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Financial Times:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”  —  Commerce secretary says products given reprieve will fall under separate regime  —  US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick …
Bloomberg:
The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from “reciprocal tariffs”  —  President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …
More: CNBC, BBC, The White House, CNN, The Guardian, U.S. Customs …, New York Times, Barron's Online, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, The Motley Fool Australia, Android Central, The Verge, Associated Press, Fortune, Axios, Supply Chain Dive, Reuters, Gulf Business, Arabian Business, Capital Brief, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bitcoin Insider, TechSpot, Türkiye Today, Cryptopolitan, XDA Developers, Scroll.in, Tech in Asia, Nikkei Asia, Breitbart, gulftoday, Spyglass, Deal N Tech, Mediaite, Redmond Pie, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Mashable, The American Conservative, CNET, TechRadar, 9to5Google, Sky News, VentureBeat, UPI, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Raleigh News & Observer, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, Liliputing, Digital Trends, The Information, Time, Fox Business, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Mock Paper Scissors, PhoneArena, Daily Mail, Windows Central, RedState, Mirror, Yahoo Finance, 9to5Mac, Forbes, and KVUE-TV
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Mastodon: @TonyStark@progressivecafe …, @joeycastillo@mastodon.social, and @KimPerales@toad.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/sp500, r/economicCollapse, r/technology, r/Aliexpress, r/politics, r/centrist, r/JoeRogan, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/Microcenter, r/StockMarket, r/thebulwark, r/politicsinthewild, r/uspolitics, r/facepalm, r/China_irl, r/france, r/unusual_whales, r/CanadianInvestor, r/SBCGaming, r/QuiverQuantitative, r/wallstreetbets, r/WallStreetElite, r/framework, r/StockMarket, r/GamingLaptops, r/TheAllinPodcasts, r/DeepFuckingValue, r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/taiwan, r/ProfessorFinance, r/TQQQ, r/GME, r/Semiconductors, r/USNewsHub, r/iphone, r/intelstock, r/taiwan, r/inthenews, r/thescoop, r/mauerstrassenwetten, r/geopolitics, r/wallstreetbetsGER, r/moderatepolitics, r/Economics, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, r/apple, r/DataHoarder, r/UpliftingNews, r/China, r/neoliberal, r/economy, r/Economics, r/hardware, r/technology, r/politics, r/Quebec, r/NintendoSwitch2, r/baba, r/Economics, r/NVDA_Stock, r/ScottGalloway, r/wallstreetbets, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, and r/StockMarket
Ari Hawkins / Politico:
Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs  —  The investigation could lead to new tariffs on semiconductors in a move that would have sweeping implications for Asian countries and the tech sector.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro and a Mac-tethered model with ultra-low latency; iPadOS 19 overhaul will make it more like macOS  —  Also: company prepares more macOS-like features for iPadOS 19.  —  Apple is readying two new Vision Pro headsets, but glasses have become a bigger goal in the long run.
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
Alibaba's AI assistant Quark surpassed ByteDance's Doubao to become China's most popular AI app in March, with ~150M and ~100M MAUs globally, respectively  —  Quark's rapid ascent comes as Alibaba has transformed the app from a cloud storage and search service into an ‘AI super assistant’
More: Tech in Asia
Richard A. Webster / ProPublica:
A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release  —  A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek”  —  Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block) …
Washington Post:
Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, amid reports Zuckerberg asked Trump to intervene  —  Arguments start Monday in the FTC's blockbuster antitrust suit targeting Facebook's purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp, as Zuckerberg pleads for the White House to intervene.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
A look at Bitcoin Commons, a coworking hub in Austin where ex-staffers of companies like Apple are building crypto startups, as Trump rolls back regulations  —  WATCH NOW  —  AUSTIN — On a Friday morning last spring, Mark Suman called out sick from his job as a senior engineering project manager …
More: Tech in Asia
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing crypto priorities in Congress, like the Genius Act, which establishes rules for stablecoin issuers  —  At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested debate.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various crypto projects, including NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin mining, and memecoins, are approaching $1B  —  President Donald Trump and his family have taken a interest in just about every corner of the crypto industry.
More: Benzinga, Cryptopolitan, and crypto.news
Bluesky: @bloomberg.com.  Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social.  Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/politics

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Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg:
US investigators are probing whether the China ties of TP-Link Systems Inc., the US-based business of Wi-Fi router giant TP-Link, pose an “unacceptable risk”
Bluesky: @awssnarkitect.  X: @tomcottonar, @business, @marksimonhk, @kate_okeeffe, and @dnvolz.  LinkedIn: Woo Jin Ho.  Forums: Slashdot
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the “read center of all IRS systems”
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