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Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Is Iran War Nearing Its End? | The China Show 4/1/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747) (github.com)
· hn · HN
Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide (ccunpacked.dev)
· hn · HN
Indian Rupee Set for More Chaos as Banks Unwind $30 Billion in Arbitrage Trades (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
John Aylward’s Sona Plans Private Credit Push Into Japan Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Babbel Promo Code: Up to 65% Off in April 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
Apple Marks 50th Anniversary With Animated Homepage Tribute (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Grain Prices Rise as Weak US Plantings Add to Iran War Concerns (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Asian Credit-Default Swaps Head for Biggest Drop in 11 Months (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Paul McCartney Blazes Through Career-Spanning Set at Apple Park for 50th Anniversary Celebrations (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Asian Stocks Jump on Iran War Offramp | The Asia Trade 4/1/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Four Passover Questions as the Iran War Nears Endgame (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
OSL Group Eyes Global Stablecoin Payments Platform (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Indonesia’s B50 Pivot Shows War Is Stoking Global Biofuel Demand (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ferraris, Advil and AI Chips: 10 Companies to Watch Right Now (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sheryl Sandberg: The AI gender gap is about recognition (axios.com)
· axios
I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI (neuberg.ai)
· hn · HN
Dbrand really wants you to ‘Touch Grass’ again this year (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Apple confirms iOS 18 update to patch DarkSword exploit for users who haven’t upgraded to iOS 26 (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Iron Ore Extends Gains After Best Month Since September 2024 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Watch Military Assets, Not Words, on Iran War: Professor (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Real Chance of Prolonged Iran Conflict: UBS Analyst (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Farida: Iran Able to Claim 'Narrative War' Successfully (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
BRICS-Led Development Bank Touts Yuan Funding for Global South (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Adjusts Studio Display XDR Pricing Weeks After Launch (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Copper Rises as Trump Floats Timeline for US to End Iran Attacks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
datasette-extract 0.3a0 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
datasette-enrichments-llm 0.2a0 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT (geekbench.com)
· hn · HN
Aditya Birla Trading Arm Beefs Up Iron Ore Desk in Asia (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
datasette-llm-usage 0.2a0 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Emerging Assets Eye First Gain in Five Days on War Easing Hopes (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Blackstone, Ares, Rivals Grilled by Congress Over Private Credit (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
‘There’s No Other Choice’: War-Hit Asian Buyers Grab Russian Oil (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Malta is opposing EU plans to centralize crypto supervision under ESMA, seeing it as a politically motivated assault on its success in attracting crypto firms (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
datasette-llm 0.1a5 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Blossom Health, developer of an AI copilot for psychiatrists, raises $20M to expand clinical support and admin automation nationwide (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Private credit smart contract developer Valinor raises $25M (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Apple TV: Brandon Sanderson reveals Mistborn pre-production details (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Apple to Issue Rare iOS 18 Software Update for DarkSword Exploit (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Medical AI evaluation platform Qualified Health raises $125M in Series B led by NEA (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Australia Passes Law to Trade, Stock Fuel Alongside Rare Earths (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Woodside Says North West Shelf Back Online After Cyclone Impact (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
"The Axios Show": Jamie Dimon defends Iran war as overdue (axios.com)
· axios
RBI’s FX Curbs Jolt Indian Bonds, Bank Stocks, Offshore Dollar Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
eMed, the telemedicine company led by former X CEO, raises $200M in Series A at $2B+ valuation (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Report: Apple less exposed as Iran war threatens India’s smartphone exports (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
BlackRock Grows Australia Wealth Fund Mandate 74% in Two Years (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Samsung, SK Hynix Lift Korean Stocks as Iran War-End Hopes Grow (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
London-based debt intelligence AI '9fin' raises $170M in Series C, reaching $1.3B valuation (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
AI infrastructure cloud cost optimizer ScaleOps raises $130M at $800M+ valuation (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Legal AI transcript analysis startup Steno raises $49M in Series C (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Blockchain and fintech payment infrastructure provider Tazapay raises $36M total in Circle-led Series B extension round (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Australia PM to Address Nation as Iran War Pushes Oil Higher (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump (Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned (old.reddit.com)
· hn · HN
Quoting Soohoon Choi (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager (openai.com)
· openai
Obsidian and Cursor had a baby. It's open source (cushionmd.com)
· hn · HN
Japan Shares Climb as Trump’s Iran Comments, Tankan Boost Mood (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
We intercepted the White House app's traffic. 77% of requests go to 3rd parties (atomic.computer)
· hn · HN
An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
China Factory Activity Gauge Slows as Iran War Threatens Exports (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Subprime Lender Goeasy Sees Elevated Writeoffs Before Business Improves (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Indonesia Offers Three-Year Timeline to Lift Public Float to 15% (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Trump Says US Will Leave Iran Within Two to Three Weeks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won't be far behind (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
Analysis: half of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, including China's Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways (wired.com)
· wired
U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security' (npr.org)
· hn · HN
OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 (OpenAI) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years (science.org)
· hn · HN
Asia Manufacturing Holds Up But Cracks Show as War Lifts Prices (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
A suspected system failure caused a number of Baidu robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes (Zeyi Yang/Wired) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Singapore Home Prices Rise at Slower Pace Despite Ongoing Boom (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to offer a driverless service (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
India’s Rupee Seen Sliding to 100 per Dollar as Oil Prices Surge (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight (wsj.com)
· wsj
Engineer Brings Lightning Port to iPhone 17 Pro (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’ (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool (wired.com)
· wired
Stent-based neurostimulation device developer HICKY secures funding from Tokyo Wellness Impact Fund and others (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Trump Has No Good Options: UNSW's Genauer (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications (Pieter Haeck/Politico) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Google making screen-less Fitbit band & here’s Steph Curry wearing it  (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
CFTC ‘Watching’ Oil Futures Trading Spikes, Agency Official Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Kumonosu Corporation raises ¥165M for its 3D measurement solutions business (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
CRISP, operator of custom salad chain 'Crisp Salad Works', raises ¥3.7B in total (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Semiconductor wafer inspection tech company Photo electron Soul completes ~¥900M fundraise (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
KOEDA raises funding from Mitsubishi UFJ Capital to develop organ-fixation anchors for gastrointestinal diseases (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Iran Threats to Attack Microsoft, Google, Oracle in Middle East (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Brazil’s Braskem Said to Plan Court Protection Against Creditors (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Beam for Fusion raises ¥50M seed round to develop neutral beam injection devices for fusion reactors (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
OpenAI’s Fundraising; The (Dismal) IPO Class of 2021 (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Apple Turns 50 Today: Reflecting on Each Decade's Biggest Moments (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
The Year Is Off to the Strongest Start for Big Deals Ever (wsj.com)
· wsj
America Now Has an EV Rust Belt. High Gas Prices Won’t Rescue It. (wsj.com)
· wsj
Your Summer Travel Is About to Be Hit With Fuel Surcharges (wsj.com)
· wsj
Anthropic is having a month (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Hopes for Offramp as Trump Says US Will Leave Iran (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
CFTC Top Cop Warns Against Insider Trading on Prediction Markets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
OpenAI Bets Big on Building an Everything App (macstories.net)
· macstories
3DC completes Series A second close with investment from Toho Acetylene to accelerate mass production of next-gen carbon material GMS (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
The AirPods Pro 3 are nearly matching their best-ever price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (theverge.com)
· theverge
Spectee completes ¥1.6B E2 round for supply chain risk management cloud 'Spectee SCR' (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
AirTag 2 gets its first firmware update since January launch (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Iran War Unwinds a Year of Investor Bets on Trump’s Tariffs (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sequoia Capital Names Former Leader Leone as Chairman  (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Johnson digs in after GOP resistance torpedoes DHS funding deal (axios.com)
· axios
Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Singapore Weighs Adding Gold Storage for Global Central Banks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Sequoia Capital Names Former Leader Leone as Chairman (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Some Google Fi users lose mobile data in ‘SIM card is no longer active’ outage  (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Ollama adopts MLX for faster AI performance on Apple silicon Macs (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Australia Manufacturing Slips to Contraction on War Disruptions (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Optimism for Iran War Offramp Set to Lift Asia Markets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’ (businessinsider.com)
· daringfireball
Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
War Fails to Dent Malaysian shipper’s IPO, Expansion Plans (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple says it will push out rare "backported" patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS (Andy Greenberg/Wired) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Amazon is offering up to 50 percent off chargers from Anker and others for its Big Spring Sale (theverge.com)
· theverge
How Australia Uses Claude: Findings from the Anthropic Economic Index (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Apple among US firms Iran labels ‘terrorist companies’ as it threatens attacks (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Gold Holds Three-Day Gain After Trump Signals End to Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Trump Says US Will Leave Iran Within Two to Three Weeks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
‘Guardian’ Apps Aim to Stop AI Agents From Going Rogue (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Asian Stocks Set to Track US Rally on Iran Hopes: Markets Wrap (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent (theverge.com)
· theverge
How an Unusual Fitness Deal Came Together (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Oil Steadies as Traders Weigh Outlook for Resolution to Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Report: Apple set to outperform broader notebook market amid worsening shipment outlook (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy (Chris Metinko/Axios) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Why Carson Block Is Placing Bearish Bets on Credit ETFs (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
You can grab a four-pack of Govee’s color-changing smart bulbs for just $27 (theverge.com)
· theverge
RFK Jr. wants Americans to use peptides that were banned over safety risks (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
Tech giant Oracle makes 'significant' job cuts (bbc.com)
· bbc-tech
Price of Brent Should Be Higher to Reflect Situation in Iran War, Says Ellen Wald (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Artemis II Countdown: How and When to Watch the Launch (wired.com)
· wired
Dinosaur Polo Club has released a new co-op game and it's free (engadget.com)
· engadget
Big Drug Companies Hunting for Deals Are Lowering Their Sights (wsj.com)
· wsj
Opinion | Trump and the Hormuz Stakes (wsj.com)
· wsj
Food Industry is 'Crazy and Wild' as Costs, Prices Rise, Says Stew Leonard's CEO (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
New York Sends Jet Fuel to England in Unusual War Trade Reroute (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Singapore’s Circulate Capital Raises $220 Million for Asia Fund (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
RAM Is the New Bearer Bond (theatlantic.com)
· daringfireball
MSCI Names Greece a Developed Market for First Time Since 2013 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Backrooms trailer combines creepypasta dread and A24 prestige horror (engadget.com)
· engadget
Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
America’s Decade-Long AI War Efforts Get a Trial by Fire (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Seeing Transformative M&A: Freshfields' Ethan Klingsberg (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Starlink satellite breaks apart into "tens of objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly" (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
NASA's Artemis II to Return to Moon in Bet on Agency's Future (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Oscar nominee Stellan Skarsgård to star in untitled Apple TV thriller series (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1 (wired.com)
· wired
OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data (nautil.us)
· hn · HN
Carson Block Lays Out Bearish Credit ETF Bets Amid AI Fears (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security intelligence" for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
datasette-llm 0.1a4 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Iran Impact Hitting Those at Bottom of 'K-Shaped Economy Hardest, Says Peter Atwater (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
A dot a day keeps the clutter away (scottlawsonbc.com)
· hn · HN
Pixel Watch March/April 2026 update rolling out for LTE models (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Stocks Jump on Hopes Iran War May Soon Be Over (wsj.com)
· wsj
RH Reports Tariff, Weather Impacts in Fourth Quarter, Projects First-Quarter Revenue Decline (wsj.com)
· wsj
You can now use ChatGPT with Apple’s CarPlay (theverge.com)
· theverge
OpenAI raises $122B to accelerate the next phase of AI (openai.com)
· hn · HN
Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs (prismml.com)
· hn · HN
Beyond Meat Logs Lower Sales, Will Miss Annual Report Filing Deadline (wsj.com)
· wsj
Wells Fargo Unleashes Pent-Up Power in Crucial Repo Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Watch Tim Cook ring the Nasdaq Opening Bell as part of Apple’s 50th anniversary celebrations (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
llm-all-models-async 0.1 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Marvell (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
KPMG Faces Allegations of Blown Audit in Private Credit Collapse (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ark ETFs to Add OpenAI Stake as Retail Investors Chase Tech Boom (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack) (ministack.org)
· hn · HN
iOS 26.4 has convenient change for iPhone personal hotspot users (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Opinion | The Iran War Doesn’t Have to Be a Rerun of ‘That ’70s Show’ (wsj.com)
· wsj
llm 0.30 (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Nike Third-Quarter Profit Declines as Weak Demand in China Drags On (wsj.com)
· wsj
Bond Traders Ditch Inflation Bets as Oil Surge Threatens Growth (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran President Reiterates Guarantees Sought Before Ending War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
He-Man gets an origin story in Masters of the Universe trailer (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
Toyota's still trying to make hydrogen fuel cells happen (engadget.com)
· engadget
JSSE: A JavaScript Engine Built by an Agent (p.ocmatos.com)
· hn · HN
9to5Mac Daily: March 31, 2026 – iOS 26.5 beta 1 changes, more (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Markets Surge to Close Ugly Month | Closing Bell (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
GFL Environmental Said to Near Buyout of Texas Waste Management Firm (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
AT&T Pledges Up to $2 Billion to Upgrade Emergency Cellular Network (wsj.com)
· wsj
OpenAI Says Latest Funding Round Raised $122 Billion at $830 Billion Valuation (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
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