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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

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 AI

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (www.axios.com)
2026-4-9 AI

Valve Releases Native Steam Link App For Apple's Vision Pro (games.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Apple

Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-9

Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY (variety.com)
2026-4-9

New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-9 New York

Apple and Lenovo Have the Least Repairable Laptops, Analysis Finds (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-9 Apple Lenovo

Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-9 China Alibaba AI

Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; the $60M April 7 contract is under dispute (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 Iran

An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto of $1 per barrel for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 Iran

AWS launches Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System to let applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems (www.geekwire.com)
2026-4-9 Amazon AI

Is a $30,000 GPU Good at Password Cracking? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-9

Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-8 Alibaba AI

X is rolling out worldwide automatic post translation powered by xAI's Grok models, and updates its iOS image editor to add tools like drawing and blurring (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-8 IOS

Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: comfortable design, Xbox Full Screen beats Windows 11, and affordable, but sleep/wake issues, weak display, and average performance (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-4-8 Xbox

UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 U.S. AI

2TB of lifetime FileJump cloud storage is $90 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8

CIA Reportedly Used Secret Quantum Tool To Find Downed Airman in Iran (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Iran Quantum

A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Korea IPO AI Robot

Microsoft rolls out fix for broken Windows Start Menu search (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 Microsoft

Anthropic's Mythos Preview is not a publicity stunt, and sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-8 Trump

GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-8

AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing (www.wired.com)
2026-4-8 Italy AI Spain

TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8

Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 AI

An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-8 U.K. Bitcoin

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