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- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico) [2d]
- Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) [2d]
- Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired) [2d]
- Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) [2d]
- An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (Sebastian Mallaby/Colossus) [2d]
- Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge) [2d]
- Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [2d]
- Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created role of chairman, after he announced his retirement in 2022 from his role as "senior steward" (Iain Martin/Forbes) [2d]
- Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- Snap shares climbed 14% on Tuesday after activist investor Irenic suggested changes to boost the stock's value 7x, such as cutting staff by 21% and ending Specs (Lola Murti/CNBC) [2d]
- Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [2d]
- OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (George Hammond/Financial Times) [2d]
- OpenAI closed a record-breaking $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at a post-money valuation of $852B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- PrismML, which says its 1-bit LLM achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, comes out of stealth with $16.25M in SAFE and seed funding (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Iranian media: Iran arrested 46 people allegedly in a network selling Starlink terminals and seized 139 terminals; there are an estimated 50K terminals in Iran (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) [2d]
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- 'Never in my wildest dreams did I expect this to happen' — pro sealife photographer captures 'first-ever' photos of rare seal in Antarctica [2d]
- I used a simple ChatGPT ‘gig finder’ prompt — and it found bands playing near me I’d never heard of [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, April 1 (game #1528) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, April 1 (game #759) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 1 (game #1025) [2d]
- 'Performance without compromise': AMD debuts first dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen CPU in potential showdown against Threadripper and EPYC siblings [2d]
- Delta is finally joining the faster satellite Wi-Fi craze with Amazon — but if you want in-flight satellite now, you’ll still want to book United [2d]
- Apple turns 50 — we’re live tracking the celebration, surprises, and more [2d]
- The Division Resurgence seems like the perfect way to get your MMO shooter fix on the go — 'We believe it's a good way to catch up with the universe in a more flexible way' developer says [2d]
- Say goodbye to printed signs at work — Samsung says its new color e-paper will bring in a new era of workplace comms [2d]
- I was in love with Meta’s ‘most comfortable glasses’ ever, and then I saw the price tag [2d]
- 'AI-driven traffic is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic': New report claims it's official — AI and bots have taken over the internet [2d]
- Here are 13 TV deals I'd buy before Amazon's Spring Sale ends — shop award-winning 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs from $145 [2d]
- The Elder Scrolls Online Season Zero adds an all-new event zone in upcoming seasonal content that's 'free for anyone who owns the game’ [2d]
- The Elder Scrolls Online is coming to PC Game Pass in June, and it's free right now with PlayStation Plus [2d]
- 12 essential MagSafe accessories for travel [2d]
- I wouldn't let Amazon's Spring Sale come to a close without scoring these epic Lego deals — shop my top picks from $15.99 [2d]
- DR Congo vs Jamaica free streams: How to watch 2026 World Cup intercontinental playoff, TV schedule, preview [2d]
- I saw Steve Jobs give his last WWDC presentation — and that was when I knew Apple could last for 50 years and beyond [2d]
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