Mayor warns of London ‘disinformation blizzard’
Sir Sadiq Khan claims London is being targeted with disinformation portraying it as a city “in decline”.
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Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China’s Tianjin Supercomputer Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data — including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics — from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is...
Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups
New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself
On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees...
EFF Is Leaving X
After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.” From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million...
The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley’s Giants
Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.
Volkswagen to End E.V. Production at Tennessee Plant
The German carmaker is the latest to scale back plans for electric vehicles in favor of gasoline models.
Rise Expands Employer of Record Coverage for Global Fintech Startups
New York, NY (PinionNewswire) — Rise, the global payroll, compliance, and workforce platform for modern teams, today announced expanded Employer of Record coverage to help fintech startups hire full-time employees internationally without setting up local legal entities. The expansion gives fintech companies a faster way to access top global talent across key hiring markets, including […]
Save $20 on This Already Inexpensive Wireless Mic Set
Take your smartphone videos to the next level with impressive audio quality in a tiny package.
John Deere Is Paying Farmers $99 Million for Allegedly Monopolizing Repair
The tractor maker is paying for its years as the central opponent of right-to-repair. Consumer advocates say it’s still not enough.
The Tech Behind the $7M Record: Spartans Betting Platform Built the World’s Most Aggressive Reward Engine
Managing a world record amount of $7,000,000 in monthly payouts requires more than just capital; it requires a robust, high-speed technological infrastructure. Spartans.com has engineered a crypto casino platform capable of processing millions of transactions with near-zero latency, ensuring that leaderboard rankings are updated in real-time and prizes are distributed instantly via the...
Waymo Is Offering To Help Cities Fix Their Potholes
Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google’s Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a new way to find and fix road damage more quickly. “We realized, hey, once we’re at scale, we can actually share this data with cities, which is something that they’ve asked for and something that we collect at scale,” said Arielle Fleisher, Waymo’s...
Solana Fights a Breach, ALGO Cools, but BlockDAG Just Unlocked Liquidity Across 13 Exchanges Alongside $0.0000061 Entry
Not every week in crypto tells a clear story, but this one does, and it starts with two coins under pressure. The latest Solana news today traces back to a $280 million hack that exposed cracks in DeFi security. The Algorand price forecast turned bearish almost as fast as it turned bullish, as a quantum-driven […]
Is space exploration worth the money and effort? | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointless
Zoe Williams speaks for many of us when she notes that the US space mission is pointless (Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to, 7 April). Unfortunately, it is worse than that. With a $100bn budget, the Artemis programme represents a truly spectacular...
Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training To Stay Afloat
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: [Five skilled workers aged 50 and older spoke] to the Guardian about how, after struggling to find work in their fields, they have turned to an emerging and growing category of work: using their expertise to train artificial intelligence models. Known as data annotation, the work involves labeling and evaluating the information used to...
Little Snitch Comes To Linux To Expose What Your Software Is Really Doing
BrianFagioli writes: Little Snitch, the well known macOS tool that shows which applications are connecting to the internet, is now being developed for Linux. The developer says the project started after experimenting with Linux and realizing how strange it felt not knowing what connections the system was making. Existing tools like OpenSnitch and various command line utilities exist, but none...
Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy
Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first
A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.
The 47-year-old had had nine different treatments, none of which had a lasting impact, before receiving...
César Cernuda, President at NetApp, Receives Prestigious HITEC 100 Recognition for 2026
As part of its ongoing commitment to growth, excellence, and measurable impact, HITEC also announced a strategic evolution of the HITEC Awards program.
FSCA Fines Ian Roscoe R1.5m, Debars Him 20 Years
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has imposed an administrative penalty of R1 500 000 on Mr Ian Roscoe (Mr Roscoe) and debarred him for a period of 20 years. The FSCA stated that the regulatory action follows an investigation by the Authority in respect of Mr Roscoe. The FSCA confirmed that the investigation found […]
High Court Interdicts Fusion Over Unregistered Insurance
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) announced today that it welcome the judgment delivered by the Gauteng Division of the High Court on 23 March 2026, which interdicted Fusion from issuing its construction guarantees and confirmed the FSCA’s longstanding position that registration under the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (NCA) by a party issuing […]
MAGA Media Seems to Have Hit Its Breaking Point Over Iran
“The online right wasn’t supportive and there wasn’t anything that was going to change that,” says one person familiar with the Republican influencer pipeline.
AI’s stealth is business leadership and IT concern
The unique nature of artificial intelligence is how quietly it enters an organisation, says Centrax Digital.