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Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 China AI Nvidia

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's “looking forward” to answering the questions (www.bbc.com)
2026-4-8 Bill Gates

Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot-ready 3D maps using phone, 360-degree camera, and drone data (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-4-8 Robot Drone Qihoo

Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers (www.npr.org)
2026-4-8

A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Iran

Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-8

The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-8 Asset

Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8

Apple Faces 'Massive Dilemma' With Success of the MacBook Neo (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Apple MacBook

Anthropic Unveils 'Claude Mythos', Powerful AI With Major Cyber Implications (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 AI

Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Microsoft AI

Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 WordPress

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-8 AI

A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure (www.wired.com)
2026-4-8 FBI Iran

Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (9to5google.com)
2026-4-8 Android Google AI

Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-8

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-8 Elon Musk

Chrome Is Finally Getting Vertical Tabs (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Chrome

FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 U.S. FBI

Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, shutting down Sora, text vs. world models, and more (www.bigtechnology.com)
2026-4-8

Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8

Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 SaaS

Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen reading mode (www.zdnet.com)
2026-4-8 Google Microsoft Firefox Chrome Mozilla

Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tells Millions of Lies Per Hour (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Google AI

Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (www.axios.com)
2026-4-8 AI

Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “reckoning”, not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic's Project Glasswing includes AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and others (www.zdnet.com)
2026-4-8 Google Microsoft Apple Nvidia Cisco

Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-8

Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (anthropic.com)
2026-4-8 Browser

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