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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.
More: 404 Media, MacRumors, PCMag, Washington Post, AppleInsider, MarketWatch, iDrop News, Stratechery, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, The Verge, Spyglass, Proactive, Barron's Online, Inc42 Media, Cryptopolitan, and 404 Media
Bluesky: @samleecole, @dylanonchips, @mgsiegler.com, @chancemiller.me, and @ernie.tedium.co
Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social and @juandesant@astrodon.social
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, XDA Developers, PCMag, Engadget, How-To Geek, Tom's Hardware, CNET, Windows Central, Game Rant, Tom's Guide, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/Games, r/technology, and r/razer
| Reuters: |
More: The Information, Quartz, Proactive, Benzinga, ZeroHedge News, 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, Futurism, Washington Post, Quartz, Associated Press, Deseret News, Bitcoin Insider, Crypto Briefing, The Guardian, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, New Republic, CNBC, The Crypto Times, The Daily Hodl, The Coin Republic, Bitcoin Magazine, The Crypto Basic, Benzinga, crypto.news, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Independent, 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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| 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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Forums: r/NSCollectors and r/NintendoSwitch
| Darryn Bonthuys / GameSpot: |
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| 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 …
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| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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: The Register, Rest of World, CyberScoop, Tom's Hardware, WinBuzzer, Barron's Online, 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, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Finextra, American Banker, and Fox News
| 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
| 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
| 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.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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, Finextra, EU-Startups, PYMNTS.com, FinTech Global, and FinSMEs. X: @yoda
| 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 … | Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
LMArena says it is updating its leaderboard policies after a Llama 4 Maverick version, which Meta said in fine print is not public, secured the number two spot — With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
More: Sherwood News, The Register, TechCrunch, InfoRiskToday.com, Gizmodo, TheSequence, WebProNews, Neowin, and Platformer
Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net, @prietschka, and @kylierobison.com. Mastodon: @kyleford@hachyderm.io
X: @lmarena_ai, @ph_singer, @casper_hansen_, @mikeisaac, @kyliebytes, @tomwarren, @kyliebytes, @nrehiew_, @vikhyatk, @alexeheath, and @yuchenj_uw
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