Tech Crunch One of Elon Musk’s longtime VCs is suing his former employer after allegedly being fired Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says  A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach Aurora to add night driving, new routes as it ramps driverless trucking Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson is leaving the self-driving truck startup Appfigures: Apple made over $10B from US App Store commissions last year ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code

Tecnica (BB) Tesla Supplier Panasonic to Slash 10,000 Jobs in Big Overhaul German Cops Seize €34 Million of Crypto Assets in ‘eXch’ Swoop Sunil Mittal Is Said Poised to Buy $2 Billion Stake in Haier India Ex-Northvolt CEO Gets New Funds for AI Startup in Manufacturing TSMC April Sales Surge After US Tariffs Spur Device Rush Orders China’s Top Chipmaker SMIC Plunges After Projecting Lower Sales NTT Announces 200 Billion Yen Buyback in Capital Efficiency Push

Scenza & Tecnica (TE) Companies have plans to build robotic horses Compressed music might be harmful to the ears How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals Dogs really do look and act just like their owners Is your hay fever getting worse? A landmark study of gender medicine is caught in an ethics row Rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people

IEEE Spectrum Balancing Work and Life: An Engineer’s Guide to Fulfillment Can Geopolitics Unlock Greenland’s Critical Materials Treasure Chest? Ensure Hard Work Is Recognized With These 3 Steps Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages Master 5G and 6G Basics With IEEE’s New Training Program See Inside Your Designs - Learn How CT Scanning Finds Hidden Flaws

Tecnica (MIT) The Download: AI benchmarks, and Spain’s grid blackout Did solar power cause Spain’s blackout? How to build a better AI benchmark The business of the future is adaptive The Download: Neuralink’s AI boost, and Trump’s tariffs This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI The Download: a longevity influencer’s new religion, and humanoid robots’ shortcomings

Tecnica (Arstech) AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as new CEO of Applications DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware Trump admin to roll back Biden’s AI chip restrictions WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users

Technica (FT) Big Tech covets an old-world status symbol: long-term debt Substack gets ‘Trump bump’ as subscriptions soar Retailers face 10% rises in premiums after cyber attacks Scientists use AI facial analysis to predict cancer survival outcomes OpenAI still has a governance problem Pakistani drone attacks ‘neutralised’, says India, as skirmishes escalate China’s ageing population powers the insurance sector

The Verge Why am I internet-stalking the pope? Netflix is removing Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Instagram CEO testifies about competing with TikTok: ‘You’re either growing, or you’re slowly dying’ Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years in prison Apple has a new ‘Viral’ playlist on Apple Music and Shazam Razer’s Clio is a $230 surround sound head cushion The US is reportedly encouraging countries to adopt Musk’s Starlink in tariff trade talks The best budget robot vacuums Congress votes to pull funding for free Wi-Fi hotspots at schools and libraries DOJ and FTC invite the public to complain about Ticketmaster

Arstech (Full article) Ars Technica’s gift guide for Mother’s Day: Give mom some cool things SpaceX pushed “sniper” theory with the feds far more than is publicly known “Older than Google,” this Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50 iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource Review: Ryzen AI CPU makes this the fastest the Framework Laptop 13 has ever been Bicycle bling: All the accessories you’ll need for your new e-bike In depth with Windows 11 Recall—and what Microsoft has (and hasn’t) fixed