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A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which offers modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, and others — A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal …
More: micahflee and NBC News
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Military, r/NoShitSherlock, r/technology, r/cybersecurity, r/law, r/politics, and r/republicans
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Several Senate Democrats, key to the passage of a landmark stablecoin bill, withdraw support for the bill “as it currently stands” — - The future of the U.S. Senate's stablecoin bill has been thrown into jeopardy after nine pro-crypto Democrats, including four who supported the bill …
More: Politico, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Bitcoinist.com, DL News, and CoinGape
| Rachyl Jones / Semafor: |
Zeki: the US risks losing its edge as the top destination for AI talent, as the 12-month rolling average of AI talent entering in 2025 equals the number leaving — The US risks losing its edge as the best place in the world to work in tech, according to new reports.
More: Zeki and Hoover Institution
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut “refocuses CISA on its core mission” — A budget summary doesn't give specific details on which programs it would cut, instead providing a broad outline. — Learn more.
More: White House, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, and The Hill
Bluesky: @GossiTheDog.cyberplace …. X: @ericgeller, @viacristiano, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller. Forums: r/Environmentalism
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei is building an advanced chip production line in Shenzhen and is the key player behind three plants, as satellite imagery shows rapid development — Rapid expansion of Shenzhen facilities designed to break dependence on foreign technologies — Huawei is building a production line …
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| Sara Gharaibeh / Bloomberg: |
The UAE will add AI to public school curriculum, including ethical awareness and foundational concepts, for kindergarten pupils through to 12th grade this year — The United Arab Emirates will introduce artificial intelligence to the public school curriculum this year … | Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Ookla: Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks — Widespread electricity outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms — Spanish and Portuguese mobile …
X: @redskullpro and @imnotharryjames
| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites — Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit to create its Starlink internet constellation.
More: JGR Atmospheres, The Guardian, and Ars Technica
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Forums: r/technology, r/space, and Slashdot
| Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
Filings: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US — State-backed group accelerates investment plans as it deepens collaboration over the technology
X: @rwang07
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Wearing three AI-powered devices, the $50 Bee Pioneer, $199 Limitless Pendant, and $159 Plaud NotePin, shows how the wearables can be useful but also creepy — The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do's—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future
LinkedIn: Hunter Walk, Prabhakar Sharma, Frank Schirrmeister, Avinash Patil, and Rehan Farooq
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Sensor Tower: Temu cut US digital ad spending by an estimated 31% and Shein by 19% in the two week period from March 31 as the de minimis exemption is closed — For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.| Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Duolingo's “AI-first” announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more — On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO of the popular language learning app Duolingo …
More: TechCrunch. Bluesky: @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, and @bcmerchant
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Forums: r/Futurology and r/BetterOffline
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Doppel, which provides an AI-powered social engineering detection service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B led by Bessemer at a $205M valuation — Cybersecurity startup Doppel Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
More: Doppel, MSSP Alert, FinSMEs, Forbes, and VC News Daily
X: @doppelhq, @bessemervp, and @kevintian00
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
As Xbox hikes game prices, the three highest-reviewed games of 2025 so far on Metacritic—Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, and Split Fiction—are all budget titles — As Xbox announces a price hike, the year's best-reviewed games are all budget titles — Hi everyone.
More: The Ringer. Bluesky: @jawmuncher. LinkedIn: Jason Schreier. Forums: r/NintendoSwitch2, r/gaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/PS5, and r/pcgaming
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