Tech

This refurbished $1,299 MacBook Air is only $909.99 right now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4 MacBook

Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4

Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (restofworld.org)
2026-4-4 Startup AI

Python Blood Could Hold the Secret To Healthy Weight Loss (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3

Microsoft still working to fix Exchange Online mailbox access issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3 Microsoft

The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-3 Amazon

Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3

Microsoft now force upgrades unmanaged Windows 11 24H2 PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3 Microsoft

Renewables Reached Nearly 50% of Global Electricity Capacity Last Year (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Renewable

10 Surprising Facts You Never Knew About Paul Revere (listverse.com)
2026-4-3

CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3 Europe

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (ma.tt)
2026-4-3 WordPress

Drift loses $280 million North Korean hackers seize Security Council powers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3 Korea

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-3 China Tesla Robot

EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 Japan Microsoft AI

Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-3 AI Facial Recognition

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-3

A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 China

Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (www.engadget.com)
2026-4-3 Startup Sony

Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-3 AI Biotech

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (www.platformer.news)
2026-4-3

Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-3

Mount Everest Climbers 'Poisoned' By Guides In Insurance Fraud Scheme (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Insurance

OpenAI Acquires Popular Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3

Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-3 Amazon Canada Iran Logistics

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