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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Filings: US Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleads guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the telcos in 2024  —  Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google is bringing Circle to Search-like visual searches to its Chrome and Google iOS apps, without the Circle to Search branding, as a Google Lens feature  —  The feature will work within the Chrome and Google iOS apps via Lens.  —  •  —  •  —  •  —  TL;DR Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Valve releases a Team Fortress 2 SDK with the game’s client and server code, letting users build new Team Fortress 2-based games licensed for non-commercial use  —  Valve has also released major updates to all Source-engine multiplayer games adding 64-bit support, scalable HUDS, “and a lot of other improvements.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says was “post-trained to remove the China censorship”  —  But shortly after its release, attention turned to how compliant the model was with Chinese censorship laws. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google is removing Gemini support from the main Google app on iOS, pushing users to download the standalone Gemini app, which it launched in November 2024  —  Google is informing iOS users that it will be removing Gemini support from the main Google app as it pushes users over to the full Gemini app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Uber ditches commissions in favor of daily fees for auto-rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri  —  Uber is moving away from its commission-based model for three-wheeled motorized rickshaw drivers in India in response … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s AGI plan, the quantum breakthrough with Majorana 1, how Muse will change gaming, AI’s legal barriers, AI safety, and more  —  AGI is not the real benchmark: 10% economic growth is  —  Satya Nadella on:  — Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth, Lees verder op Tech Meme

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: top X executives hinted to Interpublic and other ad firms that not spending on X could lead to legal woes, due to X’s lawsuit against some advertisers  —  Interpublic recently signed an advertising agreement with the platform; other agencies are also in negotiations Lees verder op Tech Meme

Courtney Albon / Defense News: Austin-based autonomous shipbuilding startup Saronic raised a $600M Series C led by Elad Gil at a $4B valuation, and unveiled plans for a next-gen shipyard  —  Texas-based Saronic Technologies announced Tuesday it raised $600 million in private funding to build an autonomous shipyard it’s calling Port Alpha. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mistral’s Le Chat app tops 1M downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the App Store’s top free downloads spot in France; ChatGPT hit 500K in just six days  —  A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads. Lees verder op Tech Meme