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Kif Leswing / CNBC:3D tech company Infinite Reality buys Napster for $207M; CEO John Acunto says the one-time file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse  —  A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing…

Reuters:Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras' IPO, in limbo for months, is delayed while Trump fills key roles and CFIUS reviews Abu Dhabi-based G42's $335M investment  —  Cerebras Systems executives were hoping the Trump administration would wave through a…

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan  —  It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs. …

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into browser options on iOS without a fine after Apple made changes to comply with the DMA  —  EU antitrust regulators are set to close their year-long…

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers  —  But it will need to change the law prohibiting fully driverless…

Bloomberg:Sources: companies like Nvidia and many governments are trying to persuade Trump's team to loosen incoming AI chip export rules, known as the AI diffusion rule  —  - Nvidia and Oracle pushing for full repeal of AI diffusion rule  — Companies…

Reuters:Document: India orders Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601M in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs on key telecoms equipment imports  —  India has ordered Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601 million in…

Washington Post:Interviews with 24+ US government workers show many embraced Signal after Trump's return to office as a tactic to shield communications, impacting transparency  —  The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been…

Bloomberg:Internal TikTok memo: Blake Chandlee, who oversaw TikTok's ad sales globally, is moving to an advisory role; TikTok faces an April 5 deadline for a US sale  —  A TikTok executive responsible for its core advertising business is stepping aside as…

Danny Park / The Block:Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU  —  - Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for…

Bloomberg:A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT  —  Big changes are underway for the internet's most popular product, and Google (and…

Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia:Investors see opportunities in Malaysian tech stocks amid a shift to cheaper AI models like DeepSeek, as the country's chip sector faces US export rules  —  KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's semiconductor sector finds itself in the midst…

Cynthia Brumfield / CyberScoop:A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs to security flaws; 413 orgs report CVEs, with 40K+ reported in 2024, pushing the total to 270K+  —  Learn more.  —  In 1999, Dave Mann and Steve Christey,…

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:A look at Apple's strategy missteps with TV+, including trying to rival Netflix by building a platform from scratch and using TV+ to boost device sales  —  “Apple is Losing Over $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Service” - the…

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models  —  Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter.  The second…