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Ubisoft plans to spin off a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary with Tencent investing €1.16B for a 25% stake; UBI jumps 10% — Ubisoft Entertainment SA shares jumped as much as 10% after the video game maker said it will carve out a unit including Assassin's Creed …
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| Andrew Goudsward / Reuters: |
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15 — A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app …
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| Kyle Cheney / Politico: |
Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete — The recordkeeping instructions come amid fallout from the “Signalgate” scandal. — The White House …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and r/neoliberal
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28% — The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. — High-ranking officials in the Trump administration …
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LinkedIn: Andy Greenberg and Richard Rosenthal
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences — A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
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X: @jakeottiger, @sal19, @bonsaisgt, @colinandsamir, @thurrott, @iryantldr, and @mikeisaac. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: r/facebook and MacRumors Forums
| CNBC: |
CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order — CoreWeave on Thursday priced shares at $40 in the company's IPO, raising $1.5 billion in the biggest U.S. tech offering since 2021, CNBC has confirmed.
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @edzitron.com, @python357, @treadingwater1, and @mgsiegler.com
| Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples: |
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm” — Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT
X: @sama, @altryne, @nexuist, @sterlingcrispin, @joannejang, and @borismpower. LinkedIn: Wade G. Morgan
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges — - Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company. — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards, letting users transfer existing digital Switch games to other consoles and lend them out more easily, available in April — Nintendo announced on Thursday that it is working on Virtual Game Cards, a feature that makes digitally downloaded games more portable across different devices.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump — Brussels to push ahead with enforcing digital rules on Big Tech groups but with low financial penalties for breaches
More: Silicon Republic and The Mac Observer
| Sheon Han / Wired: |
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints — Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go.
Bluesky: @sarahkendrew, @peat.org, @jenlucpiquant, and @smcgrath.phd
Forums: r/technews, r/math, and Slashdot
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech — Taiwan is investigating whether China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing …
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Bluesky: @dancow, @maxxxv, and @markduffy.sh
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Amazon partners with Electronic Arts to bring EA games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, which is now available in 14 countries — Amazon Luna unveiled a multi-year agreement with big game publisher Electronic Arts to bring many of its top games to the Luna cloud gaming service.
More: Amazon Luna, TechPowerUp, Neowin, Pocket-lint, and The Verge
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours in February 2025 after Elon Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users threatening DOGE staffers — Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers.
More: Gizmodo, Fast Company, Android Police, and Mashable
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| Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: |
AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month — It's at least the third report from a short seller in about a month. In February, Fuzzy Panda and Culper Research both published short reports …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Muddy Waters Research, Mobilegamer.biz, PocketGamer.biz, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and Benzinga
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