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NSW's $6M Startup Pool: Just 0.5% of Australia's February Funding Surge — Public Seed Capital Outgunned by Private Series D Firepower

NSW's $6M Startup Pool: Just 0.5% of Australia's February Funding Surge — Public Seed Capital Outgunned by Private Series D Firepower

TL;DR * NSW government commits $6M to MVP Ventures Program to accelerate early-stage tech startups * Perplexity raises $250M at $9B valuation as AI-native search platforms dominate venture funding * Terminus Capital Partners invests in Eventus to boost trade surveillance and global growth ⚡ $6M Public Seed vs. $194M Private Firepower: NSW'
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YC Opens Canada, Fortinet Surges with AI SASE, Healthscope Rejects PE in Landmark Healthcare Shift

YC Opens Canada, Fortinet Surges with AI SASE, Healthscope Rejects PE in Landmark Healthcare Shift

TL;DR * Y Combinator Reverses Decision, Resumes Accepting Canadian-Incorporated Startups * Healthscope Transitions to Not-for-Profit to Avoid $1.2B Debt Collapse * Fortinet Beats Q4 Earnings as Unified SASE Billings Surge 40% 🇨🇦 YC Reinstates Canada in Deal Terms, Canadian Startups Regain Access to $500K Equity Funding Without Forced Incorporation Flips YC reverses
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Courts vs. Power: South Korea convicts president’s ally, France bans Le Pen, Japan punishes Abe’s killer — and Australia enacts sweeping reforms after deadly riot

Courts vs. Power: South Korea convicts president’s ally, France bans Le Pen, Japan punishes Abe’s killer — and Australia enacts sweeping reforms after deadly riot

TL;DR * South Korean Court Rules Yoon Suk Yeol’s Martial Law Decree Constituted Rebellion, Sentences Han Duck-soo to 23 Years * Bangladesh Court Sets Feb. 9 Hearing for Sedition Case Against Sheikh Hasina and 285 Others * Japanese Court Sentences Tetsuya Yamagami to Life for Assassinating Shinzo Abe, Strips Unification Church
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Instagram Data Breach Exposes 17.5M Users, Grok AI Blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia, WEX API Keys Sold on Dark Web

Instagram Data Breach Exposes 17.5M Users, Grok AI Blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia, WEX API Keys Sold on Dark Web

TL;DR * Malwarebytes reports 17.5 million Instagram accounts compromised via 2024 API leak, exposing usernames, physical addresses, and phone numbers; users advised to enable 2FA * CVE-2026-01-11: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability discovered in OpenCode AI coding assistant server (port 4096), enabled by default prior to v1.1.10 * Grok
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