor Trump, and more — Today, I'm talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We recorded this conversation in person … | 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 — What that actually means is a system prompt plus a bundle of tools running in a loop.
More: Mistral AI. Bluesky: @simonwillison.net. Mastodon: @glinden@sigmoid.social and @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @emanuelmaiberg, and @patrickhowelloneill.com. Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
More: MacRumors, App Store, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Engadget, Forbes, PCMag, AppleInsider, Appleosophy, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Tech Times, Yahoo Finance, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, Mirror, Fast Company, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, WhatsApp Blog, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Metro.co.uk, Thurrott, The US Sun, O'Grady's PowerPage, nextpit, Mashable, Beebom, The Independent, and The Mac Observer
| 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.| 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 …
More: Trump Media, DL News, The Hill, The Block, New York Sun, New Republic, New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Crypto Times, The Crypto Basic, Fortune, CryptoNinjas, ZeroHedge News, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, NFTgators, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, Fox Business, The Daily Caller, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, Ledger Insights, Al Jazeera, Decrypt, CoinGape, and Financial Times
| 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, The Record, AppleInsider, Computerworld, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, BGR, iPhone in Canada, and Cult of Mac
| 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 … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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