Casely is recalling 430,000 MagSafe power banks following a fatal explosion and several injuries. In the crypto sector, an attacker drained approximately $292 million in rsETH from Kelp DAO’s LayerZero bridge, forcing a halt to all core contracts. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has proposed a “Universal HIGH INCOME” program to address potential mass unemployment caused by advancements in AI.
Computer science history was marked by the rediscovery of Dennis Ritchie’s lost thesis. In security, Trail of Bits outperformed Google’s quantum cryptanalysis benchmarks by exploiting vulnerabilities in their Rust prover code. Meanwhile, Ubuntu 24.10 dailies are testing an experimental AppArmor-based permission prompting feature, and developers have launched ezli.me, a lightweight, Rust-built URL shortener.
An investigation in Pakistan has linked a recent HIV outbreak among 331 children to reused syringes at a government hospital. Globally, the U.S. and Philippines are launching a manufacturing hub to counter China’s supply chain dominance, while the U.S. and EU negotiate a controversial biometric data-sharing deal. Meanwhile, rising GPU scarcity is driving up AI costs amid new allegations of Amazon price-fixing.
A global crisis of AI-generated deepfake nudes has impacted hundreds of students across 28 countries. In legal news, Thomson Reuters faces a lawsuit alleging an employee was fired for protesting its ICE contracts. Meanwhile, researchers have used CRISPR to successfully silence the extra chromosome in Down syndrome cells, even as experts warn that AI-assisted cognition could lead to human intellectual stagnation.
Amazon is expanding its satellite reach with an $11.5 billion acquisition of Globalstar to rival SpaceX. Meanwhile, SpaceX eyes a massive $2 trillion IPO valuation. In cybersecurity, a flaw at Fiverr left sensitive customer files publicly searchable. Additionally, privacy concerns grow over Flock Safety’s AI surveillance, as beef production drives significant global calorie loss through inefficient feed use.
Hackers claim access to Venice’s flood defenses, threatening St. Mark’s Square. The Philippines accuses China of using cyanide to damage South China Sea reefs, while the CIA reportedly used Pegasus spyware to rescue a US airman in Iran. Meanwhile, the FAA has authorized military anti-drone lasers in U.S. airspace, a fake Claude website is spreading malware, and AI-generated code is causing engineer burnout.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat, ending his 16-year rule following a major opposition victory. In the AI sector, a growing gap between frontier models and efficient, open weights models is reshaping enterprise use, while AMD scales its ROCm stack to challenge Nvidia’s dominance. Finally, researchers have identified a previously unrecorded island in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea.
OpenAI has labeled Elon Musk’s lawsuit amendments a “legal ambush” and “factually unsupported.” Meanwhile, elite AI researchers are migrating from Silicon Valley to China, lured by better pay and easier integration. In the EU, distrust of foreign tech is widespread, with 84% wary of US firms and 93% of Chinese companies regarding personal data. Additionally, Anthropic’s US business adoption rose to 30.6% in March.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home was targeted in a Molotov cocktail attack, prompting calls for safer AI development. Meanwhile, Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha are in merger talks, while US officials warned banks of cybersecurity risks from Anthropic’s new model. Elsewhere, Dutch regulators approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving for Europe, and Blackstone filed for a $2B IPO to expand AI data centers.
OpenAI is leveraging its massive computing resources to outpace Anthropic, which is exploring custom chip designs. Meanwhile, Florida’s Attorney General is investigating OpenAI over security risks. In a landmark legal case, an Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act for sharing AI-generated explicit images. Finally, Google Gemini Pro now generates interactive 3D models.
