Tech

Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages (9to5google.com)
2026-4-5 Android Google Samsung

Sources: the UK has stepped up its efforts to get Anthropic to expand in the country, including a dual listing proposal, after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD (giftarticle.ft.com)
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US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-5 Iran

EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (www.politico.eu)
2026-4-5

Top NPM Maintainers Targeted with AI Deepfakes in Massive Supply-Chain Attack, Axios Briefly Compromised (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 AI

A look at how some teens use popular role-playing chatbots and, for parents, the high stakes task of understanding the impact of the possibly addictive products (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-5 chatbot

Microsoft Pulls Then Re-Issues Windows 11 Preview Update. Also Begins Force-Updating Windows 11 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 Microsoft

How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-5 India AI

America's CIA Recruited Iran's Nuclear Scientists - By Threatening To Kill Them (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 U.S. Iran

Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (appleinsider.com)
2026-4-5 AI Apple Nvidia AMD

Before Webcomics: Selling Political Cartoons On BBSes In 1992 (tech.slashdot.org)
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Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details “cognitive surrender”, where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (arstechnica.com)
2026-4-5 AI

Are Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest Salary You'll Accept? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5

Axios npm hack used fake Teams error fix to hijack maintainer account (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-5

VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-5 Startup AI

Anthropic Announces Claude Subscribers Must Now Pay Extra to Use OpenClaw (slashdot.org)
2026-4-5

No, AMD Is Not Buying Intel (slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 Intel AMD

Amazon Must Negotiate With First Warehouse Workers Union, US Labor Board Rules (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 Amazon

Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-5 Startup Y Combinator

The Document Foundation Removes Dozens of Collabora Developers (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5

Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-5 Russia VPN

'Cognitive Surrender' Leads AI Users To Abandon Logical Thinking, Research Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-5 AI

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-5 LinkedIn Chrome

Device code phishing attacks surge 37x as new kits spread online (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-5

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
2026-4-5

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-4

This $20 training bundle helps prepare you for the CISSP certification (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4

Colorado's New Speed Camera System Makes Waze Nearly Useless (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Artemis II Astronauts Pass 100,000 Miles From Earth On Voyage To the Moon (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (www.politico.com)
2026-4-4 AI Democrat

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