Tech

A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-21 Uber

Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21 Apple Tim Cook

OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS (9to5mac.com)
2026-4-21

Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21 AI

Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering (www.apple.com)
2026-4-21 Apple

Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ (github.blog)
2026-4-21 Microsoft GitHub

John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (www.businesswire.com)
2026-4-21 Apple Tim Cook

Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-21 Amazon

Docs: Microsoft intends to pause student and paid individual tier signups for GitHub Copilot, tighten limits, and then move from request to token-based billing (www.wheresyoured.at)
2026-4-21 Microsoft GitHub

RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated (decrypt.co)
2026-4-21

Deezer Says 44% of Songs Uploaded To Its Platform Daily Are AI-Generated (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21 AI

The Gentlemen ransomware now uses SystemBC for bot-powered attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-21

A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-21 Far-right

Seiko USA website defaced as hacker claims customer data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-21 U.S. Hacker

Trump Administration Begins Refunding $166 Billion In Tariffs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21 Trump

Palantir Posts Bond Villain Manifesto On X (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21

Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-21 Amazon California

10 Times Animals Accidentally Triggered Major Human Disasters (listverse.com)
2026-4-21

Allbirds' Move To AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy (slashdot.org)
2026-4-21 AI

A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (www.a16z.news)
2026-4-21

Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License (www.kimi.com)
2026-4-21

WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-21 WhatsApp

Robots Beat Human Records At Beijing Half-Marathon (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21 Robot

NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Blacklist (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-21

Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-21 AI

Microsoft: Teams increasingly abused in helpdesk impersonation attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-21 Microsoft

Sources: UK-based CuspAI, which aims to use AI for discovering new materials, is in discussions to raise at least $200M, taking its valuation to over $1B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-21 AI

China's iQiyi plans to overhaul its streaming service into an AI content hub, with an app redesign and Nadou Pro AI tool handling “every aspect of film-making” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-21 China AI

The backup myth that is putting businesses at risk (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-21

A look at creators and organizations warning of AI's existential threats to humanity; some organizations sponsor social media posts and partner with influencers (wapo.st)
2026-4-21 AI

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