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| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse — Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech — Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk — Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …
More: CNBC, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, Blockonomi, MediaPost, The Economic Times, SiliconANGLE, and The Information
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: Breaking Defense, TechCrunch, Watcher Guru, Android Headlines, The Hans India, The Next Web, Tech in Asia, Business Insider, Anthropic, and Bloomberg
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| Business Insider: |
The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 — - Tech industries are losing their strength. — One economist said tech job losses outpaced the past two recessions. — Still, there is weakness in other areas of the job market.
More: Bureau of Labor Statistics and PYMNTS.com
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders — The FBI said it has addressed ‘suspicious activities’ on its networks — U.S. investigators believe hackers affiliated …
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations — The administration also released an executive order on cybercrime and fraud. — Learn more.
More: The White House, Cybersecurity Dive, Bloomberg Law, Nextgov/FCW, Politico, and Defense One
| Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg: |
President Trump signs an EO aimed at fighting cybercrime, directing officials to identify robust tools to combat transnational criminal organizations — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at fighting cybercrime, including fraud and extortion …
More: The White House, New York Times, NewsMax.com, and DataBreachToday.com
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site — Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged … | Forbes: |
How Cursor is evolving through its Composer coding models built on Chinese open models, as coding agents like Claude Code threaten to make code editors obsolete — After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, letting companies buy third-party software using some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic's services — Anthropic PBC is launching a new platform for its corporate customers to purchase third-party software, broadening the AI developer's offerings …
More: SiliconANGLE, Claude, VentureBeat, and NextBigWhat
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October — Prediction market rivals are speaking to investors about roughly doubling their previous valuations
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months — New AI-powered tools are increasingly adept at spotting flaws. Hacking experts worry they will be good at exploiting them, too.
More: Anthropic, The Mozilla Blog, Digit, Politico, TechCrunch, The Register, Cyber Security News, and Axios
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Mastodon: @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social and @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/firefox, and Lobsters
| Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath: |
Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs — Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation — OpenAI is rolling out Codex Security, an AI-powered application security agent that finds, validates and proposes fixes for vulnerabilities.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more — In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block's cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”| Financial Times: |
US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech — Institutional clients increasingly want so-called parallel funds that exclude certain assets — US investors are increasingly … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
IDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments — India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, surpassing the surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic as millions …
More: IDC
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence — “People's habits are not solidified” Liz Reid has one of the hardest jobs in tech. She runs Google Search, arguably the best business ever built … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho WorkDrive named a Leader in the Nucleus Research CSC Technology Value Matrix 2026 — Enterprise content management is evolving rapidly with about 80% of the data unstructured. The growing challenge is not about storing information anymore.
Zoho WorkDrive named a Leader in the Nucleus Research CSC Technology Value Matrix 2026 — Enterprise content management is evolving rapidly with about 80% of the data unstructured. The growing challenge is not about storing information anymore.
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