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

Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025 via a now-patched flaw found on February 3; a threat actor leaked a ~697K-record database (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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The Iron Lung movie is scary — for audiences and for Hollywood

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London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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AI accounting startup Accrual, incubated by General Catalyst, emerges from stealth and raised $75M; Accrual is part of General Catalyst's $1.5B Creation fund (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Palo Alto Networks: an Asian cyber-espionage group broke into systems belonging to 70 critical infrastructure organizations and governments in 37+ countries (Bloomberg)

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Hermit and Pig a retro-inspired RPG that's not afraid to innovate

Polygon - All

Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to sell physical books

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Spotify’s Page Match syncs your audiobooks and your physical ones

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Bitcoin falls below $70K, its lowest level since President Trump's election win in November 2024 and down 44%+ from its October 2025 peak as global markets fall (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

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Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium US and UK subscribers buy hardcover and paperback books via its app starting in spring; Spotify will get a cut (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street ...)

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Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a "micro-hysteria" that exceeds the reality of how businesses are using AI tools (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

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Analog chipmaker SiTime agrees to acquire Tokyo-based Renesas' timing unit for $1.5B in cash and 4.13M shares in a ~$2.9B deal, set to close by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

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The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework (Muvija M/Reuters)

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Don't believe everything you read about Russia's proposed GTA 6 ban

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Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers

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Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)

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Germany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seizes €59M; Amazon can appeal (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)

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Adult Swim unveils new Rooster Fighter anime

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QT Sense raises €4M to advance a quantum sensing platform

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A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)

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