Tuesday

28 April 2026 Vol 19

Category: Tech

DOJ accuses US ransomware negotiators of launching their own ransomware attacks

DOJ accuses US ransomware negotiators of launching their own ransomware attacks

U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on…
Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the Crypto World Bracing for Impact

Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the Crypto World Bracing for Impact

Changpeng Zhao, the multibillionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, spent four months last year locked in a federal prison. After…
Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don’t Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot

Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don’t Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot

Back in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of popularity for…
Facebook Groups can now go public without exposing members’ private posts

Facebook Groups can now go public without exposing members’ private posts

Meta on Monday announced an update to Facebook Groups that will allow admins to make their previously private groups public,…
The State of AI: Is China about to win the race? 

The State of AI: Is China about to win the race? 

Yet those same constraints have pushed Chinese companies toward a different playbook: pooling compute, optimizing efficiency, and releasing open-weight models.…
Dia’s AI browser starts adding Arc’s ‘greatest hits’ to its feature set

Dia’s AI browser starts adding Arc’s ‘greatest hits’ to its feature set

The AI web browser Dia is drawing inspiration from its predecessor, Arc, an earlier experiment in modernizing the web browsing…
The Best Delivery Thanksgiving Meal Kits (2025)

The Best Delivery Thanksgiving Meal Kits (2025)

All of it came shrink-wrapped in its own sections, in little bamboo and/or cardboard boats set into a reusable acacia…
OpenAI and Amazon ink $38B cloud computing deal  

OpenAI and Amazon ink $38B cloud computing deal  

OpenAI isn’t done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it…
The Best iPhone Privacy and Security Settings to Change on Your Apple Device (2025)

The Best iPhone Privacy and Security Settings to Change on Your Apple Device (2025)

Next is advertising. Apple Advertising is more focused on privacy than other platforms, blocking ads from tracking you across websites…
Microsoft’s $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy

Microsoft’s $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy

Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, the company announced Monday at…