Technology

The Register 7/10 ?

ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface

Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of recordsCarnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned fl...

2026-04-24

The Verge 7/10 ?

360-degree cameras have a new superpower

Imagine Google Street View, except you can walk around like it's a video game. Now imagine you don't need to wait for Google to come film because it's completely DIY. Insta360, the leading maker of 36...

2026-04-24

The Verge 7/10 ?

Tesla’s Cybercab goes into production — so why is Musk tapping the brakes?

Tesla's Cybercab is now in production at the company's Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, but Elon Musk is sounding unusually cautious about the rollout. The robotaxi's start of production was announced Th...

2026-04-24

Wired 7/10 ?

The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.

2026-04-24

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driven IPO

Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.

2026-04-24

Wired 7/10 ?

Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product

Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety

Article URL:https://www.404media.co/delusion-using-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok-safety-ai-psychosis-study/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891147Points: 12# Comments: 2

2026-04-24

The Register 7/10 ?

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agencyA US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cyber...

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s

Article URL:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16sComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891019Points: 87# Com...

2026-04-24

The Verge 7/10 ?

AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook’s legacy

We knew at some point Tim Cook would step down from his position as Apple's CEO. Over the last year, it has become increasingly obvious that John Ternus was his likely successor. The news this week wa...

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations

Article URL:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890873Points: 29# Comments: 10

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task

Hey HN,We got tired of browser frameworks restricting the LLM, so we removed the framework and gave the LLM maximum freedom to do whatever it's trained on. We gave the harness the ability to self corr...

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

Article URL:https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799Points: 94# Comments: 24

2026-04-24

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps

Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known t...

2026-04-24

The Register 7/10 ?

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old driversOne tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer ma...

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images

Article URL:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890456Points: 15# Comments: 10

2026-04-24

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?

Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.   Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also steppi...

2026-04-24

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stack...

2026-04-24

The Verge 7/10 ?

The Trump phone still isn’t real

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. We're back to being ignored, and the phone seems no c...

2026-04-24

The Verge 7/10 ?

I don’t think Gwyneth Paltrow knows what a peptide is

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life...

2026-04-24