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Apple Intelligence:
- Apple is delaying the rollout of its more personalized Siri features, originally promised as part of its Apple Intelligence initiative, with the update now expected "in the coming year". 👉 daringfireball.net 👉 reuters.com 👉 qz.com
- Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly and it may need to be rebuilt from scratch, delaying the AI-infused Siri digital assistant release. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 pymnts.com
Artificial Intelligence:
- The White House is considering restricting Chinese AI company DeepSeek, including banning its chatbot from government devices, citing national security concerns due to data handling practices. 👉 msn.com
- A new AI startup, Reflection AI, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, has emerged from stealth with $130 million in funding to build superintelligent autonomous coding systems. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 reflection.ai
- Microsoft is testing ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs, including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek. 👉 theinformation.com
- Microsoft is developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and is training a new family of models, dubbed MAI, that they think stack up with top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. 👉 theinformation.com 👉 techcrunch.com
- DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia, but its AI answers will show up ~20% of the time. 👉 theverge.com
- VCs are increasingly investing in "AI wrappers," which are startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- NewsGuard reports that the top 10 AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time. 👉 newsguardrealitycheck.com 👉 techcrunch.com
- Anysphere, the maker of coding app Cursor, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10B valuation, up from $2.5B in January, and crossed $100M in ARR in 12 months. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Cybersecurity:
- U.S. authorities seized $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024, with hackers breaching LastPass in 2022 believed to be behind the attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A critical command injection vulnerability impacting the Edimax IC-7100 IP camera is actively being exploited by botnet malware to compromise devices. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A Memphis man was arrested and charged with stealing DVDs and Blu-ray discs of unreleased movies and sharing ripped digital copies online before their release. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- US charges Garantex admins with money laundering and sanctions violations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications Corporation is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks on a victim's network, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Two people working at a third-party contractor for StubHub made $635,000 after stealing and reselling almost 1,000 Taylor Swift concert tickets. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A malicious Python Package Index (PyPI) package named "set-utils" has been stealing Ethereum private keys through intercepted wallet creation functions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Over 37,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are vulnerable to CVE-2025-22224, a critical out-of-bounds write flaw that is actively exploited in the wild. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. 👉 thehackernews.com
- A malicious Python package on PyPI is stealing Ethereum private keys. 👉 thehackernews.com
- A new attack allows malicious Chrome extensions to morph into password managers to steal sensitive information. 👉 thehackernews.com
- International law enforcement agencies have seized the website associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. 👉 thehackernews.com
- The administrators of the Russian Garantex crypto-exchange have been charged in the United States with facilitating money laundering for criminal organizations and violating sanctions. 👉 thehackernews.com
- A recent attack campaign has exploited a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the PHP-CGI implementation of PHP on Windows (CVE-2024-4577), targeting organizations in Japan. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group tracked as Moonstone Sleet has deployed Qilin ransomware payloads. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A new report from acronis examines how the SharpRhino resurfaces: How this malware evades detection. 👉 acronis.com
- Safe{Wallet} confirms that the cybersecurity incident that led to the Bybit $1.5 billion crypto heist is a "highly sophisticated, state-sponsored attack" and that the North Korean threat actors behind the hack took steps to erase traces of the malicious activity. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale malvertising campaign that's estimated to have impacted over one million devices globally as part of what it said is an opportunistic attack designed to steal sensitive information. 👉 thehackernews.com 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Ransomware:
- EncryptHub, a financially motivated threat actor, has been observed orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns to deploy information stealers and ransomware. 👉 thehackernews.com
- A ransomware gang used an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks, bypassing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Threat hunters have shed light on a "sophisticated and evolving malware toolkit" called Ragnar Loader that's used by various cybercrime and ransomware groups. 👉 thehackernews.com
Government and Regulation:
- The Trump administration is likely to adopt a rule that would bar people from downloading DeepSeek's chatbot app onto U.S. government devices, because of national-security concerns. 👉 msn.com
- The US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome. 👉 reuters.com
Cryptocurrency:
- President Trump has signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies. 👉 reuters.com
- Crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has filed confidentially for an IPO and is reportedly considering going public as soon as this year. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will hold only assets that have been forfeited, disappoints traders who hoped the government would begin buying bitcoin. 👉 t.co
- Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases. 👉 cointelegraph.com
- Trump's memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns. 👉 t.co
- Revolut and Visa file challenges against UK's Payment Systems Regulator, say it overstepped its powers with a plan to cap international digital transaction fees. 👉 t.co
- Sources: Kraken seeks to go public as soon as Q1 2026; the SEC recently agreed to drop its case against Kraken amid a friendlier regulatory climate under Trump. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Financial Technology:
- The collapse of Synapse has left $200 million in customer money frozen and up to $95 million missing, prompting a Department of Justice criminal investigation. 👉 fortune.com
Telecom:
- Global telecom operators are struggling to shut down aging 2G networks, threatening to exclude millions of vulnerable users. 👉 restofworld.org
DVD Rot:
- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has confirmed widespread issues affecting DVDs manufactured between 2006-2008 that are experiencing premature disc rot. 👉 arstechnica.com
Internet Archive:
- Music labels seek to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive of copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, potentially increasing damages to almost $700 million. 👉 arstechnica.com
Research:
- PhD students trained in small research groups are more likely to remain in academia than those from larger labs, though those from larger labs tend to achieve greater career success. 👉 nature.com
Quantum Computing:
- A physicist casts doubt on a test underlying Microsoft's claim to have created the first 'topological qubits', amid mounting speculation about the validity of Microsoft's claim. 👉 nature.com
FiveThirtyEight:
- Nate Silver discusses the demise of FiveThirtyEight, noting Disney's lack of interest in running it as a business and the constant threat of layoffs. 👉 natesilver.net
App Stores:
- A Brazilian judge has ordered Apple to open its iOS platform to alternative app stores within 90 days, citing compliance with similar requirements in the EU. 👉 valorinternational.globo.com
Lunar Landing:
- Intuitive Machines' Athena lander touched down near the lunar south pole Thursday but may have toppled during landing, jeopardizing its scientific mission. 👉 reuters.com
Movie Piracy:
- A Tennessee man was arrested for stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing company and sharing them online before the movies' release dates, including Spider-Man: No Way Home. 👉 arstechnica.com
Open Digital Markets:
- EU antitrust and tech chiefs told U.S. congressmen that Europe's new tech rule aims to keep digital markets open and is not targeted at U.S. tech giants. 👉 finance.yahoo.com
Starlink Alternatives:
- Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line. 👉 t.co
DeepSeek Ban:
- The White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns. 👉 wsj.com^$
Figma IPO:
- Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023. 👉 nytimes.com^$
Zoho on Womens Day:
- On this International Women's Day, it's great to take a moment to recognize some of the incredible women at Zoho who are making a real difference. 👉 techmeme.com
Threads testing interests:
- Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic. 👉 techcrunch.com
McDonnalds AI make over:
- McDonald's is giving its restaurants a technology makeover, including edge computing for predicting equipment breakdowns and computer vision for order accuracy. 👉 wsj.com^$
Meta & Llama 4:
- Meta plans to include improved voice features in Llama 4, expected in weeks, betting that future AI agents will be conversational rather than text-led. 👉 t.co
TPMS on Tires:
- Bridgestone is working on a tire with a TPMS sensor embedded directly into it, offering drivers more precise data. 👉 engadget.com

News

Apple Intelligence:
- Apple is delaying the rollout of its more personalized Siri features, originally promised as part of its Apple Intelligence initiative, with the update now expected "in the coming year". 👉 daringfireball.net 👉 reuters.com 👉 qz.com
- Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly and it may need to be rebuilt from scratch, delaying the AI-infused Siri digital assistant release. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 pymnts.com
Artificial Intelligence:
- The White House is considering restricting Chinese AI company DeepSeek, including banning its chatbot from government devices, citing national security concerns due to data handling practices. 👉 msn.com
- A new AI startup, Reflection AI, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, has emerged from stealth with $130 million in funding to build superintelligent autonomous coding systems. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 reflection.ai
- Microsoft is testing ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs, including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek. 👉 theinformation.com
- Microsoft is developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and is training a new family of models, dubbed MAI, that they think stack up with top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. 👉 theinformation.com 👉 techcrunch.com
- DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia, but its AI answers will show up ~20% of the time. 👉 theverge.com
- VCs are increasingly investing in "AI wrappers," which are startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- NewsGuard reports that the top 10 AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time. 👉 newsguardrealitycheck.com 👉 techcrunch.com
Cybersecurity:
- U.S. authorities seized $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024, with hackers breaching LastPass in 2022 believed to be behind the attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A critical command injection vulnerability impacting the Edimax IC-7100 IP camera is actively being exploited by botnet malware to compromise devices. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A Memphis man was arrested and charged with stealing DVDs and Blu-ray discs of unreleased movies and sharing ripped digital copies online before their release. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- US charges Garantex admins with money laundering and sanctions violations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications Corporation is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Two people working at a third-party contractor for StubHub made $635,000 after stealing and reselling almost 1,000 Taylor Swift concert tickets. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A malicious Python Package Index (PyPI) package named "set-utils" has been stealing Ethereum private keys through intercepted wallet creation functions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Over 37,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are vulnerable to CVE-2025-22224, a critical out-of-bounds write flaw that is actively exploited in the wild. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A recent attack campaign has exploited a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the PHP-CGI implementation of PHP on Windows (CVE-2024-4577), targeting organizations in Japan. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Safe{Wallet} confirms that the cybersecurity incident that led to the Bybit $1.5 billion crypto heist is a "highly sophisticated, state-sponsored attack" and that the North Korean threat actors behind the hack took steps to erase traces of the malicious activity. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale malvertising campaign that's estimated to have impacted over one million devices globally as part of what it said is an opportunistic attack designed to steal sensitive information. 👉 thehackernews.com 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Ransomware:
- EncryptHub, a financially motivated threat actor, has been observed orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns to deploy information stealers and ransomware. [thehackernews.com](👉 thehackernews.com

Tech News

Apple Intelligence:

Apple is delaying the rollout of its more personalized Siri features, originally promised as part of its Apple Intelligence initiative, with the update now expected "in the coming year". 👉 daringfireball.net 👉 reuters.com 👉 qz.com
Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly and it may need to be rebuilt from scratch, delaying the AI-infused Siri digital assistant release. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 pymnts.com

Artificial Intelligence:

The White House is considering restricting Chinese AI company DeepSeek, including banning its chatbot from government devices, citing national security concerns due to data handling practices. 👉 msn.com
A new AI startup, Reflection AI, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, has emerged from stealth with $130 million in funding to build superintelligent autonomous coding systems. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 reflection.ai
Microsoft is testing ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs, including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek. 👉 theinformation.com
Microsoft is developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and is training a new family of models, dubbed MAI, that they think stack up with top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. 👉 theinformation.com 👉 techcrunch.com
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia, but its AI answers will show up ~20% of the time. 👉 theverge.com
VCs are increasingly investing in "AI wrappers," which are startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
NewsGuard reports that the top 10 AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time. 👉 newsguardrealitycheck.com 👉 techcrunch.com
Anysphere, the maker of coding app Cursor, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10B valuation, up from $2.5B in January, and crossed $100M in ARR in 12 months. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Cybersecurity:

U.S. authorities seized $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024, with hackers breaching LastPass in 2022 believed to be behind the attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A critical command injection vulnerability impacting the Edimax IC-7100 IP camera is actively being exploited by botnet malware to compromise devices. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A Memphis man was arrested and charged with stealing DVDs and Blu-ray discs of unreleased movies and sharing ripped digital copies online before their release. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
US charges Garantex admins with money laundering and sanctions violations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications Corporation is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks on a victim's network, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Two people working at a third-party contractor for StubHub made $635,000 after stealing and reselling almost 1,000 Taylor Swift concert tickets. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A malicious Python Package Index (PyPI) package named "set-utils" has been stealing Ethereum private keys through intercepted wallet creation functions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Over 37,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are vulnerable to CVE-2025-22224, a critical out-of-bounds write flaw that is actively exploited in the wild. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. 👉 thehackernews.com
A malicious Python package on PyPI is stealing Ethereum private keys. 👉 thehackernews.com
A new attack allows malicious Chrome extensions to morph into password managers to steal sensitive information. 👉 thehackernews.com
International law enforcement agencies have seized the website associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. 👉 thehackernews.com
The administrators of the Russian Garantex crypto-exchange have been charged in the United States with facilitating money laundering for criminal organizations and violating sanctions. 👉 thehackernews.com
A recent attack campaign has exploited a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the PHP-CGI implementation of PHP on Windows (CVE-2024-4577), targeting organizations in Japan. 👉 thehackernews.com
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group tracked as Moonstone Sleet has deployed Qilin ransomware payloads. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A new report from acronis examines how the SharpRhino resurfaces: How this malware evades detection. 👉 acronis.com
Safe{Wallet} confirms that the cybersecurity incident that led to the Bybit $1.5 billion crypto heist is a "highly sophisticated, state-sponsored attack" and that the North Korean threat actors behind the hack took steps to erase traces of the malicious activity. 👉 thehackernews.com
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale malvertising campaign that's estimated to have impacted over one million devices globally as part of what it said is an opportunistic attack designed to steal sensitive information. 👉 thehackernews.com 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Ransomware:

EncryptHub, a financially motivated threat actor, has been observed orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns to deploy information stealers and ransomware. 👉 thehackernews.com
A ransomware gang used an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks, bypassing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Threat hunters have shed light on a "sophisticated and evolving malware toolkit" called Ragnar Loader that's used by various cybercrime and ransomware groups. 👉 thehackernews.com

Government and Regulation:

The Trump administration is likely to adopt a rule that would bar people from downloading DeepSeek's chatbot app onto U.S. government devices, because of national-security concerns. 👉 msn.com
The US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome. 👉 reuters.com

Cryptocurrency:

President Trump has signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies. 👉 reuters.com
Crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has filed confidentially for an IPO and is reportedly considering going public as soon as this year. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will hold only assets that have been forfeited, disappoints traders who hoped the government would begin buying bitcoin. 👉 t.co
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases. 👉 cointelegraph.com
Trump's memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns. 👉 t.co
Revolut and Visa file challenges against UK's Payment Systems Regulator, say it overstepped its powers with a plan to cap international digital transaction fees. 👉 t.co
Sources: Kraken seeks to go public as soon as Q1 2026; the SEC recently agreed to drop its case against Kraken amid a friendlier regulatory climate under Trump. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Financial Technology:

The collapse of Synapse has left $200 million in customer money frozen and up to $95 million missing, prompting a Department of Justice criminal investigation. 👉 fortune.com

Telecom:

Global telecom operators are struggling to shut down aging 2G networks, threatening to exclude millions of vulnerable users. 👉 restofworld.org

DVD Rot:

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has confirmed widespread issues affecting DVDs manufactured between 2006-2008 that are experiencing premature disc rot. 👉 arstechnica.com

Internet Archive:

Music labels seek to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive of copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, potentially increasing damages to almost $700 million. 👉 arstechnica.com

Research:

PhD students trained in small research groups are more likely to remain in academia than those from larger labs, though those from larger labs tend to achieve greater career success. 👉 nature.com

Quantum Computing:

A physicist casts doubt on a test underlying Microsoft's claim to have created the first 'topological qubits', amid mounting speculation about the validity of Microsoft's claim. 👉 nature.com

FiveThirtyEight:

Nate Silver discusses the demise of FiveThirtyEight, noting Disney's lack of interest in running it as a business and the constant threat of layoffs. 👉 natesilver.net

App Stores:

A Brazilian judge has ordered Apple to open its iOS platform to alternative app stores within 90 days, citing compliance with similar requirements in the EU. 👉 valorinternational.globo.com

Lunar Landing:

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander touched down near the lunar south pole Thursday but may have toppled during landing, jeopardizing its scientific mission. 👉 reuters.com

Movie Piracy:

A Tennessee man was arrested for stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing company and sharing them online before the movies' release dates, including Spider-Man: No Way Home. 👉 arstechnica.com

Open Digital Markets:

EU antitrust and tech chiefs told U.S. congressmen that Europe's new tech rule aims to keep digital markets open and is not targeted at U.S. tech giants. 👉 finance.yahoo.com

Starlink Alternatives:

Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line. 👉 t.co

DeepSeek Ban:

The White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns. 👉 wsj.com^$

Figma IPO:

Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023. 👉 nytimes.com^$

Zoho on Womens Day:

On this International Women's Day, it's great to take a moment to recognize some of the incredible women at Zoho who are making a real difference. 👉 techmeme.com

Threads testing interests:

Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic. 👉 techcrunch.com

McDonnalds AI make over:

McDonald's is giving its restaurants a technology makeover, including edge computing for predicting equipment breakdowns and computer vision for order accuracy. 👉 wsj.com^$

Meta & Llama 4:

Meta plans to include improved voice features in Llama 4, expected in weeks, betting that future AI agents will be conversational rather than text-led. 👉 t.co

TPMS on Tires:

Bridgestone is working on a tire with a TPMS sensor embedded directly into it, offering drivers more precise data. 👉 engadget.com

News

Apple Intelligence:

Apple is delaying the rollout of its more personalized Siri features, originally promised as part of its Apple Intelligence initiative, with the update now expected "in the coming year". 👉 daringfireball.net 👉 reuters.com 👉 qz.com
Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly and it may need to be rebuilt from scratch, delaying the AI-infused Siri digital assistant release. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 pymnts.com

Artificial Intelligence:

The White House is considering restricting Chinese AI company DeepSeek, including banning its chatbot from government devices, citing national security concerns due to data handling practices. 👉 msn.com
A new AI startup, Reflection AI, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, has emerged from stealth with $130 million in funding to build superintelligent autonomous coding systems. 👉 bloomberg.com^$ 👉 reflection.ai
Microsoft is testing ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs, including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek. 👉 theinformation.com
Microsoft is developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and is training a new family of models, dubbed MAI, that they think stack up with top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. 👉 theinformation.com 👉 techcrunch.com
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia, but its AI answers will show up ~20% of the time. 👉 theverge.com
VCs are increasingly investing in "AI wrappers," which are startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
NewsGuard reports that the top 10 AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time. 👉 newsguardrealitycheck.com 👉 techcrunch.com

Cybersecurity:

U.S. authorities seized $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024, with hackers breaching LastPass in 2022 believed to be behind the attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A critical command injection vulnerability impacting the Edimax IC-7100 IP camera is actively being exploited by botnet malware to compromise devices. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A Memphis man was arrested and charged with stealing DVDs and Blu-ray discs of unreleased movies and sharing ripped digital copies online before their release. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
US charges Garantex admins with money laundering and sanctions violations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications Corporation is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Two people working at a third-party contractor for StubHub made $635,000 after stealing and reselling almost 1,000 Taylor Swift concert tickets. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A malicious Python Package Index (PyPI) package named "set-utils" has been stealing Ethereum private keys through intercepted wallet creation functions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Over 37,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are vulnerable to CVE-2025-22224, a critical out-of-bounds write flaw that is actively exploited in the wild. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A recent attack campaign has exploited a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the PHP-CGI implementation of PHP on Windows (CVE-2024-4577), targeting organizations in Japan. 👉 thehackernews.com
Safe{Wallet} confirms that the cybersecurity incident that led to the Bybit $1.5 billion crypto heist is a "highly sophisticated, state-sponsored attack" and that the North Korean threat actors behind the hack took steps to erase traces of the malicious activity. 👉 thehackernews.com
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale malvertising campaign that's estimated to have impacted over one million devices globally as part of what it said is an opportunistic attack designed to steal sensitive information. 👉 thehackernews.com 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Ransomware:

EncryptHub, a financially motivated threat actor, has been observed orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns to deploy information stealers and ransomware. [thehackernews.com](👉 thehackernews.com