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March 24, 2026, 9:25 AM

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David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers  —  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers …
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US  —  Nintendo Co. is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company's expectations during …
Blake Stimac / CNET:
Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, available in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers  —  The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
TechCrunch:
A GitHub user published a newer version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box”  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker  —  Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
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Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict …
Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Kalshi announces new tech guardrails that preemptively block politicians, athletes, coaches, officials, and others from trading in politics and sports markets  —  Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025  —  Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).
Joe Miller / Financial Times:
How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds  —  Donald Trump's unpopular immigration crackdown has made links to the Peter Thiel-backed company a liability for candidates
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff  —  Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …
Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News:
The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries  —  Officials detailed the Bureau of Emerging Threats exclusively to ABC News.  —  Cyber attacks on the riseOne group of cyber experts …

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