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Hackers using malware to steal data from USB flash drives

Hackers using malware to steal data from USB flash...

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The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)

The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M...

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India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts (Krishnapriya V.S./The India Forum)

India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has stru...

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The AI-powered robot army that packs your groceries in minutes

The AI-powered robot army that packs your grocerie...

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How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expect...

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Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare to manage patient phone calls, raised a $22M Series A co-led by First Round and Chemistry (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents...

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Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

Crux, a financing software provider for clean ener...

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Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with companies to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $25M Series A extension and $200M in debt (CTech)

Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with comp...

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Revel, which builds software for controlling critical hardware like rockets, emerges from stealth with $30M in funding, including a ~$23M Series A led by Thrive (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Revel, which builds software for controlling criti...

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Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a "content coin" on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its...

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Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest rev...

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Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to...

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A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is "a big breakthrough" (Every)

A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1;...

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A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots (Wall Street Journal)

A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race wi...

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Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration's removal of security guardrails has given US adversaries more room to operate in the disinformation space (New York Times)

Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration...

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A look at Foxconn's $2.5B "Project Elephant", an upcoming factory on the outskirts of Bengaluru, its second-largest factory outside China, creating 40,000 jobs (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)

A look at Foxconn's $2.5B "Project Elephant", an u...

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A profile of Bo Hines, a 29-year-old official in t...

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India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are facing their steepest growth slowdown in years amid global economic uncertainty and geopolitical challenges (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are...

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Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing US lawmakers for rules favoring banks over tech companies in stablecoin issuance (The Block)

Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade a...

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Garment workshops are closing across the "Shein village" in Panyu, China, after the US ended the de minimis exemption; Shein urges suppliers to shift to Vietnam (Kentaro Shiozaki/Nikkei Asia)

Garment workshops are closing across the "Shein vi...

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API-based background check provider Checkr acquires income and employment verification startup Truework, which had raised $125M+ and was last valued at ~$480M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

API-based background check provider Checkr acquire...

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PE firm KKR agrees to acquire and take private Frankfurt-listed IT company Datagroup for about €450M in an all-cash deal expected to close in Q3 2025 (Emma-Victoria Farr/Reuters)

PE firm KKR agrees to acquire and take private Fra...

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HR management company Paychex acquires Paycor, which provides HR and payroll management software, for $4.1B in an all-cash deal (PYMNTS.com)

HR management company Paychex acquires Paycor, whi...

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The Trump administration's restrictions on AI chip exports by Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to China could help turn Huawei into a global chip-making powerhouse (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

The Trump administration's restrictions on AI chip...

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OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallu...

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Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying ...

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Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a monopoly within a year signals a judicial shift toward addressing anticompetitive behavior in digital markets (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a ...

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Synology confirms need for its own branded drives in newer Plus-series NAS

Synology confirms need for its own branded drives ...

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Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging it's selling unregistered securities; Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer says it's a "copycat case" of SEC's now-dropped lawsuit (Vince Quill/Cointelegraph)

Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging it's selling unregi...

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A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)

A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the U...

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A Nevada judge rules that "tower dumps", the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

A Nevada judge rules that "tower dumps", the law e...

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'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with b...

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Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders will start in the US on April 24, with the price staying at the initially announced $450; prices of accessories will go up (The Verge)

Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders will start in th...

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Sources: the EU planned to penalize Meta and Apple on Tuesday but delayed the announcement, avoiding a conflict with the Trump administration before trade talks (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the EU planned to penalize Meta and Apple...

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A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate a vision for how they want Search features to evolve (Erin Woo/The Information)

A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with ...

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Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of about $61.9M and $60.3M in 2024, up from $49.8M and $40.1M in 2023, respectively (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)

Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Pete...

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Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses "AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning" and AI can make movies "10% better" (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses "AI tools to...

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Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with...

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Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war may hinder the US computing industry by raising costs for building chip fabs and AI data centers (Financial Times)

Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trum...

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A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emissions: calculating fuel-efficient driving patterns, monitoring grid infrastructure, and more (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)

A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emis...

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China's Q1 2025 smartphone shipments grew 3.3% YoY...

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ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of pho...

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Memo: CEO Lip-Bu Tan flattens Intel's leadership team, with important semiconductor groups reporting directly to him, and names Sachin Katti as CTO and AI chief (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Memo: CEO Lip-Bu Tan flattens Intel's leadership t...

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US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps...

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Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others over the past year to fund Llama training costs in exchange for incentives, as part of a "Llama Consortium" (The Information)

Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others ...

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Apple Intelligence features, such as Writing Tools, are no longer available in Meta's iOS apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Apple Intelligence features, such as Writing Tools...

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Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to "delete" (Makena Kelly/Wired)

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 worke...

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Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents ...

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OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and "occasional resource unavailability" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API op...

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HP agrees to $4M settlement over claims of “falsely advertising” PCs, keyboards

HP agrees to $4M settlement over claims of “falsel...

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