Month: April 2026
Solana Foundation to Help Secure DeFi Protocols Following $285 Million Drift Hack
The Solana Foundation will offer tiered security services to DeFi protocols, marking a shift toward institutionalized protection following the Drift exploit.
Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chips project
The partnership brings semiconductor experience to Musk’s latest high-tech project.
Web3 Is Finally Entering Its “Prove It” Era
For years, Web3 had one major advantage: belief. Belief in decentralization. Belief in digital ownership. Belief in a new internet that would be more open, more transparent, and less dependent on giant platforms that controlled everything. That belief was powerful enough to attract builders, investors, communities, and an endless stream of headlines. It gave Web3 … Read more
Trump-linked World Liberty faces scrutiny over ties to sanctioned network: The Times
A deal with an Asia-based blockchain project followed recent links to individuals later sanctioned over alleged ties to a major fraud network
The Real Risk in AI Isn’t Capability. It’s Lack of Control
Machine learning does not have a hype problem because people are too excited about it. It has a hype problem because excitement keeps arriving before control. That is the real issue. For years, the machine learning world has followed the same pattern. A new model appears. Benchmarks look impressive. Demos spread quickly. Investors get interested. … Read more
Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
A new Anthropic model found security problems ‘in every major operating system and web browser’
Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Project Glasswing, as it’s called, is billed as a way for large companies, and potentially even the government, to flag vulnerabilities in their systems with virtually no human intervention. Anthropic is … Read more
The Oversight Fatigue Problem: Why HITL Breaks Down at Scale and What Comes After
Human-in-the-loop was designed for low-volume, high-stakes decisions. We’re now deploying it at machine scale. Something has to give. By the time it was 11 AM, Sarah had approved 94 agent-flagged decisions. Loan risk scores. Contract clause deviations. Vendor payment anomalies. Each one, technically, was a “human-in-the-loop” checkpoint — her click, her accountability. Each one got, … Read more
Bitcoin holds $67K support as data exposes price to sentiment divergence
Wintermute analysts said Bitcoin’s price stability against the extreme bearish sentiment present in the market is a positive. Will BTC ever flip $70,000 back to support?
Apple’s foldable iPhone is on track to launch in September, report says
The news follows a report from Nikkei Asia on Tuesday that raised concerns the company’s foldable iPhone could be delayed due to challenges during the phone’s engineering test phase.
12 OpenCode Skills Every Dev Team Should Steal
I reviewed OpenCode’s docs, the OpenCode GitHub repo, recent writeups, and a large set of public skills and commands people share for OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, and related tools. A clear pattern showed up quickly. The useful ideas are small, concrete workflows that improve routine engineering work: planning, debugging, review, verification, context loading, and memory … Read more
‘Don’t waste time with crypto’: Here is what Solana Foundation’s cryptic message really means
The foundation says it is becoming a leading network for “agentic payments.”
The rugged Bose Soundlink Flex is 25 percent off right now
We saw a host of excellent Bose discounts during Amazon’s so-called Big Spring Sale last month; however, none of them were quite as steep as the current price drop we’re seeing on the latest Bose Soundlink Flex. Right now, the portable speaker is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for $119 ($40 off), … Read more
Russian government hackers broke into thousands of home routers to steal passwords
Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, has taken over thousands of residential home routers to steal passwords and authentication tokens in a wide-ranging espionage operation.
Chrome finally adds a better way to deal with too many open tabs
Google Chrome’s latest update brings vertical tabs and a cleaner Reading Mode to help manage cluttered browsing.
Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
Just look at all that vertical space. | Image: Google Google’s Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode, which does what it already does in most other browsers: strip out a lot of website cruft to make pages easier … Read more
Binge is a movie tracking app that warns you of jump scares in real time
The app uses iPhone Live Activities to alert you when scary scenes are about to happen, while also tracking what to watch and where to stream it.
US prosecutors reject Tornado Cash co-founder‘s argument for dismissal
Roman Storm, the co-founder of the crypto mixing service, still faces a possible retrial on two charges after a jury failed to reach a verdict in 2025.
Uber is the latest to be won over by Amazon’s AI chips
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
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Building real-time conversational podcasts with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Content creators and organizations today face a persistent challenge: producing high-quality audio content at scale. Traditional podcast production requires significant time investment (research, scheduling, recording, editing) and substantial resources including studio space, equipment, and voice talent. These constraints limit how quickly organizations can respond to new topics or scale their content production. Amazon Nova 2 … Read more
Text-to-SQL solution powered by Amazon Bedrock
Building a text-to-SQL solution using Amazon Bedrock can alleviate one of the most persistent bottlenecks in data-driven organizations: the delay between asking a business question and getting a clear, data-backed answer. You might be familiar with the challenge of navigating competing priorities when your one-time question is waiting in the queue behind higher-impact work. A text-to-SQL … Read more
Suno and major music labels reportedly clash over AI music sharing
The AI-powered musicmaker Suno is struggling to reach licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. That’s according to a report from the Financial Times, which says both sides can’t agree on whether users should be able to share the AI-generated songs they create. “Universal wants AI-generated tracks to stay inside apps such … Read more
Anthropic ups compute deal with Google and Broadcom amid skyrocketing demand
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.