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The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem (wired.com)
· wired
Microsoft’s new Xbox Gamepad Cursor adds a virtual mouse to handhelds (theverge.com)
· theverge
ECB’s Vujcic Says Energy Prices Are Still Very Close to Baseline (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Watch Series 11 Hits $100 Off Nearly Every Aluminum Model on Amazon (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
GTA-maker Rockstar Games hacked again but downplays impact (bbc.com)
· bbc-tech
Iran War Is Causing Lasting Damage to Dollar System (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Aluminum Prices Rise to Four-Year High on Hormuz Blockade Fears, Failed Iran Talks (wsj.com)
· wsj
Chip-Designer Skyechip Inks Underwriting Deal for Malaysia IPO (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Risks to Stocks Keep Piling Up as Earnings Season Kicks Off (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Seeds Second iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 Betas to Developers (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Second macOS Tahoe 26.5 Beta Now Available for Developers (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Pakistan in Talks With Saudi Arabia, China After UAE’s Loan Move (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Releases Second watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5 and visionOS 26.5 Betas (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Anwar Seeks to Hose Down Spat Over Philippines Diesel Shipment (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Investors Eye Latin America Again as Ceasefire Revives ETF Flows (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Parents Are Spending Upwards of $50,000 to Land Their Kid A Job (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Young, Educated and Jobless Are Taking Over Businessweek (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Your Rummikub Group Has a Sponsor. It Also Has a Brand Strategy. (wsj.com)
· wsj
Palo Alto Networks Founder Agrees to Buy California Bank for AI Revamp (wsj.com)
· wsj
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life (wired.com)
· wired
Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute (stratechery.com)
· stratechery
Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China gap closed, the US leads in data centers and investment, and more (Stanford HAI) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Volkswagen Group Vehicle Deliveries Fall on China, U.S. Weakness (wsj.com)
· wsj
Dangote Plans Pan-African IPO for Continent’s Biggest Refinery (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Morgan Stanley Says Earnings Shield S&P 500 From Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran War: Tehran Threatens Gulf Ports and Calls US Blockade Illegal | The Opening Trade 4/13/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
WhatsApp web could soon get almost 50 new themes (9to5google.com)
· 9to5google
Amazon’s Car Sales Bet Is Getting Bigger With New Brands and More Cities (wsj.com)
· wsj
Miami Wealth Boom Drives New $1 Billion Mandarin Hotel Project (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
How AI Is Making Asia’s Richest Families Even Richer (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Philippines Removes Kerosene, LPG Taxes to Temper Food Prices (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex (github.com)
· hn · HN
Sam Altman reportedly targeted in second attack (theverge.com)
· theverge
Roblox has games again (theverge.com)
· theverge
Angola Flooding Halts Traffic on Lobito Rail, Disrupting Exports (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Microsoft says it is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context", including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (Aaron Holmes/The Information) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
US Protests Adani’s Push to Move Cargo Carriers to New Airport (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
How Three Key Ships Moved Through Hormuz Hours Ahead of US Blockade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China’s Credit Growth Disappoints as Weak Loan Demand Persists (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Why India’s Weak Rupee Is About More Than the Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
DA Warns ANC Succession Poses ‘Profound Risk’ (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
"The door is not closed": Mediators rush to revive U.S.-Iran talks (axios.com)
· axios
Baker Hughes to Sell Waygate Unit to Sweden’s Hexagon For Around $1.45 Billion (wsj.com)
· wsj
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal "limited our ability" to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Irish Protests Disrupt Roads Despite New Government Fuel Package (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review (Jay Peters/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
China’s 30-Year Bonds Gain Amid Bets on Issuance Duration Cut (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Show HN: Equirect – a Rust VR video player (github.com)
· hn · HN
How Would Trump’s Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Work? (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Zambia’s Planned Refinery to Rely on Oil Delivery by Road, Rail (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The AI revolution is sorting people into three camps (axios.com)
· axios
Huawei beats Apple and Samsung with new wide foldable (theverge.com)
· theverge
Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas (sciencedirect.com)
· hn · HN
Fund Managers Seek Reporting Crackdown After Philippines Scandal (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China Starts Bankruptcy Liquidation of Shadow Bank Zhongzhi (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Opus 4.6 hallucinates twice as more today than when it released (bridgebench.ai)
· hn · HN
France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
<strong>Ziad Daoud Explains How War with Iran Will Reshape the Gulf</strong> (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Odd Lots: Daoud on How Iran War Will Reshape the Gulf (Podcast) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Hong Kong Issues 53% More IPO Banker Licenses to Ease Shortage (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Horizons Middle East & Africa 4/13/2026 (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Check Who's Using Your iPhone Hotspot Data (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Shallow Losses for Stocks Despite Hormuz Blockade: 3-Minutes MLIV (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
US to Blockade all Traffic Entering, Exiting Iran Ports (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Top Polish Bank PKO Speeds Up Hungary Branch Plan After Election (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Hormuz Blockade Is a US-Iran 'Game of Chicken': Roubini (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China’s TCL Is Said to Consider Stake Sale in India TV Business (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Lufthansa Two-Day Pilot Strike Set to Cancel Hundreds of Flights (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Smart Adhesive Is Key to Crease-Free Foldable iPhone Display (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
State Street Advises Further De-Risking Amid Inflation Threat (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Oil, Gas Surge as Trump Orders Hormuz Blockade & Hungary's Orbán Ousted| Daybreak Europe 4/13/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Wise on Track for Nasdaq Listing Next Month as Income Jumps 24% (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Lebanon Min of Industry: War Imposed by Hezbollah (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Oil Climbs Above $100 a Barrel as Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Deepens Energy Shock (wsj.com)
· wsj
Get Up to $200 Off 2026 MacBook Pro With Record Low Prices on Amazon (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Traders Run For Cover as US Prepares Hormuz Blockade | The China Show 4/13/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Dolce & Gabbana Appoints Stefano Cantino as Co-CEO (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Rockstar confirms "a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach"; ShinyHunters demand a ransom (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Programming Used to Be Free (purplesyringa.moe)
· hn · HN
Insight with Haslinda Amin 04/13/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Valve's Steam Link App Is Coming to Apple Vision Pro (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post (Ryan Mac/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI (openai.com)
· openai
The AI Layoff Trap (arxiv.org)
· hn · HN
FTSE 100 Set to Fall as US-Iran Talks Fail (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind (viktorcessan.com)
· hn · HN
Oil Surges, Stocks Drop on US Plan to Blockade Hormuz (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior" (old.reddit.com)
· hn · HN
Toto Halts Bathroom Orders After Iran War Upends Supply Chain (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Western Australia Mulls Own Diesel Reserve After War Disruptions (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Saudi Oil Sales to China to Halve as Hormuz Crisis Lifts Prices (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Philippines Orders Meta to Tighten Measures Against ‘Panic-Inducing’ Fake News (wsj.com)
· wsj
Are Australia’s Low Fuel Reserves Cause for Concern? (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Shell CEO Wael Sawan on Oil, Renewables and the Future of Energy (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Franklin Templeton Taps Blue Owl’s Yamamoto as Japan Lead (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Oil May Rise to $150 If US Goes Ahead With Blockade, Onyx Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a "backdoor" that could be used to blacklist investors (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
New Huawei Foldable Looks a Lot Like Apple's Rumored iPhone Fold (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Swiss Bank UBP Buying Gold Again, Forecasting $6,000 Year-End (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Emerging Assets Slide as US Hormuz Blockade Saps Risk Sentiment (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Oil, Gas Jump As Trump Plans Hormuz Blockade | The Asia Trade 4/13/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China’s Clean Tech Firms Signal Windfall From Gulf Energy Shock (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive (Andy Kemp/Gallup) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
A Canonical Generalization of OBDD (arxiv.org)
· hn · HN
Malaysia Detains Two Tankers for Alleged Illegal Diesel Transfer (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple's AI Chief John Giannandrea Departs This Week (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Whoever’s Stopping It, the Oil Doesn’t Get Through (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Tough Earnings Season Beckons as Iran War Hurts European Growth (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices (Elizabeth Bratton/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Kindle users in uproar re: latest update, old devices now unusable: 'Fuck You ' (nypost.com)
· hn · HN
Why Money Managers Are 'Looking Through' Iran Conflict (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Spanish PM Urges China to ‘Do More’ to End Wars in Iran, Ukraine (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Onyx: Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Threat 'Makes No Sense' (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Two Oil Tankers Attempt Hormuz Exit After US Announces Blockade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website (haunt.madebywindmill.com)
· hn · HN
iPhone 18 Pro Deep Red Color Likely as Android Rivals Prep Same Shade (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
What Next for the Middle East After US-Iran Talks Collapse (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Inpex Boosts Condensate Supply to Australia Amid Fuel Shortages (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Copper Falls, Aluminum Spreads Spike as US Plans Hormuz Blockade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Tech Fundraising Drives Record Convertible Bond Sales in Taiwan (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ships with Iran Oil Anchor off India as Trump Announces Blockade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Chinese Rare Earth Companies Jump After Quarterly Price Hike (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
· hn · HN
Retail Investors Double Down on India Stocks, Foreigners Flee Amid War Jitters (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Quoting Bryan Cantrill (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Ratney on Potential Impact of US Blockade of Hormuz (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Asian LNG Imports Plummet to Six-Year Low on Middle East Crisis (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Testing Four Smart Glasses Styles Made of High-End Materials (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
McDonald’s to Add Energy Drinks, Crafted Sodas to Menus (wsj.com)
· wsj
Asian LNG Prices Set to Rise as US Threatens to Block Hormuz (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for "physical AI" by 2030 (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
· hn · HN
Trump unleashes tirade against "weak," "terrible" Pope Leo (axios.com)
· axios
State of Homelab 2026 (mrlokans.work)
· hn · HN
Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to employees (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Half of Australians Near Retirement Fear Running Out of Cash (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Pistachio Prices Hit Eight-Year High on War in Major Grower Iran (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 (Ellen Thomas/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Global Bonds Slide as Failure of Talks Adds to Inflation Fears (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
What Would a US Blockade of Hormuz Mean for Energy Markets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Altman Addresses Home Attack (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Eric Swalwell suspends campaign for California governor amid misconduct allegations (axios.com)
· axios
Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Risks Piling Pain on Asia Allies, China (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
BOJ’s Usual Stance Amid Uncertainty Is to Hold, Ex-Official Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
SVB Energy's Vakhshouri on US Blockade of Hormuz (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
China’s Stocks, Bonds in Rare Sync as War Drives Haven Demand (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
JBS Reaches Labor Deal With Striking Meatpacking Workers (wsj.com)
· wsj
Singapore May Tighten Monetary Policy as Oil Shock Lifts Prices (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Did Neuralink make the wrong bet? (theverge.com)
· theverge
Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers and their impact on release process (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Ping An Seeks to Sell $1 Billion Software-Focused PE Assets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Tucker Carlson Books Imprint To Launch With Skyhorse Publishing (wsj.com)
· wsj
Gemma 4 audio with MLX (simonwillison.net)
· simonw
Japan’s 10-Year Bond Yield Rises to Highest Level Since 1997 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Taiwan Plans Drills to Break Potential Chinese Energy Blockade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Aussie’s One-Year Rally Versus Kiwi Is Peaking, Strategists Say (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
CapitaLand Raises $320 Million for Asia-Pacific Credit Fund (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
High Oil Prices Force Japan Equity Analysts to Slash Forecasts (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Fujimori Poised for Peru Presidential Runoff But Opponent Still Unclear (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Oil prices surge on Trump's blockade vow, failed U.S.-Iran talks (axios.com)
· axios
Britain Faces Another Lost Year for Living Standards Due to Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Singapore Stocks Near Record High as War Fuels Haven Status (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
· hn · HN
Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)
· hn · HN
China’s Victory Giant Seeks Up to $2.2 Billion in Hong Kong Listing (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Gold Falls as US Prepares to Blockade Hormuz After Failed Talks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Tech Valuations Are Back to Pre-AI Boom Levels (apollo.com)
· hn · HN
Oil Surges, US Futures Drop on Hormuz Blockade: Markets Wrap (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Viktor Orban Loses Election in Hungary, Concedes Defeat, Congratulates Opposition Winners (nytimes.com)
· daringfireball
Viktor Orban Concedes Election Defeat in Hungary (politicalwire.com)
· daringfireball
US Says It Will Start Blockade of Hormuz After Peace Talks Fail (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Oil Advances as US Blockade of Hormuz Escalates Energy Crisis (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Netflix on Deck This Week; Pressure on Software Stocks Intensifies (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
KKR Unit to Boost Buying in $2.8 Trillion Japan Property Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
European Gas Prices Jump After Trump Threatens Hormuz Blockade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Opinion | Trump Blockades the Blockaders in Iran (wsj.com)
· wsj
GFL Said to Near Deal to Buy Secure Waste for Over $4.3 Billion (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
A2 Milk Lowers Guidance as Formula Supply Disrupted in China (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (Tristan Anthony/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing (wsj.com)
· hn · HN
Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
A Perfectable Programming Language (alok.github.io)
· hn · HN
Retail-trading Apps Go Upscale to Keep Rich Traders Loyal (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (blog.danielvaughan.com)
· hn · HN
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