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Infotech Headlines Today
[Tue-08-Apr-2025]

Updated: 13 mins ago

$51m USADF funding cut to African startups reignites calls for self-reliance - Techpoint

$79.5bn tax evasion: Binance denies Nigerian govt's 'substituted service' claims - Technext

24 jobs AI will replace in the near future - Techpoint

5 things you might not know about driving an EV in cold, snowy weather - Pocket Lint

A look at Inkitt, a publishing platform that uses AI to create sequels and spinoffs of authors' original work with minimal human input, raising quality concerns (Vauhini Vara/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

A look at the state of AI in 2025 across training and inference costs, carbon footprint, investment activity, bills proposed in the US, and more (Eliza Strickland/IEEE Spectrum) - Techmeme

A nonprofit is using AI agents to raise money for charity - Techcrunch

A revolution is under way in India's trainer industry - BBC

Africa's $720M AI leap - Technext

After 16 years, Paga is building a financial ecosystem of three businesses - Techcabal

Agentic AI in the SOC - Dawn of Autonomous Alert Triage - Hackers News

Agentic Ai: Are We Building Castles On Quicksand - Itnewsafrica

Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is "the most cost-efficient" model on the market, via Bedrock (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Amazon says its AI video model can now generate minutes-long clips - Techcrunch

Amazon unveils a new AI voice model, Nova Sonic - Techcrunch

Amazon's Zoox begins robotaxi testing in Los Angeles - Techcrunch

Analysts: the original Switch's huge success has given Nintendo a high mountain to climb, and the Switch 2 is a massive bet that fans want more of the same (Financial Times) - Techmeme

Apple has big plans for its 20th anniversary iPhone, but tariffs cast a shadow - Pocket Lint

Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs - Techcrunch

Apple Store employees say the past few days have felt like the busy holiday season, as the threat of tariffs and potential price hikes sparked a shopping frenzy (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Apple's encryption row with UK should not be secret, court rules - BBC

Asus ROG Flow Z13 (2025) Review: The Ultra-Portable Gaming PC - Wired

Blackbird gobbles up $50M for its blockchain-based payment-loyalty app for restaurants - Techcrunch

Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Bluesky Can't Take a Joke - Slashdot

Bracket City could be your latest word game obsession - Engadget

Broadcom announces a new share buyback program of up to $10B, set to run through the end of 2025; AVGO jumps 3%+ after hours, after closing up 5.37% on April 7 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) - Techmeme

Business Daily - BBC

Can a community-first strategy propel Fusion to super app success - Techpoint

Cassava Technologies and Nvidias AI infrastructure rollout is a $720m endeavour - Techpoint

Certain Sling TV subscribers may be getting a $2500 check soon - Pocket Lint

China Launches GPMI, a Powerful Alternative To HDMI and DisplayPort - Slashdot

China's Biotech Advances Threaten US Dominance, Warns Congressional Report - Slashdot

CISA Adds CrushFTP Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Confirmed Active Exploitation - Hackers News

Daily Harvest Review: Good Meals for Single Vegans Who Don't Mind Mush - Wired

Didn't One UI 7 just release' Samsung's One UI 8 update might drop soon - Pocket Lint

DOGE is reportedly using AI to monitor government comms for anti-Musk and anti-Trump chatter - Engadget

EFCC arrests fraudster that buys bank account details for N25,000 - Technext

Emergency response drone maker Brinc announced $75M in funding led by Index Ventures, bringing total raised to $157.2M; Motorola will become Brinc's distributor (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) - Techmeme

Evolving South Africa's Payment Ecosystem: Enhancing Security in a Complex Landscape - Itnewsafrica

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen's high-stakes test amid tariff turmoil: 'You can't be freaking out - Techcrunch

Ford Maverick Hybrid AWD 2025: prices, specs availability, review - Wired

Former MTN Nigeria chairman and Diamond bank founder, Pascal Dozie dies at 85 - Technext

Founders, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 is calling! Apply to enter! - Techcrunch

Framework pauses sales of its six lowest-priced laptops in the US, saying the models would sell at a loss due to the 10% tariff that went into effect on April 5 (Matthew Gault/404 Media) - Techmeme

Framework pauses some US laptop sales due to tariffs - Engadget

Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the US Due To Tariffs - Slashdot

Gemini's Live Camera and Screenshare Features Are Rolling Out on Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 - TechCity

Google brings in-call scam notifications to Pixel watches - Engadget

Google fixes two Android zero-day bugs actively exploited by hackers - Techcrunch

Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals - Techcrunch

Google Releases Android Update to Patch Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities - Hackers News

Google rolls out Gemini Live camera and screenshare features to the Pixel 9 series and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices, available in 45 languages for users over 18 (Umar Shakir/The Verge) - Techmeme

Google rolls out Search's AI Mode feature to millions more Labs users in the US with multimodal capabilities, letting users ask complex questions about pictures (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica) - Techmeme

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 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority) - Techmeme

Grok 3 vs ChatGPT & Gemini: my week-long experience | honest AI review - Techpoint

Hades II will launch on Switch 2 and Switch before PlayStation and Xbox - Engadget

How did Bybit hack 2025 happen: the full story - Techpoint

How LLMs, unlike previous transformative tech like the internet, disproportionately benefit regular people, with slower impact in corporations and governments (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy) - Techmeme



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Mon-07-Apr-2025]

Weekly Recap: VPN Exploits, Oracle's Silent Breach, ClickFix Comeback and More - Hackers News

10 questionable provisions in SEC's investments and securities Act, 2025 - Technext

100 best ChatGPT prompts for business - Techpoint

2025 Hugo Award game finalists include Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Engadget

5 gadgets I always travel abroad with - Pocket Lint

5 reasons it's worth dusting off your PlayStation 3 - Pocket Lint

7 best AI resume tools in 2025 | land your dream job faster - Techpoint

A four-pack of Chipolo One trackers drops to an all-time low of $50 - Engadget

A look at the ARC-AGI exam designed by French computer scientist Franois Chollet to show the gulf between AI models' memorized answers and "fluid intelligence" (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic) - Techmeme

A Minecraft Movie just set a new record with the biggest opening ever for a video game adaptation in the US - Engadget

AI is aiding radiologists with tools like tumor-detection algorithms; 75%+ of AI software cleared by the US FDA for medical use is designed to support radiology (Jamie Friedlander Serrano/Washington Post) - Techmeme

AI video startup Moonvalley raised a fresh $43M, SEC filing shows - Techcrunch

America's NIH Scientists Have a Cancer Breakthrough. Layoffs are Delaying It. - Slashdot

An IVF Alternative Could Make Having Babies Less Onerous - Wired

An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging (Shanti Das/The Guardian) - Techmeme

Analyst says Apple, Tesla have biggest exposure to Trump's tariffs - Techcrunch

Apple Rushes Shipments From India To Dodge Tariffs - Slashdot

Artificial Intelligence 101: Explaining basic AI concepts you need to know - Technext

As Stocks (and Cryptocurrencies) Drop After Tariffs, France Considers Retaliating Against US Big Tech - Slashdot

BBC seeks more prominent credit in Apple and Google News - Techcrunch

Best AI tools for YouTubers in 2025 | my top 5 picks - Techpoint

Bitcoin is down 10% to around $76,000 after President Trump's global tariffs, far below its record $110,000 high at Trump's January 20 inauguration (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times) - Techmeme

Bitcoin price drops below $78,000 as crypto market plunges over Trump's tariffs - Technext

Bluesky Can't Take a Joke - Wired

Can Using a Dumber Phone Cure 'Brain Rot - Slashdot

Chinese media outlet Caijing: Microsoft's joint venture Wicresoft will cease its China operations from April 8 after stopping outsourcing after-sales support (Reuters) - Techmeme

CISA and FBI Warn Fast Flux is Powering Resilient Malware, C2, and Phishing Networks - Hackers News

Claude vs ChatGPT compared (2025): which AI assistant is best for you - Techpoint

Could We Reach Mars Faster With Nuclear Fusion-Powered Rockets - Slashdot

DaVinci Resolve 20's latest AI feature can create an entire timeline based on a script - Engadget

Eufy's new robot mowers use smart vision to trim your grass - Engadget

Even Realities G1 review: Limited but effective smart glasses - Engadget

EyOne's Henri Ousmane Gueye Wins $300K Grand Prize at 2024 Africa's Business Heroes competition - Innovation Village

Filing: the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal confirms Apple is appealing against a UK order to create a "back door" in its Advanced Data Protection service (Sam Tobin/Reuters) - Techmeme

Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino's new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer - Techcrunch

Gemini live video and screensharing starts rolling out to Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 phones - Engadget

Global chip stocks drop as the US tariff rout intensifies, extending losses from last week; Nvidia, Intel, ASML, SK Hynix, Infineon, and STMicro all fall (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Google AI Mode rolls out to more testers with new image search feature - Engadget

Google's AI Mode now lets users ask complex questions about images - Techcrunch

Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 are on sale for a record-low price - Engadget

Grok becomes fact-checker on X, but experts say its risky - Techpoint

How I turned my Raspberry Pi into a Zigbee hub and made my smart home better - Pocket Lint

How Sportsbooks Handle Risk During Major Tournaments - TechMoran

How to download Android apps outside of the Google Play Store - Pocket Lint

How to personalize your iPhone lock screen - Engadget

How to use lossless audio on the AirPods Max - Engadget

Huawei says it "terminated the employment of two individuals" from April 1 and suspended a third from April 2 in response to the EU corruption scandal (Mathieu Pollet/Politico) - Techmeme

I always consider these 5 features when buying a laptop bag - Pocket Lint

I really wish this new Kindle feature wasn't broken - Pocket Lint

I tested Gunbot for crypto trading heres my review - Techpoint

I'm not holding my breath for the M5 iPad Pro, here's why - Pocket Lint

IBM acquires Hakkoda to continue its AI consultancy investment push - Techcrunch

IFC and Afriland First Bank Partner on $60 Million Deal to Boost SME Financing in Cameroon - Innovation Village

Jack Ma's tough love - Technext

Jackbox is back with new party games, including one based on sound effects - Engadget

Jasper AI review (2025): my 7-day test results - Techpoint

Kenya moves to regulate digital assets with new crypto bill - Techpoint

Krea raises $83M to be the one-stop shop for genAI creatives - Techcrunch

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