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These are the daily tech headlines for Tuesday, March 24, 2026. I'm Rob Dunwood. The FTC has classified most foreign made consumer routers as a national security risk, adding models to the covered list and banning future U.S. sales. Previously approved models can receive updates until March 1, 2027. This move supports a 2025 White House objective to reduce reliance on foreign powers for core components. Companies can pursue conditional approval by committing to partial US manu. The regulation is anticipated to cause confusion, legal disputes and delays in new router models, impacting both foreign and US Brands that rely on Asian manufacturing. Anthropic has released an autonomous research preview for the code and cowork AI tools in the macOS Claude desktop app for Pro and Mac subscribers. This feature allows Claude, powered by the Claude 3.5 sonnet model, to autonomously perform complex tasks on the user's computer, such as opening files and browsing the web after receiving explicit user permission. The feature requires pairing to the desktop and mobile apps, and although Anthropic notes it's currently slow, they released it early to gather feedback. Nintendo is reducing its Q1 2026 production of the $450 Switch 2 console from 6 million to 4 million units due to lower than expected holiday demand, particularly in the United States. Analysts attributed the soft sales and resulting drop in company shares to a weak software lineup during its crucial first holiday season. The production cut is driven by consumer demand, not chip costs, and is not expected to impact the projected 20 million million units sold for the first fiscal year, though the long term impact of the surprise Pokemon Kokopoeia is still being evaluated. TikTok has introduced several new disruptive advertising formats, including Logo Takeover, Primetime and Top Reach, designed for maximum impact. The platform is also expanding its Pulse Ad suite with Pulse Mentions and Pulse Tastemakers. Despite the potential intrusiveness of these formats, a company VP defends them by saying that brands are joining the conversation as the ads are integrated into the existing content. A verified Survey shows that 50% of VMware users plan to reduce reliance by 2028, citing Broadcom's costly mandatory VCF9 bundle. Despite migrations, Broadcom may limit discounts to retain customers. The October 2027 end of support for VMware 8. X is expected to push reluctant users into VCF9 compliance. Broadcom is banking on migration difficulty to drive upgrades. Remaining users may gain from greater density, lower license costs and unified engineering, but some cannot migrate, a lack of alternatives or low risk tolerance. SK Hynix has placed a record breaking $7.97 billion order with ASML for approximately 30 extreme ultraviolet lithography tools scheduled for delivery by the end of 2027. This crucial equipment will be used to mass produce advanced chips including high bandwidth memory for AI at its new Yongjin and Xiongju plant. The announcement led to a 5.7 rise in Skhenix's shares and a 0.9% increase for ASML. Mozilla is developing CQ, an open source Python project envisioned as a stack overflow for agents, allowing AI agents to share knowledge, reduce redundancy and lower operational cost. Designed by Peter Wilson, the project features a tiered knowledge architecture, uses an SQLite database in its current local setup and includes security measures like anti poisoning features including anomaly detection, diversity and human inline loop verification. Wilson advocates for a central public platform for agents shared knowledge, moving away from their current reliance on human centric platforms like stack overflow. Amazon owned Zoox is significantly expanding its robo taxi service by launching a new early rider program in Austin in Miami, quadrupling its service area in San Francisco and doubling its destinations in Las Vegas to include the sphere, the convention center and airport testing. The company, which has already accumulated nearly 2 million autonomous miles and carried over 350,000 riders, is also mapping and testing in cities like Dallas, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. zoox is seeking federal exemptions to begin charging for rides and has partnered with Uber for future commercial services in Las Vegas, while also using rider feedback to add features like zooxcast and Find My Zoox. And finally, Spotify is rolling out a beta feature called Song DNA to premium users on iOS and Android, which allows fans to trace the creative history of a song by showing associated artists, writers, producers, samples and covers. The feature found in the new playing view aims to boost music discoverability, provide recognition to all creators, and will see a wider out in April as artists label teams gain control over its content. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewshow.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.
