Emma Roth / The Verge: Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders that were set for April 9 due to concerns about Trump’s tariffs but the June 5 launch date remains unchanged  —  Nintendo says preorders will no longer start on April 9th, but the console’s June 5th release date is unchanged. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Trump’s tariffs may reduce ad spending on Meta platforms, which rely heavily on SMBs globally; 10% of Meta’s 2023 revenue was from Chinese advertisers like Temu  —  Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, would not seem to be in the line of fire from tariffs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $15.8M seed led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase, Circle, and others participating  —  Stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies pegged to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar, are all the buzz in crypto.  After fintech giant Stripe acquired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: GitHub announces “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch from the base GPT-4o to other AI models  —  GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub’s AI coding assistant, could soon become costlier for some users. Lees verder op Tech Meme