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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

Russia's VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 Russia VPN

Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-6

Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor (www.theregister.com)
2026-4-6 AI Netflix

Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-6

Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to buy Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B contract with Olam (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-6 India Singapore

Artemis Astronauts Enter Moon's Gravitational Pull, Catch First Glimpses of Far Side (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6

Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an “intelligent” ML-based system handles the rollout (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-4-6 Microsoft

China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-6 China Drone

Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-6

Internet Bug Bounty Pauses Payouts, Citing 'Expanding Discovery' From AI-Assisted Research (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 AI

Claude Code Leak Reveals a 'Stealth' Mode for GenAI Code Contributions - and a 'Frustration Words' Regex (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6

A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (www.chinatalk.media)
2026-4-6 China AI Education

Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optimistic New Movie, 'The AI Doc' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 AI

Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optomistic New Movie, 'The AI Doc' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 AI

Will 'AI-Assisted' Journalists Bring Errors and Retractions? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 AI

Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (garymarcus.substack.com)
2026-4-6 Startup AI

Traffic violation scams switch to QR codes in new phishing texts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-6

New FortiClient EMS flaw exploited in attacks, emergency patch released (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-6

Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-6 Korea

Crooks Behind $27M in 'Refund' Scams Busted By YouTube Pranksters After Being Lured to Fake Funeral (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 YouTube

Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 Apple

Chrome 148 Will Start 'Lazy Loading' Video and Audio to Improve Performance (slashdot.org)
2026-4-6 Chrome

Scientists Engineered a Plant To Produce 5 Different Psychedelics At Once (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-6

A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-6 Drone

Hackers exploit React2Shell in automated credential theft campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-6

Does Ubuntu Now Require More RAM Than Windows 11? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 Ubuntu

TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-5

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