5 reasons to buy AirPods Max over Bose 700 NC - Pocket Lint
5 things to know about ANC - Pocket Lint
8 questions that tell you everything you need to know about the bitcoin halving - Techpoint
A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his "code is law" claim (Crystal Kim/Axios) - Techmeme
Acer's $400 Chromebook Plus 514 has up to 512GB of storage - Pocket Lint
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones - BBC
Apple brings AirPlay to select hotels - Pocket Lint
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Blizzard takes aim at Overwatch 2 console cheaters - Engadget
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 - Slashdot
Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app - BBC
Canal+ increases MultiChoice stake to 40.8% - Techcabal
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data - Slashdot
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - Slashdot
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme - Slashdot
Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
eTranzact says consumer-focused products are its future revenue driver - Techcabal
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students - Slashdot
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack - Slashdot
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams in Research to DeepMind (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) - Techmeme
How to use AirPlay during your next hotel stay - Pocket Lint
Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks - Techcrunch
Internal draft: UK's ICO says Google's Privacy Sandbox falls short and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine privacy of users who should be anonymous (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them - Techcrunch
It took 20 years for Children of the Sun to become an overnight success - Engadget
Latest news for students sitting for JAMB from April 19 to 29 2024 - Techcabal
Meta AI Gets New Features, Expands Into More Countries - TechCity
Meta claims both Llama 3 models beat similarly sized models like Gemini, Mistral, and Claude 3 on certain benchmarks; humans marked Llama 3 higher than GPT-3.5 (Emilia David/The Verge) - Techmeme
Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January (Kris Holt/Engadget) - Techmeme
Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp - Slashdot
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3 - Wired
Meta's Quest 2 will now only cost you $199 - Pocket Lint
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide) - Techmeme
My 5 favorite hidden iPad features - Pocket Lint
NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From - Wired
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% - Slashdot
Netflix is done telling us how many people use Netflix - Engadget
Netflix profits soar after password crackdown - BBC
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY (Sarah Whitten/CNBC) - Techmeme
Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its "best proxy for customer satisfaction" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme
Nothing Ear vs Nothing Ear (a): Which bud is for you - Pocket Lint
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100 GPUs for Reels, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, the metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) - Techmeme
Reddit Is Taking Over Google - Slashdot
Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra review: A smart cleaner - Pocket Lint
Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide) - Techmeme
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash - Slashdot
Surprise: Taylor Swift is joining Threads on the day her new album drops - Engadget
The bill that could ban TikTok is barreling ahead - Engadget
The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem - Wired
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop - Slashdot
Washington, DC-based Cape, which is developing a mobile service that doesn't ask for customers' personal data, raised a $40M Series B co-led by A-Star and a16z (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
We Finally Know Where Neuralink's Brain Implant Trial Is Happening - Wired
What is Thread' The smart home protocol explained - Pocket Lint
WhatsApp integrates Meta AI to change messaging experience - Techcabal
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There's a syndicate within Nigeria that was leveraging arbitrage in a heavy and hurtful manner to the naira." - Ray Youssef - Techpoint
Third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for 1.50 a year with two apps including game emulator Delta, which is also live on Apple's App Store (The Verge) - Techmeme
TikTok is trying to clean up its 'For You' recommendations - Engadget
TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram - The Verge
TikTok starts rolling out TikTok Notes, its Instagram rival for sharing photo and text content, for limited testing in Australia and Canada on Android and iOS (Sheena Vasani/The Verge) - Techmeme
TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes - Slashdot
TikTok to restrict users who repeatedly post problematic topics from 'For You' feed - The Verge
Trellis Climate aims to bridge the 'commercial valley of death' for climate tech - Techcrunch
Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming - Slashdot
TSMC CEO CC Wei says the company plans to charge customers more for making chips outside of Taiwan, citing a "fragmented globalization environment" (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times) - Techmeme
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to NT$592.64B ($18.87B) vs. NT$582.94B est., profit up 8.9% YoY to NT$225.49B vs. NT$213.59B est., on strong AI chip demand (Sheila Chiang/CNBC) - Techmeme
TSMC says the April 3 Taiwan earthquake caused an estimated losses of $92.44M to the company in Q2; there were no power outages or structural damage to its fabs (Reuters) - Techmeme
TSMC will charge more for chips made outside of Taiwan, possibly making devices more expensive - Engadget
Twitch is bringing its TikTok-style feed to everyone this month - The Verge
Twitch is giving all users access to its discovery feed later this month - Engadget
Twitch plans to roll out its TikTok-style discovery feed later in April, letting users scroll clips and livestreams, after testing the feature for a year (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash - Techcrunch
US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight - Slashdot
US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture (New York Times) - Techmeme
US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a revised proposal, in a Ukraine and Israel aid bill expected to clear the Senate on April 20 (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Walmart-backed digital marketing software company Ibotta raises ~$577.3M in its IPO at a share price of $88, giving it a market value of $2.67B (Amy Or/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Wema Bank removes and suspends seven fintech partners for fraudulent activities - Techpoint
What Are MFA Fatigue Attacks, and How Can You Stop Them - Itnewsafrica
What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill - Slashdot
What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You - Wired
What is screen time doing to children - The Economist
What It Will Take for Airchat to Take Flight - Wired
WhatsApp Introduces Chat Filters for Easier Message Management - TechMoran
Wiz is in talks to buy Lacework for $150-200M; security firm was last valued at $8.3B - Techcrunch
Worldcoin announces World Chain, a Layer 2 Ethereum blockchain designed to prioritize verified humans over bots, slated for release this summer (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk) - Techmeme
YC-backed MarketForce scraps B2B eCommerce platform, pursues AI venture in Kenya and South Africa - Techpoint