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| Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN: |
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET Wednesday after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariff — President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Razer pauses direct sales of the upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops in the US as new tariffs loom — With tariffs set to kick in tonight, Razer's new Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available to purchase directly. … Razer's upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available …
More: Razer Newsroom, XDA Developers, PCWorld, PCMag, How-To Geek, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, CNET, Windows Central, Tom's Guide, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/Games, r/technology, and r/razer
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump believes the US has the resources and workforce to build iPhones in the US — Trump's massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have a major impact on Apple and its supply chain.
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Bluesky: @samleecole, @dylanonchips, @mgsiegler.com, @chancemiller.me, and @ernie.tedium.co. Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
X: @hassankhan, @swiftonsecurity, @munster_gene, @rakeshsfnyc, @itsmattjason, @patrickmoorhead, @mikeisaac, @ikoweb3, and @apompliano
Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| Reuters: |
More: ZeroHedge News, Quartz, Proactive, Benzinga, and Yahoo Finance
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Internal memo: the US DOJ disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, established by Biden in 2021, as the agency is “not a digital assets regulator” — The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff on Monday evening that the agency was disbanding a unit dedicated to crypto-related investigations.
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Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @lauren@mastodon …
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Forums: r/Bitcoin, r/politics, r/politics, and r/politics
| Reuters: |
Sources: US officials say DOGE is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency's communications for anti-Trump talk; a source says DOGE is also using Signal — Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/fednews, r/FedEmployees, r/news, r/foreignservice, r/politics, r/artificial, and r/somethingiswrong2024
| Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup: |
Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada “will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US” — The pre-orders were originally set to go live on April 9 — Nintendo has confirmed that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 …
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| Darryn Bonthuys / GameSpot: |
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| The Information: |
Source: Instagram is working on an iPad app, and Adam Mosseri told staff to be willing to assume more “risk” to take advantage of a potential TikTok ban — Meta Platforms has put the turmoil around TikTok to good use. Amid a barrage of headlines about the White House's efforts … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada — Meta is introducing Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger. The feature, which automatically enrolls young users …
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Threads: @andymstone. X: @_andyburrows, @fairplayforkids, @zamaan_qureshi, and @metanewsroom. LinkedIn: Joel Kaplan
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC could face a $1B+ penalty to settle a US export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside Huawei's Ascend 910B chip — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation …
More: The Register, CyberScoop, Tom's Hardware, Rest of World, WinBuzzer, Barron's Online, Motley Fool, Tom's Guide, and Yahoo Finance
Forums: r/hardware and r/taiwan
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental for Gemini Advanced subscribers — Gemini Advanced subscribers can now perform Deep Research with Google's most intelligent 2.5 Pro (experimental) model. — When Google made Deep Research available to all users last month … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury's OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26 — - Attackers lurked within OCC email accounts since 2023 — Chinese state hackers previously targeted Treasury files
More: OCC.gov, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Finextra, American Banker, Fox News, and CNBC
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Gemini Live camera and screenshare features to the Pixel 9 series and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices, available in 45 languages for users 18 and up — It's also coming soon to paid Gemini Advanced users on other devices. … Google's Gemini Live camera and screenshare functions … | Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
LMArena says it is updating its leaderboard policies after a Llama 4 Maverick version, which Meta said in fine print is not public, secured the number two spot — With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
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Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net, @prietschka, and @kylierobison.com. Mastodon: @kyleford@hachyderm.io
X: @lmarena_ai, @ph_singer, @casper_hansen_, @mikeisaac, @kyliebytes, @tomwarren, @kyliebytes, @nrehiew_, @vikhyatk, @alexeheath, and @yuchenj_uw
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/theprimeagen, r/artificial, r/LocalLLaMA, r/OpenAI, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Amazon expands Haul, its Temu competitor, to offer name-brand items from Amazon's US inventory, as the US plans to end de minimis tariff exemptions on May 2 — Amazon is broadening its Temu bargain shopping competitor, Haul, to offer a wider variety of goods, including name-brand items …
More: The Verge and Cord Cutters News
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Tech CEOs who spent big on Trump's inauguration have yet to see the investment pay off; Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are down 22% since January 20 — With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president …
More: Business Insider, Semafor, Yahoo Finance, Sherwood News, Macworld, and Hindustan Times
Bluesky: @paulthedogman and @stevekovach
X: @mattyglesias and @ericgeller
| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
Aurascape, which offers enterprise security tools to mitigate risks from third-party AI apps, emerges from stealth with $50M from Menlo, Mayfield, and others — Silicon Valley startup secures big investment from Menlo Ventures and Mayfield Fund to solve the “shadow AI” security problem.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up ~10% YoY to ~$53.4B and preliminary operating profit flat YoY at ~$4.5B, vs. ~$3.8B est., due to Galaxy S25 and legacy DRAM sales — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Nova Sonic, which can generate natural-sounding speech and that it claims is “the most cost-efficient” AI voice model on the market, via Bedrock — On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech.
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| Reuters: |
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