Tech News

1. Microsoft March 2025 Patch Tuesday:

   • Microsoft released updates to fix 7 zero-day exploits and 57 other flaws. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft is patching a Windows Kernel zero-day vulnerability, which has been exploited since 2023. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • One of the fixes addresses a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem (CVE-2025-24983) that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. 👉 thehackernews.com

2. Apple Security:

   • Apple released a security update for a WebKit zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-24201) exploited in targeted attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products. 👉 daringfireball.net

3. Google Gemini:

   • Google is releasing a raft of improvements for the Gemini 2.0 models, and some of the AI's most advanced features are now available to free users. 👉 arstechnica.com
   • Gemini can now personalize answers based on users' search history, available as an experimental feature to Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers. 👉 theverge.com
   • Gemini users can now try Deep Research for free in 45+ languages, and the tool is now powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash. 👉 engadget.com
   • Google makes Gems, its personalized Gemini chatbots, free for all users and offers several premade Gems, including Career guide and Coding partner. 👉 androidauthority.com
   • Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development. 👉 techcrunch.com

4. OpenAI and AI Copyright:

   • OpenAI has warned the U.S. government that restricting AI models from learning from copyrighted material would threaten America's technological leadership against China. 👉 cdn.openai.com
   • OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”. 👉 cnbc.com
   • In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”. 👉 cnbc.com
   • OpenAI calls DeepSeek “state-controlled” and recommends that the US consider banning “PRC-produced” models that “violate user privacy and create security risks”. 👉 techcrunch.com
   • OpenAI releases a 15-page set of policy suggestions for the White House, arguing that hundreds of AI bills pending across the US risk undercutting US progress. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

5. Cybersecurity and Data Breaches:

   • A critical PHP RCE vulnerability is being mass exploited in new attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft warns of a ClickFix phishing campaign targeting the hospitality sector via fake Booking.com emails. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • PowerSchool was previously hacked in August, months before the data breach. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has impacted over 300 organizations in critical infrastructure sectors in the United States until last month. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • A new Android spyware named 'KoSpy' is linked to North Korean threat actors who have infiltrated Google Play and third-party app store APKPure through at least five malicious apps. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Meta warns that a security vulnerability impacting the FreeType open-source font rendering library may have been exploited in the wild. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Juniper patches bug that let Chinese cyberspies backdoor routers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • More than 400 IPs are exploiting multiple SSRF vulnerabilities in a coordinated cyber attack. 👉 thehackernews.com

6. Microsoft:

   • Microsoft is replacing the Remote Desktop app with the Windows App in May. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft apologizes for removing VSCode extensions used by millions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft says that the button to restore classic Outlook is broken. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft announces Copilot for Gaming, available through the Xbox mobile app initially for Xbox Insiders and designed to work as a companion or gaming coach. 👉 theverge.com

7. Binance and Trump:

   • Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him. 👉 wsj.com^$
   • President Trump's World Liberty Financial has discussed doing business with Binance, including the possibility of developing a stablecoin with Binance. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • Binance raises $2B from Abu Dhabi's MGX. 👉 axios.com

8. Roblox:

   • Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox”. 👉 bbc.com

9. Intel:

   • Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will work to make Intel a top foundry, signaling he'll stick with the costly plan that contributed to Pat Gelsinger's ouster. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • A profile of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, an early investor in SMIC who has extensive ties to China and gained fame by helping turn around Cadence Design Systems. 👉 wsj.com^$

10. D-Wave Quantum Supremacy Claim:

    • D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors, though some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results. 👉 wsj.com^$

11. Meta Community Notes:

    • Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18, and notes will not have “distribution penalties”. 👉 foxnews.com
    • Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes but plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps. 👉 cnbc.com
    • Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures. 👉 about.fb.com

12. Data Leaks:

    • Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records. 👉 threatpost.com

13. CISA:

    • Interviews with seven CISA employees describe how mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government's cyber defense agency. 👉 wired.com

14. AI Models:

    • Cohere debuts Command A, its latest generative AI model for agentic enterprise tasks, with a context length of 256K tokens and requiring just two A100s or H100s. 👉 venturebeat.com

15. Apple AirPods Translation:

    • Sources: Apple is planning a new AirPods feature as part of iOS 19 that will enable live-translation of in-person conversations. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

16. PC Game Porting to Android:

    • Google adds new developer tools and programs to simplify PC game porting to Android and improves Vulkan support on Android, ahead of the GDC. 👉 androidauthority.com

17. Economic News:

    • KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024. 👉 on.ft.com^$

18. Ukrainian Conflict:

    • Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. 👉 reuters.com

19. Tel Aviv-based Bria:

    • Tel Aviv-based Bria, which licenses images from 30+ partners like Getty to train AI, raised a $40M Series B led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $65M. 👉 en.globes.co.il

20. Juniper Networks:

    • Chinese Hackers Breach Juniper Networks Routers With Custom Backdoors and Rootkits. 👉 thehackernews.com

21. Deliveroo:

    • Deliveroo reports FY 2024 revenue up 2% YoY to £2.08B and a £2.9M net profit, up from a £31.8M loss in 2023, its first annual profit, and plans a £100M buyback. 👉 ft.com^$

22. Garantex:

    • Garantex crypto exchange admin arrested while on vacation. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

23. Blackwall:

    • Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024. 👉 techcrunch.com

24. Australian Man:

    • An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of titanium. 👉 nature.com

25. Meta Memoir:

    • An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected. 👉 theverge.com

26. Xiaomi:

    • Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India and replace its GetApps app store with Indus Appstore on existing ones. 👉 techcrunch.com

27. Blind Eagle:

    • Blind Eagle Hacks Colombian Institutions Using NTLM Flaw, RATs and GitHub-Based Attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com

28. Founders Factory:

    • A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024. 👉 on.ft.com^$

29. US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve:

    • The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, to be funded via civil asset forfeitures, goes against bitcoiners' early skepticism of state overreach and market intervention. 👉 citationneeded.news

30. Omni:

    • Omni, which offers data analysis tools, raised a $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth at a $650M valuation, bringing its total raised to $97M. 👉 techcrunch.com

31. Rapidus:

    • Japanese chipmaker Rapidus has been slow to attract private sector investment, with only around $49M invested so far, compared to $6.23B in state assistance. 👉 asia.nikkei.com

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