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Sources: the UK used Snoopers' Charter to send a “technical capability notice” to Apple; notice recipients aren't allowed to warn users of weakened security — British government orders US tech group to grant secret access to its customers' accounts
More: The Verge, BBC, Ars Technica, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Electronic Frontier Foundation, MacRumors, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Reuters, mjtsai.com, VICE, ComputerWeekly.com, Daily Mail, MobileSyrup, Pixel Envy, PCMag, Macworld, TechSpot, Newser, Tech.co, Redmond Pie, iClarified, The Independent, CyberInsider, Forbes, Livemint, The Register, Sky News, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, TechRadar, The Apple Post, New Scientist, Computerworld, Blockchain News, MacDailyNews, WebProNews, Gizmodo, The Sun, Metacurity, DeviceSecurity.io, and The Standard. Mastodon: @kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022 — Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
More: NPR. Bluesky: @lizthegrey.com, @timmarchman, @malwaretech.com, @pfish.zone, @morecoffeeplz, and @jsweetli. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @awinston. Forums: r/cybersecurity
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them — Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …
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| Punchbowl News: |
Sources: Trump has tasked JD Vance and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok — Vance is in charge of “quarterbacking a deal to save TikTok,” according to a source familiar with the matter. Waltz and the National Security Council are in charge … | CNBC: |
Sources: Anduril is in talks to raise up to $2.5B, led by Founders Fund with a $1B commitment, at a $28B valuation; Anduril's revenue in 2024 doubled to ~$1B — WATCH NOW — Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation …
More: CNBC, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Information, New York Times, Bloomberg, and Forbes
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank is set to invest $40B in OpenAI at a $260B pre-money valuation; investors last valued OpenAI at $157B, when it raised $6.6B in October 2024 — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices| Reuters: |
SolarWinds says it will go private in a $4.4B deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital; SWI closes up 21.8% — SolarWinds (SWI.N) said on Friday it would go private in a $4.4 billion deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital, the latest sign debt-funded deals were set to rebound this year as borrowing costs decline.
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe competitor Rapyd is in talks to raise $300M from investors at a $3.5B valuation, a dramatic decline from its valuation of around $9B in 2021 — The high-profile startup is in talks for a funding round that would shave billions off its value.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” — President Donald Trump has paused the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
PlayStation Network has been experiencing a multi-hour outage, affecting account management, gaming and social, and PlayStation Video, Store, and Direct website — PSN has been experiencing a multi-hour outage. You might have trouble loading purchased digital games or seeing which friends are online.| Reuters: |
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence is in talks to raise funding at a $20B+ valuation, up from a $5B valuation in its September 2024 funding round — Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year …
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Pit, PYMNTS.com, The Decoder, TechCrunch, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/mlscaling and r/singularity
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists — An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist …
More: Nature, arXiv.org, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @daytontalk. X: @umesh_ai, @deedydas, @bennpeifert, @deryatr_, @hindookissinger, and @deedydas
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Thomas Escritt / Reuters: |
A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's national election — Elon Musk's social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday.
More: TechCrunch, Politico, Politico, Law.com International, and Reuters
| Fei-Fei Li / Financial Times: |
Three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking: have a clear view of reality, be pragmatic instead of ideological, and empower the AI ecosystem — It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that attackers are using static ASP.NET machine keys found online to inject malware into ViewState, which controls web form state during reloads — Microsoft warns that attackers are deploying malware in ViewState code injection attacks using static ASP. NET machine keys found online.
More: Microsoft Security Blog, Help Net Security, Hackread, PaymentSecurity.io, SC Media, Dark Reading, Cybersecurity Dive, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, CyberInsider, Security Affairs, and Cyber Security News
Bluesky: @tmjintel and @youranonriots
Mastodon: @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange and @screaminggoat@infosec …
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC is informing Chinese customers using its 16nm or better tech that it cannot ship orders unless they use a US “white list” chip packaging supplier — TAIPEI — The latest U.S. export controls on China's chip sector are causing more disruption than the industry expected … | Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia: |
MediaTek reports sales up 22.4% YoY to ~$16.2B in 2024 and net profit up 38.2% YoY to ~$3.24B, posting its first sales and profit growth in two fiscal years — TAIPEI — Major Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek looks to apply its low-power design know-how to products geared toward artificial intelligence …
More: Reuters, PhoneArena, Taipei Times, MediaTek, Taipei Times, and Android Headlines
| Financial Times: |
Docs: Palantir has won $2.7B+ in US contracts since 2009, including $1.3B+ in Pentagon contracts, and spent $5.8M in lobbying in 2024, up from ~$1M in 2015 — Peter Thiel-chaired group has Washington and Westminster network that helped secure around $3bn in official contracts
More: Motley Fool
| Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
CoinMarketCap: Circle's USDC market cap reached a new high of $56.2B on February 9, after dropping to $24.5B in 2023 in the months following FTX's collapse — USDC reached a market value of $56.2 billion on Friday, after falling to $24.5 billion in 2023, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
More: CryptoSlate
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