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Google acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B in cash, its largest acquisition yet, pending approval; antitrust fears stalled a $23B deal in 2024 — The acquisition is Alphabet's biggest yet, after a $23 billion takeover attempt stalled last year.
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LinkedIn: Andy Price, James Berthoty, Pramod Gosavi, Sid Trivedi, and Frank McGovern
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| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
Google says Wiz will join Google Cloud and that Wiz's products will continue to work “across all major clouds”, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud — Once the deal is closed, Wiz will join the Google Cloud business, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday.| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Some owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks with Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can use the home screen; Roku says it is just a test — Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to the Roku OS home screen.
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| New York Times: |
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which already has fiber cables, after SpaceX “donated” the service, as some cite security concerns — Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
More: Metacurity, The Guardian, emptywheel, WinBuzzer, Political Wire, and Raw Story
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Forums: r/centrist, r/politics, r/somethingiswrong2024, and r/economicCollapse
| Rajesh Pandey / Android Police: |
Ahead of the Pixel 9a's rumored March 19 debut, a YouTuber posts a video of the alleged phone, showing a flat rear panel, minimal camera bump, and large bezels — - Detailed Pixel 9a unboxing and hands-on videos have been published on YouTube. — One YouTuber has put the phone through its paces … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw to take over servers with a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack “requires no authentication” — A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat tracked as CVE-2025-24813 is actively exploited in the wild … | Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Solana deletes a social media video ad promoting its NYC conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues — - Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later.
More: Protos, CoinDesk, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, and Cointelegraph
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” — AI start-up's product head Mike Krieger says $60bn company is preparing to release features aimed at enterprise market
More: PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and Digital Trends
| Reuters: |
Germany's Federal Court of Justice rules against Apple's appeal opposing a 2023 regulatory assessment that opens Apple up to stricter controls in the country — Apple (AAPL.O) lost an appeal on Tuesday against a regulatory assessment that opens the iPhone maker up to stricter controls in Germany …
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Seeking Alpha, Bloomberg, iClarified, and Tech Xplore. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Mike Schmidt / Financial Times: |
The former CHIPS Program Office director says repealing the CHIPS Act risks US national security, and tariffs alone won't revitalize domestic chip manufacturing — Tariffs alone will not achieve the goal of revitalising domestic semiconductor manufacturing
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others “exploit” copyrighted works — More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy …
More: The Verge, CBS News, The Wrap, Lawyer Monthly, Daily Mail, TechWire Asia, The Guardian, and MediaPost
Forums: r/aiwars, r/popculture, r/technology, r/Fauxmoi, and Slashdot
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches new Search and Android health features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma — Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search …
More: Engadget, ZDNET, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Keyword, The Keyword, MediaPost, Tech in Asia, and Wall Street Pit
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding assistant Devin developer Cognition raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a nearly $4B valuation, up from its $2B valuation in April 2024 — The new funding round is being led by 8VC, the Joe Lonsdale-backed venture capital firm, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
More: Cautious Optimism, The Decoder, Verdict, and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Tencent releases five AI tools that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat — Tencent's five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users, the company said in a statement.
More: Reuters, Business Insider, and SiliconANGLE
| Bert Hubert's writings: |
A look at Europe's options and potential issues to get a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult to build than the €15B Galileo satellite system — The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds …
More: CIO.com. Bluesky: @halvarflake and @rop.gonggri.jp
Mastodon: @alexlunaview@mastodon.social, @gedankenstuecke@scholar …, and @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org. Forums: Hacker News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024 — In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads.
More: Meta and Entrepreneur
Threads: @zuck, @sebastianraschka, @chriscox, and @yannlecun
X: @aiatmeta, @ahmad_al_dahle, @andymstone, and @metanewsroom
| Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation — Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 enter the ring. — Qualcomm expanded its Snapdragon G series … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Taboola strikes a deal with Microsoft to sell display ads for MSN.com, Outlook, Games, Office products, and more, as it expands beyond native advertising — Taboola struck a deal with Microsoft to sell display ads for MSN.com, Microsoft Outlook, Games and Microsoft's broader Office Suite … | MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto — - The web3 workflow protocol developer Halliday raised $20 million in Series A funding led by a16z crypto.
More: VentureBeat and CoinDesk
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