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Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild found by Microsoft; attackers with admin or root access can chain the flaws to escape a VM's sandbox — Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display — Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed — Apple is developing a “refreshed” version of its C1 modem for mass production next year that will improve power consumption and transmission speed …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs — Qwen Team, which is growing Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's family of open-source Qwen large language models (LLMs) …
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
1Password adds a feature to help find a login, password, or access code by adding a specific physical location to items in a new Nearby section of the app — You can now add a location for passwords and other items saved in 1Password. … 1Password introduced a new feature today … | Bloomberg: |
Chipmaker SiTime's shares closed up 19.53% on March 5 after TechInsights' iPhone 16e teardown revealed that Apple used SiTime's timer chips in the smartphone — The appearance of SiTime Corp. components in the new iPhone 16e is fueling a stock rally for the little-known chipmaker, sending the shares up as much as 17% on Wednesday.| Mahmoud Itani / Macworld: |
Apple introduces AI-generated summaries of app reviews in the App Store, first available in the US in English, with the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 betas — Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 18.4 beta 2, featuring a new pause/resume button for active downloads in the App Store.
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
USCIS proposes reviewing social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's EO — People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI — In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils AI agents Sales Agent and Sales Chat that connect to Dynamics 365 business apps and Salesforce, available in public preview from May 2025 — 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.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time — You can still choose how often you see AI-assisted answers, which now incorporate results from the web.
More: 9to5Mac, Spread Privacy, Digital Trends, and BGR
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce announces Agentforce 2dx, letting AI agents work proactively and autonomously across enterprise systems without chat interfaces and user prompts — Salesforce announced Agentforce 2dx today, a major update to its digital labor platform that enables autonomous AI agents … | William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple's M4 MacBook Air supports two monitors of up to 6K resolution each, plus the built-in 13.6" or 15.3" display, addressing the prior M3 models' limitation — The new M4 MacBook Air fixes what's been a key problem with the line, and now supports up to two external monitors …
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Sources: Microsoft canceled some CoreWeave agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines before its IPO; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 sales — AI data centre provider hit by blow from biggest customer ahead of the biggest tech listing this year
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| 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 … | New York Times: |
Sources: Discord is in early talks with bankers about a potential IPO that could come as soon as in 2025; Discord was last valued by investors in 2021 at ~$15B — The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users. — Discord, the social chat app popular …
More: Financial Times, Finextra, The Independent, Video Games Chronicle, The Information, and Benzinga
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $548.4M, vs. $519.6M est., and for FY 2026 projects the slowest growth rate since going public in 2017; MDB drops 20%+ — MongoDB shares sank 16% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker issued disappointing guidance.| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Reliance Retail, India's largest retailer, plans to overhaul its business to hit a $125B IPO valuation, including scaling up quick commerce — Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani is overhauling a retail empire that sells everything from $0.20 soda to $5,900 Versace dresses … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: President Trump is set to meet the CEOs of HP, Intel, IBM, and Qualcomm on March 10, as new US tariffs threaten to roil the PC hardware industry — President Donald Trump is poised to meet next week with leaders of some of the country's largest tech companies …
More: PYMNTS.com and South China Morning Post
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Turing, which works with engineers to contribute code to AI projects, raised a $111M Series E led by Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund at a $2.2B valuation — As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged … | Ira Alok Puranik / The Economic Times: |
India's Income Tax Bill 2025 grants income tax officers the legal authority to access taxpayers' email and social media accounts if they suspect tax evasion — Starting April 1, 2026, the income tax department will have the authority to access social media, emails, and other digital spaces to curb tax evasion.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unveils an overhaul of Biden's $42B broadband grant to “take a tech-neutral approach”, a move that could benefit Starlink — Under new rules from President Trump's Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
PitchBook: women founders and investors raised $38.8B in the US in 2024, up 27% YoY but coming from a 25.1% share of total VC funding, down from 26.4% in 2023 — Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook.
More: Forbes, PitchBook, PitchBook, and Boston Business Journal
| Forbes: |
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search — AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that's not the case.
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