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A supply chain attack compromises HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency and deploying a multi-stage payload — Socket Research Team … Our analysis shows the malicious package deploys a multi-stage payload, including a remote access trojan …
More: Step Security Blog, The Register, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, Tom's Hardware, Help Net Security, The Hacker News, GitHub, Salesforce Ben, The Stack, CyberInsider, Cyber Security News, Neowin, The Crypto Times, iTnews, The Cyber Express, Aikido Security's Blog, Koi, Security Boulevard, CryptoPotato, Daily Dark Web, and Cointelegraph
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Mastodon: @geerlingguy@mastodon.social and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/ClaudeAI, r/hacking, and Lobsters
| Niko Gallogly / New York Times: |
Wearable maker Whoop raised $575M led by Collaborative Fund at a $10.1B valuation and says it hit $1B in ARR by 2025's end; 60% of its 2025 sales were non-US — With elite athletes like LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo as investors, the company, now valued at $10 billion, is courting everyday health enthusiasts.| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an “anomaly”, following a similar incident in December; the satellite likely exploded — It follows a similar incident from December. … SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an “anomaly.”
More: Engadget, DatacenterDynamics, SpaceNews, Blue Tech Wave Media, Reuters, and PCMag
| Reuters: |
Sources: South Korean memory chipmakers have sufficient helium stocks until at least June, and a South Korean minister ruled out supply disruptions in H1 2026 — South Korea has sufficient helium stocks until at least June, two sources said, while the industry minister ruled …
More: Financial Times, Tech in Asia, Entrepreneur, and DigiTimes
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Iran mobilizes its hackers to sow chaos, gather intel, and find targets; ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs says Iran is “throwing everything they have at this” — Tehran's cyber operatives have sought to sow fear and hoover up intelligence in series of attacks in Israel and the US — NEW| Stephen Clark / Ars Technica: |
The US' GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, developed by RTX for $8B+, remains non-operational nine months after the Space Force took ownership — Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system …
More: SpaceNews. X: @zachweinberg, @edithatogo, and @vsamson_dc
Forums: r/space, r/Raytheon, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Vanessa Hand Orellana / CNET: |
Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app — The globally available feature is finally rolling out in the US, but you'll need to buy extra hardware to use it.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Samsung Newsroom, PhoneArena, Android Authority, Forbes, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, SamMobile, and Droid Life
| Vaibhav Srivastav / @reach_vb: |
OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks — If you already use Claude Code, this Codex plugin gives you a simple way to pull Codex into the same workflow. It is useful for three things …
More: GitHub, GitHub, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, Constellation Research, The Elec, Digit, Implicator.ai, and The Hacker News
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TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment business for ~$472M, as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas; Sony retains a 49% stake — TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy a majority stake in Sony Group Corp.'s global home entertainment business as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas.
More: TechRadar, The Shortcut, Sony Corporation, and FlatpanelsHD
| Thomas H. Ptacek / sockpuppet.org: |
AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities — For the last two years, technologists have ominously predicted that AI coding agents will be responsible for a deluge of security vulnerabilities.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5, including a 6x Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs that utilizes a second-gen transformer AI model — The Nvidia app beta introduces 6x Multi Frame Generation for RTX 50-series GPUs. … Nvidia has launched the next major update …
More: Moneycontrol, VideoCardz.com, Engadget, Club386, IGN, PC Gamer, Digit, Digital Trends, KitGuru, and DSOGaming
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined from HSBC just months ago in its push to build “the best trading floor for gold in the world” — Tether Holdings SA has cut two senior precious metals traders who had joined from HSBC Holdings Plc just months ago … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Alibaba's new Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model, which processes text, audio, images, and video, is proprietary, marking a shift away from its open-source strategy — Alibaba Group has released the new generation of its large language model that can understand text, audio, images and video.
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More: MarkTechPost, Decrypt, and Benzinga
X: @alibaba_qwen, @bowang87, @kimmonismus, @alibaba_qwen, @alibabagroup, @adinayakup, @alibaba_qwen, and @ali_tongyilab. Forums: r/singularity
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature — Overdue updates bring Apple's priciest AirPods on par with its best earbuds. — I'm honestly shocked the AirPods Max 2 even exists.
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X: @chancehmiller, @lanceulanoff, and @chancehmiller
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; Rec Room had a $3.5B valuation in December 2021 — Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1 …
More: Rec Room, Road to VR, UploadVR, Gamereactor UK, TechRaptor, The Ghost Howls, Music Ally, IGN, WUSA, PlayStation LifeStyle, The Verge, and GamesBeat
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Bluesky: @tomforsyth, @maxkriegervg, @mux213, @firr, and @carnage4life
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state — Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits — Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them.| Reuters: |
OpenFX, an FX market-making and remittance startup launched by a FalconX co-founder, raised $94M led by Accel and others, a source says at a ~$500M valuation — OpenFX, a startup that focuses on foreign-exchange market making and remittances, on Tuesday raised $94 million in a funding round led …
More: CoinDesk, Entrackr, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, and The Crypto Times
| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+ — Nvidia Corp. said it has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology Inc. and that the two chipmakers plan to collaborate on silicon photonics technology.
More: Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Reuters, Quartz, Barchart.com, Blockonomi, Channel NewsAsia, and Sherwood News
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Micromobility delivery startup Also, a Rivian spinoff, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $1B valuation and enters a multiyear partnership with DoorDash — Also, an electric bike and transportation startup spun out of Rivian Automotive Inc., has reached a $1 billion valuation in a new funding round …
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| Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave raised an $8.5B loan from banks and investors to expand its cloud computing capacity, in what it says is the largest chip-backed debt deal of its kind — CoreWeave Inc. has raised $8.5 billion from a group of banks and investors to help finance an expansion of its cloud computing capacity …
More: Reuters, Capital Brief, Yahoo Finance, Business Wire, and Benzinga
| Financial Times: |
Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 — Company is part of growing cohort of UK groups developing faster AI processors — London-based start-up Fractile is in talks …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Tech Funding News, Sifted, and Entrackr
| New York Times: |
Instagram reaches an agreement with the MPA to cease using the PG-13 trademark in its Teen Accounts marketing, after a C&D letter, and will add a disclaimer — The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.
More: Reuters, Variety, The Wrap, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
New York-based Linx Security, whose Autopilot agent proactively maps and remediates identity-related failures, raised a $50M Series B from Index and others — Follow Ben Bergman … - Linx counts Index Ventures, Cyberstarts, and Insight Partners among its backers.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, offering slimmer frames, swappable nosepads, and adjustable temple tips, on sale April 14 — Meta is also adding new translation and food-tracking abilities to all its frames. — The latest iteration of Meta's smart glasses …
More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, ZDNET, Meta, Reuters, and Dow Jones Newswires
| Yizhu Wang / Bloomberg: |
Amazon replaces Amex with US Bancorp as the issuer for its Prime Business and Amazon Business credit cards that it is relaunching in the coming months — Amazon.com Inc. tapped U.S. Bancorp to be the issuer for two small business credit cards that the e-commerce platform is relaunching in the coming months.
More: Mpls./St. Paul Business …, American Banker, and Barchart.com
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix feels comfortable raising prices knowing customers can downgrade to its ad tier; in 2026, Netflix is on track to double 2025's $1.5B+ in ad sales — The most popular Netflix plan will now cost $20 a month — a 150% increase from 2013 — Good afternoon from Los Angeles and happy baseball season to those of you who celebrate.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Sarasota-based Tenex, which offers an AI-enabled managed cybersecurity detection and response service, raised $250M led by Crosspoint at a $1B+ valuation — The funding round values the cybersecurity startup at more than $1 billion. — Tenex.ai, an artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup … Sponsor Posts
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