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Analysis: in 2025, Vietnam surpassed China as the leading supplier of laptops and game consoles to the US for the first time, despite President Trump's tariffs (Bloomberg)

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Amazon strikes a deal to provide internet access on Delta flights via its Leo satellite business, starting with 500 aircraft in 2028, without disclosing terms (Alison Sider/Wall Street Journal)

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The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft's business software unit to assess whether it should be designated with "strategic market status" (Financial Times)

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5 new PS5 games to play in April 2026

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2 seemingly innocent words in the official description for Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot have me worried

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Apple at 50: a visual history

The Verge - All Posts

Beijing-based AI company Z.ai reports 2025 revenue of ~$105M, below ~$109M est., and net loss up 60% YoY to ~$680M, vs. ~$545M est., amid aggressive spending (Bloomberg)

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Alibaba's new Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model, which processes text, audio, images, and video, is proprietary, marking a shift away from its open-source strategy (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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London-based 9fin, which offers AI tools to help credit traders and investors originate new business efficiently, raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3B valuation (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

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The US' GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, developed by RTX for $8B+, remains non-operational nine months after the Space Force took ownership (Stephen Clark/Ars Technica)

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Iran mobilizes its hackers to sow chaos, gather intel, and find targets; ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs says Iran is "throwing everything they have at this" (Financial Times)

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SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an "anomaly", following a similar incident in December; the satellite likely exploded (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

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UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)

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Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities

The Next Web

Amsterdam-based Nebius announces a $10B, 310MW data center in Lappeenranta, Finland, built by developer Polarnode and set to begin phased operations in 2027 (Reuters)

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Wearable maker Whoop raised $575M led by Collaborative Fund at a $10.1B valuation and says it hit $1B in ARR by 2025's end; 60% of its 2025 sales were non-US (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

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Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete

The Next Web

Raspberry Pi reports 2025 revenue up 25% YoY to $323.2M, driven by demand in the US and China; its stock is down 21% in the past year due to memory chip costs (Bloomberg)

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A supply chain attack compromises HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency and deploying a multi-stage payload (Socket)

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Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030

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