Tech

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

RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-8 AI Layoffs

Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits “to celebrate 3M weekly codex users” and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (x.com)
2026-4-8

Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Alibaba AI Tencent

TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Finland

Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Asia AI Robot

Russian Government Hackers Broke Into Thousands of Home Routers To Steal Passwords (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Russia

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (entrackr.com)
2026-4-8

Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing (www.ft.com)
2026-4-8

Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed (www.axios.com)
2026-4-8 AI

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