Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, IngressNightmare, Solar Bugs, DNS Tactics, and More - Hackers News
10 Gift cards to buy at Walgreens - Techpoint
3 easy ways to check your Sephora gift card balance - Techpoint
4 reasons I'm drifting away from Google One - Pocket Lint
5 Impactful AWS Vulnerabilities You're Responsible For - Hackers News
6 best AI for Python coding - Techpoint
7 Best Electric Toothbrushes, Tested and Reviewed (2025) - Wired
8 other companies in Africa with Zap in their name - Techpoint
A look at the race between China and the US to build truly useful humanoid robots, as China lists "embodied" AI as a priority for a $138B state investment fund (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Actis-Led Consortium Acquires Swiftnet to Strengthen South Africa's Digital Infrastructure - Itnewsafrica
After Trump signed an EO to end the government's DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like "learning" or "hiring" (CNBC) - Techmeme
Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser - Techcrunch
Amazon's AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents - Wired
Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
An AI Image Generator's Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For - Wired
An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US "pedophile hunters", whose online content has been amplified by websites like Kick and Locals (New York Times) - Techmeme
An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protg confirmed by the Senate on March 25, on US plans to counter Beijing on AI (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Apple is reportedly on track to launch the M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro later this year - Engadget
Apple reportedly revamping Health app to add an AI coach - Techcrunch
Apple's current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups (Ernie Smith/Tedium) - Techmeme
Apple's M4 MacBook Air is $50 off in the Amazon Spring Sale - Engadget
As Microsoft Turns 50, Four Employees Remember Its Early Days - Slashdot
Barclays, Monzo, Lloyds, and other major UK banks join Amazon, Google, Match, Meta, BT, and Three in committing to live data sharing in a UK fraud clampdown (Georgina Quach/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Benin and Senegal Experience Highest Growth in African Internet Resilience - Itnewsafrica
Best AI for College students in 2025 - Techpoint
Best AI for Lawyers in 2025 - Techpoint
Best AI tools for content creation - Techpoint
Best computers for AI tasks in 2025 - Techpoint
Bloomberg's AI-Generated News Summaries Had At Least 36 Errors Since January - Slashdot
California Has 48% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles - Slashdot
Carluex Pro+ review: wireless convenience - Pocket Lint
ChatGPT's Projects Feature Brings Order to Your AI Chaos - Wired
China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot
Chinese AI startup Zhipu, which secured three rounds of government-backed funding in March 2025, launches a free AI agent, intensifying the domestic AI race (Reuters) - Techmeme
Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in the beta testing phase, announces a $39/month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199/month Pro tier (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Copilot Can't Beat a 2013 'TouchDevelop' Code Generation Demo for Windows Phone - Slashdot
Despite crypto dominance, Nigeria businesses missed out on crypto payment adoption in 2024 - Technext
Elon Musk's Neuralink to implant brain chip that treats blindness for the first time in 2025 - Technext
Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s American Data Centers plans to merge with Hut 8's American Bitcoin and take a 20% stake, aiming to create the world's largest miner (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
France's antitrust regulator fines Apple '150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025 (Counterpoint Research) - Techmeme
Google introduces AI-powered weather forecasts on Search across Africa - Technext
Google Sunsets Two Devices From Its Nest Smart Home Product Line - Slashdot
Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images - Hackers News
Has the Decline of Knowledge Worker Jobs Begun - Slashdot
Here's why you should use Stage Manager on your iPad instead of split-screen - Pocket Lint
How Rust Finally Got a Specification - Thanks to a Consultancy's Open-Source Donation - Slashdot
How the Trump family took over World Liberty Financial, which raised $550M+ via governance tokens; the family has a claim on 75% of net revenues of token sales (Reuters) - Techmeme
How to check Starbucks gift card balance - Techpoint
How to check your Sephora gift card balance quickly and easily - Techpoint
How to check your Subway gift card balance quickly and easily - Techpoint
How to record a call on iPhone - Pocket Lint
HTTPS Certificate Industry Adopts New Security Requirements - Slashdot
Huawei reports FY 2024 revenue up 22.4% YoY to ~$118.2B, near its ~$123B record in 2020, net profit down 28% YoY to ~$8.63B, and R&D spend rising to ~$25B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) - Techmeme
IPO-bound Chime hopes to boost growth by paying higher interest rates - Techcrunch
Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) - Techmeme
Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Last Chance: 109 Best Amazon Spring Sale Deals for March 2025 - Wired
11 Best Retro Game Consoles (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired
4 Best Tax Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired
5 reasons you should avoid using free VPNs - Pocket Lint
A live orchestra will perform Undertale's soundtrack in London to celebrate its 10th anniversary - Engadget
A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software) - Techmeme
A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000 people in San Pedro, Argentina; different versions of the scam have emerged around the world (New York Times) - Techmeme
Alleged Bybit scam sparks concerns over safety of P2P transactions - Technext
Apple is said to be developing a revamped Health app with a built-in AI doctor - Engadget
Apple's iMac hasn't made sense for a long time - Pocket Lint
Aptera Takes First 300-Mile Highway Trip in Solar-Powered EV - Slashdot
Are Tech-Driven 'Career Meltdowns' Hitting Generation X - Slashdot
As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) - Techmeme
Berlin-based Amboss, which makes study guide apps for medical students and online databases for clinicians, raised '240M, sources say at an '800M+ valuation (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Bernstein: AI could erode India's $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at "higher precision and speed" at a fraction of the cost (Manish Singh/India Dispatch) - Techmeme
Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol - Techcrunch
Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a '25M Series A (Maya Dharampal-Hornby/Sifted) - Techmeme
China Miville says we shouldn't blame science fiction for its bad readers - Techcrunch
Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 "domestically controllable" products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post) - Techmeme
Data centers love solar: Here's a comprehensive guide to deals over 100 megawatts - Techcrunch
Did Life on Earth Come from 'Microlightning' Between Charged Water Droplets - Slashdot
Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) - Techmeme
Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Fleetio, which develops vehicle fleet management software, raised a $450M+ Series D and acquired Auto Integrate in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.5B+ (PYMNTS.com) - Techmeme
For a Master Class in Salt, Try Making Kimchi - Wired
From Struggle to Stability: How FinTech is Helping Nigerian SMEs Overcome Cash Flow Challenges - TechCity
Google announces it is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to all Gemini users, after initially launching it for Gemini Advanced subscribers on March 25 (Abner Li/9to5Google) - Techmeme
Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too - Engadget
How AI tools are causing problems and sowing distrust in both job hunting and hiring; a Polish cybersecurity startup says it almost hired a deepfake candidate (Taylor Telford/Washington Post) - Techmeme
How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
How to improve iOS 18 Photos app experience - Pocket Lint
How to stop robocalls - Pocket Lint
I tested Wolfram Alpha AI for solving maths problems: My review for new users - Techpoint
Just 2 days to secure your founder or investor pass with $300+ off for TechCrunch All Stage - Techcrunch
Justice for Teejay: Lagos Police arraigns driver accused of killing Bumpa CTO - Technext
Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online - BBC
Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Musk's xAI buys his social media platform X - BBC
Nearly 1.5 Million Private Photos from Five Dating Apps Were Exposed Online - Slashdot
NYC-based Navina, which has developed an AI copilot for clinicians, raised a $55M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $100M (Emma Beavins/Fierce Healthcare) - Techmeme
PE firm Clearlake agrees to acquire and take private Dun & Bradstreet, one of Wall Street's oldest data and analytics providers, for $7.7B including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman says he will become partner emeritus by the end of 2025 and focus on launching his own startups (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Reddit's 50% Stock-Price Plunge Fails to Entice Buyers as Growth Slows - Slashdot
RESURGE Malware Exploits Ivanti Flaw with Rootkit and Web Shell Features - Hackers News
Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt - Techcrunch
Samsung Unveils AI-Powered, Screen-Enabled Home Appliances - Slashdot
Samsung's 2025 Bespoke appliances are going all in on AI - Engadget
Sources: Apple is working on a major Health app revamp and an AI doctor service, planned for H1 2026, and M5 updates for the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro this year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Speeding up my smart TV was easy with these 5 steps - Pocket Lint
Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI applications, emerges from stealth with a $21M Series A from Lightspeed and Bain Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme
The Best Cooling Sheets, Tested and Reviewed (2025) - Wired
The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them - Techcrunch
Traeger Woodridge Pro Review: Fearless Smoking - Wired
Uber and DoorDash are pressing GOP lawmakers to include independent contractors who drive rideshare vehicles and deliver food in Trump's no-tax-on-tips proposal (Richard Rubin/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Wahl Peanut Li Review: A Cordless Take on a Classic - Wired
Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics software company Descartes Systems Group acquires 3Gtms, an Ohio-based transportation software vendor, for $115M in cash (Alex Riehl/BetaKit) - Techmeme
Why a Lost Cellphone Forced an Airplane to Turn Around in Mid-Flight - Slashdot