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Drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East during military conflict, with two facilities in the UAE directly struck and a facility in Bahrain damaged by proximity

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l

Financial Times: China blocks Meta's 2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed

German robotics startup Sereact GmbH announced today that it has raised 110 million in new funding to scale up its artificial intelligence “robotic brain” platform and expand into the U.S. Founded in

Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a

With the release of the newest version of its Experian Virtual Assistant, Experian plc is leveraging artificial intelligence to advance its broader goals of expanding beyond credit reporting to become

Financial Times: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German s

Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and mi

NASA successfully rolled out the Artemis III core stage on April 20, 2026, delivering it from Michoud Assembly Facility to Kennedy Space Center . The revised mission plan calls for a crewed test in Ea

Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a

Bloomberg: Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition — Chinese regulators plan to re

The base model $599 M4 Mac mini with 256GB storage is now completely out of stock on Apple's Store with no option to order it. Other Mac mini configurations face significant delays, with wait times ra

DigitalOcean transitioned from traditional incident counting metrics to Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for measuring and managing availability, adopting a more nuanced approach to understanding syste

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will off

Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website ho

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to

Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to 4.83B, vs. 4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 10%+ after hours — Texas Instruments Inc. shares sur

Bloomberg: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's 166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs — Political groups tied to the cryp

Financial Times: Top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple AI hallucinations — Firm whose partners bill

Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for 'getting things done.' The move, one o

Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a 10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial 6.2B raise in November, at a 38B post-money valuation — Company code-named Projec

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart cr

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies lik

China successfully tested an advanced device capable of cutting underwater structures like submarine cables at depths of 3,500 meters , raising global security concerns. Since more than 95% of global

Cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. today unveiled three expansions to its Asset Cloud platform that see the addition of artificial intelligence-driven remediation, extended coverage t

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, who are building the future on our platform, there would be no Google Cloud. In this regul

The European Union is taking ambitious steps to coordinate efforts by its member countries to achieve global leadership in quantum computing. The EU Quantum Computing Act, which is scheduled to take e

The Information: Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~1B, vs. 550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year — AI firms' voracious appet

NASA's Artemis II mission — a nine-day lunar flyby that launched on April 1, 2026 — was the first crewed flight of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apol...

Cloudflare's global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity — enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. This milestone, reache...

A proposed class action against Sharp HealthCare alleges that clinicians used an AI scribe tool to record patient visits without patient consent, placing California's privacy regulations under rene...

A father named Brady Frey discovered that his 12-year-old daughter had falsely registered her Discord account as 18+; he only found out after her account was hacked and he became trapped in a spir...

Databricks Lakebase introduces Git-style database branching for PostgreSQL, allowing developers to create instant, isolated copies of their database using copy-on-write technology . Like Git bran...

F1's 2026 power unit regulations introduced a true 50/50 hybrid split between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor (MGU-K), while eliminating the MGU-H entirely — a change that has...

NASA's Artemis II Orion capsule completed its reentry on April 10, 2026, entering Earth's upper atmosphere at approximately 7:53 p.m. EDT traveling at nearly 24,000 mph, subjecting the spacecraft t...

Databricks Research introduced **MemAlign**, a memory framework for AI agents that stores past interactions as episodic memories and uses an LLM to distill them into generalized semantic rules, whi...

Microsoft overhauled the Windows Insider Program in April 2026, consolidating its previously confusing multi-channel structure into two primary channels — **Experimental** (replacing Dev and Canary...

A study published in *Science* (April 2026) by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences challenges the long-held view that Yellowstone's supervolcano is powered by a deep mantle plume, inst...

A 300-million-year-old fossil named *Pohlsepia mazonensis*, originally identified as the world's oldest octopus in 2000, has been reclassified in 2026 as a nautiloid — a relative of the modern naut...

I was unable to retrieve the specific April 2026 Ars Technica article titled *'Oobleck' still holds some surprises* from the search results. The search did not surface that article's content, and I...

During the Artemis II mission, a helium leak was identified within the oxidizer pressurization system of the European Service Module's propulsion system. The in-flight leak rate was 'an order of...

TriNetX is a global health research network that connects pharmaceutical companies, study sites, investigators, and patients by leveraging real-world data (RWD) from electronic health records acros...

The Trump administration has ordered Reddit to appear before a secret grand jury in Washington, D.C., demanding the personal data of an anonymous user who criticized ICE online, with a compliance d...

Leaked code strings discovered on April 7, 2026, by dataminer Gabe Follower in a Steam VR Beta update reveal references to an internal Valve AI system called 'SteamGPT,' which appears designed to ...

YouTube raised the price of its Premium subscription for all plan tiers, with increases ranging from $1 to $4 per month, effective for new subscribers immediately and rolling out to existing subscr...