Journals

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil an OLED Surface Pro 10 and a Surface Laptop 6, both available with Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips, on March 21  —  Microsoft’s first AI PCs will… Read More »Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil an OLED Surface Pro 10 and a Surface Laptop 6, both available with Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips, on March 21 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: The US sanctions the spyware group Intellexa Consortium’s founder and one of his business partners, the first time it has sanctioned people over spyware misuse  —  The U.S. government announced Tuesday sanctions against the founder of… Read More »The US sanctions the spyware group Intellexa Consortium’s founder and one of his business partners, the first time it has sanctioned people over spyware misuse (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all suffering an outage, which seemed to start around 10am ET  —  Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all experiencing issues.  The three Meta-owned platforms aren’t working for many users, with… Read More »Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all suffering an outage, which seemed to start around 10am ET (Emma Roth/The Verge)

CoinDesk: Bitcoin surpassed $69K, eclipsing its previous all-time high set on November 10, 2021, with US spot bitcoin ETFs a likely catalyst of the latest bull run  —  The success of the spot ETFs which opened for business on January… Read More »Bitcoin surpassed $69K, eclipsing its previous all-time high set on November 10, 2021, with US spot bitcoin ETFs a likely catalyst of the latest bull run (CoinDesk)

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Israel-based VC firm Team8 raised $500M from Microsoft, Cisco, and others for funds that will invest in 30+ cyber, data, AI, health, and other Israeli startups  —  – Cisco, Temasek, Moody’s also among investors in Team8… Read More »Israel-based VC firm Team8 raised $500M from Microsoft, Cisco, and others for funds that will invest in 30+ cyber, data, AI, health, and other Israeli startups (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Colombian payments orchestration startup Yuno raised a $25M Series A from DST, a16z, Tiger, and more at a $150M valuation to expand in Asia, Europe, and Africa  —  A couple of years ago, payments orchestration was… Read More »Colombian payments orchestration startup Yuno raised a $25M Series A from DST, a16z, Tiger, and more at a $150M valuation to expand in Asia, Europe, and Africa (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Bobby Borisov / Linuxiac: StatCounter: Linux hit a 4.03% share of the desktop OS market in February 2024, after taking 30 years to achieve a 3% share in June 2023  —  According to StatCounter’s data, by the end of February… Read More »StatCounter: Linux hit a 4.03% share of the desktop OS market in February 2024, after taking 30 years to achieve a 3% share in June 2023 (Bobby Borisov/Linuxiac)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation  —  Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world… Read More »Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Reuters: After removing 100+ Indian apps on March 1, Google is now “temporarily reinstating the apps of the developers with appeals pending in the Supreme Court”  —  Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) will restore the Indian apps it deleted after a billing… Read More »After removing 100+ Indian apps on March 1, Google is now “temporarily reinstating the apps of the developers with appeals pending in the Supreme Court” (Reuters)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Nothing debuts the 6.7″ Phone (2a), its first budget phone, with a 5,000mAh battery and MediaTek chip, starting at £319 with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage  —  Budget phones tend to be pretty… Read More »Nothing debuts the 6.7″ Phone (2a), its first budget phone, with a 5,000mAh battery and MediaTek chip, starting at £319 with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (Allison Johnson/The Verge)