- Apple letting the new iPad Pro run macOS would require major tradeoffs and adding touch to Mac would lead to "a lot of flakey software that doesn't really work" (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)
- TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says ASML's new machines, which cost €350M each, are too expensive, and the A16 node, due in late 2026, won't need to use the new machines (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
- Sources and documents: Chinese chipmaker CXMT and others are in the early stages of making high bandwidth memory chips, a major step in China's chip plans (Reuters)
- Yemen is holding back repairs on the key AAE-1 internet cable in the Red Sea during a criminal investigation into the cable owners' alleged Houthi militia ties (Bloomberg)
- AWS details its European "sovereign cloud", designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany, and plans to invest €7.8B in the region by 2040 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Insiders detail the crypto industry's lobbying efforts ahead of the 2024 US elections, as crypto-focused PACs shape the outcome of some key congressional races (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
- Research: Southeast Asian scam syndicates, which typically use forced labor to run online scams like pig butchering, are stealing an estimated $64B annually (James Reddick/The Record)
- Raspberry Pi announces plans for an IPO in London, reporting $265.8M revenue and $43.5M adjusted EBITDA in 2023, and is reportedly seeking a ~$630M valuation (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
- Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- AI search's arrival bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded (Casey Newton/Platformer)
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Amy G. Dala 
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