Internet/e-commerce

Microsoft: April updates trigger BitLocker key prompts on some servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows Server 2025 automatic upgrades (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 Spotify

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (www.billboard.com)
2026-4-15 Spotify

Amazon Buys Globalstar For $10.8 Billion, Moving To Expand Its Satellite Internet Service (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Amazon

Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Amazon Apple

Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (www.ft.com)
2026-4-15 Uber Equity

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (deepmind.google)
2026-4-15 Google Robot

Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-4-15 Facebook YouTube Instagram

Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more (9to5google.com)
2026-4-15 Google

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-15 Uber AI Budget

Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft Reveals Major Price Increase For All Surface PCs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft adds Windows protections for malicious Remote Desktop files (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-15 Amazon AI

Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Google Microsoft

Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 167 flaws, 2 zero-days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft Nvidia Norway

Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets (www.wired.com)
2026-4-15 Google AI Chrome

Microsoft rolls out fast-track to reinstate Windows hardware dev accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Google Faces Mass Arbitration By Advertisers Seeking Billions (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Google

YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement (9to5google.com)
2026-4-15 YouTube

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 India Google AI Intelligence

Amazon agrees to buy satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple agree for Leo to power some iPhone and Watch services (www.aboutamazon.com)
2026-4-14 Amazon iPhone Apple

Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal requires Globalstar to meet certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-14 Amazon

EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M, taking its total investments in Lucid to $500M (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-14 Uber

Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-14 Amazon

Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June (9to5google.com)
2026-4-14 Google Browser

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