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Memo: CEO Lip-Bu Tan flattens Intel's leadership team, with important semiconductor groups reporting directly to him, and names Sachin Katti as CTO and AI chief (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Techmeme

US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Gigantamax Snorlax counters, weakness, and battle tips in Pokémon Go

Polygon - All

Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others over the past year to fund Llama training costs in exchange for incentives, as part of a "Llama Consortium" (The Information)

Techmeme

Apple Intelligence features, such as Writing Tools, are no longer available in Meta's iOS apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Techmeme

Celebrating Our Collective Impact in 2024: A Heartfelt Thank You!

Humble Bundle Blog

CFPB workers are receiving mass layoff notices

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to "delete" (Makena Kelly/Wired)

Techmeme

Google’s big problems, briefly explained

Vox - All

OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and "occasional resource unavailability" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants

THE CITY - All

Trump vs. the Fed, briefly explained

Vox - All

Sinners’ credits scenes give the vampire movie a Return of the King spin

Polygon - All

Trump-Ordered Halt to Wind Power Construction Casts Shadow on Offshore Project

THE CITY - All

Here are the best robot vacuum deals available right now

The Verge - All Posts

Tesla’s spring update activates adaptive high beams that won’t blind oncoming drivers

The Verge - All Posts

The best Android phones

The Verge - All Posts

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, with support for Canvas for working on text or code; developers can disable thinking or set a token limit for it (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Techmeme

Marvin Sapp Turns Viral Controversy Into A Song — But Not Everyone's Praising Him

The Root

15 Black Beloved Celebrities Who Seem Supremely Out of Touch Lately

The Root