Tech

CISA flags Windows Task Host vulnerability as exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16

10 Times Politicians Blamed Video Games for Violence (listverse.com)
2026-4-16

Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized “brain”, emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (fortune.com)
2026-4-16 AI

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-4-16 Snapchat Instagram

The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Europe WhatsApp Ban

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 Startup London AMD

Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ (www.ft.com)
2026-4-15 AI

London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (www.axios.com)
2026-4-15 AI London

Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Startup

ASML says South Korea surpassed China as its largest market in Q1 2026, with shipments hitting 45% of net system sales, or €2.84B, up from 22% in Q4 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 China Korea 4Q

Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-15 Tax Virginia

Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 AI

Microsoft: April updates trigger BitLocker key prompts on some servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15

Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (www.wired.com)
2026-4-15 U.S. AI

Sony Boss Urges Theaters To Stop 30 Minutes of Trailers and Ads Before Movies (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Sony

Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows Server 2025 automatic upgrades (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Get a lifetime of documentaries with this Curiosity Stream deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15

Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 Spotify

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (www.billboard.com)
2026-4-15 Spotify

Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15

Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15

ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-15 China

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-15 AI

Amazon Buys Globalstar For $10.8 Billion, Moving To Expand Its Satellite Internet Service (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Amazon

Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-4-15

Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to $27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising $16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-15 China India Asia Startup

ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, vs. €8.5B est., and €2.8B net profit, vs. €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B-€40B from €34B-€39B (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-15

Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Amazon Apple

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