Tech

New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (www.engadget.com)
2026-3-5 Mexico Zuckerberg

Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 France Startup Quantum

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-5 Google Amazon Microsoft

Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 (fortune.com)
2026-3-5

Bitwarden adds support for passkey login on Windows 11 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater”, said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-5 Trump

Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC (games.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Sony

Mail2Shell zero-click attack lets hackers hijack FreeScout mail servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5

Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-5 AI

Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5

Windows 10 KB5075039 update fixes broken Recovery Environment (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-5 Robot

Fake LastPass support email threads try to steal vault passwords (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5

Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization, which will have an ultra-flat structure, to help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-5 AI

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5

Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-5 Google Battery

Cisco warns of max severity Secure FMC flaws giving root access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5 Cisco

Emails To Outlook.com Rejected By Faulty Or Overzealous Blocking Rules (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5

Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 Tencent Finland

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the company, because OpenAI is “going to go public” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-5 Nvidia

Spyware-grade Coruna iOS exploit kit now used in crypto theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5 IOS

The PDF Agile editor is only $40 for life in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5

Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (cyberscoop.com)
2026-3-5

Hacker mass-mails HungerRush extortion emails to restaurant patrons (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5 Hacker

Epic and Google propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and offer a registered app store program for Android (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 Android Google

TikTok Says End-To-End Encryption Makes Users Less Safe (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5

FBI seizes LeakBase cybercrime forum, data of 142,000 members (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-5 FBI

Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute, worried about the “supply-chain risk” designation ; Anthropic and DOD continue some talks (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-5

Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-5 AI Manufacturing

Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-3-5 Iran

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