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Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1 AI

Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-1

Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-1 Android Samsung

Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs Across Sales, Engineering, Security (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Oracle

Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created role of chairman, after he announced his retirement in 2022 from his role as “senior steward” (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-1

Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-1

Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Energy

Snap shares climbed 14% on Tuesday after activist investor Irenic suggested changes to boost the stock's value 7x, such as cutting staff by 21% and ending Specs (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-1

Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-1 Microsoft

Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-1 AI

OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (www.ft.com)
2026-4-1 Retail ETF

OpenAI closed a $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously announcing the round would total $110B (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-1

Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail Address (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Google

PrismML, which says its 1-bit LLM achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, comes out of stealth with $16.25M in SAFE and seed funding (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-1

Iranian media: Iran arrested 46 people allegedly in a network selling Starlink terminals and seized 139 terminals; there are an estimated 50K terminals in Iran (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Iran

Global Ban On Digital Duties Expires After Stalled Talks At WTO Meeting (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Ban WTO

Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-1 Korea Google

Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Europe

Cisco source code stolen in Trivy-linked dev environment breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1 Cisco

This $60 refurbished Lenovo Chromebook is an ideal backup device (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1 Lenovo

Australia Readies Social Media Court Action Citing Teen Ban Breaches (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Australia Ban Social Media

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (9to5google.com)
2026-4-1 Google

Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla in the Middle East starting 8PM local time on April 1 (thehill.com)
2026-4-1 Google Microsoft Apple Tesla Iran Nvidia

Claude Code's Source Code Leaks Via npm Source Maps (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1

Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Google Quantum

A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are set to continue in Geneva this spring (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-1 Tax Ban WTO

Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 IOS Apple

Euro-Office Wants To Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office (slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Google Microsoft

Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-1 AI Oracle Layoffs

US Paves Way For Private Assets To Be Included In 401(k) Retirement Plans (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Asset

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