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Vercel has updated its Sandbox firewall to support PostgreSQL database connections, enabling developers to connect to Postgres databases from within Vercel's sandboxed environment. This enhancement im

Ben Shimkus / Business Insider: Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years — - AWS

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail CopyFail, a now-patched Linux vulnerability that lets unprivileged users gain admin access, as many distributions have yet to add fixes — Publicly release

Customer experience used to be something tuned at the edges. Better call center scripts, nicer portals, lower prices or a new survey could make incremental improvements in consumers’ perceptions of a

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy returned to flight this week, marking its first mission of 2026 by launching a heavy-lift payload for the US Space Force. Russia's Soyuz-5 rocket lifted off on April 30 from Baik

Research analyzing 18 scorpion species revealed distinct patterns of metal enrichment in their weapons, with zinc concentrated at stinger tips and zinc or zinc-iron combinations along pincer cutting e

Cybersecurity company Securonix Inc. today announced a new partnership with cyberthreat intelligence company AI SPERA Inc. to deliver integrated threat intelligence enrichment through its ThreatQ Plat

Following concern over insider trading, the U.S. Senate today voted unanimously to ban its members and staff from using prediction markets that can be used to make anonymous bets on future events, inc

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to ban senators and Senate staff from participating in prediction markets . The action was prompted by insider trading concerns, particularly after Kalshi suspended a

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces — Jake Nesler's

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B — Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $4 billion in its initial pub

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds — Philippe Laffont'

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China — Chinese tech

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners — Peter T

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for “lawful” use — The Pentagon

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by multipl

Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards or

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and g

Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY —

The Federal Data Paradox examines how U.S. federal agencies accumulate vast amounts of data but face significant barriers to accessing and utilizing it effectively. The article likely discusses challe

Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it — Women are u

Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz — The U.S. Navy is ra

Greg Otto / CyberScoop: The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored — The guidance

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” — During today's e

This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agency that funds major research projects to the tune of around $9

Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack , with the hacktivist group The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, aka 313 Team claiming re

Virgin Galactic has completed assembly of its first Delta-class SpaceShip and begun ground testing in April 2026, with a second ship expected to enter service between late Q4 2026 and early Q1 2027. T

Aarian Marshall / Wired: Waymo says it is continuing to “refine” its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks — As adult riders report

Western Digital Corp. and Sandisk Corp. delivered stellar earnings and revenue beats thanks to the skyrocketing price of memory chips and other compute infrastructure amid a global supply crunch. Both

Enterprise agents are moving from demos into production workflows, which creates a basic problem: teams need to understand what those agents actually did. The post Why agent telemetry needs standards

Agentic artificial intelligence misbehavior is reaching epidemic proportions. Today’s AI governance solutions aren’t stopping the madness. We need to rethink our entire approach to AI governance. Even

Three women from Arizona filed a lawsuit alleging that an artificial intelligence platform and related companies scraped their social media photos and turned them into explicit AI-generated content wi

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices — While Elon M

SiliconANGLE was able to review an Oracle Corp. security alert that went out to customers this week. We believe it was a direct response to Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos artificial intelligence model, an

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation — From sorting chi

AI-led process modernization is redefining how enterprises deploy AI — moving beyond broad rollouts to embedding intelligence into specific, governed business processes that actually scale. But the li

In corporate parlance, any metric on a chart that shows rapid, significant growth over a short period of time is known as a “hockey stick.” On Wednesday, Stripe Inc. Chief Executive Patrick Collison s

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans

IBM Research describes how artificial intelligence and accelerated computing are being applied to high-speed racing design, likely through collaboration with racing teams or manufacturers like Dallara

AI workflow automation is emerging as a critical solution for private markets as they undergo a structural shift. What was once the exclusive domain of institutional investors is now opening to thousa

This article from Latent Space discusses a pivotal shift in AI development toward inference—the computational process of running trained models—suggesting this represents a critical turning point comp

Alert fatigue occurs when security teams receive excessive alerts, causing them to miss critical threats due to desensitization and reduced response effectiveness. This represents a significant busine

I'm currently wearing a pair of smart glasses called the Even Realities G2. Another two pairs, from Rokid, sit on my desk. A few feet away, I've got the Meta Ray-Ban Display charging alongside their N

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October — Alphabet's stock sur

Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered a stunning earnings beat as it reported its first-quarter financial results today, with sales also surpassing expectations thanks to rampant growth