4 reasons I ditched my iPad Pro for the Asus ROG Flow Z13 - Pocket Lint
A US federal judge decides Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026; Musk and OpenAI agreed to fast-track the trial last month (Anna Tong/Reuters) - Techmeme
AfriLabs Receives $150,000 Boost from Airbnb Community Fund - Itnewsafrica
Ahead of April review, South Africa's AI policy faces pressure to deliver - Techcabal
AI Avatar Tries To Argue Case Before a New York Court - Slashdot
AI is boosting revenue, cutting cost for tech companies amid high inflation - Techcabal
Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Amazon's new Kindle feature is one of the first useful AI features I've seen - Pocket Lint
An Interactive-Speed Linux Computer Made of Only 3 8-Pin Chips - Slashdot
Analysis: tech companies have pledged at least $1.4T in US spending since Trump was elected, although many of the plans aren't new and not all will be fulfilled (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Analysts say Microsoft, whose shares fell the least among top tech companies, is shielded from the worst tariff impacts due to Azure and a broad enterprise base (Fortune) - Techmeme
AT&T Email-To-Text Gateway Service Ending - Slashdot
Bonobos May Combine Words In Ways Previously Thought Unique To Humans - Slashdot
Can Nigerian Banks Afford Zero Transfer Fees - Innovation Village
ChatGPT adoption skyrockets in India, but monetization may be trailing - Techcrunch
Crunchbase: global VC funding reached $113B in Q1 2025, up 54% YoY, buoyed by OpenAI's $40B deal; PitchBook says 77% of US deal value in Q1 2025 went to AI (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme
Don't miss out: April's free Kindle e-book for Prime members is here - Pocket Lint
Fram2 Crew Returns To Earth After Polar Orbit Mission - Slashdot
GitHub announces "premium requests" for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch from the base GPT-4o to other AI models (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model for cybersecurity, claiming it outperforms others on the leading CTI-MCQ threat intelligence benchmark (Google Online Security Blog) - Techmeme
Google Launches Sec-Gemini v1 AI Model To Improve Cybersecurity Defense - Slashdot
How the GameCube Controller Works on Nintendo Switch 2'and How You Can Get One - Wired
How to customize your iPhone's home screen in iOS 18 - Engadget
I bought a mid-range TV and I don't regret it at all - Pocket Lint
inDrive not fazed by protests, says more drivers joined the app during Lagos boycott - Technext
Inside DOGE's AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs - Wired
Investors, founders, and others detail a culture of fear around criticizing Elon Musk or DOGE; some are appalled he is seen as a reflection of the tech industry (Issie Lapowsky/Politico) - Techmeme
Key Announcements You Might Have Missed at Microsoft's 50th Anniversary Event - Itnewsafrica
Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM (Effie Webb/Business Insider) - Techmeme
Mafab misses Q1 5G rollout deadline despite December promises - Techcabal
Malicious Python Packages on PyPI Downloaded 39,000+ Times, Steal Sensitive Data - Hackers News
Meta and Pinterest make secret donation to Molly Russell charity - BBC
Meta is entering its post-truth era on Monday - Engadget
Microsoft is testing out an all-new Windows 11 Start Menu design - Pocket Lint
Midjourney Releases V7, Its First New AI Image Model In Nearly a Year - Slashdot
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs a law criminalizing the "deceptive and dangerous" creation and sharing of deepfakes, including fake AI nudes of minors (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
Next Wave: Digitising danfo payments could unlock a $375 million opportunity in Lagos - Techcabal
Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs - BBC
NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree - Wired
NSA Warns 'Fast Flux' Threatens National Security - Slashdot
Peach Payments expands into Francophone West Africa with PayDunya acquisition - Technext
President Trump extends TikTok ban enforcement by another 75 days - Technext
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon as a VP of product overseeing Ring and related businesses, replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who succeeded him in 2023 (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - Techmeme
Scientists Warn Indonesia's Rice Megaproject Faces Failure - Slashdot
SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Sources: a TikTok deal, which was largely finalized by April 2, was put on hold after China indicated it would reject the deal over Trump's tariffs (Reuters) - Techmeme
Sources: enterprise AI search startup Glean is in talks to raise hundreds of millions, including money to buy employee shares, at an estimated ~$7B valuation (Sri Muppidi/The Information) - Techmeme
Sources: StubHub, Klarna, eToro, and adtech group MNTN have paused their IPO plans as President Trump's trade war upends the global economy (Fareed Sahloul/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Spotify paid South African artists R400m in 2024 heres what that means for Africas music economy - Techpoint
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla takes a hit, tariff chaos begins, and one EV startup hits a milestone - Techcrunch
The 11 Most WIRED Watches That Dropped at Watches & Wonders 2025 - Wired
The 3-year-old Japanese hybrid SUV worth buying used - Pocket Lint
The Affordable Car Is About to Go Extinct in the US - Wired
The creator of Binding of Isaac will release a new game, Mewgenics, this year - Engadget
The difference between cNGN and eNaira: expert opinion on potentials, adoption - Technext
The Ghibli Fever: The Magic, Backlash And Verdict - Innovation Village
The Nasdaq fell 5.8% on the second day following Trump's tariffs announcement, with Nvidia closing down 7.4%, Apple 7.3%, Netflix 6.7%, Meta 5%, and Amazon 4.2% (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme
The Nintendo Switch 2 is coming - Pocket Lint
The Pixel 10 reportedly will trade camera quality for quantity - Pocket Lint