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A supply chain attack compromised HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency into specific npm releases — 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, Computerworld, The Register, Huntress, CyberScoop, The Hacker News, SiliconANGLE, GitHub, Endor Labs, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, Aikido Security's Blog, CyberInsider, The Crypto Times, The Cyber Express, iTnews, Tom's Hardware, Help Net Security, Hackread, and Neowin
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/hacking, r/cybersecurity, and Lobsters
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
More: PCMag, wiz.io, and Salesforce Ben
| 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, The Register, Decrypt, The Information, Cyber Security News, DEV Community, GitHub, The Algorithmic Bridge, and Crypto Briefing
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Mastodon: @jalcine@todon.eu and @peter@thepit.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/pwnhub
| Bloomberg: |
Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected — Google researchers warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin …
More: Google Research, arXiv.org, CoinDesk, Mashable, The Crypto Basic, Forbes, Bitcoin News, Benzinga, The Quantum Insider, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, Finbold, ZyCrypto, Cryip, and Crypto Briefing
X: @drakefjustin and @matthew_d_green
LinkedIn: Simone Montangero, Andrei Faraon, Jan A. Krzywda, and Alejandro Rodríguez …
| Julia Shapero / The Hill: |
Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla in the Middle East from 8PM local time on April 1 — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday that it plans to target major U.S. technology companies across the Middle East …
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, PressTV, Ynetnews, TRT World, Wired, Electrek, CBS News, The Indian Express, Political Wire, Hindustan Times, and FXStreet
| 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| 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 Newsroom, Meta, Thurrott, PCMag, Android Police, UploadVR, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Road to VR, MobileSyrup, Android Central, Mobile World Live, ZDNET, and Android Authority
X: @nathievr, @greengart, and @bramvgenechten. LinkedIn: Abhimanyu Kapur. Mastodon: @qlp@linh.social
| 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.”| 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.
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @permadeath.com, and @anildash.com
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect — Apple Inc. is testing a feature that would let Siri process multiple requests in a single query, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, and Redmond Pie
X: @markgurman and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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.| 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, The Mac Observer, Forbes, CNET, ZDNET, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, T3, T3, The Verge, MacRumors, The Sun, What Hi-Fi?, CNN, The Independent, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, PCMag, and Good Housekeeping
X: @lanceulanoff, @chancehmiller, and @chancehmiller
| 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.
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X: @andreykovalev23, @willahmed, @robgo, @0xwives, @ultralinx, @willahmed, @bcwilless, @darrenrovell, and @whoop
| 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, Tom's Hardware, Financial Times, Barron's Online, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, Yahoo Finance, Barchart.com, Reuters, Livemint, Quartz, Proactive, Blockonomi, and CNBC. LinkedIn: Rahul Todi
| 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 …
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| 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| 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: Samsung Newsroom, ZDNET, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Police, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Android Central, PCMag, TechRadar, SammyGuru, Forbes, Phandroid, PhoneArena, Android Authority, and SamMobile
| 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 … | 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: PYMNTS.com, Unchained, FinSMEs, Refresh Miami, Ventureburn, Cointelegraph, Openfx, Blockonomi, and The Crypto Times
| 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
| 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.
| 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.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools — Following OpenAI's Sora exit last week, Google today said it's committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.| 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 … | 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 just months after hiring them from HSBC Holdings Plc … | 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: Security Boulevard and Atlantic Council
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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
| 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.| 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: Engadget, TechCrunch, and EV
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