Tech

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (www.axios.com)
2026-4-9 Facebook Instagram

In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will “launch in mid-2026”, after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-9 Amazon

Webinar: From noise to signal - What threat actors are targeting next (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 Samsung Thailand AI Vietnam

Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-9 Spotify

Anthropic Loses Appeals Court Bid To Temporarily Block Pentagon Blacklisting (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Pentagon

Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-9 Alibaba AI

Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-9 AI

Enhance your online privacy with five years of AdGuard VPN for just $34.97 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9 VPN

A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-9 AI

Eurail says December data breach impacts 300,000 individuals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the high energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced it in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 Energy Nvidia

Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic (www.axios.com)
2026-4-9

Hackers exploiting Acrobat Reader zero-day flaw since December (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

Vinted reports 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to €1.1B, Gross Merchandise Value up 47% YoY to €10.8B, and net profit down 19% YoY to €62M, as it expands in Europe (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-9 Europe

YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a “live selfie” recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo (9to5google.com)
2026-4-9 AI YouTube

Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-9

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no cameras; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 AI Tencent

Apple's Foldable iPhone Is 'On Track' To Launch In September (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 iPhone Apple

Hackers steal $3.6 million from crypto ATM giant Bitcoin Depot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9 Bitcoin

Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9 Microsoft

As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-9 AI

A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as new monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing is developed (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-9

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 Japan AI

TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-9 Nvidia

UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 AI Iran

John Deere To Pay $99 Million In Monumental Right-To-Repair Settlement (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9

Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results” as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9

A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-9 Startup

Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed last year, at a $300M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-9 AI

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