Tech

Meta adds new WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger anti-scam tools (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-12 Facebook WhatsApp

Intel unveils the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26 for $300 and $200, respectively, and says they are its fastest gaming desktop CPUs yet (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-12 Intel

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World (slashdot.org)
2026-3-12 AI

Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition ever; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 Israel Google

Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-3-12 Spotify

Binance files a New York defamation suit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iranian-linked transactions (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-12 Dow Jones Iran New York

TikTok partners with Apple to let users with an Apple Music subscription play full songs on TikTok without leaving the app, along with a Listening Party feature (variety.com)
2026-3-12 Apple

Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: bigger battery and seven years of software updates, but basic cameras, few major updates, and no Qi2 charging magnets (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-11 Samsung Battery

How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few Chinese components as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-11 China Drone Ukraine

Amazon's Zoox partners with Uber to offer its robotaxis on the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas in late 2026 and expanding to LA in 2027; Zoox needs US approval (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Amazon Uber Vegas

Nvidia plans to invest $2B in Amsterdam-based Nebius as part of a partnership to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW+ of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 AI Nvidia

CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to “teen” personas 50% of the time; only Claude consistently refused (cnn.com)
2026-3-11 AI chatbot

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, focusing on money flowing to networks backing terror groups like Yemen's Houthis (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-11 Iran Terrorism

Meta, the Royal Thai Police, the FBI, and the US DOJ disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia, disabling 150K+ accounts and arresting 21 individuals (www.axios.com)
2026-3-11 Asia Thailand FBI Southeast Asia

Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 (fortune.com)
2026-3-11 Startup

Meta adds more scam detection tools to its platforms, including unrecognized device linking warnings on WhatsApp and Facebook friend request warnings (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-11 Facebook WhatsApp

Build cybersecurity skills with InfoSec4TC while it's on sale for $53 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11

Documents and a source: a foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2023; the FBI confirms a “cyber incident” (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-11 Hacker FBI

Valve Faces Second, Class-Action Lawsuit Over Loot Boxes (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11

Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30+ sources; a source says Codex had $1B+ in annualized revenue by January's end (www.wired.com)
2026-3-11

Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark combining its societal impacts, red team, and economic research teams (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-11

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Startup Insurance Paris

Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 Nintendo

Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11

Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is probing claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-3-11

Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 China AI chatbot

A 1,300-Pound NASA Spacecraft To Re-Enter Earth's Atmosphere (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 British Pound NASA

A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November as head of industrial compute and is helping guide the company's infrastructure efforts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 Intel

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-3-11 India AI

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-11 AI

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