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Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast

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Mayor’s Call to Report Bad Bike Batteries to 311 Led to Dead Ends

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Putin, a new English-language Polish film about Vladimir Putin in which AI is used to superimpose his real face onto an actor, sparks a debate about AI use (Alicja Ptak/Notes From Poland)

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How wartime GPS jamming has negatively impacted agriculture in Israel; in 2021, ~70% of Israeli farmers used GPS-guided equipment and precision-farming tech (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

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Source: Flipkart hires Kabeer Biswas, co-founder of Dunzo, an Indian delivery startup that had raised $500M+, to lead its quick commerce unit, Flipkart Minutes (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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YL Ventures: Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4B in 2024, up 100%+ YoY from $1.89B, across 89 rounds, including 50 seed or early stage that totaled $400M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

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Blackstone invests $300M in DDN, which helps firms more efficiently store and analyze data for AI and HPC, at a $5B valuation; it is DDN's first outside funding (Wall Street Journal)

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Filing: the Northern District Court of California gives the US government final approval to sell 69,370 BTC, worth $6.5B, seized in its Silk Road investigation (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

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A look at AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi that have embedded always-on microphones to record conversations around the user and give actionable insights (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

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Analysts say that contract negotiations between US dockworkers and the shipping industry over automation could help provide a template for agreements nationwide (Taylor Nicole Rogers/Financial Times)

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US dockworkers and shipping industry officials reach a tentative labor agreement, overcoming their differences over automated cargo-moving machinery at ports (Peter Eavis/New York Times)

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Sources: SoftBank and its majority-owned Arm are weighing acquiring Oracle-backed Ampere, which designs ARM-based server CPUs; Ampere is exploring its options (Bloomberg)

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Microsoft is reverting to an older DALL-E 3 model version for Bing Image Creator, after the latest version, codenamed PR16, got many complaints on X and Reddit (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers

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Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now

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This robovac has an arm — and legs, too

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Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is linked to 200+ cyberattacks from 2019 to 2024 targeting the country's national security and advanced tech data (Mari Yamaguchi/Associated Press)

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Microsoft is reverting its Bing AI image generator because of quality complaints

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Are North Carolina Republicans trying to steal a state supreme court seat?

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Educational Products: Month 3

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