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Baton Rouge-based Gutsy, which plans to use “process mining” to help companies improve their cybersecurity, raised a $51M seed led by YL Ventures and Mayfield (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Baton Rouge-based Gutsy, which plans to use “process mining” to help companies improve their cybersecurity, raised a $51M seed led by YL Ventures and Mayfield  —  Twistlock was founded in 2015 with the idea of securing the nascent cloud native computing environment, a notion you could argue was well ahead of

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How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads

Image: The Verge This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today, after a long weekend of awful terrorist violence in Israel, let’s talk about the shifting landscape for social networks amid the current crisis — and consider the path ahead

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Some academics in Saudi Arabia worry over Saudi-Chinese AI collaboration, which may jeopardize their access to US chips, as the Gulf states rush to build LLMs (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Some academics in Saudi Arabia worry over Saudi-Chinese AI collaboration, which may jeopardize their access to US chips, as the Gulf states rush to build LLMs  —  Fears grow at Gulf kingdom’s top university that ties to Chinese researchers risk upsetting US government

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See the first Lego Animal Crossing sets

An Animal Crossing house in Lego form. | Image: Lego Last week, Lego officially revealed that Animal Crossing was making its way to bricks with a brief tease; today, we’re getting our first look at the first five actual Lego sets that will arrive March 1st, 2024. It turns out they’re not big and blocky

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Meta’s Oversight Board plans to review Meta’s manipulated content and deepfake policies, after moderators did not remove a video describing Biden as a pedophile (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Meta’s Oversight Board plans to review Meta’s manipulated content and deepfake policies, after moderators did not remove a video describing Biden as a pedophile  —  Investigation will review social media giant’s guidelines after ‘manipulated’ clip wrongfully calls US president a paedophile

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Google starts prompting users to create a passkey for their account by default, but says passwords will “still remain part of our lives as we make the pivot” (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google starts prompting users to create a passkey for their account by default, but says passwords will “still remain part of our lives as we make the pivot”  —  Google is making it easier for users to ditch passwords on their Google accounts in favor of passkeys — a fast

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In the first week of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, Judge Kaplan repeatedly admonished SBF’s lawyers, disrupting the questioning, in an ominous sign for the defense (New York Times)

New York Times: In the first week of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, Judge Kaplan repeatedly admonished SBF’s lawyers, disrupting the questioning, in an ominous sign for the defense  —  In the first week of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan repeatedly admonished the former crypto mogul’s lawyers, in an ominous sign for the defense.

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