4K streaming is a joke on Amazon Prime Video - Pocket Lint
A group of cross-discipline video game workers in the US and Canada announce a direct-join union called the United Videogame Workers, organizing with the CWA (Rebekah Valentine/IGN) - Techmeme
A look at unannounced disconnections from the grid by data centers, which can occur when they switch to local generators and may cause cascading grid failures (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters) - Techmeme
AI startups Intology and Autoscience submitted AI-generated studies at a conference without disclosure and face criticism of co-opting peer review for publicity (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Analysis: Etsy's stock, which peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, has lost its pandemic-era gains, while eBay's stock is up ~85% since January 2020 (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News) - Techmeme
AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup - Techcrunch
Baidu denies data breach allegations after a top executive's teenage daughter leaked users' personal info, including phone numbers, following an online argument (Reuters) - Techmeme
Bumpa announces the death of co-founder and CTO, Adetunji Opayele - Innovation Village
Bumpa Co-founder Adetunji Opayele passes away - Technext
Careless People' hits the top of the New York Times bestseller list - Engadget
CERT-UA Warns: Dark Crystal RAT Targets Ukrainian Defense via Malicious Signal Messages - Hackers News
ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations - Techcrunch
ClearGrid, armed with a fresh $10M, is developing AI to improve debt collection in MENA - Techcrunch
Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users - Techcrunch
Early-stage VC Long Journey Ventures, co-led by Cyan Banister, Arielle Zuckerberg, and Lee Jacobs, debuts with a ~$181.818M fund after five years in stealth (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Google Gemini Introduces Canvas and Audio Overview for Smarter Collaboration - Innovation Village
Google Pixel 9a vs Pixel 8a: How the two mid-rangers stack up - Pocket Lint
Google says more changes to Search in the EU would "reduce traffic to European businesses" and changes to the Play Store may expose users to "malware and fraud" (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Google unveils the new Pixel 9a for $499 - Engadget
Google's Pixel 9a debut comes with an unexpected delay - Pocket Lint
Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps - Techcrunch
Hasbro laid off the team behind its virtual tabletop app only weeks after it was released - Engadget
How a $6M bet on Wiz turned into a massive 200x return for one early backer - Techcrunch
How Ruth Ikegah went from Microbiology to leading open source advocacy in Africa - Techcabal
How to build a credit score in South Africa, the Pokkit way - Techcabal
I tried convincing my friend to switch to Google Messages, and it didn't go well - Pocket Lint
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel, following a report about a consortium with TSMC to operate Intel's factories (Reuters) - Techmeme
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions on US-made chips and electronics over four years as it shifts supply chains amid Trump's tariff threats (Financial Times) - Techmeme
LG Ceases XR Product Efforts - Slashdot
Luxembourg's administrative court dismissed Amazon's appeal against a record 746M fine imposed by the country's privacy regulator in 2021 for GDPR violations (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) - Techmeme
Meta will roll out its AI chatbot with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, nearly a year after pausing (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator - Techcrunch
MTN and Airtel drive 57% of IHS Towers' revenue in 2024 - Techcabal
Newsletter service Ghost launches support for ActivityPub integration in beta for Ghost(Pro) subscribers, letting them share their posts across the fediverse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Nigeria records largest global drop in cash usage as digital payments surge - Techcabal
Nvidia Not Approached for Intel Stake, CEO Says - Slashdot
Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel - Techcrunch
OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for "consistently better responses", to some devs for $150/1M input tokens and $600/1M output tokens (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks certain AI 'reasoning' models could've arrived decades ago - Techcrunch
OpenAI's o1-pro is the company's most expensive AI model yet - Techcrunch
OpenAI's o1-pro is the Company's Most Expensive AI Model Yet - Slashdot
PCI Express 7.0's Blazing Speeds Are Nearly Here, But PCIe 6 is Still Vapor - Slashdot
Philadelphia-based Proscia, which provides pathology digitization software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners and others, taking its total funding to $130M (Aaron Weitzman/Axios) - Techmeme
Plex blindsides users by hiking prices and removing a free feature - Pocket Lint
Plex Raises Premium Subscription Prices for First Time in Decade - Slashdot
Quidax joins Busha to list SEC-regulated cNGN stablecoin amid crypto push - Techcabal
Razer launches Wyvrn, a service with tools for game developers, including AI QA Copilot, for game testing, and AI Gamer Copilot, for real-time tips and guides (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge) - Techmeme
Report: LG will end its XR product commercialization efforts as it believes the market isn't growing as quickly as it expected, but will continue R&D efforts (David Heaney/UploadVR) - Techmeme
Safaricom's M-PESA decline continues as Airtel Money gains - Techcabal
Sequoia shutters D.C. office, lets go of policy team - Techcrunch
SoftBank agrees to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5B in cash, with Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes as part of the deal, expected to close in H2 2025 (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
SoftBank to acquire semiconductor designer Ampere in $6.5B all-cash deal - Techcrunch
Sources detail how Jeff Bezos made peace with Trump, with many citing Amazon's loss of the $10B JEDI contract during Trump's first term as a watershed moment (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Sources: CoreWeave plans to offer shares at $47 to $55 each when it begins marketing its IPO this week, aiming to raise between $2.3B and $2.7B (Echo Wang/Reuters) - Techmeme
Sources: crypto exchange Kraken is nearing a $1.5B deal to acquire NinjaTrader, a US retail futures trading platform; the deal could be announced on March 20 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Spry Fox's next Netflix Games title is Spirit Crossing - Engadget
Tech Life: Archiving achievement - BBC
The VW ID. Buzz is the only van that appeals to me, and that's a shame - Pocket Lint
$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