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Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-5 Russia VPN

'Cognitive Surrender' Leads AI Users To Abandon Logical Thinking, Research Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 AI

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-5 LinkedIn Chrome

Device code phishing attacks surge 37x as new kits spread online (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-5

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
2026-4-5

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-4

This $20 training bundle helps prepare you for the CISSP certification (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4

Colorado's New Speed Camera System Makes Waze Nearly Useless (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Artemis II Astronauts Pass 100,000 Miles From Earth On Voyage To the Moon (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (www.politico.com)
2026-4-4 AI Democrat

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4 China AI Robot

Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-4 AI Robot

Sources: Microsoft's Judson Althoff said Copilot sales hit “some pretty big audacious goals” in Q3; only 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4 Microsoft

'AI' Is Coming For Your Online Gaming Servers Next (games.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 AI

Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are “lawfare” (www.inc.com)
2026-4-4 Startup

The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-4 NASA

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
2026-4-4 Zuckerberg

Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (x.com)
2026-4-4

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones 'Hard Down' In Bahrain and Dubai (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 Amazon Iran Dubai

Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan (thehill.com)
2026-4-4

Sources: Meta's “Project Walleye” Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (www.ft.com)
2026-4-4 Asset

Microsoft To Invest $10 Billion In Japan For AI, Cyber Defense Expansion (slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 Japan Microsoft AI

Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (www.wired.com)
2026-4-4

Netflix Must Refund Customers For Years of Price Hikes, Italian Court Rules (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 Italy Netflix

Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-4 AI chatbot

LinkedIn secretely scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4 LinkedIn Chrome

Fan Fiction Website AO3 Exits Beta After 17 Years (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period” (www.bigtechnology.com)
2026-4-4 Amazon Iran Dubai

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (sources.news)
2026-4-4

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4

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