09 Apr As the Strait of Hormuz Reopens, Global Shipping Will Take Months to Recover After weeks of disruption, a ceasefire is easing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. But backlogs, infrastructure damage, and delayed supply mean the system won’t return to normal overnight.
09 Apr Conflicting Rulings Leave Anthropic in ‘Supply-Chain Risk’ Limbo A US appeals court ruling is at odds with a separate, lower court decision from March, leaving uncertainty about if and how the US military can use the AI company’s Claude model.
09 Apr Meta’s New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid’s Table Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
08 Apr Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything The AI lab’s Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They’ll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
08 Apr Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
08 Apr The iPhone Gets a D– for Repairability It’s a better rating than the company has gotten from repairability experts before, at least. Samsung is second worst with a D.
07 Apr Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Characters in Riot Gear Nonprofits run out of US Border Patrol stations are also selling other “operation”-themed coins that include a phrase popularized by the Proud Boys, potentially in violation of government rules.
07 Apr A Single Strike Won’t Shut Off the Gulf’s Desalination System The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.
06 Apr Heatbit Maxi Pro Review: a Space Heater That Also Mines Bitcoin Electricity rates have gotten so atrocious that this Heatbit wants to offset your costs with bitcoin mining. But the math doesn’t add up.