Techmeme

Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant surges ~57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$2.6B in its IPO, the largest in the city so far this year (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a $10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial $6.2B raise in November, at a $38B post-money valuation (Financial Times)
In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, "will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits (Emily Steel/New York Times)
John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (CNBC)
OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering (Apple)
Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (Apple)
Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ (The GitHub Blog)
Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled since Jan. (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...)
RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated (André Beganski/Decrypt)

Wired

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Hyundai Ioniq 3 2026: Price, Specs, Availability
Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?
We Love the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2, Especially at $50 Off
Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once
The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad
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Engadget

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in a broad deal
Google brings Gemini in Chrome to users in Asia and the Pacific
John Ternus will be CEO of Apple when Tim Cook steps down this fall
Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service
Sony will require age checks in the UK and Ireland to access PlayStation communication features
Ubisoft will officially reveal the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake on April 23
LinkedIn's new Crosscheck feature lets premium subscribers test competing AI models for free
Meta is testing a WhatsApp Plus subscription that mostly focuses on cosmetic upgrades
The FAA grounds Blue Origin New Glenn rocket after failure to put payload in orbit
Ball x Pit's next update adds 11 more balls to the fray on April 27
Deezer says AI-made songs make up 44 percent of daily uploads
DaVinci Resolve 21 hands-on: A viable Lightroom alternative for casual users
Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones review: Almost the perfect floor cleaner for tiny apartments
The Elden Ring movie hits theaters on March 3, 2028
Artemis II commander shares a remarkable video of Earth vanishing behind the Moon
Apple could be fined up to $38 billion by Indian antitrust regulator
The Mandalorian and Grogu director used Apple Vision Pro to preview the film in IMAX
GoPro’s Mission 1 camera series will start at $600
Blue Origin landed its recycled New Glenn booster but failed to put payload in orbit
The NSA is reportedly using Anthropic's new model Mythos
Beijing's robot half-marathon is back for its second year with far less embarassing results
Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain
The next Mac Studio and MacBook Pro releases could be postponed by several months
Tesla is rolling out its Robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
SNK's Neo Geo console remake works with original cartridges and HDMI
Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
Apple avoids a second import ban for its redesigned smartwatches in latest court ruling
DOJ refuses to help French authorities in criminal probe of X
A comet gets destroyed by the sun, data centers endanger the Potomac River, and more science news
Cyberpunk platformers, gallivanting geckos and other new indie games worth checking out
15 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song
The PBS Artemis II documentary is streaming on YouTube
A lot of you panic-bought PCs to avoid RAMaggedon 2026
Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages
NASA restarts work to support Europe's uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI
Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era
Anthropic now has a design assistant too
Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
Donut Lab's battery claims reportedly subject of whistleblower complaint
TCL's RGB-Mini LED TVs will start at $8,000
Engadget Podcast: Allbirds goes from shoes to AI
The Morning After: Our verdict on the DJI Osmo Pocket 4
PSA: Stop using your Casely Power Pods wireless charger immediately
Reed Hastings is leaving Netflix after 29 years
Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac
Call of Duty movie arrives on June 30, 2028
Blackmagic Camera for iOS now has a companion Watch app
Meta is giving Threads on web a redesign that finally adds direct messages

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