Tech

The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications (www.politico.eu)
2026-4-1 Europe AI

Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Google

Apple says it will push out rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS (www.wired.com)
2026-4-1 IOS Apple

Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-1 Hacker

Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy (www.axios.com)
2026-4-1 Startup

Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security intelligence” for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-1 Intelligence

Claude Code source code accidentally leaked in NPM package (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Google

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (www.politico.com)
2026-4-1 Ban

Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-4-1 Salesforce Slack

Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-1 AT&T

Google now allows you to change your @gmail.com address (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1 Google

Volvo Shifts Polestar 3 Production Entirely To the US (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-1 Volvo

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (www.wired.com)
2026-4-1 Tesla Autonomous Car

Proton launches new "Meet" privacy-focused conferencing platform (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-1 Microsoft Texas

GIGABYTE Control Center vulnerable to arbitrary file write flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-1

An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (colossus.com)
2026-4-1 Google

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

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