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Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC linked the unnamed forum to 50+ deaths in the UK (BBC)
2025-04-09 10:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Unitree and other Chinese humanoid startups are competing with those in the US, fueled by cheaper components, rapid innovation, and state-led financing (Financial Times)
2025-04-09 09:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft is backing away from its October 2024 plan to invest $1B in three Ohio data centers, the latest in a string of its data center project cancellations (Georgia Butler/DatacenterDynamics)
2025-04-09 06:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Statewatch and FOI documents: the UK government is developing a "murder prediction" tool to use personal data of those known to police to find likely killers (Vikram Dodd/The Guardian)
2025-04-09 10:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based NexGen Cloud, which offers GPU-as-a-service for customers that need flexible access to train AI, raised a $45M Series A at a $354M valuation (David Prosser/Forbes)
2025-04-09 02:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the rise of "Frankenstein" laptops in India, made by salvaging parts from multiple brands and sold to students, gig workers, and small businesses (The Verge)
2025-04-09 00:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pune, India-based online payments firm Easebuzz raised a $30M Series A led by Bessemer, says revenue grew 2x+ YoY to ~$78M in FY 2025 while staying profitable (Moneycontrol)
2025-04-09 05:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ripple agrees to acquire prime brokerage Hidden Road for $1.25B; Hidden Road plans to use Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin as collateral across its platform (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
2025-04-09 05:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Instagram is working on an iPad app, and Adam Mosseri told staff to be willing to assume more "risk" to take advantage of a potential TikTok ban (The Information)
2025-04-08 21:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Germany-based Hawk, which offers AI-powered anti-money laundering services, raised a $56M Series C led by One Peak and says it has over 80 customers worldwide (Cameron Emanuel-Burns/FinTech Futures)
2025-04-08 21:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon expands Haul, its Temu competitor, to offer name-brand items from Amazon's US inventory, as the US plans to end de minimis tariff exemptions on May 2 (Theo Wayt/The Information)
2025-04-08 22:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Aurascape, which offers enterprise security tools to mitigate risks from third-party AI apps, emerges from stealth with $50M from Menlo, Mayfield, and others (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)
2025-04-08 22:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental for Gemini Advanced subscribers (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2025-04-08 22:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET Wednesday after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariff (Elisabeth Buchwald/CNN)
2025-04-08 19:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Razer pauses direct sales of the upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops in the US as new tariffs loom (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
2025-04-08 19:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump believes the US has the resources and workforce to build iPhones in the US (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
2025-04-08 19:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada "will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US" (Bradly Shankar/MobileSyrup)
2025-04-08 16:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snap releases sponsored AI lenses, a new generative AI ad format users can interact with and that is powered by One Snap, its homegrown generative AI tech (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)
2025-04-08 17:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury's OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26 (Bloomberg)
2025-04-08 16:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: TSMC could face a $1B+ penalty to settle a US export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside Huawei's Ascend 910B chip (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
2025-04-08 16:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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