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Infotech Headlines Today
[Sat-05-Apr-2025]

Updated: 22 mins ago

4 reasons I ditched my iPad Pro for the Asus ROG Flow Z13 - Pocket Lint

A US federal judge decides Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026; Musk and OpenAI agreed to fast-track the trial last month (Anna Tong/Reuters) - Techmeme

AfriLabs Receives $150,000 Boost from Airbnb Community Fund - Itnewsafrica

Ahead of April review, South Africa's AI policy faces pressure to deliver - Techcabal

AI Avatar Tries To Argue Case Before a New York Court - Slashdot

AI is boosting revenue, cutting cost for tech companies amid high inflation - Techcabal

Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Amazon's new Kindle feature is one of the first useful AI features I've seen - Pocket Lint

An Interactive-Speed Linux Computer Made of Only 3 8-Pin Chips - Slashdot

Analysis: tech companies have pledged at least $1.4T in US spending since Trump was elected, although many of the plans aren't new and not all will be fulfilled (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Analysts say Microsoft, whose shares fell the least among top tech companies, is shielded from the worst tariff impacts due to Azure and a broad enterprise base (Fortune) - Techmeme

AT&T Email-To-Text Gateway Service Ending - Slashdot

Bonobos May Combine Words In Ways Previously Thought Unique To Humans - Slashdot

ChatGPT adoption skyrockets in India, but monetization may be trailing - Techcrunch

Crunchbase: global VC funding reached $113B in Q1 2025, up 54% YoY, buoyed by OpenAI's $40B deal; PitchBook says 77% of US deal value in Q1 2025 went to AI (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme

Don't miss out: April's free Kindle e-book for Prime members is here - Pocket Lint

Fram2 Crew Returns To Earth After Polar Orbit Mission - Slashdot

GitHub announces "premium requests" for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch from the base GPT-4o to other AI models (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model for cybersecurity, claiming it outperforms others on the leading CTI-MCQ threat intelligence benchmark (Google Online Security Blog) - Techmeme

Google Launches Sec-Gemini v1 AI Model To Improve Cybersecurity Defense - Slashdot

I bought a mid-range TV and I don't regret it at all - Pocket Lint

inDrive not fazed by protests, says more drivers joined the app during Lagos boycott - Technext

Inside DOGE's AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs - Wired

Investors, founders, and others detail a culture of fear around criticizing Elon Musk or DOGE; some are appalled he is seen as a reflection of the tech industry (Issie Lapowsky/Politico) - Techmeme

Key Announcements You Might Have Missed at Microsoft's 50th Anniversary Event - Itnewsafrica

Mafab misses Q1 5G rollout deadline despite December promises - Techcabal

Malicious Python Packages on PyPI Downloaded 39,000+ Times, Steal Sensitive Data - Hackers News

Meta and Pinterest make secret donation to Molly Russell charity - BBC

Meta is entering its post-truth era on Monday - Engadget

Microsoft is testing out an all-new Windows 11 Start Menu design - Pocket Lint

Midjourney Releases V7, Its First New AI Image Model In Nearly a Year - Slashdot

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs a law criminalizing the "deceptive and dangerous" creation and sharing of deepfakes, including fake AI nudes of minors (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica) - Techmeme

Next Wave: Digitising danfo payments could unlock a $375 million opportunity in Lagos - Techcabal

Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs - BBC

NSA Warns 'Fast Flux' Threatens National Security - Slashdot

Peach Payments expands into Francophone West Africa with PayDunya acquisition - Technext

President Trump extends TikTok ban enforcement by another 75 days - Technext

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon as a VP of product overseeing Ring and related businesses, replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who succeeded him in 2023 (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - Techmeme

Scientists Warn Indonesia's Rice Megaproject Faces Failure - Slashdot

SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Sources: a TikTok deal, which was largely finalized by April 2, was put on hold after China indicated it would reject the deal over Trump's tariffs (Reuters) - Techmeme

Sources: enterprise AI search startup Glean is in talks to raise hundreds of millions, including money to buy employee shares, at an estimated ~$7B valuation (Sri Muppidi/The Information) - Techmeme

Sources: StubHub, Klarna, eToro, and adtech group MNTN have paused their IPO plans as President Trump's trade war upends the global economy (Fareed Sahloul/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Spotify paid South African artists R400m in 2024 heres what that means for Africas music economy - Techpoint

TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla takes a hit, tariff chaos begins, and one EV startup hits a milestone - Techcrunch

The 11 Most WIRED Watches That Dropped at Watches & Wonders 2025 - Wired

The 3-year-old Japanese hybrid SUV worth buying used - Pocket Lint

The Affordable Car Is About to Go Extinct in the US - Wired

The creator of Binding of Isaac will release a new game, Mewgenics, this year - Engadget

The difference between cNGN and eNaira: expert opinion on potentials, adoption - Technext

The Ghibli Fever: The Magic, Backlash And Verdict - Innovation Village

The Nasdaq fell 5.8% on the second day following Trump's tariffs announcement, with Nvidia closing down 7.4%, Apple 7.3%, Netflix 6.7%, Meta 5%, and Amazon 4.2% (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme

The Nintendo Switch 2 is coming - Pocket Lint

The Pixel 10 reportedly will trade camera quality for quantity - Pocket Lint

The US SEC says that "covered" US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting or redeeming them (RT Watson/The Block) - Techmeme

This app is my secret weapon for supercharging my e-reader - Pocket Lint

Trump Extends TikTok Deadline For the Second Time - Slashdot

Trump Grants Second 75-Day Reprieve on TikTok Ban - Innovation Village

Trump's Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival - Wired



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Fri-04-Apr-2025]

12 Best Turntables (2024), Tested and Reviewed - Wired

4 reasons why foldables still don't outclass regular phones - Pocket Lint

5 best AI ETFs for 2025: top AI funds for smart investing - Techpoint

5 best AI tools for logo design - Techpoint

5 super-handy Kobo features that make reading effortless - Pocket Lint

6 best AI tools for marketing in 2025 | Smarter campaigns - Techpoint

9 Best Protein Powders of 2025, Tested & Reviewed by WIRED - Wired

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs - Techcrunch

A four-pack of Samsung SmartTag 2 trackers is on sale for $58 right now - Engadget

A researcher says changes in X's web app suggest that X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles, with prices ranging from $10K to $500K+ (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

AI Could Affect 40% of Jobs and Widen Inequality Between Nations, UN Warns - Slashdot

AI has opened a new era in venture capital according to Forerunner Founder Kirsten Green - Techcrunch

Air Conditioning, Not Data Centers, Driving Global Energy Demand Growth - Slashdot

Airtel Zambia and IHS Towers to invest $14M in 6 months for wider coverage - Techpoint

Alitheia Capital and Goodwell Investments exit Baobab Nigeria - TechMoran

Amazon is testing a "Buy for Me" button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme

Amazon Is Testing a New 'Buy for Me' Feature That Uses AI to Simplify Third-Party Purchases - TechCity

Amazon Kindle's new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series - Techcrunch

Amazon's 'Buy for Me' AI will purchase stuff from third-party websites - Engadget

Amazon's new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you - Techcrunch

An analysis of crypto prices and performance in Q1, 2025 - Technext

An increasingly vocal contingent of GOP leaders, some of whom attended Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit, call for antitrust action against Big Tech (Will Oremus/Washington Post) - Techmeme

Apple TV finally supports lossless audio, but here's why audiophiles are still disappointed - Pocket Lint

Automakers jump on Tesla's brand woes with discount EV offers - Techcrunch

AWS opens cloud computing skills center in University of Nairobi - Technext

Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers a travel-focused credit card and a travel app, raised a $40M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $72M (The Economic Times) - Techmeme

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol - Techcrunch

Big Tech risks losing access to Europe by embracing Trump, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms and letting Chinese companies expand access (Foreign Affairs) - Techmeme

Breaking: Shuttlers introduces CNG fleet to cut costs and emissions - Techcabal

Camera Makers Defend Proprietary RAW Formats Despite Open Standard Alternative - Slashdot

Cameroon's FAC Secures '2 Million from IFC for expansion - Innovation Village

Can ChatGPT generate images - Techpoint

CERT-UA Reports Cyberattacks Targeting Ukrainian State Systems with WRECKSTEEL Malware - Hackers News

Chainalysis estimates North Korean hackers stole over $6B in crypto over the past decade and accounted for ~60% of industry-wide theft losses in 2024 (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot - Techcrunch

China Imposes 34% Reciprocal Tariffs on Imports of US Goods - Slashdot

China places some rare earth elements under export restrictions as part of its response to Trump's tariff package and imposes a 34% retaliatory tariff US goods (Reuters) - Techmeme

Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $15.8M seed led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase, Circle, and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune) - Techmeme

Coreboot 25.03 Released With Support For 22 More Motherboards - Slashdot

Critical Flaw in Apache Parquet Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code - Hackers News

Critical Ivanti Flaw Actively Exploited to Deploy TRAILBLAZE and BRUSHFIRE Malware - Hackers News

Decisive factors: Octa carried out a global survey about brokers' red flags - Technext

DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World - Slashdot

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app - Techcrunch

Despite a tariff exemption on direct chip imports for now, the semiconductor industry faces challenges as higher prices for end products may hurt demand (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan - Techcrunch

Djamo Raises $17M to Address Financial Inclusion in Francophone Africa - TechMoran

Djamo Raises $17m to Expand Digital Banking Across Francophone West Africa - Innovation Village

Dolphins Pearl Demo Play 100 percent free Position Game - TechMoran

Dolphins Pearl Trial Gamble Totally free Slot Video game - TechMoran

Donkey Kong Bananza hands-on: A funky fresh take on Nintendo's favorite ape - Engadget

Egypts InfiniLink Raises $10M Led by MediaTek For AI-driven Data Centers - TechMoran

Engadget Podcast: Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on and the Cowboy Bebop creator chats about Lazarus - Engadget

Expert affirms aircraft calibration remains vital despite drone use in air safety - Tribune

FairMoney's Commercial Paper Oversubscribed ' Raises N5.3 billion, A Testament to Strong Financial Performance and Investor Confidence - Technext

Federal judge allows the EFF's lawsuit against DOGE and Elon Musk to proceed - Techcrunch

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen still sees opportunity in global trade despite Trump's tariffs - Techcrunch

France says the EU's second response to President Trump's tariffs will cover digital services, like those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft (Euractiv) - Techmeme

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google's most expensive AI model yet - Techcrunch

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