The day in tech.

Project Ventures, founded by solo GP Shahryar Barati, announced a first close of £1.2m to back pre-seed and seed AI and deeptech startups with close ties to Imperial College London.

Bitcoin traded just above $81,000 after the SEC cleared onchain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks, spurring a short squeeze. NEAR rose about 23% to just above $4 as its cross-chain swap service drew heavy ZEC traffic.

Bitcoin closed above its 50-week moving average for the first time in 45 weeks, trading near $81,450 after a 6% weekly gain and 29% over 35 days. Galaxy Research's Alex Thorn called it a possible end to the bear phase.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation may require over 200 GB for its base install, director Naoki Hamaguchi said at Tokyo Game Show, with one UHD Blu-ray disc plus an additional 100+ GB download. The game launches April 8, 2027.

Samsung has reportedly cut QLED TV production by 80 percent, from 10 million units in 2025 to 2 to 3 million in 2026, as it shifts to Mini LED and RGB Mini LED, with Neo QLED phase-out possible by 2028.

Winamp will relaunch in the first half of 2027 as a new desktop app with a premium streaming subscription powered by Deezer's white-label technology and licensed catalog. The classic player remains available.

A community project called amigaux.org is porting Commodore's Amiga Unix (Amix) to 68040 and 68060 machines, including modern accelerators. It adds a package manager, cross toolchain, and drivers for cards that never had support, with installation from floppy and CD-ROM.

Australia's seventh intergenerational report projects deaths will outnumber births by the 2060s, with population growth slowing to 0.9% and real GDP per person expanding about 1.2% over 40 years, down from 1.5%.

A US court ruled Google need not sell its AdX exchange or DoubleClick for Publishers ad server, instead ordering interoperability, data portability and a monitor. The 106-page judgment, issued after more than nine months of deliberation, requires a status report within 90 days.

A static recompilation of Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber for N64 has reached 99.05% completion, with all 807 main code functions recompiled to C using the N64Recomp toolchain and DeepSeek v4/v4.1 Flash models.