Tech

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

Inside an OPSEC Playbook: How Threat Actors Evade Detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-28

Microsoft to deprecate legacy TLS in Exchange Online starting July (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-28 Microsoft

Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-28 Tencent

Microsoft asks iPhone users to reauthenticate after Outlook outage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-28 Microsoft iPhone

This full CISSP training bundle is only $20 (was $424) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-28

Microsoft: New Remote Desktop warnings may display incorrectly (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-28 Microsoft

GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” (github.blog)
2026-4-28 AI GitHub

Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-28 China Startup

Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-28 Google AI YouTube

AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical text with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific breakthroughs (talkie-lm.com)
2026-4-28 AI

Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (www.wired.com)
2026-4-28 chatbot

The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-28

As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-28 Russia

Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-28

Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-28 Australia

Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-28 Spotify

Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-28 Seattle

Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-28 Trump Energy

Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
2026-4-28

An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (www.404media.co)
2026-4-28 AI

Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-28 AI

Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began (www.ft.com)
2026-4-28 Energy Iran

Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-28 Google AI

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-28 Elon Musk

Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees were announced in March 2026, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-28 Layoffs

China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-28 China Singapore

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-28

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-28 Startup

Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-28 India Amazon

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