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Google Chrome:
- Google will continue offering users the choice of third-party cookies in Chrome and will not roll out a new standalone prompt for them. 👉 digiday.com
- Google scales back cookie-focused Privacy Sandbox initiative. 👉 siliconangle.com
- The latest development is bound to cause ructions across the ad tech ecosystem. 👉 digiday.com
- Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all. 👉 arstechnica.com
Google Antitrust Trial:
- OpenAI's ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- A Google VP says the company pays Samsung an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Gemini on its devices as part of a two-year deal. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- The US DOJ says Google backed off more restrictive Gemini distribution deals, partly due to its case; Google says rivals talked to Samsung about chatbot deals. 👉 theinformation.com
- The Justice Department and Google battle over how to fix a search engine monopoly. 👉 npr.org
Meta Antitrust Trial:
- Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testifies that “Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth”. 👉 nytimes.com^$
- Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Meta viewed Instagram as a threat. 👉 nytimes.com^$
Apple Intelligence:
- Apple drops “available now” from an Apple Intelligence page featuring an AI-supercharged Siri and removes a Siri-related video, after the BBB nonprofit inquired. 👉 theverge.com
- Apple's new Siri engineering chief Mike Rockwell is replacing much of Siri's leadership with top Vision Pro software execs, and is restructuring teams. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Social Media:
- Pew Research Center survey shows that 48% of US teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times. 👉 pewresearch.org
- Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings. 👉 theverge.com
Video Editing:
- Instagram launches Edits, a “video creation app designed for creators” intended to rival ByteDance's CapCut app, for free on iOS and Android. 👉 theverge.com
- Meta releases its CapCut rival Edits globally. 👉 techcrunch.com
AI and Business:
- Anthropic predicts AI-powered virtual employees will start operating within companies in the next year, introducing new risks such as account misuse and rogue behavior. 👉 axios.com
- Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers. 👉 variety.com
- Tribe AI: Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices. 👉 techmeme.com
- SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups. 👉 techmeme.com
- A draft executive order sent to US agencies shows the Trump administration is considering issuing an order to create a policy integrating AI into K-12 education. 👉 washingtonpost.com
Supabase Funding:
- Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase that's used by 2M developers, raised a $200M Series D led by Accel at a $2B valuation. 👉 finance.yahoo.com
- Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise. 👉 techcrunch.com
Boeing Aviation Sale:
- Boeing agrees to sell parts of its digital aviation unit, including software maker Jeppesen and navigation app ForeFlight, to Thoma Bravo for $10.55B in cash. 👉 t.co
- Boeing sells Jeppesen and other digital aviation assets to Thoma Bravo. 👉 proactiveinvestors.com
Walmart Business:
- Walmart is using a hexagonal map segmentation to better understand where customers are and which stores have what they want. 👉 businessinsider.com^$
- US plans to push India to give Amazon, Walmart, and other US online retailers full access to its $125B e-commerce market, as part of tariff talks. 👉 t.co
- Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore to India as Walmart aims to take it public. 👉 reuters.com
Max Streaming Service:
- WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing. 👉 hollywoodreporter.com
- Max implements $8 extra member charges on all subscription plans. 👉 engadget.com
Open Source:
- The official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed. 👉 theblock.co
- XRP library xrpl.js hacked to steal wallets. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Cybersecurity:
- Marks & Spencer confirms a cyberattack as customers face delayed orders. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft Entra account lockouts caused by user token logging mishap. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A PoC attack called "Cookie-Bite" uses a Chrome extension to steal browser session cookies from Azure Entra ID to bypass MFA protections and maintain access to cloud services like Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Public exploits are now available for a critical Erlang/OTP SSH vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-32433, allowing unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on impacted devices. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- SK Telecom warns customer USIM data exposed in malware attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Phishing:
- Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentials. 👉 thehackernews.com
Tesla Business:
- Tesla profits drop 71% on weak sales and anti-Elon Musk sentiment. 👉 techcrunch.com
- Elon Musk says he may keep doing DOGE work for ‘the remainder’ of Trump’s term. 👉 techcrunch.com
Podcast Highlights:
- Accel: Spotlight On: CrowdStrike's George Kurtz on building a generational company. 👉 techmeme.com
- Techmeme Ride Home: FTC As Today's Main Character. 👉 techmeme.com
- Colossus: Matt Huang - Investing At The Frontier. 👉 techmeme.com
- Diggnation: Tiki Bar TV, Appendixes, and Rideable Robot Horses. 👉 techmeme.com
- Kleiner Perkins: No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates). 👉 techmeme.com
- Acquired: Epic Systems (MyChart). 👉 techmeme.com
Verizon Consumer:
- Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath says net neutrality “has gone literally nowhere." 👉 theverge.com
- Verizon Fios to expand to nearly 30 U.S. states following Frontier acquisition. 👉 powerpage.org
Productivity:
- Qlango app deal helps you learn a foreign language from home. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Learn Chess on Duolingo. 👉 wersm.com
Android Malware:
- A new Android malware steals your credit cards for NFC relay attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- SuperCard X Android Malware Enables Contactless ATM and PoS Fraud via NFC Relay Attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
Ad Fraud:
- WordPress ad-fraud plugins generated 1.4 billion ad requests per day. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Large-scale ad fraud operation called 'Scallywag' is monetizing pirating and URL shortening sites. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Hacking Tactics:
- State-sponsored hackers embrace ClickFix social engineering tactic. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Interlock ransomware gang pushes fake IT tools in ClickFix attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Bluesky Verification:
- Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team. 👉 wired.com
- Bluesky adds verification checkmarks. 👉 socialmediatoday.com
E-commerce:
- Airbnb now shows the full price of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Airbnb will now show you the full price for a stay by default so you know exactly what you'll be paying for upfront. 👉 fortune.com
Kimsuky Exploits:
- Kimsuky Exploits BlueKeep RDP Vulnerability to Breach Systems in South Korea and Japan. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Critical Erlang/OTP SSH RCE bug now has public exploits, patch now. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Lotus Panda:
- Lotus Panda Hacks SE Asian Governments With Browser Stealers and Sideloaded Malware. 👉 thehackernews.com
- China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Lotus Panda has been attributed to a campaign that compromised multiple organizations in an unnamed Southeast Asian country between August 2024 and February 2025. 👉 thehackernews.com
SK Telecom:
- SK Telecom warns customer USIM data exposed in malware attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Millions of SK Telecom customers are potentially at risk following USIM data compromise. 👉 securityaffairs.com
Active! Mail Vulnerability:
- Active! Mail RCE flaw exploited in attacks on Japanese orgs. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- An Active! Mail zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks on large organizations in Japan. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Zoom Crypto-theft:
- Hackers abuse Zoom remote control feature for crypto-theft attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Hacking group dubbed 'Elusive Comet' targets cryptocurrency users in social engineering attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Windows 10 Fix:
- Windows 10 KB5055612 preview update fixes a GPU bug in WSL2. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- KB5055612 preview cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 with two changes, including a fix for a GPU paravirtualization bug in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Other News:
- Google Gemini AI is getting ChatGPT-like Scheduled Actions feature. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Duolingo Will Teach Chess Soon on iPhone and Android. 👉 iphoneincanada.ca
- Widespread Microsoft Entra lockouts tied to new security feature rollout. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- The US plans to push India to give Amazon, Walmart, and other US online retailers full access to its $125B e-commerce market, as part of tariff talks. 👉 t.co
- BleepingComputer offers a deal for a refurbished Lenovo chromebook for $80. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Get started as an ethical hacker with this $35 course bundle deal. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Tech News

Google Chrome:

Google will continue offering users the choice of third-party cookies in Chrome and will not roll out a new standalone prompt for them. 👉 digiday.com
Google scales back cookie-focused Privacy Sandbox initiative. 👉 siliconangle.com
The latest development is bound to cause ructions across the ad tech ecosystem. 👉 digiday.com
Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all. 👉 arstechnica.com

Google Antitrust Trial:

OpenAI's ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
A Google VP says the company pays Samsung an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Gemini on its devices as part of a two-year deal. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
The US DOJ says Google backed off more restrictive Gemini distribution deals, partly due to its case; Google says rivals talked to Samsung about chatbot deals. 👉 theinformation.com
The Justice Department and Google battle over how to fix a search engine monopoly. 👉 npr.org

Meta Antitrust Trial:

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testifies that “Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth”. 👉 nytimes.com^$
Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Meta viewed Instagram as a threat. 👉 nytimes.com^$

Apple Intelligence:

Apple drops “available now” from an Apple Intelligence page featuring an AI-supercharged Siri and removes a Siri-related video, after the BBB nonprofit inquired. 👉 theverge.com
Apple's new Siri engineering chief Mike Rockwell is replacing much of Siri's leadership with top Vision Pro software execs, and is restructuring teams. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Social Media:

Pew Research Center survey shows that 48% of US teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times. 👉 pewresearch.org
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings. 👉 theverge.com

Video Editing:

Instagram launches Edits, a “video creation app designed for creators” intended to rival ByteDance's CapCut app, for free on iOS and Android. 👉 theverge.com
Meta releases its CapCut rival Edits globally. 👉 techcrunch.com

AI and Business:

Anthropic predicts AI-powered virtual employees will start operating within companies in the next year, introducing new risks such as account misuse and rogue behavior. 👉 axios.com
Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers. 👉 variety.com
Tribe AI: Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices. 👉 techmeme.com
SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups. 👉 techmeme.com
A draft executive order sent to US agencies shows the Trump administration is considering issuing an order to create a policy integrating AI into K-12 education. 👉 washingtonpost.com

Supabase Funding:

Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase that's used by 2M developers, raised a $200M Series D led by Accel at a $2B valuation. 👉 finance.yahoo.com
Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise. 👉 techcrunch.com

Boeing Aviation Sale:

Boeing agrees to sell parts of its digital aviation unit, including software maker Jeppesen and navigation app ForeFlight, to Thoma Bravo for $10.55B in cash. 👉 t.co
Boeing sells Jeppesen and other digital aviation assets to Thoma Bravo. 👉 proactiveinvestors.com

Walmart Business:

Walmart is using a hexagonal map segmentation to better understand where customers are and which stores have what they want. 👉 businessinsider.com^$
US plans to push India to give Amazon, Walmart, and other US online retailers full access to its $125B e-commerce market, as part of tariff talks. 👉 t.co
Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore to India as Walmart aims to take it public. 👉 reuters.com

Max Streaming Service:

WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing. 👉 hollywoodreporter.com
Max implements $8 extra member charges on all subscription plans. 👉 engadget.com

Open Source:

The official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed. 👉 theblock.co
XRP library xrpl.js hacked to steal wallets. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Cybersecurity:

Marks & Spencer confirms a cyberattack as customers face delayed orders. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft Entra account lockouts caused by user token logging mishap. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A PoC attack called "Cookie-Bite" uses a Chrome extension to steal browser session cookies from Azure Entra ID to bypass MFA protections and maintain access to cloud services like Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Public exploits are now available for a critical Erlang/OTP SSH vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-32433, allowing unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on impacted devices. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
SK Telecom warns customer USIM data exposed in malware attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Phishing:

Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentials. 👉 thehackernews.com

Tesla Business:

Tesla profits drop 71% on weak sales and anti-Elon Musk sentiment. 👉 techcrunch.com
Elon Musk says he may keep doing DOGE work for ‘the remainder’ of Trump’s term. 👉 techcrunch.com

Podcast Highlights:

Accel: Spotlight On: CrowdStrike's George Kurtz on building a generational company. 👉 techmeme.com
Techmeme Ride Home: FTC As Today's Main Character. 👉 techmeme.com
Colossus: Matt Huang - Investing At The Frontier. 👉 techmeme.com
Diggnation: Tiki Bar TV, Appendixes, and Rideable Robot Horses. 👉 techmeme.com
Kleiner Perkins: No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates). 👉 techmeme.com
Acquired: Epic Systems (MyChart). 👉 techmeme.com

Verizon Consumer:

Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath says net neutrality “has gone literally nowhere." 👉 theverge.com
Verizon Fios to expand to nearly 30 U.S. states following Frontier acquisition. 👉 powerpage.org

Productivity:

Qlango app deal helps you learn a foreign language from home. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Learn Chess on Duolingo. 👉 wersm.com

Android Malware:

A new Android malware steals your credit cards for NFC relay attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
SuperCard X Android Malware Enables Contactless ATM and PoS Fraud via NFC Relay Attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com

Ad Fraud:

WordPress ad-fraud plugins generated 1.4 billion ad requests per day. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Large-scale ad fraud operation called 'Scallywag' is monetizing pirating and URL shortening sites. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Hacking Tactics:

State-sponsored hackers embrace ClickFix social engineering tactic. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Interlock ransomware gang pushes fake IT tools in ClickFix attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Bluesky Verification:

Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team. 👉 wired.com
Bluesky adds verification checkmarks. 👉 socialmediatoday.com

E-commerce:

Airbnb now shows the full price of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Airbnb will now show you the full price for a stay by default so you know exactly what you'll be paying for upfront. 👉 fortune.com

Kimsuky Exploits:

Kimsuky Exploits BlueKeep RDP Vulnerability to Breach Systems in South Korea and Japan. 👉 thehackernews.com
Critical Erlang/OTP SSH RCE bug now has public exploits, patch now. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Lotus Panda:

Lotus Panda Hacks SE Asian Governments With Browser Stealers and Sideloaded Malware. 👉 thehackernews.com
China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Lotus Panda has been attributed to a campaign that compromised multiple organizations in an unnamed Southeast Asian country between August 2024 and February 2025. 👉 thehackernews.com

SK Telecom:

SK Telecom warns customer USIM data exposed in malware attack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Millions of SK Telecom customers are potentially at risk following USIM data compromise. 👉 securityaffairs.com

Active! Mail Vulnerability:

Active! Mail RCE flaw exploited in attacks on Japanese orgs. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
An Active! Mail zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks on large organizations in Japan. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Zoom Crypto-theft:

Hackers abuse Zoom remote control feature for crypto-theft attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Hacking group dubbed 'Elusive Comet' targets cryptocurrency users in social engineering attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Windows 10 Fix:

Windows 10 KB5055612 preview update fixes a GPU bug in WSL2. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
KB5055612 preview cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 with two changes, including a fix for a GPU paravirtualization bug in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Other News:

Google Gemini AI is getting ChatGPT-like Scheduled Actions feature. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Duolingo Will Teach Chess Soon on iPhone and Android. 👉 iphoneincanada.ca
Widespread Microsoft Entra lockouts tied to new security feature rollout. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
The US plans to push India to give Amazon, Walmart, and other US online retailers full access to its $125B e-commerce market, as part of tariff talks. 👉 t.co
BleepingComputer offers a deal for a refurbished Lenovo chromebook for $80. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Get started as an ethical hacker with this $35 course bundle deal. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com