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NYT Mini crossword answers, hints for March 17, 2025

Mashable Tech

national park that's larger than the entirety of Rhode Island The answer is Grand. Saharan country whose capital is Tripoli The answer is Libya. Pitt of "Moneyball" The answer is Brad. With 2-Down, U.S. Figure of speech The answer is Idiom. Baked (barbecue side dish) The answer is Beans. Down Oil-rich peninsula The answer is Arabia.

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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

The Verge

The source of all these stories is a 548-page report from the United Nations Security Council that details the tail end of the Second Libyan Civil War, covering a period from October 2019 to January 2021. Autonomous drone attacked soldiers in Libya all on its own,” read one headline. And why is this incident in Libya special?

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

TechCrunch

The startup has also teamed up with Stearns Bank National Association as it works on developing “expanded access” to money movement, digital banking and card issuance products “via easily embeddable APIs, widgets and pre-approved customer interfaces.”. Vo’s goal is that if this can be nailed down in the U.S.,

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

It is part of the AfDB’s ‘ Africa Information Highway ’ initiative, which enabled the introduction of live data links between the AfDB, National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and relevant ministries in all 54 countries. Is Open Data Just A Flash in the Pan Movement?

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Trump just drove a truck through Congress’s massive tariff loopholes

Fast Company Tech

Instead, it explicitly gives those powers to Congress alone, awarding it the authority to set duties and imposts (taxes on foreign goods) and to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations. But Trump isnt getting Congress to pass laws imposing these tariffs on foreign importshes doing it by executive order, acting entirely on his own.

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Chip stocks update: Nvidia, AMD, TSMC, Intel share prices fall after Trump’s export license demand

Fast Company Tech

According to a March 2024 publication by the United States Department of Commerces Bureau of Industry and Security, D:5 countries comprise over two dozen nations, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, Russia, and Venezuela.

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