4 easy fixes for common smart TV sound problems - Pocket Lint
An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokmon Showdown game - Techcrunch
Andreessen Horowitz is trying to nab a piece of TikTok with Oracle, report says - Techcrunch
Arkansas Social Media Age Verification Law Blocked By Federal Judge - Slashdot
Arkansas social media age verification law blocked by federal Judge - Engadget
Bootstrapped OneKitty tackles crowdfunding transparency with WhatsApp chatbots - Techcabal
CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees - Techcrunch
Cheap TVs' Incessant Advertising Reaches Troubling New Lows - Slashdot
Chef Robotics, which develops AI-powered robotic meal assembly systems, raised a $20.6M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and an additional $22.5M in debt (CJ Haddad/CNBC) - Techmeme
Circle files for a US IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE under CRCL; Circle, which issues the USDC stablecoin, is reportedly seeking a $4B to $5B valuation (CNBC) - Techmeme
CoreWeave's stock closed up 41.77% at $52.57 in its third trading day, bouncing back above its $40 IPO price and bringing the company's market cap to ~$24.89B (Samantha Subin/CNBC) - Techmeme
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH - Wired
Donkey Kong Champion Wins Defamation Case Against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst - Slashdot
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free - Wired
FTC Says 23andMe Purchaser Must Uphold Existing Privacy Policy For Data Handling - Slashdot
Get Astro Bot free with the best PS5 deal of the year - Pocket Lint
Google researchers say DPRK's IT workers are fraudulently securing positions at companies in Germany, Portugal, and the UK, after facing sanctions in the US (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme
Google's new Pixel battery feature is worthwhile, but only if it's optional - Pocket Lint
How I run a local LLM on my Raspberry Pi - Pocket Lint
I found the 5 best April Fools' tech jokes on the Internet - Pocket Lint
Leaked renders of the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold show a design similar to its predecessor's; sources: it will feature a TSMC-made Tensor G5 chip and 16GB of RAM (Alexander Maxham/Android Headlines) - Techmeme
MCP: the New 'USB-C For AI' That's Bringing Fierce Rivals Together - Slashdot
Microsoft says it used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme
Mozilla says it's developing Thundermail, an email service with a privacy focus set to get a web client, as part of an upcoming paid Thunderbird Pro service (Jason Evangelho/Forbes) - Techmeme
Mozilla To Launch 'Thunderbird Pro' Paid Services - Slashdot
National Security Council adds Gmail to its list of bad decisions - Engadget
Nigeria's cNGN stablecoin seeks listings on Yellow Card, Roqqu to drive adoption - Techcabal
Nuclear Is Now 'Clean Energy' In Colorado - Slashdot
OnePlus' spring deals includes $100 off the OnePlus 13 - Pocket Lint
Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books - Techcrunch
Screen time in bed linked to worse sleep, study finds - BBC
Source: Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots led by Peggy Johnson, is raising $400M at a $1.75B pre-money valuation; ~100 of its robots are in the field (Rocket Drew/The Information) - Techmeme
Sources: AI coding startup Replit is in talks with investors to raise about $200M at a $3B valuation, almost triple its last valuation (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Sources: Finland-based IQM, which builds full-stack superconducting quantum computers, is in talks to raise '200M+; IQM raised a '128M Series A2 in July 2022 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Sources: Meta is ramping up work on its first glasses with a display, codenamed Hypernova, which it could debut as early as the end of 2025 for $1,000 to $1,400 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Sources: Visa offered Apple ~$100M to become the Apple Card's payment network; Amex is also competing while Mastercard is trying to keep its role as the network (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Sources: WH national security adviser Michael Waltz and other National Security Council members have conducted government affairs over personal Gmail accounts (John Hudson/Washington Post) - Techmeme
Stablecoin Issuer Circle Files For IPO - Slashdot
Substack Says It'll Legally Defend Writers 'Targeted By the Government - Slashdot
Sudden 50% token price crash on Binance sparks market speculation - Technext
The ASUS ROG Flow Z13 is the gaming tablet I didn't know I needed - Pocket Lint
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold looks like a rerun of last year's model - Pocket Lint
Who are climate-conscious consumers' Not who you'd expect, says Northwind Climate - Techcrunch
Why data centre investors are flocking to Lagos' coastline - Techcabal
YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform 'New King of All Media - Slashdot
YouTube efficiency tips - Pocket Lint
YouTube suspends two major fake movie trailer channels from its partner program, after a report on how the AI-heavy trailers generated millions in ad revenue (Jake Kanter/Deadline) - Techmeme