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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
iPad Air M3 review: powerful M3 chip, improved keyboard, better screen, performance, and multitasking than the base iPad, but no Face ID and can get expensive — The new iPad Air remains a great tablet, albeit one that's extremely similar to the last few models.
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations — It's easy to bypass steps that voice cloning services have taken to prevent nonconsensual voice cloning, according to the report.
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Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, and r/technews
| Steve Yegge / @steve_yegge: |
Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support — I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don't even
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| Reuters: |
President Trump says “we're dealing with four different groups” for the sale of TikTok; Trump signed an EO on January 20 to delay the TikTok ban by 75 days — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale …
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| Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
X experiences intermittent outages globally, beginning early on March 10 — Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he speculated was orchestrated by a “large, coordinated group” or country. — Tens of thousands of users globally …
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| Myles Udland / Yahoo Finance: |
Tech stocks lead a broad sell-off; the Nasdaq falls 4%+, with AAPL dropping by 5%+, META by 5%+, NVDA by 5%+, GOOG by 5%+, HOOD by 17%+, and RDDT by 15%+ — The “Magnificent Seven” stocks were at the center of another sell-off hitting markets Monday. — Shares of Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla …
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| NBC News: |
Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017 — The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook's impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: CoreWeave has signed a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI that will give OpenAI a stake in the cloud computing provider ahead of its IPO — CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI …
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| Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release — In industries from finance to retail, companies are seeking artificial-intelligence skills when looking for technology staff
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple and Meta are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching the EU's DMA, which allows fines of up to 10% of companies' global annual sales — EU antitrust regulators are expected to hand out modest fines to Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) for allegedly breaching …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised an $80M Series C at an $830M valuation, up from $350M in 2023 — As the U.S. trucking industry gears up for the negative impacts of U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs on goods imported …
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| Financial Times: |
Stripe, Revolut, and other banks and fintechs rush to launch stablecoins; there are ~$210B in stablecoins issued globally, including Tether printing $142B — Bank of America and Stripe target market for payments in cryptocurrencies — Some of the world's largest banks and fintechs …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told associates he isn't in a hurry to get investment, including from government entities, fearing outside influence — Chatbot startup has problems, but its founder doesn't want new shareholders to be one of them — The founder of Chinese artificial … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Some early Manus users say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience — Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert.
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| Craig S. Smith / Forbes: |
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