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Malta is opposing EU plans to centralize crypto supervision under ESMA, seeing it as a politically motivated assault on its success in attracting crypto firms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Malta

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Suffers Mysterious 'Anomaly' In Orbit (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 SpaceX

The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (www.platformer.news)
2026-4-1 YouTube

Google Drive ransomware detection now on by default for paying users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1 Google

A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Trump Asset

An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (www.wired.com)
2026-4-1 Interview

OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 (openai.com)
2026-4-1

Analysis: half of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, including China's Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 China IPO Asia AI

New Windows 11 emergency update fixes preview update install issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

Russia Goes After VPNs As 'Great Crackdown' Gathers Pace (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Russia

Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to offer a driverless service (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Asia Singapore Southeast Asia

A suspected system failure caused a number of Baidu robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes (www.wired.com)
2026-4-1

The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications (www.politico.eu)
2026-4-1 Europe AI

Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Google

Apple says it will push out rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS (www.wired.com)
2026-4-1 IOS Apple

Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-1 Hacker

Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy (www.axios.com)
2026-4-1 Startup

Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security intelligence” for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-1 Intelligence

Claude Code source code accidentally leaked in NPM package (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Google

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (www.politico.com)
2026-4-1 Ban

Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-4-1 Salesforce Slack

Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-1 AT&T

Google now allows you to change your @gmail.com address (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1 Google

Volvo Shifts Polestar 3 Production Entirely To the US (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Volvo

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (www.wired.com)
2026-4-1 Tesla Autonomous Car

Proton launches new "Meet" privacy-focused conferencing platform (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Microsoft Texas

GIGABYTE Control Center vulnerable to arbitrary file write flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (colossus.com)
2026-4-1 Google

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