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YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement (9to5google.com)
2026-4-15 YouTube

A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-15 Apple

Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Startup

A New Computer Chip Could Finally Withstand The Hellscape of Venus (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15

Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 Adobe

Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-15 AI Nvidia Quantum

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 India Google AI Intelligence

Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-15 IPO

Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 (www.phonearena.com)
2026-4-14 Samsung

Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir staffer Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, opposition from super PAC Leading the Future, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-4-14 New York

Amazon agrees to buy satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple agree for Leo to power some iPhone and Watch services (www.aboutamazon.com)
2026-4-14 Amazon iPhone Apple

Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal requires Globalstar to meet certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-14 Amazon

Kraken parent Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at $13.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-14 Frankfurt

EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M, taking its total investments in Lucid to $500M (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-14 Uber

Air Force Pushed Out UFO Investigator (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-14

Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (www.ft.com)
2026-4-14 Iran

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-14 China

OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (www.vox.com)
2026-4-14 Republican Welfare

US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-14 AI

Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-14 Amazon

Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June (9to5google.com)
2026-4-14 Google Browser

WeatherBug Data Says October 8 Is the Real Perfect Date (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-14

A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (colossus.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

Stanford Report Highlights Growing Disconnect Between AI Insiders and Everyone Else (slashdot.org)
2026-4-14 AI

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (www.politico.eu)
2026-4-14 Europe

Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center (www.politico.com)
2026-4-14

Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-14 Oracle

Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, is charged with attempted murder and attempted arson (www.cnn.com)
2026-4-14 Texas

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