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| Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN: |
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET Wednesday after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariff — President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump believes the US has the resources and workforce to build iPhones in the US — Trump's massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have a major impact on Apple and its supply chain.
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Bluesky: @samleecole, @dylanonchips, @mgsiegler.com, @chancemiller.me, and @ernie.tedium.co
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Threads: @joannastern and @chancehmiller
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Forums: r/apple and r/technology
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Razer pauses direct sales of the upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops in the US as new tariffs loom — With tariffs set to kick in tonight, Razer's new Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available to purchase directly. … Razer's upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available …
More: Razer Newsroom, PCWorld, PCMag, XDA Developers, How-To Geek, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, CNET, Game Rant, Windows Central, Tom's Guide, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/Games, r/technology, r/razer, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
More: The Information, Proactive, Quartz, ZeroHedge News, Benzinga, and Yahoo Finance
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Internal memo: the US DOJ disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, established by Biden in 2021, as the agency is “not a digital assets regulator” — The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff on Monday evening that the agency was disbanding a unit dedicated to crypto-related investigations.
More: Washington Post, Reuters, ABC News, Protos, Engadget, Washington Post, Futurism, Associated Press, Deseret News, Bitcoin Insider, Crypto Briefing, The Guardian, Decrypt, New Republic, CNBC, The Daily Hodl, The Coin Republic, Quartz, Bitcoin Magazine, The Crypto Basic, Benzinga, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, The Block, The Independent, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CryptoSlate
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Forums: r/politics, r/politics, r/politics, and r/Bitcoin
| Reuters: |
Sources: US officials say DOGE is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency's communications for anti-Trump talk; a source says DOGE is also using Signal — Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/news, r/foreignservice, r/artificial, r/somethingiswrong2024, r/FedEmployees, r/fednews, and r/politics
| The Information: |
Source: Instagram is working on an iPad app, and Adam Mosseri told staff to be willing to assume more “risk” to take advantage of a potential TikTok ban — Meta Platforms has put the turmoil around TikTok to good use. Amid a barrage of headlines about the White House's efforts …
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, Build Your Tribe on YouTube, and WeRSM
Bluesky: @seanhodgdon.com and @buckbee
| Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup: |
Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada “will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US” — The pre-orders were originally set to go live on April 9 — Nintendo has confirmed that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 …
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| Darryn Bonthuys / GameSpot: |
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Amazon expands Haul, its Temu competitor, to offer name-brand items from Amazon's US inventory, as the US plans to end de minimis tariff exemptions on May 2 — Amazon is broadening its Temu bargain shopping competitor, Haul, to offer a wider variety of goods, including name-brand items …
More: The Verge and Cord Cutters News
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental for Gemini Advanced subscribers — Gemini Advanced subscribers can now perform Deep Research with Google's most intelligent 2.5 Pro (experimental) model. — When Google made Deep Research available to all users last month …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada — Meta is introducing Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger. The feature, which automatically enrolls young users …
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Threads: @andymstone. X: @_andyburrows, @fairplayforkids, @metanewsroom, and @zamaan_qureshi. LinkedIn: Joel Kaplan
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC could face a $1B+ penalty to settle a US export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside Huawei's Ascend 910B chip — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation …
More: Rest of World, CyberScoop, The Register, Tom's Hardware, Barron's Online, WinBuzzer, Motley Fool, Yahoo Finance, and Tom's Guide
Forums: r/hardware and r/taiwan
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury's OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26 — - Attackers lurked within OCC email accounts since 2023 — Chinese state hackers previously targeted Treasury files
More: OCC.gov, BleepingComputer, PYMNTS.com, and Finextra
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Tech CEOs who spent big on Trump's inauguration have yet to see the investment pay off; Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are down 22% since January 20 — With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president …
More: Business Insider, Sherwood News, Yahoo Finance, Semafor, Macworld, and Hindustan Times
Bluesky: @paulthedogman and @stevekovach
X: @mattyglesias and @ericgeller
| Cameron Emanuel-Burns / FinTech Futures: |
Germany-based Hawk, which offers AI-powered anti-money laundering services, raised a $56M Series C led by One Peak and says it has over 80 customers worldwide — The Series C round builds on Hawk's $17 million Series B in 2023, which was extended twice the following year.
More: Hawk, SiliconANGLE, Finovate, EU-Startups, Finextra, PYMNTS.com, FinTech Global, and FinSMEs. X: @yoda
| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
Aurascape, which offers enterprise security tools to mitigate risks from third-party AI apps, emerges from stealth with $50M from Menlo, Mayfield, and others — Silicon Valley startup secures big investment from Menlo Ventures and Mayfield Fund to solve the “shadow AI” security problem.| The Verge: |
A look at the rise of “Frankenstein” laptops in India, made by salvaging parts from multiple brands and sold to students, gig workers, and small businesses — In a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in Delhi's Nehru Place, the air hums with the sound of whirring drills and the crackle of soldering irons.
Bluesky: @caseynewton. X: @sasank51 and @uglyresearch
Forums: Hacker News, r/solarpunk, r/india, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Nova Sonic, which can generate natural-sounding speech and that it claims is “the most cost-efficient” AI voice model on the market, via Bedrock — On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech.
More: About Amazon, Inc, Luiza's Newsletter, Digit, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Analytics India Magazine, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Verge, and The Decoder
| Reuters: |
Sources: a16z seeks to raise a $20B megafund for growth-stage investments in AI companies; global LPs see it as a way to invest in US firms without restrictions — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is seeking to raise about $20 billion in what will be the largest fund in its history … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung estimates Q1 revenue up ~10% YoY to ~$53.4B and operating profit flat YoY at ~$4.5B, vs. ~$3.8B est., due to Galaxy S25 and legacy DRAM sales — South Korea's largest company was helped by inventory stockpiling by Chinese retailers and manufacturers who hurried to secure electronic supplies … | Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says all new Google TV devices in the US must now have a remote with a Free TV or Live TV button that opens its Freeplay library of 150+ FAST channels — Starting this month, new Google TV devices will have a big “Free TV” button on their remotes — Google has confirmed …
More: The Streamable, Chrome Unboxed, TechRadar, PCWorld, Pocket-lint, and T3
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