Tech

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (www.axios.com)
2026-3-18

Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-3-18 AI Pentagon

A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon

Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of Groq chips to the Chinese market that is expected to be available in May and will not be downgraded (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 China Nvidia

Turquoise Health, which offers a healthcare pricing and payments platform, raised a $40M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $95.3M (www.axios.com)
2026-3-18

Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 JPMorgan

Arizona Charges Kalshi With Illegal Gambling Operation (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18

An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30+ countries (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-18

Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Apple

SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Commodity Asset CFTC

Rural Ohioans Seek To Ban Data Centers Through Constitutional Amendment (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 Ban

GlassWorm malware hits 400+ code repos on GitHub, npm, VSCode, OpenVSX (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-18 GitHub

You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-18

Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18

Gamers React With Overwhelming Disgust To DLSS 5's Generative AI Glow-Ups (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 AI

One app, every AI model: 1min.AI is now on lifetime deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Europe sanctions Chinese and Iranian firms for cyberattacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-18 China Europe Iran

Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Mobile

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in the process of restarting manufacturing of its H200 chips for shipments to China and it has received orders from “many customers” (www.axios.com)
2026-3-18 China Manufacturing Nvidia

Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-18

Finance Bros To Tech Bros: Don't Mess With My Bloomberg Terminal (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18

Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-18 China Singapore

Samsung Ends $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold Sales After Just Three Months (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 Samsung

At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI to help AWS reach $600B in annual sales by 2036, double his prior estimate; AWS had revenue of $128.7B in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-3-18

NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained, in a bid to curb VPNs, ahead of the Festival of Fire tied to protests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Iran

Nvidia Expects To Sell 'At Least' $1 Trillion In AI Chips By 2028 (slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 AI Nvidia

Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada (www.engadget.com)
2026-3-18

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost (www.zdnet.com)
2026-3-18

Are Split Spacebars the Next Big Gaming Keyboard Trend? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18

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