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Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak

2026-04-28 14:15:07                theregister.com

Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…

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Finally, I found an ergonomic office keyboard that's just as good for gaming

2026-04-28 14:10:39                zdnet.com

Razer's Pro Type Ergo keyboard features a split ergonomic design and a plush wrist rest, while still being great for gaming.

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Visa partners WeFi for stablecoin payments

2026-04-28 14:00:57                techinasia.com

The company said it aims to enable stablecoin payments for everyday purchases in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

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Sony’s Table-Tennis Robot Beat Elite Human Players With Unorthodox Moves

2026-04-28 14:00:00                singularityhub.com

AI long ago surpassed humans at games like chess and Go. Now it's powering robots that can challenge top athletes. The post Sony’s Table-Tennis Robot Beat Elite Human Players With Unorthodox Moves appeared first on SingularityHub.

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Why virtual desktops are so useful - and my top 4 tips for beginners

2026-04-28 13:33:00                zdnet.com

Is your PC desktop too cluttered? Virtual desktops can help you organize apps and reduce distractions. Here's how.

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Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

2026-04-28 13:30:10                theregister.com

That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.…

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This Bluetti power station with wheels has spoiled the way I charge my tools and devices

2026-04-28 13:02:00                zdnet.com

The Bluetti Elite 400 has something that you don't see on many portable stations, and it can power just about anything.

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Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon

2026-04-28 13:00:07                theregister.com

RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…

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T-Mobile enlists Starlink satellites for new ‘SuperBroadband’ business internet service 

2026-04-28 13:00:00                geekwire.com

T-Mobile unveiled SuperBroadband, a business internet service that combines its 5G network with SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation to provide two independent connectivity pathways. Read More

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Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

2026-04-28 12:30:12                theregister.com

DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.…

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How to turn on Data Saver mode on your Android phone - and why it's critical to do so

2026-04-28 12:28:03                zdnet.com

Android makes it easy for me to take control of my data use. Here's how.

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UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

2026-04-28 12:24:53                theregister.com

£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.…

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Amazon earnings preview: Big AI deals meet a $200B spending binge

2026-04-28 12:01:48                geekwire.com

Amazon reports Q1 earnings Wednesday with a $244 billion cloud backlog and blockbuster deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but investors are watching whether the company's $200 billion spending plan is starting to pay off. Read More

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Alibaba doubles down on healthcare AI with new tool for early colorectal cancer detection

2026-04-28 12:00:10                scmp.com

Alibaba Group Holding has released an artificial intelligence model that it claims is more sensitive than radiologists in spotting early stage colorectal cancer from computed tomography (CT) scans, as the Chinese tech giant doubles down on its efforts to develop AI tools for cancer detection. Alibaba’s research arm Damo Academy said on Tuesday that its new Coca AI model accurately identified five previously missed cases of colorectal cancer from the non-contrast CT scans of more than 27,000...

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Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

2026-04-28 11:14:28                theregister.com

Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…

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DeepSeek mystery: who is speaking for start-up as CEO Liang Wenfeng remains out of sight?

2026-04-28 11:00:15                scmp.com

The potential emergence of a new DeepSeek spokesman has sparked intrigue as speculation over the whereabouts of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng continues, more than a year after his last public appearance. While the Hangzhou start-up’s latest V4 model did not make the same waves as its breakout moment a year earlier, the much-anticipated release still grabbed headlines through a collaboration with domestic tech giant Huawei Technologies and its remarkably low prices. For the traditionally...

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EE beats target to cross 50M mark with 5G+

2026-04-28 10:58:17                mobileworldlive.com

EE expanded its 5G+ network to more than 50 million people as part of parent BT Group’s £40 billion investment in the UK's network infrastructure until 2030. The post EE beats target to cross 50M mark with 5G+ appeared first on Mobile World Live.

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Vodafone rides on time to boost 5G-A

2026-04-28 10:57:37                mobileworldlive.com

Vodafone Group hailed a breakthrough in network timekeeping, having worked with the UK’s national metrology institute to develop a method accurate to within 40 nanoseconds which is to play a crucial role in 5G-Advanced. The post Vodafone rides on time to boost 5G-A appeared first on Mobile World Live.

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Israeli chip business completes spin-off from Sony

2026-04-28 10:41:58                mobileworldlive.com

Altair Semiconductor completed a transition into an independent company and raised $50 million in a funding round following a strategic spin-off from Sony’s chip division. The post Israeli chip business completes spin-off from Sony appeared first on Mobile World Live.

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Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'

2026-04-28 10:32:32                theregister.com

Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…

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SoftBank constructs AI, IoT tie-up with Mode

2026-04-28 10:32:08                mobileworldlive.com

SoftBank Corp and IoT platform provider Mode inked a partnership to combine their technologies in products and services for the manufacturing and construction sectors. The post SoftBank constructs AI, IoT tie-up with Mode appeared first on Mobile World Live.

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Stop Trying to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto

2026-04-28 10:30:00                wired.com

On this week’s Big Interview podcast, actor-director Ben McKenzie talks about the rise of crypto, why he finds it dangerous, and why it benefits from having a mysterious creator.

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Snapchat launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in the Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

2026-04-28 10:25:01                techcrunch.com

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snapchat launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in the Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations  —  Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it's rolling out “AI Sponsored Snaps,” which will allow users to interact directly with brands' AI agents.

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Nvidia gets memory supply from Taiwan firm Nanya

2026-04-28 10:12:55                techinasia.com

Nvidia may use Nanya as a backup supplier to reduce supply risk and improve pricing leverage.

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Need for speed: China’s EV, battery makers race to cut charging times to under 10 minutes

2026-04-28 10:00:16                scmp.com

Battery makers and electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers have seized on the Beijing Auto Show to showcase technologies promising shorter charging times in a race triggered by BYD and Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL). Fast-charging technology has dominated the floor at the 10-day event which runs until May 3. Second-tier Chinese battery suppliers including CALB Group, EVE Energy and Sunwoda unveiled products capable of boosting power to 70 per cent, from a starting point of 10 per cent,...

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SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

2026-04-28 10:00:07                theregister.com

Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…

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US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested at a Finnish airport (Jason Meisner/Chicago Tribune)

2026-04-28 09:45:01                chicagotribune.com

Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune: US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested at a Finnish airport  —  The high-tech cyber hacker who goes by the online moniker “Bouquet” jetted around the world, from Dubai to Thailand to New York …

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Peak XV exits Indian fintech MobiKwik with $13.8m stake sale

2026-04-28 09:35:48                techinasia.com

The sale covered about 6.08 million shares at 214 rupees (US$2.3) each and valued the trade at about US$13.8 million.

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Sources: at least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to fundraise from US investors in recent months (Bloomberg)

2026-04-28 09:30:02                bloomberg.com

Bloomberg: Sources: at least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to fundraise from US investors in recent months  —  Chinese early stage funds are increasingly offering a fundraising structure that appeals to US investors wary of American compliance restrictions …

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Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

2026-04-28 09:15:10                theregister.com

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion  The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…

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Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance (Juro Osawa/The Information)

2026-04-28 09:15:03                theinformation.com

Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance  —  Chinese tech giant Tencent's latest AI model has generated positive reviews from developers.  But the company probably owes some of that success to Anthropic.

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China blocks Meta’s Manus deal, raises Mythos concerns

2026-04-28 09:08:11                scmp.com

China has stepped up its tech war with the United States, blocking Facebook owner Meta’s US$2.5 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Manus and raising cybersecurity concerns about Anthropic’s new AI model Claude Mythos Preview. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced it was prohibiting the Manus deal in a one-sentence statement on Monday, which didn’t give a specific reason. Meta is now planning to unwind the acquisition, which means untangling...

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UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

2026-04-28 09:07:03                theregister.com

Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…

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These are the most active investors in Southeast Asia’s startups

2026-04-28 09:00:00                techinasia.com

Which investors are writing the most checks to Southeast Asian startups?

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Qualcomm teams with OpenAI, MediaTek on AI chip

2026-04-28 08:35:08                mobileworldlive.com

OpenAI reportedly partnered with Qualcomm and MediaTek to develop smartphone processors, a project tipped to potentially redefine the high-end handset market. The post Qualcomm teams with OpenAI, MediaTek on AI chip appeared first on Mobile World Live.

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Google signs Pentagon AI deal, report says

2026-04-28 08:32:04                techinasia.com

The agreement highlights growing collaboration between major tech companies and government agencies on sensitive AI applications.

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Google employees oppose military AI use

2026-04-28 08:30:39                mobileworldlive.com

More than 560 Google employees reportedly signed an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai which urged him to reject classified military contracts for the company’s AI technology. The post Google employees oppose military AI use appeared first on Mobile World Live.

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The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

2026-04-28 08:30:00                wired.com

WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.

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Alibaba’s plan to list Cainiao logistics hub as Reit will ‘unlock’ value, analysts say

2026-04-28 08:24:30                scmp.com

Alibaba Group Holding’s plan to package a key warehousing hub into a real estate investment trust (Reit) for public listing will benefit the company and its shareholders by redeploying capital into higher-growth opportunities, according to analysts. Alibaba, which two years ago scrapped a plan to publicly list its Cainiao logistics operation, said in a filing on Monday that it had received regulatory approval from the Hong Kong stock exchange to proceed with a proposal to spin off a certain...

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Adobe tests Firefly AI assistant across apps, Claude

2026-04-28 08:24:30                techinasia.com

Adobe also said it plans to bring similar agentic assistants to more of its apps but did not give a timeline.

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Australia to tax Big Tech over news payments

2026-04-28 08:05:36                techinasia.com

the government would direct levy proceeds to news companies, and platforms would get larger offsets for agreements with smaller publishers.

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Chinese VCs use new structures to tap US investors

2026-04-28 07:59:22                techinasia.com

ZhenFund aims to raise about US$300 million using parallel fund structures for US and other investors.

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Hyundai rolls out EV battery subscription pilot for taxis

2026-04-28 07:55:27                techinasia.com

Hyundai Motor is testing EV battery subscription with five Ioniq 5 taxis in Seoul.

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GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on "availability first, then capacity, then new features" (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

2026-04-28 07:55:00                github.blog

Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features”  —  Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

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Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict "firewalls" between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale (Bloomberg)

2026-04-28 07:50:01                bloomberg.com

Bloomberg: Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale  —  The fallout from Meta Platforms Inc.'s controversial acquisition of Manus is prompting one tech founder …

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AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries (talkie)

2026-04-28 07:40:01                talkie-lm.com

talkie: AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries  —  Why vintage language models?  —  Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?

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Google begins building AI hub in India under $15b plan

2026-04-28 07:35:47                techinasia.com

The new campus will feature a gigawatt-scale data center supporting AI products like Gemini and Search.

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Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)

2026-04-28 07:25:01                theverge.com

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+  —  ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.

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Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

2026-04-28 07:20:24                theregister.com

Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…

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Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (Joel Khalili/Wired)

2026-04-28 07:10:00                wired.com

Joel Khalili / Wired: Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta  —  WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.