FAA clears SpaceX for another Starship test flight after explosion in January

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

SpaceX has attained authorization from regulators to fly its massive Starship rocket once again, the FAA announced Friday.

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IBM Completes HashiCorp Acquisition for $6.4 Billion, Expanding Hybrid Cloud Offerings

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

HashiCorp brings infrastructure provisioning that will help some IBM products run more smoothly in hybrid cloud environments.

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Skype Will Shut Down on May 5, As Microsoft Shifts to Teams

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft is pivoting to support Teams instead. Microsoft 365 head Jeff Teper encouraged Skype users to migrate their Skype contacts to Teams.

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$1.5B Bybit Hack is Linked to North Korea, FBI Says, in Potentially the Largest Crypto Heist Ever

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

The FBI referred to the attack as “TraderTraitor,” a malicious campaign linked to North Korean state-sponsored hackers the Lazarus Group.

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Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. The […]
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Google Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visuals

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI. With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users now can also generate advanced visualizations, like heatmaps, that they […]
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Amazon’s Ocelot Chip Slashes Quantum Errors by 90%, Challenging Industry Rivals

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon enters the quantum race with Ocelot, aiming to rival Google and Microsoft. The prototype chip could advance error correction and bring practical quantum computing closer.

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Good hype for fusion, bad buzz for YC

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Hype can be good or bad. This week, we’ve seen startups on both sides of that fence — and being on the good side warranted large funding […]
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Under Trump, U.S. Dismantles Crypto Crackdown

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Going case by case, regulators have halted investigations and withdrawn or paused lawsuits against top crypto companies and their executives.

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Why China’s Xiaomi Can Make an Electric Car and Apple Can’t

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China’s robust manufacturing supply chain.

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