The UK, the US, and other governments publish advisories on China-linked spyware families BadBazaar and Moonshine and highlight legitimate-looking Android apps (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The UK, the US, and other governments publish advisories on China-linked spyware families BadBazaar and Moonshine and highlight legitimate-looking Android apps  —  A coalition of governments has published a list of legitimate-looking Android apps that were actually spyware …

Statewatch and FOI documents: the UK government is developing a “murder prediction” tool to use personal data of those known to police to find likely killers (Vikram Dodd/The Guardian)

Vikram Dodd / The Guardian:
Statewatch and FOI documents: the UK government is developing a “murder prediction” tool to use personal data of those known to police to find likely killers  —  Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

PitchBook: despite a friendlier regulatory environment, crypto VC investments in the US fell 22% QoQ to ~$1.3B in Q1 2025, but rose slightly YoY from $1.1B (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

Teresa Xie / Bloomberg:
PitchBook: despite a friendlier regulatory environment, crypto VC investments in the US fell 22% QoQ to ~$1.3B in Q1 2025, but rose slightly YoY from $1.1B  —  Despite a friendlier environment for digital assets in the US and globally, crypto venture capital activity has largely remained at a standstill.

Docs: Canadian telecom Bell is lobbying to block Starlink subsidies, as Canada-US tensions and Musk’s Trump ties put his satellite business under more scrutiny (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times)

Ilya Gridneff / Financial Times:
Docs: Canadian telecom Bell is lobbying to block Starlink subsidies, as Canada-US tensions and Musk’s Trump ties put his satellite business under more scrutiny  —  Rival telecoms group Bell is lobbying for the Musk-owned group to be excluded for financial support for Far North region

X’s merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push; sources say X’s revenue fell to $2.6B in 2024, down from $3B in 2023 and about $4.6B in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
X’s merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push; sources say X’s revenue fell to $2.6B in 2024, down from $3B in 2023 and about $4.6B in 2022  —  xAI merger capped social-media company’s yearslong turnaround push  —  A crowd of investors gathered at Morgan Stanley’s New York office …