Tech

Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 China

Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 4Q

Apple Introduces a Cheaper Option For App Store Subscriptions (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29 Apple

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-4-29 China Shenzhen

This open-box 2-in-1 Chromebook is now on sale for $145 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29

Video service Vimeo confirms Anodot breach exposed user data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29

The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29 AI

Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 IOS AI Apple

South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 AI Africa South Africa

Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29 Google AI Pentagon

Sources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Google Drone Pentagon

Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership (www.axios.com)
2026-4-29 Amazon Microsoft

Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (stratechery.com)
2026-4-29

UAE To Leave OPEC Amid Hormuz Oil Crisis (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29 OPEC

Supreme Court Hears Case On How To Label Risks of Popular Weed Killer (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29

Bay Area Homeowner Offers Property In Exchange For Anthropic Stock (slashdot.org)
2026-4-29

AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Amazon AI Logistics

Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Elon Musk

Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-29 Android IOS Mobile AI

The FIDO Alliance launches two working groups to establish industry standards for securing AI agent transactions; Google contributes the Agent Payments Protocol (www.wired.com)
2026-4-29 Google AI

Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~$37B, below $44.5B est., and a record ~$1.5B net income, below $1.8B est. (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 AI

US reportedly charges Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29 Hacker Finland

OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as “prime clickbait” and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29

Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 CFTC

Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-29 Adobe

True Anomaly, which makes autonomous spacecraft and software for the US Space Force, raised a $650M Series D at a $2.2B valuation, bringing total funding to $1B (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-29

Checkmarx confirms LAPSUS$ hackers leaked its stolen GitHub data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29 GitHub

Snapchat launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in the Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-29 AI Snapchat

Sources: at least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to fundraise from US investors in recent months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-28 China AI

US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested at a Finnish airport (www.chicagotribune.com)
2026-4-28 Finland

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