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| Socket: |
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, OpenSourceMalware.com, The Register, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, Huntress, Bloomberg, GitHub, Tom's Hardware, Help Net Security, Hackread, Aikido Security's Blog, CyberInsider, Neowin, The Crypto Times, iTnews, The Cyber Express, Koi, Salesforce Ben, Security Boulevard, Cyber Security News, The Stack, CryptoPotato, and Daily Dark Web
X: @josevalim, @tekbog, @feross, @yuchenj_uw, @feross, @snwy_me, @xlr8harder, @firt, @feross, @theo, @sampullara, @martin_casado, @anishmoonka, @dancingeddie_, @mattjay, @gergelyorosz, @m_alphaaa, @karpathy, @birdabo, @kimmonismus, @vxunderground, @feross, @vxunderground, @kloss_xyz, @simonw, @feross, @zephyr_z9, and @tenobrus. LinkedIn: Shane Carley
Bluesky: @ernie.tedium.co, @zackwhittaker.com, and @socket.dev
Mastodon: @geerlingguy@mastodon.social and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/hacking, r/cybersecurity, and Lobsters
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a “Self-Healing Memory” architecture, and more — Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products …
More: GitHub, Cyber Security News, and GitHub
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LinkedIn: Matt Pocock and Arindam Majumder. Bluesky: @markriedl. Mastodon: @peter@thepit.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, with swappable nosepads and compatibility with more prescription lenses, 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, PCMag, Android Police, UploadVR, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Road to VR, Meta Newsroom, ZDNET, Android Authority, Mobile World Live, and Dow Jones Newswires. Mastodon: @qlp@linh.social
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months — Your old email will still be available as an alternate address. … Many of us have a poorly chosen email address that's laced with regret, but we're now stuck with it.
More: The Keyword, Google Help Center, How-To Geek, Thurrott, MacRumors, Android Police, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Digit, Android Authority, Dexerto, The Mac Observer, Forbes, and PhoneArena
Bluesky: @anildash.com, @permadeath.com, and @quinnypig.com
| Financial Times: |
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| 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, and The Stack
| 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.”| 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.
More: Boston Business Journal, Silicon Republic, FinSMEs, The Economic Times, Yahoo Finance, Ventureburn, Sports Business Journal, Wall Street Journal, Gulf News, Financial Post, Blockonomi, Financial Times, Inc.com, and Tech Funding News
X: @bcwilless, @andreykovalev23, @willahmed, @robgo, @0xwives, @ultralinx, @willahmed, @darrenrovell, and @whoop
| 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.
More: TechRadar, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, T3, T3, ZDNET, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, CNET, The Sun, Forbes, What Hi-Fi?, CNN, Tom's Guide, PCMag, MobileSyrup, The Independent, Good Housekeeping, and MacDailyNews
X: @lanceulanoff, @chancehmiller, and @chancehmiller
| Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon strikes a deal to provide internet access on Delta flights via its Leo satellite business, starting with 500 aircraft in 2028, without disclosing terms — Amazon's Leo service will start connecting a portion of Delta's fleet in 2028; Elon Musk's Starlink has become a dominant satellite connectivity provider to airlines| 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. as part of an agreement to collaborate on silicon photonics technology …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Financial Times, Barron's Online, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Livemint, Barchart.com, Blockonomi, Quartz, Proactive, and Sherwood News. LinkedIn: Rahul Todi
| Financial Times: |
The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft's business software unit to assess whether it should be designated with “strategic market status” — CMA will assess whether US tech giant should be given ‘strategic market status’ — The UK's competition regulator plans … | 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 …
X: @zachweinberg, @edithatogo, and @vsamson_dc
Forums: r/space, r/Raytheon, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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.| 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: HotHardware, NVIDIA, Moneycontrol, Club386, Engadget, VideoCardz.com, Neowin, PC Guide, The Shortcut, Digital Trends, IGN, PC Gamer, Digit, DSOGaming, and KitGuru. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| 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.
| 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.| 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.
More: Atlantic Council and Security Boulevard
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Bluesky: @matthewdgreen, @sifu.tweety.fish, @alilleybrinker.com, @hatr, and @retr0.id. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/netsec, and Lobsters
| 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: Unchained, FinSMEs, CoinDesk, Ventureburn, Cointelegraph, Openfx, Blockonomi, Entrackr, and The Crypto Times
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are set to continue in Geneva this spring — A prohibition on taxing digital downloads expired, after members of the World Trade Organization concluded their annual meeting without an agreement.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people — Software maker Oracle has started telling employees that it's conducting a round of layoffs, two people familiar with the move told CNBC.
More: The Next Web, The Economic Times, Business Insider, Fast Company, and MarketWatch
| 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: Engadget, Rec Room, Kotaku, The Ghost Howls, Music Ally, Road to VR, UploadVR, Gamereactor UK, IGN, WUSA, and PlayStation LifeStyle
X: @bozoid, @sadlyitsbradley, @sirchuggachug, @4lovofmoney, @sirchuggachug, and @ibrews. LinkedIn: AJ Glasser
Bluesky: @maxkriegervg, @tomforsyth, @mux213, @firr, and @carnage4life
| 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: Claude Code, GitHub, Digit, Implicator.ai, Constellation Research, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The Elec, and Implicator.ai
X: @embirico, @dkundel, @thsottiaux, @rohanvarma, @dkundel, @reach_vb, @kevinkern, @austinc3301, @nickadobos, @ns123abc, @krishnanrohit, @btibor91, @llmjunky, @cocktailpeanut, @romainhuet, @badlogicgames, @romainhuet, and @dkundel
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @promptslinger
| Bloomberg: |
Raspberry Pi reports 2025 revenue up 25% YoY to $323.2M, driven by demand in the US and China; its stock is down 21% in the past year due to memory chip costs — Raspberry Pi Holdings Plc, a British maker of small, low-cost computers, rose as much as 27% after reporting a jump in sales … | 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.
X: @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, and @lucas_shaw
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch and EV
| Bloomberg: |
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.| 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
| 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 …
More: TENEX
| 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, Bloomberg, Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Forbes, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Android Authority, SamMobile, and Android Headlines
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