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Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek. Learn more about your ad choices. ... Show More

Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material. Also, Knapsack creates a unified workspace that integrates design and coding tools to ensure design and engineering teams are on the same page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ... Show More

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Ukraine fires top cybersecurity officials; Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue; Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Plus: Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for the Pentagon to look into Russian troops’ use of Starlink. And Synopsys plans to sell its Software Integrity Group. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

ICO confirms data breach probe as UK councils remain downed by cyberattack; NSA is buying Americans' internet browsing records without a warrant; Deck.blue brings a TweetDeck experience to Bluesky users Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

In today's podcast, we hear that Iran's OilRig cyberespionage campaign seems to employing Russian hoods, and BlackEnergy. WannaCry recovery continues, but there may be worse to come. Still talking funny, the ShadowBrokers say you'll be able to subscribe to an Equation Group leak ... Show More

The makers of two phone surveillance services appear to have shuttered after the owner agreed to settle state accusations of illegally promoting spyware that his companies developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Plus, an advocacy group has filed privacy complaints about Meta’s artificial intelligence project in Europe. And regulators open an antitrust probe into Microsoft’s deal with an AI startup. Zoe Thomas hosts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Data brokers offer information on active US military personnel. Current BlueNoroff activity. A new Gootloader variant is active in the wild. Atlassian vulnerabilities actively exploited. The prevalence of breaches. Update on a Barracuda vulnerability. Hacktivism and the cyber cou ... Show More

Education tech company Blackbaud agreed to settle with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the company’s security practices that resulted in a 2020 data breach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Six months into Washington’s sweeping export restrictions on semiconductors, Chinese and global chipmakers including TSMC are navigating the fallout. In this Exchange podcast, author Chris Miller talks about the fight for the critical technology and how Beijing may retaliate.Visi ... Show More