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Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a “crazy” number of bug reports (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-19

US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30 (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-19

30 WordPress Plugins Turned Into Malware After Ownership Change (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-19 WordPress

Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth (www.ft.com)
2026-4-19 Airbnb

Fructose Isn't Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-19

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-19 AI Salesforce

20-Year-Old Enters Prison for Historic Breach, Ransoming of Massive Student Database (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-19 Database

Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-19

FSF to OnlyOffice: You Can't Use the GNU (A)GPL to Take Software Freedom Away (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-19

A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-19

US Government Now Wants Anthropic's 'Mythos', Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-19 AI

Save 72% in this refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 6 deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-19 Microsoft

NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0 Support (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-19

Microsoft Teams right-click paste broken by Edge update bug (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-19 Microsoft

Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-18 Manufacturing

Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Startup AI Slack

NASA Restarts Work To Support Europe's Uncrewed Trip To Mars After Years of Setbacks (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Europe NASA

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-18 Startup

Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-18 AI

Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-18 China Nvidia

The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-18 Europe

Sources suggest Anthropic's holding back from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks (www.ft.com)
2026-4-18

Critical Atlantic Current Significantly More Likely To Collapse Than Thought (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-18 AI Layoffs

Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge In Vulnerability Submissions (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (www.ft.com)
2026-4-18 AI

White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting (www.axios.com)
2026-4-18

Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview (thezvi.substack.com)
2026-4-18 China Interview Nvidia

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