$100K fund for 1k Africans - Technext
$3bn deal: Multichoice's signal distributor Orbicom seeks to transfer licenses to Canal+ - Technext
33 Immortals preview: A multiplayer game that feels great to play solo - Engadget
47 Ronin' director charged with $11 million fraud over doomed Netflix sci-fi series - Engadget
5 Identity Threat Detection & Response Must-Haves for Super SaaS Security - Hackers News
5 smart TV tips, tricks and features I use to optimize my gameplay - Pocket Lint
A close look at Nvidia's GTC 2025 announcements, which focused on addressing pre- and post- training scaling, inference-time scaling working in tandem, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis) - Techmeme
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs - Techcrunch
A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup - Techcrunch
A look at Israeli spyware company Paragon, which makes Graphite: suspected deployments in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, and others, a WhatsApp zero-click, and more (The Citizen Lab) - Techmeme
A look at Waymo's progress, from Alphabet's "moonshot" project to achieving commercial deployment in three cities, and its plans for future expansion (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) - Techmeme
A source details how Google built the Pixel 10's Tensor G5 chip without Samsung's help, using in-house and off-the-shelf IP, and partnering with Arm and others (Kamila Wojciechowska/Android Authority) - Techmeme
A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in a case involving AI generated poetry, that the Copyright Act requires human authorship for registration (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity - Techcrunch
Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be 'Google Adwords for influencers,' raises seed round - Techcrunch
AI Crawlers Haven't Learned To Play Nice With Websites - Slashdot
AI is about to make Instagram comments even worse - Pocket Lint
AI Regulation in Africa: Is it too Late - Innovation Village
AI Threats Top Concerns for 72% of South African Organizations', Says Mimecast - Itnewsafrica
Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management - Techcrunch
AltSchool Africa partners with Bybit to offer 1,000 scholarships four months after Binance deal - Techpoint
Amazon continues to crackdown on Kindle ebook sharing - Pocket Lint
Amazon Spring Sale 2025: Early deals from Apple, Bose, Sonos and others, plus everything we know so far - Engadget
Amazon Spring Sale deal: Get three months of Audible for only $3 - Engadget
Amazon Spring Sale deals include the Beats Fit Pro earbuds for $169 - Engadget
An AI model from over a decade ago sparked Nvidia's investment in autonomous vehicles - Techcrunch
Analytics company Dataminr secures $85M to fund growth - Techcrunch
Annual meeting: Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee says the company will pursue "meaningful" M&A deals in 2025 and apologizes to investors for weak stock performance (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Apple brings Tap to Pay to more European countries - Engadget
Apple says new EU interoperability rules "wrap us in red tape", force "us to give away our new features for free", and are "bad for our products" and users (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac) - Techmeme
Apple's first custom designed modem did surprisingly well in benchmarks - Engadget
Apple's new base iPad is $20 off in the Amazon Spring Sale - Engadget
Assassin's Creed Shadows review: An ambitious and captivating world that's stuck in the past - Engadget
Bakkt's stock fell 27%+ on March 18 after the crypto company said that two of its largest clients, Bank of America and Webull, would not renew their agreements (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph) - Techmeme
Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8 - Engadget
Beyond coding: Some juicy career paths Nigerians leave for coding - Vanguard
BlackRock, Microsoft, and Abu Dhabi's MGX say Nvidia and xAI joined a consortium to build AI infrastructure in the US; investors committed $100B for deployment (Akash Sriram/Reuters) - Techmeme
Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains - Techcrunch
Bolt's former CEO Maju Kuruvilla launches Spangle AI to enhance online shopping experience - Innovation Village
Bumpa co-founder and CTO, Adetunji Opayele passes away - Techpoint
BYD unveils new tech for twice as fast EV charging - Engadget
Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation - The Economist
Cape opens $99/month beta of its privacy-first mobile plan, inks Proton deal, raises $30M - Techcrunch
Chinese firms like Alibaba, Baidu and DeepSeek are open sourcing AI models to bypass US curbs, decentralize development, and tap global talent for refinement (June Yoon/Financial Times) - Techmeme
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in GitHub Action Supply Chain Compromise - Hackers News
ClearFake Infects 9,300 Sites, Uses Fake reCAPTCHA and Turnstile to Spread Info-Stealers - Hackers News
cNGN: Quidax becomes second crypto exchange to list naira stablecoin - Technext
Commerce Department divisions reportedly ban DeepSeek from government devices - Engadget
Community Notes, on X and now rolling out on Meta's services, fall short of stopping misinformation; removing rewards for posting misinformation would help more (Bloomberg.com) - Techmeme
Critical mySCADA myPRO Flaws Could Let Attackers Take Over Industrial Control Systems - Hackers News
Crossmint, which helps developers add crypto functionality to their code, raised $23.6M, including a seed and a Series A led by Ribbit Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune) - Techmeme
Crusoe: Stargate's first data center complex, in Abilene, TX, will finish in mid-2026 and have eight buildings, each designed for up to 50K Nvidia GB200 chips (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Current and former employees say the FTC removed 300+ business guidance blogs from the Biden era, including info on AI consumer protection and Big Tech lawsuits (Makena Kelly/Wired) - Techmeme
Disney+ adds a 24/7 stream of The Simpsons - Engadget
Dutch Parliament Calls For End To Dependence On US Software Companies - Slashdot
Egypt's Grinta secures funding and acquires Citi Clinic for expansion in Egypt - Innovation Village
Egyptian fintech company ValU prepares for IPO following board approval - Innovation Village
Egyptian fintech Valu plans IPO as African startups eye public markets - Techpoint
Elon Musk's DOGE leadership likely violates Constitution's appointments clause, judge says - Techcrunch
11 Best Cooling Mattresses (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired
11 Best Early Amazon Spring Sale Deals (2025) - Wired
7 ridiculous questions Nigerians have asked Grok - Techpoint
7 ridiculous questions Nigerians have asked Grok - Techpoint
A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploited, letting attackers take over servers via a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack "requires no authentication" (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme
A former CHIPS Act program officer says Trump repealing the program risks US national security and tariffs alone will not revitalize domestic chip manufacturing (Mike Schmidt/Financial Times) - Techmeme
A Google-backed weapon to battle wildfires made it into orbit - Techcrunch
A livestream of the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California (NVIDIA on YouTube) - Techmeme
A look at Europe's options for building a "European Cloud", which is likely to be more difficult than the 15B Galileo satellite system, and potential issues (Bert Hubert's writings) - Techmeme
A Product Designer's Guide to Strategic Decision-Making - Technext
A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobile apps and $10B+ in revenue across 1B+ transactions, shows most apps fail to reach $1K/month after two years (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
Adobe debuts an agent orchestrator with 10 initial Experience Agents for its Adobe Experience customer data management and marketing suite, to rival Salesforce (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme
After securing exits for its angel network, HoaQ is expanding with a dedicated VC fund - Techcabal
Ahead of its rumored March 19 release, a YouTuber posts a video of an alleged Pixel 9a, showing a flat rear panel, minimal camera bump, and large bezels (Rajesh Pandey/Android Police) - Techmeme
AI coding assistant startup Graphite, now used by tens of thousands of staff at 500+ companies, raised an Accel-led $52M Series B; its revenue grew 20x in 2024 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Airport Theory' Will Make You Miss Your Flight - Wired
Al Gore's Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments - Techcrunch
Alphabet Back In Talks To Buy Wiz For $30 Billion - Slashdot
AltSchool Africa launches $100,000 scholarship fund for 1,000 young Africans in partnership with Bybit - Technext
Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by ruling Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on Amazon.com (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with "a bunch of partners" (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Anthropic is reportedly prepping a voice mode for Claude - Techcrunch
Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash - Techcrunch
Apple loses appeal against Germany's special abuse control for Big Tech - Techcrunch
Apple Loses German Antitrust Appeal, Opening Door for Greater Controls - Slashdot
Apple To Launch Thinner iPhone 17 'Air' as Step Toward Port-Free Design - Slashdot
Apple's iPhone 17 Air seeks to redefine the future of the phone - Pocket Lint
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder's new fund to make AI agents less awful - Techcrunch
BADBOX 2.0 Botnet Infects 1 Million Android Devices for Ad Fraud and Proxy Abuse - Hackers News
Balmuda MoonKettle Review: a Luxury Electric Kettle - Wired
Binance secures $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi's MGX - Innovation Village
Blueroomcare collaborates with EHA Clinics to enhance mental healthcare access for Nigerians - Innovation Village
Blueroomcare partners with EHA Clinics to extend mental healthcare to Nigerians - Techpoint
Bolt's former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup - Techcrunch
Bose Coupon Codes & Discounts: 10% Off - Wired
Brand Press: your story, amplified by Africas tech pulse - Techpoint
BYD Unveils New Super-Charging EV Tech With Peak Speeds of 1,000 kW - Slashdot
CEI Africa invests EUR 1.1 million in MPower Ventures to enhance solar energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa - Innovation Village
Chams, CWG profits soar to billions for first time in 13 years - Techcabal
Chicago-based Nerdio, which helps manage remote workers, raised $500M led by General Atlantic at a $1.2B valuation, sources say up from $300M in December 2022 (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
China-Linked MirrorFace Deploys ANEL and AsyncRAT in New Cyber Espionage Operation - Hackers News
CISA scrambles to contact 130+ fired employees after court rules the layoffs unlawful but says re-hired staff will immediately be placed on administrative leave (Carly Page/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs 'unlawful - Techcrunch
Copilot conundrum: Microsoft's accidentally kills its AI chatbot in new Windows Update - Pocket Lint
Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries - Techcrunch
Didi reports Q4 revenue up 7.1% YoY to ~$7.32B and a ~$180M net loss, down from a ~$6.2M profit in Q4 2023, as it recovers from China's $1.2B fine in July 2022 (Reuters) - Techmeme
Disasters spur investment in flood and fire risk tech - BBC
Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar 'Candlelight' Dinner'With Elon Musk in Tow - Wired
Elon Musk's xAI acquires Hotshot, expanding into AI-powered video generation - Innovation Village
Eric Migicovsky unveils two Pebble smartwatches, the $149 Core 2 Duo shipping July 2025 and $225 Core Time 2 shipping December 2025, running its open-source OS (David Pierce/The Verge) - Techmeme
Exist is a new social wellness app that wants to help middle-age users find community - Techcrunch
Expand your network: Meet industry experts, startups, and potential partners at Lagos Startup Expo 2.0 - Techpoint
Eyone wins Africa's Business Heroes Competition, securing $300K for innovative e-health solution - Innovation Village
Fawry collaborates with Contact to expand BNPL services in Egypt - Innovation Village
Finally, Google to acquire cybersecurity startup, Wiz for $32bn - Technext
Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup - Techcrunch
Fortinet Reveals 85% of African Businesses to Embrace AI by 2029 - Itnewsafrica
French music streamer Deezer reports 542M in 2024 revenue, up 12% YoY, ~9.7M total subs, and that it achieved positive free cash flow, a first for the company (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) - Techmeme
FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies - Wired