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| Bhanvi Satija / Reuters: |
Intel appoints former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, effective March 18, and says he will rejoin the board; INTC jumps 10%+ — Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) on Wednesday named former board member Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO effective March 18 …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will stick with the costly foundry plan, which led to Pat Gelsinger's ouster, to make Intel “a world-class products company” — Incoming Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan is signaling that he'll stick with his predecessor's plan …
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| Reuters: |
A profile of Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who invested in Annapurna Labs and Nuvia and revived the fortunes of chip design firm Cadence Design Systems as its CEO — Lip-Bu Tan may be one of the most powerful technology executives you've never heard of. As he steps into one of the highest-profile jobs …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected — An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products — In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …
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| Nick Huber / Financial Times: |
A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024 — The infrastructure to help young companies grow in the UK is varied and well established — If 2023 was the year of downturn … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In its final decision report, the UK CMA finds that Apple and Google's mobile browser duopoly is “holding back innovation”, but offers no enforcement action — A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are … | Eric Geller / Wired: |
Interviews with seven CISA employees describe how mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government's cyber defense agency — Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they're struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025 — The device, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025. … Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google calls the passage of Utah's app store age-verification bill “concerning” and part of an effort by Meta and others to “offload” kids' safety to app stores — Google has its own ideas about what kids online safety legislation should look like.
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results — The company said classical computers can't beat its quantum computer in magnetic materials simulation. Some physicists disagree.
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, to be funded via civil asset forfeitures, goes against bitcoiners' early skepticism of state overreach and market intervention — The formerly anti-establishment bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan …
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI releases a 15-page set of policy suggestions for the White House, arguing that hundreds of AI bills pending across the US risk undercutting US progress — OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to help shield artificial intelligence companies from a growing number of proposed state regulations …
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| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
CoinGecko data shows that daily crypto trading volume dropped from a peak of $440B in early February 2025 to $163B on March 12, a 63% decrease — Crypto trading volumes and dwindling digital asset prices are flashing signs of trader exhaustion and potentially weaker market momentum, according to analysts.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: an Xbox-branded Asus handheld may debut this year as part of Microsoft's effort to unify Windows and Xbox into a universal library of Xbox and PC games — Microsoft's next-gen Xbox platform is shaping up. — Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer warned in November … | Globes Online: |
Tel Aviv-based Bria, which licenses images from 30+ partners like Getty to train AI, raised a $40M Series B led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $65M — Bria's Visual Generative AI platform empowers businesses to create predictable, controllable, and on-brand content that aligns with their visual language.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India and replace its GetApps app store with Indus Appstore on existing ones — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said on Thursday that its Android smartphones sold in India will come preinstalled with Indian fintech company PhonePe's app store.
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024 — A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter.
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba debuts New Quark, an updated app using its flagship Qwen reasoning model, rolling out gradually, as it seeks to keep up with DeepSeek and Chinese rivals — It re-tooled the Quark app to take advantage of its flagship Qwen reasoning model. “New Quark” now integrates functions including a chatbot …
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| TechCrunch: |
Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities — Indian police have arrested the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the European Union … Sponsor Posts
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