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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:

The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) …

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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok — The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …

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oatmealdome.me:

Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn't allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations — Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store.

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David Cassel / The New Stack:

An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more — SEATTLE-Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down Wednesday for a “keynote interview” at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America in Seattle.

More: The Verge, PC Gamer, Cryptopolitan, and ZDNet

X: @ron_brash, @dwaynephillips, @joab_jackson, and @mdolan. LinkedIn: The Linux Foundation

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:

PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down — But CIOs aren't quite convinced that everyone needs an AI-enabled PC just yet — The biggest innovation in years has come …

More: Benzinga. X: @clareconley. LinkedIn: Jason James and Kyle Houser

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits — Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday said it will roll back requirements that U.S. suppliers and staffing firms pay their employees …

More: Business Today. Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …. X: @onlycliches, @pamelawatching, @quinnypig, @reuterslegal, and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News

Financial Times:

Sources: Biden administration is encouraging US tech groups to seek AI deals in the UAE and brokered Microsoft's deal with G42, as it seeks an edge over China — Biden administration brokers talks between Microsoft, OpenAI Google and the UAE, as Washington seeks edge over China

X: @dkaushik96 and @shashj

LinkedIn: Nick Hatcher and Alex Kipman

Kate Rogers / CNBC:

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed — A woman walks past tents for the homeless lining a street in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 1, 2021.

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Bloomberg:

Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX — - Pact would release crypto exchange co-founder from claims — In return he would help them pursue celebrities who pushed FTX

More: Cryptonews, The Block, Cryptopolitan, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph. X: @chrisdolmetsch

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:

Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview — Impressive lip-syncing — A new AI research paper from Microsoft promises a future where you can upload a photo …

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Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is “revisionist history” and a bid to boost his AI company — OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles in pursuit of profits is nothing more than …

More: The Decoder. X: @business

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines — Apple's (AAPL.O) offer to open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust regulators as soon …

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production

More: Tom's Hardware, TechNode, and ExtremeTech

X: @kanthan2030 and @pstasiatech

Nikkei Asia:

SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech

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Reuters:

China publishes measures to boost foreign investment in its domestic technology sector, including encouraging tech companies to raise money via bond issuance

James Hunt / The Block:

Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was in May 2020

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week

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George Steer / Financial Times:

Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone

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Ryan Browne / CNBC:

Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app's ~900M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”

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