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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

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its “core mission”, not “weaponization and waste” (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-8 Trump Budget

Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8 AI

Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8 Intel AI Tesla Elon Musk SpaceX

Why Your Automated Pentesting Tool Just Hit a Wall (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8

South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Korea Robot

Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-7

The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered “Trump Accounts” for children when they launch this summer (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-7 Trump Tax

Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-4-7

GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-7 AI

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI

This Adobe Acrobat alternative just dropped to $70 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Adobe

10 American Urban Legends Far Stranger Than Bigfoot (listverse.com)
2026-4-7 U.S.

LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 LinkedIn Browser

10 of the Most Bizarre Buildings Around the World (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 Countries Where Water Scarcity Gets Seriously Weird (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 People Who Infamously Appeared out of Nowhere (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 Countries That Exist… but Aren't Officially Recognized (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-7 AI

MLB rolls out “robot umps”, or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Robot Sony

Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-7 AI

The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7

Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a “help is available” module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Google

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7

Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI study tool to help students generate flashcards, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-7 AI Adobe

Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-7 AI

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