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Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Two More Indian LPG Ships Transit Hormuz Along Iran Coast (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Reportedly Preparing 'Biggest Set of iPhone Revamps' Ever (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
The EC's EU Inc. proposal is a missed opportunity, leaving national courts to interpret corporate rules, and it seems like Brussels has pre-emptively aimed low (Martin Sandbu/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Apple Considered Adding a Camera to the HomePod Years Ago (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K of AMD's MI355 chips, in a bid to "diversify to other chips" as "we have a lot of Nvidia chips" (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
ECB Alert to Iran War’s Second-Round Effects, Guindos Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Store External Storage Prices Spike Amid AI-Driven Shortage (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Singapore-based Grab agrees to buy Delivery Hero's Foodpanda operations in Taiwan for $600M in cash, its first foray outside of its Southeast Asian home market (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Indian media: Indian police arrest two CoinDCX cofounders, after a complainant alleged investment fraud tied to the exchange; CoinDCX calls the claims "false" (Zack Abrams/The Block) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
A profile of AWS at its 20th anniversary, covering its creation, rise to market dominance, response to the ChatGPT disruption, and the future of its AI bets (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
INA: Digital Infrastructure Investment a Key Priority (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Inside Amazon's plan to bring fast delivery to rural America and reduce its reliance on USPS; Amazon aims to have 200 rural delivery hubs serving 13K zip codes (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Foldable iPhone Uses Layered Glass to Reduce Display Crease (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Google signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1GW of "demand response" in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid demand hours (Laila Kearney/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
A look at Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" experiment, where an AI agent runs in a loop iterating and evaluating on training code to optimize a model (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Trump, Tehran Exchange Threats (wsj.com)
· wsj
AirDrop Support Rolling Out to Samsung Galaxy S26 Devices This Week (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Humanoid Maker Unitree Seeks to Raise $610 million in Shanghai IPO (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Emerging Markets Claw Back Losses as Trump Hints at Iran War End (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11 (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Beats now have notes (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Copper Hits Three-Month Low as War Fuels Global Growth Worries (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iranian Missile Strikes Are Costing Big Oil Billions in Lost Revenue (wsj.com)
· wsj
“Collaboration” is bullshit (joanwestenberg.com)
· hn · HN
Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
The Economy Cabin on Airplanes Keeps on Shrinking (wsj.com)
· wsj
Oil prices volatile after Trump's Strait of Hormuz threat (axios.com)
· axios
Tesla, SpaceX Plan to Build New Chip Factory in Texas (wsj.com)
· wsj
Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Pakistan Tells Cricket Fans Stay Home as Fuel Shortage Bites (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Japan’s Topix Enters Correction as Hormuz Fears Amplify Caution (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
These are the best new MacBook deals right now: March 2026 Buyer’s Guide (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Starlette 1.0 skill (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Introducing our Science Blog (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Space Walker Completes Funding Round from JFR MIRAI CREATORS Fund and Others for Reusable Rocket Development (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
LINK-US Raises ¥620M in Series C Extension — Developing Ultrasonic Composite Vibration Bonding Equipment (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Long-running Claude for scientific computing (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Recho Raises ~¥700M in Series A — Developing Voice AI Contact Center Platform (thebridge.jp)
· thebridge-jp
Creating with Sora Safely (openai.com)
· openai
Vibe physics: The AI grad student (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Elliott Said to Take Multibillion-Dollar Stake in Synopsys (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Samsung rolling out AirDrop over Quick Share on Galaxy S26, more devices coming (9to5google.com)
· 9to5mac
Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys and plans to engage with the company to boost its software and service profits (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Samsung rolling out AirDrop over Quick Share on Galaxy S26, more devices coming (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
PCGamer Article Performance Audit (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Gold and Silver Tumble as Mideast War Deepens Inflation Fears (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Apple already has the perfect platform for deploying conversational AI (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Activist Elliott Builds Big Stake in Chip-Design Software Maker Synopsys (wsj.com)
· wsj
Oil Pushes Higher as Clock Ticks on Trump’s Hormuz Ultimatum (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Stock Comp and Software’s Illusory Profits (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Pritzker tries to put past donations to AIPAC behind him (axios.com)
· axios
Airlines Are Already Preparing for an Oil Crisis (wired.com)
· wired
Dems eyeing White House lean into their childhood traumas (axios.com)
· axios
Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Trump to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday (axios.com)
· axios
What new Google Messages features are rolling out [March 2026] (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
iRacing on Vision Pro bringing ‘immersion and fidelity never before seen in sim racing’ (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
JavaScript Sandboxing Research (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Do you want to build a robot snowman? (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Opinion | Chicago’s Minimum-Wage Retreat (wsj.com)
· wsj
Bonds, Stocks Fall as US and Iran Step Up Rhetoric: Markets Wrap (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
DNS Lookup (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
America Movil’s Claro to Buy Desktop SA in $750 Million Deal (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources describe Meta's efforts to build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Poste Bids €10.8 Billion for Full Control of Telecom Italia (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Merge State Visualizer (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Nevada Wins Temporary Ban on Sports Betting on Kalshi (wsj.com)
· wsj
Crimson Desert developer apologizes and promises to replace AI-generated art (engadget.com)
· engadget
Senate votes to advance Mullin's nomination to lead DHS (axios.com)
· axios
Security Bite Podcast: Psylo app is setting out to change private browsing (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
This rumored MacBook Pro upgrade has me excited for the overhaul, and it isn’t OLED (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Mux — Video API for Developers (mux.com)
· daringfireball
‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead.’ (truthsocial.com)
· daringfireball
Elon Musk announces Terafab project he claims will be the 'largest chip manufacturing facility ever' (engadget.com)
· engadget
Amazon Gets Its Biggest Hit Movie Ever With ‘Project Hail Mary’ (wsj.com)
· wsj
Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Half a Gigabyte of Ads (stuartbreckenridge.net)
· daringfireball
Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Paschi Leadership Drama Heats Up as Board to Discuss CEO Future (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Android isn’t killing sideloading, and Google found a near-perfect compromise (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Peptides Are Everywhere. RFK Jr. Wants to Make Them Even Easier to Buy (wsj.com)
· wsj
Trump Says He’ll Send ICE to Airports If Funding Standoff Continues (wsj.com)
· wsj
Apple’s busy March continues with three notable arrivals this week (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Apple to Celebrate 50th Anniversary With 'Elaborate' Party at Apple Park (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Apple CEO Candidate John Ternus is 'Well-Liked' and Helped Reverse 'Declining Product Quality' (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Elon Musk Says Tesla and SpaceX Will Manufacture Chips at ‘Terafab’ (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Opinion | Beijing’s Wind Power Isn’t Only Hot Air (wsj.com)
· wsj
Tech M&A Chilled by AI, Inflation Fears (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Fannie, Freddie Placing Large Bids for Mortgage-Backed Bonds (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’ (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
The pint-sized Sonos Roam 2 is more than 20 percent off this weekend (theverge.com)
· theverge
There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40 (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
The New Weapons of Global Power Are Oil, Rare Earths and Microchips (wsj.com)
· wsj
$5 Diesel is Crushing Truckers. It Will Soon Be Felt Across the Economy. (wsj.com)
· wsj
Washington ignores America's fiscal cliff (axios.com)
· axios
Hedge Fund Fermat Pushes Back Against ‘Unprecedented’ UCITS Plan (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Trump to Iran: Open Hormuz in 48 hours or U.S. bombs power plants (axios.com)
· axios
Apple Stores ‘running low’ on Apple TV, HomePod, and HomePod mini inventory (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year (Yue Wang/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Report: New iPad with A18 chip still on track to launch in first half of 2026 (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Wall Street’s Favorite Emerging-Market Bet Falters on War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple  (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Best Merino Wool Clothing (2026): Base Layers, Hoodies, Jackets & More (wired.com)
· wired
Get the New Book 'Apple: The First 50 Years' for 30% Off on Amazon (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Which Instax Camera Should You Buy? (2026) (wired.com)
· wired
How to Back Up Your Android Phone (2026) (wired.com)
· wired
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Mining the deep ocean (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
This Time, the Hype Around Self-Driving Cars Feels Real (wsj.com)
· wsj
The Best Subscription-Free Home Security Cameras I've Tried (wired.com)
· wired
Give Your Phone a Huge (and Free) Upgrade by Switching to Another Keyboard (wired.com)
· wired
A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets (socket.dev)
· hn · HN
12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2026), Tested by Caffeine Hounds (wired.com)
· wired
How Amazon Is Bringing Fast Delivery to Rural America (wsj.com)
· wsj
Mexico City's 'Xoli' Chatbot Will Help World Cup Tourists Navigate the City (wired.com)
· wired
Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application (github.com)
· hn · HN
Apple Card Offering New Walgreens Bonus (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
iPad 12 With A18 Chip for Apple Intelligence is 'Still Coming This Year' (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Remain 'Ready' to Launch (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business? (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Apple Has Released More Than 10 Products and Accessories This Month (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Flights Are Still Taking Off as Missiles Rain Down in the Middle East (wsj.com)
· wsj
Reuters: ‘Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop’ (reuters.com)
· daringfireball
AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation (bbc.com)
· bbc-tech
Sick of High Gas Prices? EV Deals Are Everywhere Right Now (wsj.com)
· wsj
Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Iran’s Houthi Allies Lie in Wait on Another Key Oil Route: the Red Sea (wsj.com)
· wsj
Using Git with coding agents (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Robert Mueller, who probed Trump as special counsel, dies at 81 (axios.com)
· axios
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple (theverge.com)
· theverge
It’s been 20 years since the first tweet (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Google Search test replaces headlines and website titles with AI (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Reddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problem (engadget.com)
· engadget
Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Indie App Spotlight: ‘Tasks’ adds 50+ app intents, refreshed interface in latest update (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
What to read this weekend: Revisiting Project Hail Mary and The Thing on the Doorstep (engadget.com)
· engadget
Trump's team game planning for potential Iran peace talks (axios.com)
· axios
Apple considered buying Halide to upgrade its native Camera app (engadget.com)
· engadget
A Minecraft theme park will open in London in 2027 (engadget.com)
· engadget
MacBook Neo may be one of Apple’s most inspiring products in quite some time (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Musk offers to pay TSA salaries, as Trump floats ICE at airports (axios.com)
· axios
Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
OpenAI reportedly plans to double its workforce to 8,000 employees (engadget.com)
· engadget
OpenAI’s First Advertisers Can’t Prove ChatGPT Ads Work (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Even if You’re Not Driving, You’re Probably Using Oil (wsj.com)
· wsj
Intel says Crimson Desert devs ignored offers of help to support Arc GPUs (engadget.com)
· engadget
OpenAI Expects to Increase Headcount to Roughly 8,000 This Year (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Payable is the best way to accept PayPal, Stripe, and Square payments in Google Forms – here’s how (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news (engadget.com)
· engadget
AI’s Enthusiasm Chasm (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Twitter turned 20 and I feel nothing (engadget.com)
· engadget
How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
iPhone 18 Pro camera may come with pro software, Apple considered buying Halide (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Compute Costs? No, Caviar and Cocktails: In the Bay Area, AI Splurges on Private Parties (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
These are my favorite budget-friendly iPhone 17e accessories (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Inside Anduril’s Big Gamble: An Ohio Weapons Factory (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Apple @ Work: From rogue Dropbox folders to the File Provider framework (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Iran war's economic shocks could reverberate for a while (axios.com)
· axios
Apple Acquisition Talks, Fraud Accusations: Behind One App Startup’s Nasty Split (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Spyware once used by governments is now spreading to cybercriminals (axios.com)
· axios
Engadget review recap: Lots of Apple devices, Galaxy S26, Dell XPS 16 and more (engadget.com)
· engadget
71 Best Podcasts (2026): True Crime, Culture, Science, Fiction (wired.com)
· wired
The Mojtaba mystery: CIA searches for signs of Iran's new leader (axios.com)
· axios
A retro Starship Troopers shooter, a video store sim and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)
· engadget
Best Protein Bars (2026): Vegan, Gluten-Free, High Fiber (wired.com)
· wired
Aiper Scuba V3 Pool Robot Review: Eye on the Prize (wired.com)
· wired
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us? (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
I Tried DoorDash’s Tasks App and Saw the Bleak Future of AI Gig Work (wired.com)
· wired
Top stories: AirPods Max 2, iOS 26.4 RC, and more (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Apple highlights 13 enhancements coming to iPhone with iOS 26.4 (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck (wired.com)
· wired
DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
'Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat' Almost Makes Corporate Culture Seem Fun (wired.com)
· wired
The 19 Best EVs Coming in 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
News quiz for March 21, 2026 (wsj.com)
· wsj
Chávez celebrations halted as allegations reshape legacy (axios.com)
· axios
Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps (wired.com)
· wired
Apple Wanted to Buy Halide to Boost iPhone 18 Pro's Camera App—Now There's a Lawsuit (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Apple TV Is Now Almost 20 Years Old (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Top Stories: AirPods Max 2, iOS 27 and iPhone Fold Rumors, and More (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Apple Bucks China's Smartphone Slump With 23% Sales Jump (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
The End of Coding: Andrej Karpathy on Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI (youtube.com)
· nopriors
AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games (theverge.com)
· theverge
Anthropic Filing Reveals Negotiations Continued After ‘Supply Chain’ Declaration (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
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