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Infotech Headlines Today
[Thu-03-Apr-2025]

Updated: 21 mins ago

$450 Nintendo Switch 2 drops June 5, Preorders available April 9 - Pocket Lint

12 Best Umbrellas (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired

A Minecraft Movie review: It's good, actually - Engadget

Absa joins Middle East-Africa investment push with Dubai expansion - Techcabal

Adaptive Security, which uses AI for simulating cyberthreats, raised $43M co-led by OpenAI and a16z, marking OpenAI's first investment in a cybersecurity firm (Laya Neelakandan/CNBC) - Techmeme

AI Adoption in the Enterprise: Breaking Through the Security and Compliance Gridlock - Hackers News

All 54 games that were just announced for the Nintendo Switch 2 - Pocket Lint

Amazon plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network on April 9, after launching two prototype satellites in 2023 (Joey Roulette/Reuters) - Techmeme

Amazon Set To Launch First Operational Satellites For Project Kuiper Network - Slashdot

Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities - Slashdot

Apple shares drop 7%+ after hours after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production (Tripp Mickle/New York Times) - Techmeme

AttoTude, which offers THz interconnect tech for AI and hyperscale data centers, raised a $50M Series B, after a $30M Series A and $11M seed in 2024 (FinSMEs) - Techmeme

Automattic lays off 16% of staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become "more agile and responsive"; Automattic website listed 1,744 employees ahead of the layoffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

AWS prepares Africas next generation of cloud builders with first AWS Skills Center community classroom in Kenya - TechMoran

Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft's 50th By Releasing Altair BASIC Source Code - Slashdot

Can Sterling's Free-Transfer Policy Change Nigerian Banking - Innovation Village

Circle's S-1 shows that it is basically a fintech and that, as of December 31, 2024, ~85% of USDC reserves were held in a BlackRock-managed money market fund (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Compromised Login Credentials Are The Root Cause of Cyber Attacks-Sophos Report - TechMoran

Cyberhaven, whose AI-powered tech lets companies detect when employees use internal data in an unauthorized manner, raised a $100M Series D at a $1B+ valuation (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme

DAZN secures exclusive rights to stream Nigeria's Dambe sport - Techcabal

Diageo Sells Majority Stake in Seychelles Breweries, Continues Strategic Realignment in Africa - Innovation Village

Djamo raises $17M to serve 1 million users with inclusive banking - Techpoint

Epic Games CEO calls Apple and Google 'gangster-style' businesses in need of competition - Techcrunch

ESA's New Documentary Paints Worrying Picture of Earth's Orbital Junk Problem - Slashdot

European Commission Takes Aim At End-to-End Encryption and Proposes Europol Become an EU FBI - Slashdot

Europol Dismantles Kidflix With 72,000 CSAM Videos Seized in Major Operation - Hackers News

Europol says German and Dutch authorities shut down Kidflix, a CSAM streaming platform with 1.8M+ users between April 2022 and March 2025, on March 11 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme

Fintech Plaid raises $575M at a $6.1B valuation, says it will not go public in 2025 - Techcrunch

Five VPN Apps In the App Store Had Links To Chinese Military - Slashdot

Fuse raises $6.6M to fix a payment problem for companies expanding to MENA - Techcrunch

GameChat is decades late and looks pretty janky - Engadget

Global Scam Industry Evolving at 'Unprecedented Scale' Despite Recent Crackdown - Slashdot

Google Patches Quick Share Vulnerability Enabling Silent File Transfers Without Consent - Hackers News

Google unveils a NotebookLM "Discover sources" feature, which searches the web and recommends up to 10 sources for users to add to their notebooks (Abner Li/9to5Google) - Techmeme

How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet - The Economist

How NCBAs Digital Platforms Are Disrupting East Africas Banking Industry - TechMoran

How to register a business in Nigeria A guide - Techpoint

India Set For $100 Billion Startup IPO Surge By 2027 - Slashdot

Is the $450 Nintendo Switch 2 too expensive - Engadget

Kenya's Chpter spins off Pluto, a WhatsApp API suite, as subsidiary - Techcabal

Key parts of the US Social Security site have crashed in the past week, as phone support is reduced; report: SSA's site was down four times in 10 days in March (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo) - Techmeme

Legacy Stripe API Exploited to Validate Stolen Payment Cards in Web Skimmer Campaign - Hackers News

Leonardo AI vs Midjourney: which is the best AI art generator in 2025 - Techpoint

Lufthansa Technik introduces first AI tool - Tribune

Microsoft Urges Businesses To Abandon Office Perpetual Licenses - Slashdot

Motors in the wheels take EVs further - The Economist

MTN Cameroon Wins Appeal to Recover $23 Million in Frozen Funds - Innovation Village

MTN Cameroon wins as court lifts bank account freeze - Techpoint

MTN Ghana attributes data depletion claims to 4G, 5G network shift - Technext

My reMarkable tablet's ability to convert handwriting to text is a problem - Pocket Lint

NaNoWriMo To Close After 20 Years - Slashdot

Netscout: DDoS attacks rose from 13M+ in 2023 to ~17M in 2024, becoming a staple of geopolitical conflict as new tech like AI supercharges their power (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Nikon's Z5 II is the cheapest full-frame camera yet with internal RAW video - Engadget

Nintendo announces Switch 2 release date - and a new Mario Kart game - BBC

Open-Source Tool Designed To Throttle PC and Server Performance Based On Electricity Pricing - Slashdot

OpenAI seeks to convene group to advise its nonprofit goals - Techcrunch

OpenAI's o3 model might be costlier to run than originally estimated - Techcrunch

Parents allowed to block children's games and friends on Roblox - BBC

PDD-owned Pinduoduo says it plans to allocate ~$13B over the next three years to support its merchants, following other Chinese e-commerce companies (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Wed-02-Apr-2025]

4 easy fixes for common smart TV sound problems - Pocket Lint

95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says - Slashdot

A four-pack of Apple AirTags is back on sale for $68 - Engadget

A livestream of Nintendo's Switch 2 event (Nintendo of America on YouTube) - Techmeme

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse - Techcrunch

A profile of Larry Ellison, now 80 years old with a $175B fortune, as Oracle bids for TikTok US and he puts up most of his son David's $8B bid to buy Paramount (New York Times) - Techmeme

A sworn Irish affidavit: Keith O'Brien, who allegedly spied for Deel while working at Rippling, says Deel paid him and he coordinated with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer) - Techmeme

Actively AI raises $22.5M to offer sales 'superintelligence,' says AI SDRs failed - Techcrunch

Adobe updates Premiere Pro with AI-powered features like Generative Extend, which lets users extend clips by two seconds with 4K quality and background audio (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - Techmeme

Adolescence' Creator 'Went Very, Very Deep' in the Manosphere. Its Appeal Scared Him - Wired

AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50% - Techcrunch

AI Masters Minecraft: DeepMind Program Finds Diamonds Without Being Taught - Slashdot

All should know about SEC's new rules for crypto investment in Nigeria - Technext

Alleged Deel Spy Confesses To Coordinating with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz - Slashdot

Amazon reportedly submits last-minute bid to acquire TikTok - Techcrunch

Amazon reportedly wants to buy TikTok now too - Engadget

Amazon Said To Make a Bid To Buy TikTok in the US - Slashdot

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

Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleges, with Learning Mode, where it asks questions to test understanding, shares templates for papers, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Anthropic launches an AI chatbot plan for colleges and universities - Techcrunch

Arkansas Social Media Age Verification Law Blocked By Federal Judge - Slashdot

Arkansas social media age verification law blocked by federal Judge - Engadget

Audi's refreshed RS e-tron GT Performance brings shocking speed for a premium price - Engadget

Big Brother SEC - Technext

Bootstrapped OneKitty tackles crowdfunding transparency with WhatsApp chatbots - Techcabal

Brain Interface Speaks Your Thoughts In Near Real-time - Slashdot

Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following a similar decision by NFT marketplace X2Y2; Token Terminal: daily NFT trading volume has dropped 70% YoY to $5.34M (Adrian Zmudzinski/Cointelegraph) - Techmeme

CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees - Techcrunch

Cameroon unfreezes MTN's bank accounts with $23m, after 3 years - Technext

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

Claude's new Learning mode will prompt students to answer questions on their own - Engadget

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

Cubo AI smart baby monitor review: real parent feedback & insights - Techpoint

Cybercrime: Police rescue 12-year-old trainee, arrest 4 in Lagos yahoo school - Technext

Cyberpunk 2077 and Split Fiction are third-party launch titles for Nintendo Switch 2 - Engadget

Cybersecurity in South Africa: A Practical Guide to Selecting the Right MSSP - Itnewsafrica

Cybersecurity lessons of the Adolescence series on Netflix - Itnewsafrica

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing - Slashdot

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say - Wired

DeepMind's 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics - Techcrunch

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH - Wired

Documents: the NLRB froze Janneke Parrish and Cher Scarlett's cases against Apple pending a review after Trump nominated an Apple attorney as general counsel (Michael Acton/Financial Times) - Techmeme

Donkey Kong Bananza is a brand new 3D platformer for Switch 2 - Engadget

Donkey Kong Champion Wins Defamation Case Against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst - Slashdot

Easybet: The Ultimate Online Betting Experience - Itnewsafrica

Elon Musk's X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street's usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Epic Games acquires Loci to introduce automated 3D tagging - Techcrunch

Epic Games acquires Loci to introduce automated 3D tagging - Techcrunch

Equinix boosts Nigerias digital economy with new Lagos data centre - Techpoint

Everything revealed at the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct - Engadget

FDUSD stablecoin depegged 9% after Justin Sun raised concerns over Hong Kong-based First Digital Trust's solvency; Binance alone holds ~$2.2B worth of FDUSD (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) - Techmeme

Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free - Wired

Female-led ventures get just 2% as Africas startup funding dips in March 2025 - Techpoint

FIN7 Deploys Anubis Backdoor to Hijack Windows Systems via Compromised SharePoint Sites - Hackers News

Flutterwave Expands Send App to Ghana, Enabling Seamless International Remittances - Itnewsafrica

Flutterwave takes Send App to Ghana - Techpoint

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