Reliance-Disney India media merger to control 85% of streaming, half of TV audience

February 29, 2024

The merger of Indian media assets of Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney will create an entity that captures 85% of the country’s on-demand streaming service audience and about half of the TV viewers, analysts said, posing bigger challenges to Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Apple, Sony and Zee. The merger, which is scheduled to complete […]

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OpenCTI maker Filigran raises $16 million for its cybersecurity threat management suite

February 29, 2024

Paris-based cybersecurity startup Filigran is capitalizing on the success of OpenCTI to build a suite of open-source threat management products. The company has already found some early traction with OpenCTI, its open-source threat intelligence platform. That’s why the company recently raised €15 million (around $16 million at today’s exchange rate) in a funding round led […]

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‘Taiwan needs to find its own groove’: what startups want from the next president

February 29, 2024

Once Lai Ching-te is inaugurated as Taiwan’s president in May, his administration will mark an unprecedented three terms of Democratic Progressive Party rule. His victory underscored the desire of voters to maintain the status quo, even as Taiwan continues to deal with the looming specter of China. Soon after he was elected in January, Lai […]

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X goes to court in Elon Musk’s war against an anti-hate research org

February 29, 2024

Elon Musk’s crusade against the extremism research organization the Center for Countering Digital Hate will have its day in court on Thursday. Elon Musk and X sued the CCDH last year, accusing it of “actively working to assert false and misleading claims about X.” The nonprofit, formed in 2018, conducts research on social media platforms […]

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Rocket Lab has ‘misrepresented’ Neutron launch readiness, congressional memo says

February 28, 2024

An internal congressional memo viewed by TechCrunch casts strong doubt on Rocket Lab’s claim that its Neutron rocket will be ready for launch in time to meet a crucial contract deadline from the Space Force. “In light of public reporting and media pressure, Rocket Lab has escalated their campaign to misrepresent their launch readiness in […]

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Gemini on Android can’t ID songs, and it’s frustrating

February 28, 2024

If it wasn’t clear before that Google’s Gemini chatbot was rushed out the door, it is now. Gemini’s since-removed image generator put people of color in Nazi-era uniforms. The chatbot’s commentary continues to tend toward the absurd besides, like equating Hitler’s record with Elon Musk posting memes. On Android, Gemini also breaks Google Assistant’s song […]

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The Apple Car that never was: a timeline

February 28, 2024

Apple’s secretive car project died without ever seeing the light of day. It’s a fitting end, considering we’ve collectively spent the last decade aware of it without really knowing too much about what the tech colossus was planning.  Neither has Apple, apparently. Dozens of contemporaneous reports over that span clued the public into the vague […]

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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman stepping down — and Wall St hates it

February 28, 2024

Apparently Frank Slootman, the veteran tech executive, was popular with investors, at least judging from their reaction that he will be stepping down as CEO of Snowflake. The company stock price has plunged over 24% in after hours trading on the news. Slootman will retreat into the role of chairman of the board, while Sridhar […]

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