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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild; attackers with admin privileges can chain the flaws to escape the virtual machine's sandbox  —  Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Apple updates the $999+ 13" and $1,199+ 15" MacBook Air with an M4, offering a 10-core CPU and 8-core GPU, and a sky blue color option, shipping from March 12  —  Upgrades at a lower cost.  I'll take it. … Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Apple updates the Mac Studio with an M4 Max for $1,999+ and an M3 Ultra for $3,999+, with up to 32 cores, including 24 performance cores, shipping from March 12  —  Two generations of Apple silicon, one computer.  —  After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
After announcing the M3 Ultra, Apple says not every M chip generation will get an Ultra tier, suggesting the company will skip the M4 Ultra
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Apple debuts the M3 Ultra, built from two 3nm M3 Max chips, with Thunderbolt 5, an UltraFusion packaging architecture, an 80-core GPU, and up to 512GB of memory
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils Sales Agent and Sales Chat AI agents, available in public preview in May, designed to work with Dynamics 365 business apps and with Salesforce  —  Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs  —  The Justice Department claims 10 alleged hackers and two eChinese government officials took part in a wave of cyberattacks around …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers  —  Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI's ChatGPT Search.
Jack Greenberg / YouTube Official Blog:
YouTube debuts an $8/month Premium Lite tier in the US, offering most videos ad-free and music with ads, and plans to launch in Thailand, Germany, and Australia  —  Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US.  Premium Lite gives viewers a new …
The Information:
Source: OpenAI told some investors about plans for new agents: $2,000/month for knowledge work, a $10K/month for coding, and $20K/month for PhD-level research  —  OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are relaunching Digg, after acquiring the site from Money Group for an undisclosed sum  —  Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Avride, a Yandex spinoff, partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for ride hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs in 2025  —  The autonomous vehicle operator is aiming to build 100 driverless Ioniq 5s this year.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Marvell reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.8B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue of ~$1.88B, below the highest $2B est.; MRVL drops 13%+ after hours  —  Marvell Technology Inc. declined in late trading after delivering a revenue forecast that fell short of the highest estimates …
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group Silk Typhoon was targeting remote management tools and cloud apps to steal data keys in the US and abroad in late 2024  —  - ‘Silk Typhoon’ group previously blamed in Treasury breach  — Attackers hunting for details on US policy, investigations
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT  —  Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.

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From Mediagazer

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
President Trump told reporters “it's imperative” for CNN to be sold: “Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately”

David Bauder / Associated Press:
The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was “seditious”

Yael Krifcher / Committee to Protect Journalists:
A look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship

More News

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor
Jason Shubnell / The Block:
Coinbase revives its ambition to bring security tokens, “crypto assets that represent a traditional security”, to the US, amid a relaxed regulatory environment
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, including pledges to research AI discrimination and share info on managing AI risks

Earlier Picks

Tom Warren / The Verge:
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: 16GB of VRAM, FSR 4, and lower power draw than prior Radeon cards, but no AMD reference design and they are bulky cards
Hayden Field / CNBC:
The US DOD awards Scale AI a prototype contract for “Thunderforge”, to use AI agents for planning and operations; a source says it is a multimillion-dollar deal
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA clears Microsoft's $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending 14 months of uncertainty over the deal, but says “Microsoft did acquire material influence”
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant
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