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 Sean Plankey selected as CISA director by President Trump
OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration (Emma Roth/The Verge)
 Netflix releases a killer new trailer for You season 5 but my favorite character is missing from Joe's final chapter
Sources: Apple and Meta are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching the EU's DMA, which allows fines of up to 10% of companies' global annual sales (Reuters)
How focusing on West Africa helped music streamer Audiomack grow alongside industry giants like Spotify; 50% of its 40M monthly listeners are from Africa (Janko Roettgers/Fast Company)
 The new M4 MacBook Air finally fixes an Apple keyboard annoyance that's been around for decades
Asset managers and investors say wealthy Chinese investors are using SPACs to quietly funnel tens of millions of dollars into Musk's xAI, Neuralink, and SpaceX (Sun Yu/Financial Times)
 Almost indestructible memory card launched; Lexar's Armor SD steel cards are water resistant and can survive a 16-feet drop
As Japan copes with a labor shortage, its market for service robots, which assist people with tasks like waiting tables, is expected to almost triple by 2030 (Bloomberg)
 The adorable BDX Droids are coming to more Disney Parks around the world, including Disney World
Apple confirms that it is delaying the "more personalized Siri" Apple Intelligence feature and anticipates rolling it out "in the coming year" (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
 Samsung, Apple and Meta want to use OLED in their next VR headsets – but only Meta has a plan to make it cheap
 Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
 'Simulating scientists': A new AI tool wants to make serendipitous scientific discovery less human
Google announces an experimental AI Mode in Search that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions, rolling out to Google One AI Premium subscribers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK's demand for a backdoor to read encrypted data of users, even non-UK citizens (Financial Times)
 Here are the 7 best Pixel 9 and Pixel Watch 3 features landing in March’s Pixel Feature Drop
 Lost & Found tracking site hit by major data breach - over 800,000 could be affected
 Lenovo demos AI Stick prototype that promises to give the power of AI to any PC thanks to a 32-TOPS NPU
Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce they are working on an "AI Phone" priced at under $1K, first aimed at the European market and slated to launch in 2026 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
 MWC 2025 — all the B2B news and announcements from Mobile World Congress
 This mini PC rivals Apple's Mac Studio and Nvidia's DIGITS desktop supercomputer but will cost only a fraction of the price
Honor pledges $10B in AI investments over the next five years and demos a proof of concept AI agent, powered by Gemini 2, that can book restaurant reservations (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
 DJI launches a vehicle-mounted drone dock station that seemingly comes straight from a sci-fi movie
Skype was an early harbinger of technology as culture, and its demise is a good lesson in how ineffective middle management can destroy great acquisitions (Om Malik/On my Om)
Trump will speak at the first-ever White House Crypto Summit on March 7; it will be chaired by David Sacks and comes amid a global sell-off in cryptocurrencies (Axios)
 Company that reportedly supplied DOGE and Elon Musk with sleeping solutions found to have huge vulnerability in its...beds??
 Scientists stored data in rare-earth crystal which could one day delivery terabyte-class storage the size of a small grain of rice
Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
 World's first 122.88TB SSD gets 'reviewed' with two very odd bedfellows: the controversial DeepSeek and Nvidia's Jetson Orin AI SBC