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An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (www.niemanlab.org)
2026-4-9

John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-9

Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 IPO

Memo: xAI is reorganizing its engineering team, as SpaceX SVP Michael Nicolls says xAI is “clearly behind”; source: Nicolls has taken the title of xAI president (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-9 SpaceX

Google introduces “notebooks” in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a dedicated space to organize chats and files (9to5google.com)
2026-4-9 Google

'Survivor' Style Corporate Retreat Descends Into Hellish Nightmare (slashdot.org)
2026-4-9

Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-9

A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-9 California

Google: New UNC6783 hackers steal corporate Zendesk support tickets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9 Google

Hackers use pixel-large SVG trick to hide credit card stealer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9 Credit Card

Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupted US Oil, Gas, Water Sites (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Iran

The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research (openaifoundation.org)
2026-4-9 Alzheimer

CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will “for sure” reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after “strong demand” from individuals in its latest funding round (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-9 IPO Retail

NYT Claims Adam Back Is Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto (slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Bitcoin

A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (www.cnn.com)
2026-4-9 China Hacker

Amazon Is Ending Support For Older Kindles (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Amazon

New macOS stealer campaign uses Script Editor in ClickFix attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-9 Greece Ban

Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During Ceasefire (slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Bitcoin Iran

Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-9 AI

Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other infrastructure to help businesses build and deploy AI agents at scale (www.wired.com)
2026-4-9 AI

An AI tool to replace your multiple subscriptions for $100 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9 AI

CISA orders feds to patch exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw by Sunday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

Meta Debuts 'Muse Spark', First AI Model Under Alexandr Wang (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 AI

Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an “advisory role” at the end of June (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-9 Microsoft

13-year-old bug in ActiveMQ lets hackers remotely execute commands (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-9 Amazon

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Microsoft

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-9 AI

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-9

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