Tech

The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted (science.slashdot.org)
17 days ago

As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago Russia

Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (cyberscoop.com)
17 days ago

Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” (www.theguardian.com)
17 days ago Australia

Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Spotify

Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Seattle

Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms (hardware.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Trump Energy

Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
18 days ago

An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (www.404media.co)
18 days ago AI

Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas (giftarticle.ft.com)
18 days ago AI

Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Energy Iran

Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Google AI

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court (yro.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Elon Musk

Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees were announced in March 2026, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Layoffs

China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (www.ft.com)
18 days ago China Singapore

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (www.washingtonpost.com)
18 days ago

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Startup

Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
18 days ago India Amazon

Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago China

South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45%+ this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Korea Samsung AI

OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (openai.com)
18 days ago

Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO (www.scmp.com)
18 days ago Hong Kong IPO Shanghai

Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI for full-body dermoscopic skin imaging, raised $18M, including a previously undisclosed pre-Series A (www.massdevice.com)
18 days ago AI Robot Paris

Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago

Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside (www.wired.com)
18 days ago AI Elon Musk

Letter: Starboard has taken a significant stake in observability company Dynatrace and is pushing for changes to boost the stock; DT jumps 7%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago

Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans (www.politico.com)
18 days ago Trump Democrat Republican Senate

FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (www.tomsguide.com)
18 days ago U.S. Facebook

Robinhood account creation flaw abused to send phishing emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago AI

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