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NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway

Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company. His 46.4 million multiple-voting shares were worth approximately $1.5 billion as of midday Friday, after Xanadu’s stock surged nearly fivefold in six trading sessions. The catalyst was not anything Xanadu […]

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Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator

Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 machine, and they arrive with a familiar pitch: more choice, more AI […]

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Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems

In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter […]

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Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think

In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The feature sits alongside Page Match, which now works in 30+ languages and lets readers scan a book page to sync with the […]

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Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws

In short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each case. All three companies paid bug bounties quietly, $100 from Anthropic, $500 from GitHub, an undisclosed amount from Google, but none published public advisories or assigned […]

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Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026

In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with penalties ranging from manual spam actions to algorithmic ranking demotions. Site owners are liable even when the offending code comes from third-party […]

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Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them

An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot. WordPress.org closed 31 plugins on 7 April 2026. The same week, Smart Slider 3 Pro (800,000+ installations) was separately […]

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SaaStock is dead: founder kills Europe’s biggest SaaS conference and launches Shift AI

SaaStock founder Alexander Theuma is retiring Europe’s biggest B2B SaaS conference after a decade and replacing it with Shift AI. The Austin event on 15-16 April is the last SaaStock; the first Shift Europe runs in Barcelona on 13-14 October 2026. Theuma cited $2 trillion in SaaS market cap erased in Q1 2026 and the […]

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Roblox splits its user base into three age-gated tiers as lawsuits mount over child safety

In short: Roblox is introducing three mandatory age-gated account tiers -Kids (5-8), Select (9-15), and standard (16+) – starting mid-May, segregating content and chat access by age group. The move follows lawsuits from eight US state attorneys general over child safety failures and builds on the facial age verification system mandated in January. Developers must […]

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A mobile-first approach to Window film installation: understanding the purpose behind the Scorpion Scan platform

For many small businesses, operational efficiency often determines whether growth is sustainable. Entrepreneurs frequently navigate limited staffing, tight budgets, and constant time constraints while still delivering consistent service to customers. In industries built around skilled labor and installation work, these pressures can shape how businesses structure their daily operations. Data highlights the broader context surrounding […]

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