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    Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu, and Shein to Ireland's low-tax jurisdiction could backfire, as the country tries to reduce reliance on US tech giants

    Clothilde Goujard / Politico: Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu, and Shein to Ireland's low-tax jurisdiction...

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    Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that is potentially linked to I-Soon and has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries

    Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that is...

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    Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading European and UK AI startups, including Aleph Alpha, Synthesia, and Stability AI, to move their headquarters

    Financial Times: Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading European and UK AI startups, including...

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    Sources: the Biden admin is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese chip firms linked to Huawei, after the company used an advanced 7nm chip in Mate 60 Pro

    Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: the Biden admin is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese chip...

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    Samsung expects revenue of $100M or more in 2024 from an advanced chip packaging unit that the company set up as a separate business in 2023

    Reuters: Samsung expects revenue of $100M or more in 2024 from an advanced chip packaging unit...

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    Enterprise data security startup BigID raised $60M led by Riverwood Capital at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $320M, and reports ~$100M in ARR

    Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Enterprise data security startup BigID raised $60M led by Riverwood Capital at...

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    GoTo reports $5.76B net loss for 2023, up 2x+ YoY, due to a write-down on TikTok's acquisition of a ~75% stake in GoTo's Tokopedia, on a net revenue of ~$933.6M

    Nana Shibata / Nikkei Asia: GoTo reports $5.76B net loss for 2023, up 2x+ YoY, due...

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    Chipmaker Astera Labs prices its IPO at $36 per share, above its previous target range of $32-$34 per share, and seeks to raise ~$713M at a $5.5B valuation

    Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: Chipmaker Astera Labs prices its IPO at $36 per share, above its...

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    PE firm Francisco Partners agrees to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software, which helps companies develop complex tech products, for $1.2B

    Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: PE firm Francisco Partners agrees to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software, which...

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    Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model

    Business Insider: Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during summer, and some enterprise...

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    Researchers say misconfigured Firebase instances exposed 125M+ users' records, including plaintext passwords, email addresses, and messages, across 900 websites

    Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Researchers say misconfigured Firebase instances exposed 125M+ users' records, including plaintext passwords,...

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    Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says investors in Inflection AI, which has raised more than $1.5B, will be made whole

    Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says...

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    Sources: Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks has hired underwriters for a US IPO as soon as early 2025; source: Cato is looking to raise more than $500M

    Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks has hired underwriters for a US...

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    In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse

    Emma Roth / The Verge: In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle fediverse...

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    Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it cross-populates data between its services

    Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without...

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    A look at the collapse of dating apps' usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world

    Magdalene J. Taylor / New York Times: A look at the collapse of dating apps' usability,...

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    In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease” among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes

    Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease”...

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    FTX's collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies' persistent regulatory battles

    Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: FTX's collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant...

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    A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, whose trial begins on March 18 in SF, where federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding HP of billions

    Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike...

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    Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks

    Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to...

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    Epic's antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months

    Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Epic's antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were...

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    An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering

    Benjamin Shestakofsky / IEEE Spectrum: An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an...

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    Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram

    Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and...

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    How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn't a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino's thankless task of trying to assure brands

    Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X...