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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.31B, vs. $1.30B est., a profit of $38.7M, compared with a loss of $86.3M a year earlier (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

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An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

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Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service "in the coming months"; some shows will be available on Audible (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

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Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a "desktop-like multi-window experience" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

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All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, saying it was the right decision with "extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative" short-term PR (Wall Street Journal)

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Anthropic says voice mode for Claude Code is now live for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure (Andre Revilla/Engadget)

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Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March (David Pierce/The Verge)

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OpenAI says GPT-5.3 Instant's tone should feel less "cringe" than GPT-5.2 Instant and the model has a smoother, more to-the-point conversational style (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

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JetStream Security, which offers an "AI Blueprints" tool that provides real-time mapping of AI agent activity, raised a $34M seed led by Redpoint (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users (OpenAI)

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Sources: Anduril is seeking to raise about $4B in a round co-led by Thrive Capital and a16z, which could nearly double the startup's valuation to ~$60B (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

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Intel unveils its Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, its first data center CPUs built on 18A, offering up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores, set for a 2026 release (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Microsoft moves Build from Seattle back to San Francisco, scheduled for June 2-3, instead of May, and invites 2,500 developers, down from the usual 3,000-5,000 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

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Ziff Davis agrees to sell its Connectivity division, including Ookla and Downdetector, to Accenture for $1.2B in cash, to focus on enthusiast websites like IGN (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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