Journals

Ben Hall / Financial Times: Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink  —  Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow’s troops ‘systemic’  —  Russian… Read More »Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink (Ben Hall/Financial Times)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Bugcrowd, which offers crowdsourced bug bounty tools, raised a $102M Series E led by General Catalyst to expand internationally, and has ~1,000 global customers  —  Bugcrowd, a 12-year-old crowdsourced cybersecurity startup, has raised $102 million in… Read More »Bugcrowd, which offers crowdsourced bug bounty tools, raised a $102M Series E led by General Catalyst to expand internationally, and has ~1,000 global customers (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Bloomberg: Filing: Jeff Bezos sold 12M Amazon shares last week, netting just over $2B, his first Amazon stock sale since 2021; Amazon said Bezos plans to sell up to 50M  —  The sales took place on Wednesday and Thursday and… Read More »Filing: Jeff Bezos sold 12M Amazon shares last week, netting just over $2B, his first Amazon stock sale since 2021; Amazon said Bezos plans to sell up to 50M (Bloomberg)

Toby Sterling / Reuters: ASML begins gearing up to ship its new $350M High NA EUV machine, which is the size of a double decker bus, and expects to ship “a number” of them in 2024  —  Chip toolmaking giant… Read More »ASML begins gearing up to ship its new $350M High NA EUV machine, which is the size of a double decker bus, and expects to ship “a number” of them in 2024 (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

Wes Davis / The Verge: A crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Waymo car on February 11, amid tensions over automated vehicles; Waymo says the car “was not transporting any riders”  —  A person jumped on the hood of a… Read More »A crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Waymo car on February 11, amid tensions over automated vehicles; Waymo says the car “was not transporting any riders” (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: How generative AI is transforming the advertising industry; WPP and Publicis plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to embed AI in their businesses  —  At the start of the year, every single one… Read More »How generative AI is transforming the advertising industry; WPP and Publicis plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to embed AI in their businesses (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Elena Schneider / Politico: Biden’s campaign made its first-ever TikTok post amid the Super Bowl, a year after the White House forced US agencies to remove the app from government devices  —  The move comes about a year after the… Read More »Biden’s campaign made its first-ever TikTok post amid the Super Bowl, a year after the White House forced US agencies to remove the app from government devices (Elena Schneider/Politico)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: With X and Reddit limiting API access, third-party developers are looking into Mastodon and Bluesky, but some are hesitant to build revenue-generating apps  —  2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on… Read More »With X and Reddit limiting API access, third-party developers are looking into Mastodon and Bluesky, but some are hesitant to build revenue-generating apps (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: As SBF prepares to face sentencing in March, FTX customers look at the possibility of recouping their money, stemming largely from the crypto market’s rebound  —  – With Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to face sentencing next month… Read More »As SBF prepares to face sentencing in March, FTX customers look at the possibility of recouping their money, stemming largely from the crypto market’s rebound (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Reuters: Letter and source: Xiaomi told India’s government that Chinese component suppliers are wary about setting up operations in the country due to heavy scrutiny  —  China’s Xiaomi has told New Delhi that smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting… Read More »Letter and source: Xiaomi told India’s government that Chinese component suppliers are wary about setting up operations in the country due to heavy scrutiny (Reuters)