Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox rolls out new parental controls, including to let parents block and report people on their child’s friends list, building on changes it made in 2024 — They’ll be able to block specific experiences, too. … Roblox is introducing new parental controls that give parents more tools …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Documents: the NLRB froze Janneke Parrish and Cher Scarlett’s cases against Apple pending a review after Trump nominated an Apple attorney as general counsel — National Labor Relations Board freezes pair of disputes after Crystal Carey nominated as agency’s general counsel
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
X users are asking Grok to fact check other users by tagging @grok, often on political or historical topics, as a new passive aggressive way to dunk on others — – People are replying to posts on X — asking Grok: “Is this true?” — It’s a new form of dunking on someone on X, and it’s making the old Twitter an even weirder place.
Financial Times:
In a March 28 brief, X asked SCOTUS to shield user data from US law enforcement without “probable cause”, in Coinbase user James Harper’s long-running case — Billionaire backs case brought by Coinbase client whose data was surrendered to authorities
Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk’s X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street’s usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides — The tech titan can follow his own rules when he is combining two companies he owns, but the merger is still raising dealmaker eyebrows
Financial Times:
In its first post-IPO earnings, Raspberry Pi reports FY 2024 revenue down 2% YoY to $259.5M, pre-tax profit down 57% YoY to $16.3M, and 1.9M Pi 5 units sold — Low-cost computer maker says pandemic-related inventory problems have since been ‘normalised’ — Raspberry Pi’s pre-tax profits fell …
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Indian investment bank The Rainmaker Group says 36+ Indian tech startups like Flipkart and PhonePe with a combined $100B valuation are set to go public by 2027 — – Investment bank Rainmaker sees India IPOs picking up pace — IPOs in India have lost steam this year as stocks have dropped
Wikimedia:
The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers — Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images …
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $27M — GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter …
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
UMC, Taiwan’s second-largest chipmaker, opened a $5B plant in Singapore featuring 22nm and 28nm manufacturing technology; mass production won’t start until 2026 — TAIPEI — Taiwan’s second-largest chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp., on Tuesday opened a $5 billion plant that it describes as the …
