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Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Android China Apple

FBI Is Buying Location Data To Track US Citizens, Director Confirms (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 FBI

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (www.wired.com)
2026-3-19 chatbot Walmart

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study” (www.anthropic.com)
2026-3-19 AI

LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-19 LinkedIn

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Google AI

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount “staggering” (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-19 Italy

Aura confirms data breach exposing 900,000 marketing contacts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (www.thurrott.com)
2026-3-19 Android IOS AI Browser

Cloudflare Appeals Piracy Shield Fine, Hopes To Kill Italy's Site-Blocking Law (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Italy

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Google

Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after industry PACs spent $18M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 AI

New Windows 11 Bug Breaks Samsung PCs, Blocking Access To C: Drive (it.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Samsung

Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, vs. $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19

UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 AI

CISA orders feds to patch Zimbra XSS flaw exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-3-19 Startup

Meta Is Shutting Down VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 VR

ConnectWise patches new flaw allowing ScreenConnect hijacking (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Get a refurbished Chromebook as a backup while it's just $60 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Meta makes its Meta Lab NYC pop-up on Fifth Avenue a permanent flagship location after signing a 10-year lease; it opened its first flagship store in LA in 2025 (wwd.com)
2026-3-19

Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer following a CFTC demand; the company has expanded its legal team in recent months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 CFTC

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI does purchase “commercially available information” that can be used to track people's location history (www.politico.com)
2026-3-19 FBI Senate

SaaS Apocalypse Could Be OpenSource's Greatest Opportunity (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 SaaS

Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-19 Facebook YouTube Instagram

Director Coerte Voorhees says he is using AI to feature Val Kilmer in “a significant part” in an indie film, with the cooperation of the late actor's estate (variety.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Deezer reports a net income of €9M in 2025, its first profit since its 2007 founding, while revenue fell 1.4% YoY to €534M (www.ft.com)
2026-3-19

Sources: Coinbase and Zerohash are among the companies vying to issue Cloudflare's stablecoin, set to launch this year to support payments for the “agentic web” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19 Coinbase

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