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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran — The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped — Medical technology giant Stryker …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/PrepperIntel, r/technews, r/cybersecurity, r/politics, r/news, r/BMET, r/worldnews, r/technology, r/StockMarket, and Lobsters
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models — The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
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LinkedIn: Mostofa Patwary, Jiantao Jiao, and Samuel G. Rodriques
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/nvidia
| CNBC: |
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges — Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen — Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
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X: @justrouzbeh and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
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| Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: |
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project — Follow Grace Kay … - XAI's Macrohard project has stalled amid leadership changes and a data project pause.
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| CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+ — Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters …
More: Financial Times and Spyglass
| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Japan, its first AV partnership in the country, with a Tokyo pilot program set for late 2026 — Uber intends to start offering the service through a licensed taxi partner in Japan — Uber Technologies, Nissan Motor …
More: Benzinga, Engadget, The Next Web, Automotive World, Blockonomi, Nikkei Asia, Bitcoin Insider, Reuters, Kyodo News, and CBT News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others — India is drafting a new round of smartphone manufacturing incentives that would link government subsidies to exports and deeper use …
More: The Hans India, Reuters, Digit, Firstpost, TechWire Asia, Tech in Asia, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt
| Bloomberg: |
Meta unveils four new chips, the MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, set to launch by the end of 2027; the MTIA 300 is in production for content ranking — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to deploy four new generations of its in-house artificial intelligence chips by the end of 2027 …
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LinkedIn: Warner Tsang, Jonas Olsson, Dan Rabinovitsj, CQ Tang, and Yee Jiun. Threads: @metanewsroom
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026 — Amjad Masad's Replit allows users to build apps together like they're doodling on a white board. It also made the Jordanian immigrant a billionaire along the way.| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs — Software group sold debt at significant premium in borrowing costs in sign of Wall Street jitters over AI disruption
More: Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg
| The Verge: |
Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027 — Microsoft announced new details about the console at the GDC Festival of Gaming.
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LinkedIn: Benoit Fouillet and Jack Huynh
Forums: r/GearsOfWar, r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace, r/XboxSeriesXlS, and r/xbox
| Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B — Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion — Can a company be declared both passé and the next big thing?| Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: |
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that reached that mark in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users last month — The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago. — Valve has revealed that 5,863 games released on Steam earned over $100,000 in 2025.
More: International Business Times, Gamereactor UK, and 80 Level
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer — - “Personal Computer” runs locally on a dedicated device. — “Perplexity Computer,” which was announced a few weeks ago, operates in the cloud.| Laura Cress / BBC: |
The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites — Major technology companies have been asked to bring in more robust age checks for under-13s in the UK …
More: Reuters, Sky News, UK ICO, BusinessCloud, Manchester Evening News, Tech in Asia, GOV.UK, and Daily Star. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab results to give personalized advice, in the US — A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle — As large enterprises invest in blockchain technology, they quickly discover the need for accounting software that can help them track a growing hoard of digital assets.
More: CoinDesk
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions” — 'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
More: The Keyword, Bloomberg, Associated Press, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, CNBC, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, TechRadar, Wired, The Internet Marketing Driver, Carscoops, and BGR. X: @google
| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for learning and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% — Network of training farms aims to supply data needed to put ‘brains’ into machines — At a new 12,000 square metre facility in Wuhan … | Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more — Microsoft Corp. is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools as the US tech giant competes …
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