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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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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Meta: |
Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures — https://about.fb.com/wp-content/ uploads/2025/03/Community-Notes-Launch- Date-Announcement_Header.mp4 — Takeaways| Brooke Singman / Fox News: |
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties” — Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him — Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/WallStreetbetsELITE
| 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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Forums: r/apple, Lobsters, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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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 … | BBC: |
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences — Parents who are worried about their children being on Roblox should not let them use it …
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| 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 …
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Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and r/apple
| The Information: |
Sources: Oracle is a leading contender to help run TikTok US; ByteDance management prefers Oracle but wants to retain a hands-on role with TikTok's operations — Oracle has emerged as a leading contender to help run TikTok as part of a deal President Donald Trump is orchestrating to satisfy … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Reuters: |
Singapore prosecutors say a case in which Singapore-based companies are accused of fraudulently supplying US servers to Malaysia involves $390M in transactions — Singapore prosecutors told a court on Thursday that a case in which Singapore-based firms have been accused …
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