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Air France-KLM Submits First Bid for Stake in Portugal’s TAP (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Costa: South Africa Trade Index Down 25% Since Conflict (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
OpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Segantii Insider Trading Case Began on Bank of America Red Flags (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China Tells Private Refiners to Keep Up Fuel Output at All Costs (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
TotalEnergies, Masdar Form $2.2 Billion Asia Renewables Joint Venture (wsj.com)
· wsj
M5 MacBook Air Hits New Low Prices on Amazon With Up to $84 Off (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
TotalEnergies, Masdar Form $2.2 Billion Asia Renewables Joint Venture (wsj.com)
· wsj
Sources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B+; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Markets Rattled As Trump Threatens Escalation in Iran (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Artemis II Moon Launch Is First Step of Bigger Mission (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England say pupils using AI are losing their capacity for core skills like writing (Sally Weale/The Guardian) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Australia Broadens Fuel Tax Cut in Attempt to Shield Consumers (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Apple VP Behind Activity Rings Retiring After Misconduct Claims (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Trump’s Aggressive but Vague Iran Announcement | Insight with Haslinda Amin 04/02/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
FTSE 100 Futures, Pound Fall on War Escalation Worries (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless "spiritual successor" to WordPress, available on GitHub (Cloudflare) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Hong Kong’s Small Builder Debt Woes Mount Despite Property Rally (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model launched within a three-day period, saying it "drastically enhanced" agentic coding (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming (old.reddit.com)
· hn · HN
Photo electron Soul Completes Funding Round of Approximately ¥900 Million for Semiconductor Wafer Inspection Technology (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-en
Asian Nations Jockey For Leverage to Re-Open Strait of Hormuz (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
CEO of Finnish Chocolate Maker Fazer Sees IPO Happening by 2029 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Beam for Fusion Secures ¥50 Million in Seed Round for Development of Neutral Particle Beam Injection Device for Fusion Reactors (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-en
3DC Completes Series A Second Close with Investment from Toho Acetylene—Accelerating Mass Production of Next-Generation Carbon Material GMS (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-en
Spectee Completes ¥1.6 Billion E2 Round Funding for Supply Chain Risk Management Cloud “Spectee SCR” (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-en
March 2026 sponsors-only newsletter (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Barclays Private Bank Singapore Head to Exit Despite Growth Push (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Persian Gulf’s Aluminum Prospects Clouded by War, Says Goldman (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Trump’s Oil Claims on Hormuz 'Nonsense': Energy Analyst (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Exclusive Shed Rain Coupon: 15% Off (wired.com)
· wired
Ring Promo Codes and Discounts: Up to 50% Off (wired.com)
· wired
Hydrow Discount Code: Save Up to $150 | April 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
Western Digital Promo Code: 10% Off (wired.com)
· wired
TurboTax Service Codes: Up to $150 Off | April 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
US Naphtha Exports Surge as Trump’s Military Actions Upend Trade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
OnePlus Promo Code: $70 Off | April 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
Exclusive Lovehoney Discount Codes: 15% Off (wired.com)
· wired
Logitech Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $100 Off (wired.com)
· wired
1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in April (wired.com)
· wired
Womanizer Coupons: Save 15% in April (wired.com)
· wired
France, Japan Align Positions on Iran Ceasefire, Hormuz (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Buy Apple Satellite Partner Globalstar (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Google's $20 per month AI Pro plan just got a big storage boost (engadget.com)
· engadget
Canada’s Energy Trade Push as Iran War Disrupts (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran Has Plenty of Ways To Cause Energy Mayhem: Analyst (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Salomi, a research repo on extreme low-bit transformer quantization (github.com)
· hn · HN
Your sign-up form is a weapon (bytemash.net)
· hn · HN
In Full: Trump's Speech on Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
More students in these majors are switching due to AI: poll (axios.com)
· axios
Private Equity Sales Slump as AI, War Bring New Stress Fractures (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Asian Stocks Rise Ahead of Trump Speech | The Asia Trade 4/2/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep (fff.dmtrkovalenko.dev)
· hn · HN
Japan 10-Year Sovereign Bond Sale Sees Weakest Demand Since May (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker (sunnywingsvirtual.com)
· hn · HN
Email obfuscation: What works in 2026? (spencermortensen.com)
· hn · HN
Trump Threatens to Escalate War in Iran Even As End Is "Close” (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Artemis II mission has started its 10-day journey around the moon (engadget.com)
· engadget
iPhone 18 Pro Reportedly Won't Come in Black (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
India Trading Ban Rocks $149 Billion-a-Day Offshore Rupee Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March (phoronix.com)
· hn · HN
Treasuries Fall as Trump’s Iran Threats Add to Inflation Concern (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China’s Industrial Hub Eyes Coal, Nuclear As Iran War Upends Gas (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Metals Fall as Trump Repeats Threat to Attack Iran Power Plants (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Insider trading or random guy? It doesn’t matter to Polymarket (theverge.com)
· theverge
Trump Threatens to Escalate Iran War, Says End Is Close (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Opinion | Trump Says He Will Finish the Job in Iran (wsj.com)
· wsj
RBI’s Latest Attempt to Shield Rupee May Bring Near-Term Rebound (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Show HN: Semantic atlas of 188 constitutions in 3D (30k articles, embeddings) (constitutionalmap.ai)
· hn · HN
Artemis II to Return to Moon in Big Bet on NASA's Future (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Claude Code Leak (build.ms)
· hn · HN
Cognichip, an AI that designs AI chips, raises $60M from SBI and others (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm (hackaday.com)
· hn · HN
Think Nature raises ~¥380M for biodiversity big data business, backed by Itochu Technology Ventures and others (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Trinity Large Thinking (openrouter.ai)
· hn · HN
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, who paused some data center expansion last year, a decision some say led to its current supply crunch and growth bottleneck (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Tancee completes seed funding round for foreign talent platform (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Physiologus Technologies closes Series A third tranche for home hemodialysis device development, with investment from Toyota Konic (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Sona, which uses AI to streamline shift management for food service and retail, raises $45M in Series B (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Mexico Budget Plan Sees Smaller Fiscal Gap, More Growth in 2027 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured ~41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share, which stood at 55% with ~2.2M cards (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
State Farm Is in Trump’s Crosshairs Over LA Fires (wsj.com)
· wsj
Alphabet Fund In Talks to Lead OpenRouter Investment at $1.3 Billion Valuation (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Artemis II Mission Launches Successfully (wired.com)
· wired
Trump’s Renewed Iran Warning Risks More Volatility, Analysts Say (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (Dan Milmo/The Guardian) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Weather.com/Retro (weather.com)
· hn · HN
A brewery partner for preserving shochu spirits heritage (LINK SPIRITS, Saki Tominaga) (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
An incubator bringing buried Japanese IP to the world (Chammi, Rina Takei) (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Japan's growth potential will be unlocked by women entrepreneurs — Tokyo Women's Venture Growth Program 'APT Women' 10th Cohort Demo Day (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Startups are rebuilding the chemical industry's infrastructure — Sotas' Hiroki Yoshimoto on the data distribution business (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
8 Yamaguchi-based companies compete in Tokyo — technology and ambition at Y!Pitch【Y!Pitch】 (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
'Don't undersell yourself' — leaders from Yamaguchi and Tokyo on nurturing local startups【Y!Pitch】 (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Trump: U.S. will bomb Iran "back to stone ages" over next 2-3 weeks (axios.com)
· axios
China Drains Cash From Economy in Rare Pullback During Oil Shock (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Artemis II successfully launches for historic Moon mission (axios.com)
· axios
Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed (Stephen Morris/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Malaysia’s Anwar Urges Crackdown on Fake News Over Fuel Prices (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
UBS Says Dollar-Yen May Rise to 175 on Extended Oil Disruption (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
NASA Astronauts Reach Orbit in Historic Moon Mission (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Foreigners Chase Malaysian Bonds as War Hits Emerging Markets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools (scottaaronson.blog)
· hn · HN
China’s Worst Tech Earnings in Three Years Signal Tough Comeback (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Trump to Seek War Off-Ramp In Address to Nation (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Chris Espinosa, Employee #8, Profiled in The New York Times (nytimes.com)
· daringfireball
Chris Espinosa, Employee #8, Profiled in The New York Times (nytimes.com)
· daringfireball
Artemis II, NASA's most daring mission in generations, launches to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Samsung announces 2026 Frame TVs and the Pro cost less than last year’s (theverge.com)
· theverge
Mixed OpenAI Investor Signals (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
The Women Who Love the Manosphere (wsj.com)
· wsj
The Women Who Love the Manosphere (wsj.com)
· wsj
Leveraged SK Hynix ETF Tops Global Inflows Over Tesla, Microsoft (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
California Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Report Diversity Data (wired.com)
· wired
Apple Fitness chief Jay Blahnik retiring in July after 13-year tenure (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
The Talk Show: ‘Apple at 50’ (daringfireball.net)
· daringfireball
ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover (old.reddit.com)
· hn · HN
Montana referendum to outlaw corporate campaign contributions [video] (youtube.com)
· hn · HN
Japan Credit Pipeline Slows as Investors Grapple With Volatility (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far (theverge.com)
· theverge
Australian State Triggers Emergency Powers Amid Fuel Crisis (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Cash App launches ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for P2P pay transfers (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
A new C++ back end for ocamlc (github.com)
· hn · HN
Obfuscation is not security – AI can deobfuscate any minified JavaScript code (afterpack.dev)
· hn · HN
Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember (sentence2ipv6.tib3rius.com)
· hn · HN
Amazon ‘in talks’ to acquire Globalstar, and Apple’s stake is a key factor (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
"Special 301" Comments on Nintendo Game Piracy in Asia and Latin America (1994) (archive.gamehistory.org)
· hn · HN
datasette-llm 0.1a6 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Fuel Prices for UK Motorists Rose by Record in March on Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
FTSE Review Looms for Vietnam Stocks as Foreign Outflows Persist (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Korea Offshore Bond Sales Jump to $24 Billion as Maturities Loom (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Pop Mart’s $33 Billion Rout Casts Doubt on Life After Labubu (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Google AI Pro now comes with 5 TB of storage, no price increase (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission (theverge.com)
· theverge
Indian Rupee Set to Hit 100 to the Dollar? (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission (theguardian.com)
· hn · HN
Elon Musk's SpaceX moves to become a publicly traded company (bbc.com)
· bbc-tech
Apple Sports adds support for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Open source CAD for Windows 2000 (SolveSpace) (github.com)
· hn · HN
9to5Mac Daily: April 1, 2026 – iOS 18 update, Siri multitasking (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands (techkettle.blogspot.com)
· hn · HN
Asian Stocks to Rise on Hopes Iran War Nearing End: Markets Wrap (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Gold Holds Four-Day Gain as Trump Sets Stage for Iran War Exit (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Anthropic took down thousands of Github repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Oil Extends Drop as Trump Seeks End to Energy-Roiling Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
datasette-enrichments-llm 0.2a1 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
China Is Taking On Mining Giants to Reorder a $190 Billion Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away (discuss.grapheneos.org)
· hn · HN
'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Variance, which develops AI agents for compliance and fraud investigations, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and joined by YC and others (Ryan Lawler/Axios) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Indie Pass is a new subscription service just for indie games (theverge.com)
· theverge
Danny Funt Details 'Whole New Ballgame' of Online Sports Gambling in 'Everybody Loses' (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
War 'Uncertainty' is More Challenging Playbook Than Downturn, Says Rebecca Homkes (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Fmr. Boston Fed Pres.: Expect 'Reasonably Good' Jobs Data Friday (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Meta alerts iPhone users who downloaded spyware-laced version of WhatsApp (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market (jeffgeerling.com)
· hn · HN
Opinion | The NFL Tests Its Antitrust Exemption (wsj.com)
· wsj
Fmr. US Saudi Arabia Ambassador on What's Next for Iran (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
ASX’s Risk, Compliance Practices ‘Need to Mature,’ Probe Finds (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Google releases Wear OS 6.1 based on Android 16 QPR2 (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Novo VP Weighs In on Approval of Lilly’s Obesity Pill (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records (axios.com)
· axios
Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS) (getdull.app)
· hn · HN
Novo’s New US Chief on Lilly’s Rival Weight-Loss Pill (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
· hn · HN
Opinion | A Mideast Moment of Hope (wsj.com)
· wsj
Opinion | A Canadian CEO Is Lost in Translation (wsj.com)
· wsj
Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 (Nicola M White/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working) (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
KKR Curbs Redemptions in Non-Traded Private Credit Retail Fund (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
New Zealand Signs Cook Islands Agreement to Counter China Deal (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Google increases the storage of its $19.99/month AI Pro subscription plan to 5 TB, up from 2 TB, at no additional cost (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
HN: I simulated a real cancer case and predicted why some tumors didn't respond (github.com)
· hn · HN
More on Apple’s Fun ‘Rewind’ Video (hachyderm.io)
· daringfireball
Republicans announce plan to end record-long DHS shutdown (axios.com)
· axios
Startup funding shatters all records in Q1 (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites (elizabethspiers.com)
· hn · HN
US Drops Sanctions on Venezuela’s Rodríguez as Ties Improve (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Watch new MacBook Neo ads starring the adorable Little Finder Guy (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Stocks Surge Ahead of Trump Iran Remarks | Closing Bell (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Download these ‘Apple at 50’ wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and Mac (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Ben Cohen of the WSJ Tours Apple’s Archive of Prototype Hardware (youtube.com)
· daringfireball
Documents: Intel plans to invest $15M in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel's stake to 9%, following a $35M investment in February (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
Apple Turns 50 Years Old (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Mattress Seller Sleep Number Seeks Rescue Loan After Stock Slump (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Discounted M5 MacBook Pro hits Apple refurb store with key storage distinction (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
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