Exclusive: Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to train its AI models, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters reut.rs/4cnvKdX
Oh boy, I'm not sure publishers will be thrilled with this change -> AI Mode will now open publisher links side by side with AI Mode (versus taking you directly to the publisher website). So both AI Mode and the site will be open at the same time (sharing the window).
Bluesky: We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos. We are starting to see some early recovery, but many users and services are still impacted.
Bluesky isn't really working today... 🤨 #Bluesky
Should be part of his next test.
Google is flooding my email inbox today... 🙄
New data: 🔎 AI search adoption splits sharply by income. Usage ranges from ~18% in lower-income households to up to 58% among top earners. Search behavior is fragmenting before the click.
searchengineland.com/ai-search-ad... #AISearch #SEO #DigitalDivide #GEO
BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.
BREAKING: President Trump says that “effective immediately” the U.S. will start to blockade ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. Follow AP’s live updates.
OpenAI faces tighter regulation under EU’s Digital Service Act: 🚩OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT is set to be classified as a very large search engine and fall under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
www.investing.com/news/stock-m... #DigitalServiceAct #OpenAI #ChatGPT #DSA
New Shopify AI Toolkit 👉 Shopify opens its backend to Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Merchants can now manage inventory and code via AI agents directly. 💯
startupfortune.com/shopify-unlo... #AIAgents #AgenticCommerce #ShopifyAIToolkit #Shopify #Ecommerce
More than 8 in 10 Europeans don't trust American or Chinese technology companies with their data, a new POLITICO European Pulse survey of six major EU countries showed.
Anthropic's new model "Mythos" is too dangerous for the public, or just too valuable for enterprise deals? Official reason: Cybersecurity risks. Unofficial: Anti-distillation shield against Chinese competitors. 🤔
techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/i...
#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeMythos #LLM
Gen Z and AI: Usage is holding at 51% weekly, but sentiment is shifting fast. New Gallup data shows excitement down 14 pts and anger up 9 pts in a single year. The most AI-active generation is losing faith in AI. 📉 🤔
news.gallup.com/poll/708224/...
#GenZ #AIAdoption #GenerativeAI #LLM
New: Research identifies 12 ranking factors that determine whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude mentions your brand. 💯
www.getaiso.com/blog/llm_ran... #GEO #AISearch #SEO #DigitalMarketing
How to feign religiosity and threaten the Pope... 🙄
www.yahoo.com/news/article... #AvignonPapacy #PopeLeoXIV #Trump
A con man’s challenge is to stay ahead of his con. If his marks begin to see too many signs that they are being played, the artifice can start to crumble.
Donald Trump may be at this point, writes @davidcorn.bsky.social.
Nearly 100 Magento stores infected in a single night via a "double-tap" SVG skimmer. Sansec identified 6 exfiltration domains, 5 previously unknown. Likely entry point: the unpatched PolyShell vulnerability. ⚠️
sansec.io/research/svg-onload-magecart-skimmer
#Magento #CyberSecurity #SVGSkimmer
Instagram expands teen content restrictions internationally. The 13+ movie rating filter, first launched in select countries last October, now applies to teen accounts worldwide. 🆕
techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/i... #Instagram #Meta #ContentFilters #Zuckerberg
Pro-Iran groups have used artificial intelligence to create slick internet memes in English to try to shape the narrative during the war against the U.S. and Israel and foster opposition to it.
"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."
A new Oumi analysis for the NYT puts Google AI Overviews at 91% accuracy. 🔎 That means 1 in 10 AI-generated search summaries may be wrong, at a scale arguably unprecedented in media history. 🤨
www.futurism.com/artificial-i... #AISearch #GoogleSearch #SEO #GEO
Anthropic Engineering: "Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands." 👉 Their hosted agent service separates Claude's harness, sandbox & session log into stable interfaces, cutting p95 latency by 90%+. 💡
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
#AISearch #AgenticAI #LLM #ClaudeAI
“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network”
emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...
⚠️ Russia's military has compromised thousands of home and SOHO routers. End-of-life devices are being weaponized to redirect users to phishing sites harvesting passwords and session tokens for state-sponsored espionage campaigns.
arstechnica.com/security/202...
#CyberSecurity #Russia #TP-Link
"Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end." (Quote: Beneath the Planet of the Apes) 🙄
Germany chided JD Vance for hypocrisy today, as it pushed back against the U.S. vice president’s accusation that Brussels was meddling in Hungary’s election.
BREAKING: President Trump pulls back on his Iran threats for two weeks, subject to Iran agreeing to ceasefire and to reopen Strait of Hormuz.
The dismantling of the judiciary and the suppression of the free press can provide a model to the continent. For shure... 🤨
