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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here

My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial. In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark social media case in California, in which a jury found the companies liable for harming…

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Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs.  Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested…

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Microsoft Removes WMIC From Windows 11 Beta

Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on a decades-old Windows tool that administrators still use — and attackers have repeatedly abused. The company has now removed Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from Windows, completing a long-running deprecation process that has gradually pushed the utility out of the operating system. Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Beta…

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