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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU Commission orders Apple to open iOS to third-party connected devices, and in preliminary findings charges Google with breaking the DMA in search and apps — EU continues Big Tech crackdown under landmark Digital Markets Act — Brussels is pressing ahead with regulatory action …
More: European Commission, European Commission, TechCrunch, Reuters, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Politico, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Thurrott, Wall Street Journal, Euractiv, Gulf News, New York Times, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, Proactive, Digital Trends, CNBC, and Business Post
Bluesky: @stevepeers. X: @eu_competition, @bzamayo, @samuelstolton, @eu_competition, and @lewis_crofts
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google unveils the $499+ Pixel 9a, with no camera bump, a 48MP rear camera, a 6.3" display, a Tensor G4 chip, and IP68 water resistance, shipping in April 2025 — Google is confirming what we learned from a slew of leaks. … Google just announced the Pixel 9A, surprising nobody because it's been leaked to all heck.
More: Android Authority, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, The Keyword, Ars Technica, Android Authority, Business Insider, The Hindu, Tech Advisor, T3, TechCrunch, How-To Geek, ZDNET, VICE, Neowin, TechEBlog, KnowTechie, PhoneArena, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, CGMagazine, Forbes, Tom's Guide, Android Central, Wired, MobileSyrup, Digit, Mashable, Android Headlines, Trusted Reviews, PetaPixel, The Shortcut, Chrome Unboxed, and Android Police
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says it is “checking on a component quality issue” for the Pixel 9a, delaying its release from March to sometime in April; pre-orders are not yet open — Google isn't yet taking preorders for a phone it just announced, which is unusual. A “small number” of early devices exhibited the unspecified issue.
More: Android Authority, Tech Advisor, Android Central, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Droid Life, PhoneArena, and Digit
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
More: Livemint, Android Police, Mercury News, Engadget, Mirror, Financial Express, PCMag, Liliputing, Android Central, PhoneArena, and Trusted Reviews
| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Nvidia's GTC 2025 announcements, including a focus on addressing pre-training and post-training scaling and inference time scaling working in tandem — The Reasoning Token Explosion — AI model progress has accelerated tremendously, and in the last six months, models have improved more than in the previous six months.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
More: Business Insider, CGTN, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, The Indian Express, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, and SiliconANGLE
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Ars Technica, Nvidia Newsroom, Microsoft Azure, Tom's Hardware, Tom's Hardware, Gamereactor UK, Yanko Design, NVIDIA, The Keyword, CNBC, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Technical Blog, NVIDIA Technical Blog, NVIDIA Technical Blog, NVIDIA Technical Blog, NVIDIA Technical Blog, BGR, Blockchain.News, TechRadar, HPCwire, Arm Newsroom, Synopsys, NVIDIA Technical Blog, and ServeTheHome
Forums: r/hardware, r/gadgets, r/GeForceNOW, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in a case involving AI generated poetry, that the Copyright Act requires human authorship for registration — A computer scientist who tried to register an artwork that credited an artificial intelligence system as the sole author lost his appeal on Tuesday.
More: The Register, Reuters, CNBC, ABA Journal, Lawyer Monthly, and Tech in Asia
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Samsung plans to roll out its Android 15-based One UI 7 from April 7 on the Galaxy S24 series, Z Fold6, Z Flip6, and more, with a simpler UI and new AI features — Less than two weeks ago, Samsung said to expect One UI 7 next month, and the Android 15 update is now set for Monday, April 7.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: X has raised close to $1B in new equity in a deal that values the company at roughly $32B; Musk also participated in the raise — Elon Musk's social network X has raised close to $1 billion in new equity from investors in a deal that values the company at roughly $32 billion … | Financial Times: |
More: TechCrunch, The Information, The Wrap, The Independent, en.ain.ua, New York Times, and Cryptopolitan
Forums: r/politics, r/elonmusk, r/Economics, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and Beehaw
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Google Wallet to let kids with Android phones tap to pay in stores in the US, the UK, Australia, Spain, and Poland, with parental supervision — Google announced on Wednesday that kids with Android phones can now tap to pay at stores using Google Wallet in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Poland.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says new EU interoperability rules “wrap us in red tape”, force “us to give away our new features for free”, and are “bad for our products” and users — In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple firmly rebuked the EU decision announced today … | Makena Kelly / Wired: |
Current and former FTC staff say the FTC removed 300+ Biden-era business guidance blog posts, including info on AI consumer protection and its Big Tech lawsuits — Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
More: Benzinga, Gizmodo, The Information, Engadget, and TechCrunch
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/fednews, r/politics, r/technews, and Slashdot
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More: PCMag, Reuters, The Verge, The Guardian, TechCrunch, CR Advocacy, Retail TouchPoints, Gizmodo, What's Happening To US?, Associated Press, New York Post, Politico, Washington Post, Techdirt, Barron's Online, Cryptopolitan, The Register, Raw Story, Financial Times, Roll Call, Seeking Alpha, CyberScoop, Engadget, The Wrap, The Hill, Axios, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, and MediaPost
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @scottwiener, @aaronhuertas, @laurenfeiner, @evacide, @sarahjeong, @nycsouthpaw, @martingaynor, @repdangoldman, @justinlevitt, @kint, @makenakelly, and @karlbode.com
X: @bedoyaftc, @afergusonftc, @bedoyaftc, @bedoyaftc, @irvingswisher, @viacristiano, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @ewwilkins, @justinbrookman, @leehepner, @leehepner, @leehepner, @natpurser, @openmarkets, @helaineolen, @davidbmcgarry, @swiftstories, @joshwright1977, @corinne_podger, @nhegde, and @mmcassella. LinkedIn: Bilal Sayyed
Forums: r/Economics, r/Law_and_Politics, r/technology, r/politics, r/fednews, and r/politics
| The Citizen Lab: |
A look at Israeli spyware company Paragon, which makes Graphite: suspected deployments in Australia, Canada, Israel, and more, a WhatsApp zero-click, and more — Key Findings — Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware called Graphite.
More: TechCrunch, CyberScoop, The Record, Metacurity, Washington Post, The Guardian, CyberInsider, Euractiv, and Bloomberg
Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange and @datarights@eupolicy.social
X: @rondeibert and @drwhax
| CoinDesk: |
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the US SEC is set to drop its appeal in its case against Ripple, nearing the end of a legal battle over XRP ongoing since 2020 — Earlier reports said that the long-standing legal battle between Ripple and the agency is nearing its end. — What to know:
More: The Information, Reuters, The Block, Unchained, Finextra, CryptoPotato, DL News, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CNBC, Axios, Blockchain News, CoinGape, The Coin Republic, ZyCrypto, Bitcoin Insider, Proactive, NFTgators, Motley Fool, Cryptopolitan, Fortune, Bloomberg, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, Wall Street Pit, Coinpedia Fintech News, Watcher Guru, and CryptoSlate
X: @bgarlinghouse, @s_alderoty, @attorneyjeremy1, @bgarlinghouse, @attorneyjeremy1, @adamkovac, and @bcbacker. Forums: r/Ripple
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
US federal workers have flocked to Reddit in recent months, as Trump cuts the workforce; r/fednews gained millions of visitors since January 2025 — David Carson is a moderator of the Veterans Affairs group on Reddit.William DeShazer for The New York Times
Forums: r/fednews and r/VeteransAffairs
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Sources: Nvidia acquires Gretel, which offers synthetic data tools, for more than its most recent $320M valuation; Pitchbook: Gretel had previously raised $67M+ — Nvidia has acquired synthetic data startup Gretel to bolster the AI training data used by the chip maker's customers and developers.
More: UKTN
| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Flashpoint: attackers stole 3.2B credentials from organizations in 2024, up 33% YoY, 2.1B of which was via info-stealing malware infecting 23M hosts and devices — Inexpensive information-stealing malware surged in 2024, infecting 23 million hosts, according to Flashpoint. — Learn more.| Mark Niquette / Bloomberg: |
Trump's 20% China tariffs and potential 25% Mexico tariffs, hitting the US' two biggest computer equipment import sources, may pile new costs on US data centers — President Donald Trump is all in on artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it — but his tariffs threaten …
X: @danprimack and @thestalwart
| Variety: |
Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on his 25-year anniversary at Netflix, his cameo on Apple TV+ series The Studio, competing with suppliers like Disney, and more — In a few weeks, Ted Sarandos will make his acting debut — playing Ted Sarandos. The co-CEO of Netflix is lampooning himself … | Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
A source details how Google built the Pixel 10's Tensor G5 chip without Samsung's help, using in-house and off-the-shelf IP, and partnering with Arm and others — The Tensor G5 won't be all that different from the previous generations. — • — • — • — TL;DR
More: GSMArena.com, Tom's Guide, Gizchina.com, Tech Advisor, Android Police, Phandroid, TalkAndroid.com, and PhoneArena
Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, and r/Android
| June Yoon / Financial Times: |
Chinese firms like Alibaba, Baidu and DeepSeek are open sourcing AI models to bypass US curbs, decentralize development, and tap global talent for refinement — The pace of Beijing's open source push has been relentless — Retaliation seemed certain. When the US tightened its grip … | Counterpoint Research: |
Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share hitting 77%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew — - Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, marking their third consecutive year of declines due to the continued weak consumer demand.
More: Computerworld, Digital Trends, Spyglass, Above Avalon, and Moneycontrol
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Utila, which offers a multi-party computation crypto wallet service, raised an $18M Series A led by Nyca Partners, taking its total funding to ~$30M since 2024 — Utila, a digital asset operations platform, has raised $18 million in a Series A round to expand its multi-party computation …
More: The Block, FinSMEs, NFTgators, and SiliconANGLE
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A look at Waymo's progress, from Alphabet's “moonshot” project to achieving commercial robotaxi deployment in three US cities in 2024, and its expansion plans — Waymo is already notching 200,000 rides a week in cities across the U.S. No other self-driving car company comes close.
More: Axios, ZeroHedge News, Jalopnik, Benzinga, Business Today, Mercury News, Inc, and CBS News
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
BlackRock, Microsoft, and Abu Dhabi's MGX say Nvidia and xAI joined a consortium to build AI infrastructure in the US; investors committed $100B for deployment — Nvidia and Elon Musk's xAI have joined a consortium backed by Microsoft, investment fund MGX and BlackRock to expand AI infrastructure … Sponsor Posts
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