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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

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers for Bus Mouse Support

Article URL:https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-InputComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890365Points: 30# Comments: 16

2026-04-24

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week

Article URL:https://medium.com/@affirmtechnology/how-affirm-retooled-its-engineering-organization-for-agentic-software-development-in-one-week-1fd35268fde6Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

2026-04-24

The Register 7/10 ?

Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party

We gotta get boring to get graduatedGrafanaconThe founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole ...

2026-04-24

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

In Brief Posted: 6:41 AM PDT · April 24, 2026 Ivan Mehta Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool In the last few years, AI-powered dictation tools have taken off. In addition to existing dicta...

2026-04-24

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on...

2026-04-24

The Register 7/10 ?

Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walkMicrosoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chun...

2026-04-24

The Verge 7/10 ?

A new Republican privacy bill could be ‘worse than no standard at all’

Congress is once again attempting to pass a national data privacy law. But while it would introduce new protections in some states, it would weaken privacy rights in others - and it's missing several ...

2026-04-24