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Europol says German and Dutch authorities shut down Kidflix, a CSAM streaming platform with 1.8M+ users between April 2022 and March 2025, on March 11 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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Amazon plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network on April 9, after launching two prototype satellites in 2023 (Joey Roulette/Reuters)
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Sources: Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would prevent Meta from facing an antitrust trial later this month; he visited the White House today (Wall Street Journal)
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Source: Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)
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Siemens agrees to acquire Boston-based R&D scientific software company Dotmatics from Insight Partners for $5.1B, in a deal expected to close in H1 2026 (Bloomberg)
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Automattic lays off 16% of staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become "more agile and responsive"; Automattic website listed 1,744 employees ahead of the layoffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Adobe updates Premiere Pro with AI-powered features like Generative Extend, which lets users extend clips by two seconds with 4K quality and background audio (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Sources: AppLovin has made a bid for TikTok and talked to casino magnate Steve Wynn about backing it (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Justin Sun bailed out Techteryx's TrueUSD after $456M in reserves, managed by First Digital, became illiquid; Techteryx says it was a victim of fraud (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
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FDUSD stablecoin depegs 9% after Justin Sun raises concerns over Hong Kong-based First Digital Trust's solvency; Binance alone holds ~$2.2B worth of FDUSD (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
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Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleges, with Learning Mode, where it asks questions to test understanding, shares templates for papers, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
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Trump pardoned BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading, which had pleaded guilty and was fined $100M for money laundering, possibly the first US pardon of a corporation (Matt Sledge/The Intercept)
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Sources: Amazon has put in a bid to acquire all of TikTok, but various parties involved do not appear to be taking it seriously, ahead of the April 5 deadline (New York Times)
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Google replaces Sissie Hsiao, leader of its consumer AI apps, including Gemini, with Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs and oversaw NotebookLM's launch (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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Nintendo says Switch 2 preorder buyers will need 50+ hours of original Switch gameplay, an anti-scalper mechanism (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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A profile of Larry Ellison, now 80 years old with a $175B fortune, as Oracle bids for TikTok US and he puts up most of his son David's $8B bid to buy Paramount (New York Times)
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Sources: President Trump told his inner circle, including Cabinet members, that Elon Musk will step back in the coming weeks; Trump remains pleased with DOGE (Rachael Bade/Politico)
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A sworn Irish affidavit: Keith O'Brien, who allegedly spied for Deel while working at Rippling, says Deel paid him and he coordinated with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
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Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese companies placed $16B+ in orders for Nvidia's H20 chips in Q1 2025, ahead of a potential US sales ban (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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Nintendo unveils the Switch 2 Camera, a camera accessory with a stand, designed to sit next to a TV for video chats, launching on June 5 alongside the Switch 2 (The Verge)
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