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Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (9to5google.com)
2026-4-8 Android Google AI

Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-8

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-8 Elon Musk

Chrome Is Finally Getting Vertical Tabs (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Chrome

FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 U.S. FBI

Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, shutting down Sora, text vs. world models, and more (www.bigtechnology.com)
2026-4-8

Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8

Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 SaaS

Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen reading mode (www.zdnet.com)
2026-4-8 Google Microsoft Firefox Chrome Mozilla

Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tells Millions of Lies Per Hour (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Google AI

Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (www.axios.com)
2026-4-8 AI

Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “reckoning”, not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic's Project Glasswing includes AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and others (www.zdnet.com)
2026-4-8 Google Microsoft Apple Nvidia Cisco

Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (anthropic.com)
2026-4-8 Browser

This $40 bundle helps you prep for multiple core IT certifications (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic Reveals $30 Billion Run Rate, Plans To Use 3.5GW of New Google AI Chips (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Google AI

US warns of Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 Iran

Sources say Apple plans to announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 iPhone Apple

Max severity Flowise RCE vulnerability now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8

Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Quantum

The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Russia

Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-8

New Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina's President Milei (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8

Authorities disrupt router DNS hijacks used to steal Microsoft 365 logins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 Microsoft

Asus Zenbook A16 review: the $1,599 laptop uses the fast and power hungry Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with 18 cores, but a plain design and includes bloatware (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-4-8

True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-4-8 AI

Stanford Daily Ponders Fate of Bill Gates Namesake Building On April Fools' Day (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Bill Gates

Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-8 AI Canada Spotify

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