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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government — A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more.
More: Google Cloud Blog, TechCrunch, Mobile EDR Security, Nextgov/FCW, The Overspill, Phandroid, AppleInsider, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Boing Boing, CyberScoop, Risky Business, and Help Net Security
X: @patrickwardle and @a_greenberg
LinkedIn: Etizaz Mohsin and Patrick Wardle
Bluesky: @joparkerbear, @ssg.dev, @couts, and @agreenberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueReddit, r/hacking, r/technology, r/ios, r/iphone, r/Malware, r/blackhat, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Apple: |
Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage — The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage
More: Daring Fireball, Apple on YouTube, The Daily Upside, MacRumors, MacStories, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, Michael Tsai, Android Headlines, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, Rolling Out, Macworld, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, CNET, Moneycontrol, Cult of Mac, Six Colors, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, iClarified, and AppleInsider
X: @stevemoser, @vadimyuryev, @rjonesy, @leyeconnect, @joshkale, @markgurman, @awnihannun, @neilcybart, @avstorm, @classicii_mrmac, @markgurman, @gregjoz, @lukemiani, @mkbhd, @samsheffer, @nandoprince93, @ijustine, @brandonbutch, @vadimyuryev, @brandonbutch, @markgurman, @avstorm, @thekitze, @markgurman, @michaelgofman, @elder_plinius, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Bluesky: @tcarmody
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/mac, r/macbookpro, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: Apple, Business Standard, Appleosophy, MacRumors, CNET, Apple on YouTube, Hypebeast, TechEBlog, OS X Daily, The Mac Observer, Pocket-lint, The Shortcut, Reuters, The Verge, Firstpost, and Moneycontrol
X: @mkbhd, @nathievr, @segalink, @mweinbach, @alz_zyd_, @joannastern, @raywongy, @leakerapple, and @adrianweckler. LinkedIn: Christy Jones
Forums: r/macgaming, r/technology, r/hardware, r/macbook, and r/apple
| Apple: |
More: AppleInsider, Times of India, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Phandroid, Neowin, TidBITS, DigiTimes, Curb Cuts, The Mac Observer, Forbes, Android Headlines, MacRumors, MacRumors, Six Colors, 9to5Mac, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, AppleInsider, PetaPixel, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, Geeky Gadgets, MacRumors, PCMag, Business Standard, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Moneycontrol, MacTech.com, iClarified, 9to5Mac, The Verge, VideoCardz.com, MacTrast, Engadget, The Apple Post, The Shortcut, and FlatpanelsHD
X: @yiningkarlli, @zollotech, @fatih, @josesaezmerino, @stuwieface, @avstorm, @dylanmcd8, @its_shevi, @dylanmcd8, @justinmfarrugia, @andrewjclare, @classicii_mrmac, @tailosivetech, @zerosandohs, @thejasontlewis, @danliu, @tailosivetech, @brandonbutch, @oliemack, @basicappleguy, @snazzylabs, @mkbhd, @zielinskiwoj, @josesaezmerino, @raywongy, @rudrank, @vadimyuryev, and @snazzylabs
LinkedIn: Brad Ford, Scott Joyce, Antoine Rosset, and Lance Lin. Bluesky: @johnspurlock.com. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
Forums: Hacker News, r/HiDPI_monitors, r/Monitors, r/macbookpro, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
More: The Register, Business Standard, Ars Technica, Six Colors, Times of India, TidBITS, iDrop News, MacRumors, Macworld, On my Om, The Gadgeteer, The Mac Observer, PetaPixel, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, MobileSyrup, Wired, iClarified, 9to5Mac, The Verge, The Shortcut, and Engadget
X: @mkbhd, @aapltree, @vadimyuryev, @_orangera1n, @mweinbach, @mattmoniz, @bengeskin, @mweinbach, @vadimyuryev, @mweinbach, and @vadimyuryev
Forums: r/MacStudio, r/hardware, r/macbookpro, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annual revenue of almost $20 billion, a projection based on current performance, more than doubling its run rate from late last year … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave — Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models.
More: Benzinga, VentureBeat, Reuters, and Bloomberg
X: @justinlin610, @kxli_2000, @huybery, @kxli_2000, @cherry_cc12, @wzhao_nlp, @yuchenj_uw, @xianbao_qian, @natolambert, @youjiacheng, @himanshustwts, @chujiezheng, @beffjezos, @frontier_foid, @bryancsk, @crystalsssup, @tydsh, @altryne, @kevinsxu, @phequals7, @jeremyphoward, @teortaxestex, and @scaling01
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts — U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.
More: The Crypto Times, crypto.news, CoinGape, DL News, Cointelegraph, The Hill, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Politico, Raw Story, The Block, BeInCrypto, The Block, and Bitcoinist.com
X: @senlummis, @erictrump, @chairmanselig, @chucktodd, @brendanpedersen, @brendanpedersen, @aaronrday, @faryarshirzad, @_jikim, @drjstrategy, @ronwhammond, @alexandergrieve, @nic_carter, @jseyff, @amitisinvesting, @realpeteyb123, @iampaulgrewal, @dangambardello, and @summermersinger. Bluesky: @metacurity.com. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines — Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, Android Police, and Skift
X: @natlungfy and @mishaalrahman
| Wall Street Journal: |
All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, called the backlash “painful”, and said OpenAI is considering a deal to deploy AI on NATO classified networks — Startup's deal to do classified work with Defense Department drew backlash from staff and other AI researchers
More: The Guardian, Gizmodo, New York Post, The Information, The Hill, Forbes, Financial Times, and Axios
X: @scaling01, @provisionalidea, @berber_jin1, @signulll, @markvalorian, and @sama
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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X: @valhalla_dev, @scaling01, and @sean_from_earth
Bluesky: @timzero4 and @carnage4life
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …
More: Wired, Gizmodo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
X: @leahlibresco, @adamscochran, and @tysonbrody
Bluesky: @eff.org, @sesmith.lol, @cdt.org, @tyleraking.com, @marypcbuk, @campuscodi.risky.biz, and @josephcox
Forums: r/technology, r/TrueReddit, and r/politics
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance” at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash — Get best-in-class intelligence for your highest-volume workloads. … Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite …
More: Digit, Crypto Briefing, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, VentureBeat, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, Tom's Guide, The New Stack, The Deep View, and OnMSFT
X: @koraykv, @googledeepmind, @google, @artificialanlys, @noamshazeer, @sundarpichai, @scaling01, @googledevs, @_philschmid, @chanduthota, @teksedge, @googleai, @veermasrani, @dynamicwebpaige, @altryne, @kimmonismus, @joshwoodward, @googledeepmind, @tulseedoshi, @googlecloudtech, @dasanaike, @marmaduke091, @mark_k, @jeffdean, @jeffdean, @officiallogank, and @tristanhurleb. LinkedIn: Karl Weinmeister. Forums: r/Bard
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users — Today, we're releasing an update to ChatGPT's most-used model that makes everyday conversations more consistently helpful and fluid.
More: The Register, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Gizchina, PCMag, Neowin, and Decrypt
X: @openai, @openai, @nickaturley, @kimmonismus, @christinahkim, @iruletheworldmo, @therealadamg, @mweinbach, @openai, @tukifromkl, @luke_metro, @kimmonismus, @sauers_, @tszzl, @thezvi, and @kareldoostrlnck
Forums: Hacker News, r/just4ochat, r/therapyGPT, r/OpenAI, and r/accelerate
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
More: The Indian Express, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, Crypto Briefing, iClarified, and MacRumors
Bluesky: @tcarmody, @paularmstrongtbd, and @daniloc.xyz
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday that board chair Frank Yeary plans to retire following the company's annual meeting in May and will be replaced by Craig Barratt.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month — TikTok users in the US may experience lag while trying to post content until the outage is resolved.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games — Chinese company's investments in ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games and other creators have faced long-running US security review
More: Reuters, Game Developer, TechNode, and Kotaku
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages — OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's popular code repository that lets software engineers store …
More: XDA Developers, Reuters, Digit, and Neowin
X: @cgtwts, @nickadobos, @metacriticcap, @bilaltwovec, and @theprimeagen
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Andre Revilla / Engadget: |
X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure — The new policy is the platform's first rule requiring any kind of AI content disclosure. — X will suspend creators …
More: 404 Media, Moneycontrol, Livemint, TechCrunch, Decrypt, Social Media Today, and The Wrap
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Security researchers successfully prompted the AI behind a Utah prescription renewal pilot to reclassify meth as an “unrestricted therapeutic”, and more — Security researchers used relatively simple jailbreaking techniques to trick the AI system powering Utah's new prescription refill bot.
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Reuters: |
Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order — U.S. defense contractors, like Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), are expected to follow the Pentagon's order to purge Anthropic's prized AI tools …
More: The Information, Benzinga, Runtime, and Federal News Network
| Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: |
KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M — The new funding brings the company's total raise to more than $55 million. — Global Investing — KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
OpenAI's red lines within its DOD agreement are built upon legal language that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the things they appear to prohibit — Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance …
More: Forbes, The Decoder, Townhall, NBC News, and Times of India
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service “in the coming months”; some shows will be available on Audible — Amazon is pulling the plug on the Wondery dedicated podcast app and subscription service.
More: Audible.com, Deadline, Good e-Reader, Digital Music News, Android Authority, and Bloomberg
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm — TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years — The multiyear pact gives Meta access to content for training and to retrieve information for users of its AI toolsSponsor Posts
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