Tech

How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT (www.natesilver.net)
2026-4-7

Samsung's Messages App Is Shutting Down (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Samsung

Microsoft fixes Classic Outlook bug causing email delivery issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Germany

A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 CFTC

Microsoft removes Support and Recovery Assistant from Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (www.axios.com)
2026-4-7 AI

Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-7 Australia Netflix New Zealand Canada Philippines

More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 U.S.

Microsoft links Medusa ransomware affiliate to zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

Drift $280M crypto theft linked to 6-month in-person operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Peter Thiel Is Betting Big On Solar-Powered Cow Collars (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Solar

CISA orders feds to patch Fortinet flaw exploited in attacks by Friday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-7 Tax AI

Docs: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of their revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-7

OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (stratechery.com)
2026-4-7 Twitter

Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS (slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7 Google Amazon Intel

Why Simple Breach Monitoring is No Longer Enough (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-6 AI

10 Times the Placebo Effect Fooled Modern Science (listverse.com)
2026-4-6

Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 Linux Intel

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (www.ft.com)
2026-4-6 Russia Ukraine Africa Cryptocurrency

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath (www.newyorker.com)
2026-4-6

Protect up to 9 devices from ads and tracking for just $16 in this AdGuard deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-6

Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (cointelegraph.com)
2026-4-6 China Apple Iran P2P Uganda

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-6 Tax AI

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-6 Japan Startup AI Robot

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