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How private prison company Geo Group built a lucrative side business making digital tools like smart watches and tracking apps to help ICE surveil immigrants (New York Times)
2025-04-14 11:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global smartphone sales grew 3% YoY in Q1 2025; Apple took the top spot, its first ever for Q1, with a 19% share, and Vivo was the fastest growing brand (Counterpoint Research)
2025-04-14 12:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung pauses its global One UI 7 rollout, citing a "serious bug", after starting on April 7, seven months after Android 15's launch; Samsung hasn't commented (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
2025-04-14 11:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Intel is nearing a deal to sell its stake in Altera to Silver Lake and could announce it as soon as this week; Intel paid $17B for Altera in 2015 (Bloomberg)
2025-04-14 11:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit (Nikkei Asia)
2025-04-14 10:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sony hikes PlayStation 5 prices in Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, citing a "challenging economic environment"; the PS5 Pro remains the same price (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
2025-04-14 09:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Legal expert: Meta's FTC antitrust trial, where Mark Zuckerberg could take the stand as early as today, is set to be more grueling than Congressional hearings (New York Times)
2025-04-14 11:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Topgolf and Puttshack founders' Poolhouse raised a $34M seed to build a "tech-enabled" version of pool, including via video projections and tracking players (Josh Noble/Financial Times)
2025-04-14 10:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Dealroom: UK-based startups raised £16.2B in 2024, the lowest amount since 2020, as several consider moving their headquarters to the US in search of capital (Financial Times)
2025-04-14 07:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased latency, higher costs, and reduced usability result in diminishing returns for enterprises (VentureBeat)
2025-04-14 05:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies (Reuters)
2025-04-14 03:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU on April 11 (Politico)
2025-04-13 23:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at slopsquatting, a supply chain attack where threat actors create malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
2025-04-13 22:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
According to a recently published support page, OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-13 23:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing crypto priorities in Congress, like the Genius Act, which establishes rules for stablecoin issuers (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
2025-04-13 19:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and more (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
2025-04-13 20:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs (Ari Hawkins/Politico)
2025-04-13 18:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in "a month or two" (Aime Williams/Financial Times)
2025-04-13 16:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Jack Dorsey says "delete all IP law" in an X post and Musk says "I agree"; Dorsey says current models "take way too much" from creators and "only rent-seek" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
2025-04-13 17:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple is working on a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro and a Mac-tethered model with ultra-low latency; iPadOS 19 overhaul will make it more like macOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-04-13 15:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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