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Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: Comfortable design, Xbox Full Screen beats Windows 11 and affordable, but sleep/wake issues, weak display and average performance (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom’s Hardware)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s material: Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: Comfortable design, Xbox Full Screen beats Windows 11 and…

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AI Forensics: In 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, more than 24,000 men share non-consensual images of women and girls, buy spyware and engage in doxing (Matt Burgess/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Matt Burgess / Wired: AI Forensics: In 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, more than 24,000 men share non-consensual images…

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layoffs in the technology sector totaled 78,557 in the first quarter of 2026, 76.7% of which were in the United States; almost half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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Modus, which creates AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, has raised a $5 million seed and $80 million Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Modus, which creates AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, has raised…

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A pro-Iran cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that took both companies’ websites offline this month (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “computation,” not making it public due to misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter jets, has raised $200 million led by Khosla Ventures and $150 million in debt at a $1 billion valuation (Sean O’Kane/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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MLB deploys “robot umps,” or an automated ball-striking system, using advanced cameras made by Sony to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

Russia and the Sino-American summit – The Diplomat

Ending Chinese visa-free travel could cripple tourism in the Northern Marianas – Radio Free Asia

The geopolitics of the Trump-Xi meeting – The Diplomat

India’s nuclear breakthrough – The Diplomat

7-year-old American boy stuck in China because his father made art – The Diplomat

Beer demand falls due to rising gas prices, data shows

Fired GM employees talk about disturbing emails, layoffs and the role of AI

Trump FDA Commissioner Marty Makary absent

United Airlines flight attendants sign new contract with 31% raise

Businesses start getting duty refunds after Supreme Court ruling

Trump barely arrives in China with a thud

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Trump’s Federal Gas Tax Exemption Is a Scam

Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

The FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien said pre-orders for the T1 phone would begin shipping to customers this week and the device would be assembled in the United States, after months of delays (Michelle Del Rey/USA Today)

Richard Socher’s Recursive Superintelligence Raised Over $650M From GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD and Others for a $4B Valuation to Continue "recursive self-improvement" (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Q&A with Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of devices and services, on Alexa+, the company’s focus on home devices, the Leo satellite broadband business, and more (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: Comfortable design, Xbox Full Screen beats Windows 11 and affordable, but sleep/wake issues, weak display and average performance (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom’s Hardware)

AI Forensics: In 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, more than 24,000 men share non-consensual images of women and girls, buy spyware and engage in doxing (Matt Burgess/Wired)

layoffs in the technology sector totaled 78,557 in the first quarter of 2026, 76.7% of which were in the United States; almost half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia)

Modus, which creates AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, has raised a $5 million seed and $80 million Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

A pro-Iran cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that took both companies’ websites offline this month (Bloomberg)

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “computation,” not making it public due to misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter jets, has raised $200 million led by Khosla Ventures and $150 million in debt at a $1 billion valuation (Sean O’Kane/TechCrunch)

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

MLB deploys “robot umps,” or an automated ball-striking system, using advanced cameras made by Sony to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)