Tech

College Student, Cat Meme Helped Crack Massive Botnet Case (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-4 IPO SpaceX

Hims & Hers warns of data breach after Zendesk support ticket breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4

Penalties Stack Up As AI Spreads Through the Legal System (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 AI

Die Linke German political party confirms data stolen by Qilin ransomware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4 Germany

Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-4 China AI

Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-4 Intel

Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Have Been Delayed or Canceled (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-4 China

Perplexity's 'Incognito Mode' Is a 'Sham,' Lawsuit Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-4 Israel IPO Startup AI

A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-4-4 China Ban

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

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