OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths
OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage. The effort seems to mark a shift […]
Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
Intel announced the 486 CPU at Comdex on April 10, 1989. It was an expensive chip, priced at $950 each in quantities of 1,000. I thought it would be fun to look back at what the magazines at the time had to say about Intel’s then-new CPU. Infoworld: Don’t get used to the speed increase […]
White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets
Getty Images Osmond Chia Business reporter 10 April 2026, 03:32 BST White House staff were warned last month not to use insider information to place bets on predictions markets. The email was sent to staff on 24 March, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a five-day pause on his threat to attack Iranian […]
FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
A new report from 404 Media reveals that the FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data stored in the device’s notification database. Here are the details. Notification history was accessed even after Signal was deleted According to 404 Media, testimony in a recent trial involving “a group of […]
Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification and no way to quickly reinstate them, effectively blocking them from publishing new software builds and security patches for Windows users. The list of affected projects includes, but is not limited to, Virtual Private Network (VPN) software WireGuard, on-the-fly encryption […]
France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
À l’initiative du Premier ministre, du ministre de l’Action et des Comptes publics, et de la ministre déléguée chargée de l’Intelligence artificielle et du Numérique, la direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM) a organisé mercredi 8 avril 2026 avec la direction générale des entreprises (DGE), l’agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) et la […]
Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it)
Keeper is a cryptographic secret store for Go. It encrypts arbitrary byte payloads at rest using Argon2id key derivation and XChaCha20-Poly1305 (default) authenticated encryption, and stores them in an embedded bbolt database. It ships as three things you can use independently: A Go library — embed a hardened secret store directly in your process, with […]
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of people who spend too much time staring at screens, being bombarded with blue light. Rub your eyes too much and your eyelids might turn a slight, pinkish hue. So far, so normal. But if, in the past 18 months, you typed those symptoms into […]
Zero-build privacy policies with Astro
When we launched the OpenPolicy Astro integration in March, it worked by generating Markdown files at build time. You added the plugin to astro.config.mjs, pointed it at an output directory, and Astro imported the generated .md files as components. // astro.config.mjs — old approach import { openPolicy } from ”@openpolicy/astro”; export default defineConfig({ integrations: [ […]
Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon
The most important data from NASA’s first crewed Artemis II mission may not be its photographs, but the radiation measurements that will shape how humans work and survive beyond travel farther from Earth’s magnetic shelter safely. Artemis II science operations will lay the foundation for safe and efficient human exploration of the Moon and Mars. The investigations will encompass human health, […]