Tech

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, focusing on money flowing to networks backing terror groups like Yemen's Houthis (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-11 Iran Terrorism

Meta, the Royal Thai Police, the FBI, and the US DOJ disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia, disabling 150K+ accounts and arresting 21 individuals (www.axios.com)
2026-3-11 Asia Thailand FBI Southeast Asia

Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 (fortune.com)
2026-3-11 Startup

Meta adds more scam detection tools to its platforms, including unrecognized device linking warnings on WhatsApp and Facebook friend request warnings (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-11 Facebook WhatsApp

Build cybersecurity skills with InfoSec4TC while it's on sale for $53 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11

Documents and a source: a foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2023; the FBI confirms a “cyber incident” (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-11 Hacker FBI

Valve Faces Second, Class-Action Lawsuit Over Loot Boxes (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11

Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30+ sources; a source says Codex had $1B+ in annualized revenue by January's end (www.wired.com)
2026-3-11

Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark combining its societal impacts, red team, and economic research teams (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-11

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Startup Insurance Paris

Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 Nintendo

Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11

Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is probing claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-3-11

Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 China AI chatbot

A 1,300-Pound NASA Spacecraft To Re-Enter Earth's Atmosphere (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 British Pound NASA

A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November as head of industrial compute and is helping guide the company's infrastructure efforts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 Intel

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-3-11 India AI

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-11 AI

Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-11 AI

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (blog.google)
2026-3-11 France India Google New Zealand Canada Chrome Spain

Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 China

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-11 AI

After Outages, Amazon To Make Senior Engineers Sign Off On AI-Assisted Changes (slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Amazon AI

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-11 Startup AI

A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 China

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (spectrum.ieee.org)
2026-3-11 Intel

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92 (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11

How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-11

Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (www.trendforce.com)
2026-3-11 Retail

Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data (it.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Intel

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