Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
Mike Isaac / New York Times : Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp…
NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 15 (game #674)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each…
OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano…
A look at slopsquatting, a supply chain attack where threat actors create malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : A look at slopsquatting, a supply chain attack whe…
Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing crypto priorities in Congress, like the Genius Act, which establishes rules for stablecoin issuers (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PA…
Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs (Ari Hawkins/Politico)
Ari Hawkins / Politico : Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to…
A look at Energy Department's Argonne National Lab's PRO-AID, an AI-based tool that can assist with nuclear reactor design and help operators run nuclear plants (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : A look at Energy Department's Argonne Nationa…
How the Pentagon uses AI tools from Vannevar Labs, which got a DoD deal worth up to $99M, to scan open-source intelligence, write intelligence reports, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review : How the Pentagon uses AI tools from V…
Are iPhone prices safe? Phones, computers, and chips are now exempt from US tariffs
Certain electronics gadgets are now exempt from certain tariffs Phones, laptops, a…
UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach or attack in the past year; phishing was the most common type, affecting 85% of those attacked (Connor Jones/The Register)
Connor Jones / The Register : UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber…
Nespresso's new sweet vanilla decaf pods could make coffee my new favorite bedtime drink
I love coffee, but I also love my sleep, so after about 2pm I always switch to decaf …
China exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, and others that are made by Taiwanese companies like TSMC from the 125% tariff on US products (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : China exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Intel,…
Immutable backup storage is the best protection against ransomware, but many businesses don’t have it
Immutable backup storage is the best ransomware protection Research shows backups …
Canva launches Canva AI, which lets users create images and design ideas, and Canva Code, to create mini apps that can be integrated in designs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Canva launches Canva AI, which lets users create images a…
Google unveils new security AI agents to keep your business safe from the latest threats
Google Cloud has unveiled the launch of several new AI agents focused on keeping your…
Google Unified Security brings the power of AI to your security suite
Google unveils combined security suite at Cloud Next 25 Google Unified Security br…
YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech t…
I can't believe I had to wait so long to see the first true dual-screen smartphone, and it even has a waterproof loudspeaker
Ulefone Armor 30 Pro combines ruggedness with productivity A triple-camera setup i…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump believes the US has the resources and workforce to build iPhones in the US (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Pr…
Snap releases sponsored AI lenses, a new generative AI ad format users can interact with and that is powered by One Snap, its homegrown generative AI tech (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger : Snap releases sponsored AI lenses, a new generative …
The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
Jason Del Rey / Fortune : The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has ra…
Port of Seattle ransomware breach exposes data on around 90,000 people
Port of Seattle sent out notification letters to people affected in the August 2024…
Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ryan Browne / CNBC : Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting soft…
Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer : Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images…
Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14 (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
Brendan Bordelon / Politico : Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC cou…
Sources: DOGE is hosting a "hackathon" in Washington DC next week to build a "mega API" for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner (Makena Kelly/Wired)
Makena Kelly / Wired : Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next…
Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram …
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters (Meta)
Meta : Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B para…
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to "reserve their rights" (Joseph Bambridge/Politico)
Joseph Bambridge / Politico : OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to all…
Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $15.8M seed led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase, Circle, and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
Ben Weiss / Fortune : Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised…
Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 15 (game #674)
OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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