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hardware 17.04.2026

Microsoft introduced the Gamepad Cursor—a virtual mouse for portable consoles running Windows

Microsoft launches a virtual cursor for portable devices with Windows Microsoft has begun testing a new feature called Gamepad Cursor, which allows the left stick of an Xbox contr...

hardware 17.04.2026

The GIF clip of Rachel dancing from “Friends” grew to hundreds of gigabytes, crushing Discourse’s backup copies

Short summary Discourse is a popular platform for online discussions, currently hosting more than 22,000 communities. During a recent site backup, a critical issue arose: one GIF...

hardware 17.04.2026

Oppo unveiled its flagship Find X9 Ultra exactly one week before the official release

Official launch of the Oppo Find X9 Ultra – April 21 Ahead of the global release, the company has already revealed the look of the new flagship and its color options. In China, th...

hardware 17.04.2026

OpenAI accuses Elon Musk of creating a legal “strawman” in the $100 million case.

Elon Musk changes his position on the lawsuit against OpenAI a few weeks before trial In 2024 Elon Musk sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that the former had strayed from its or...

hardware 17.04.2026

Anthropic strengthened its position in the United States, significantly narrowing the gap with OpenAI in the corporate AI services market

Brief overview of the paid AI services market in the United States What happened key figures Conclusion Growth of Anthropic’s share among U.S. companies In March almost 30 % of fi...

hardware 17.04.2026

AI showed low effectiveness in sports betting, losing all money on English Premier League matches.

Short summary of the experiment results The startup *General Reasoning* conducted a test called KellyBench, in which eight leading AI systems (Google Gemini 3.1 Pro, OpenAI ChatGP...

hardware 17.04.2026

Anthropic temporarily blocked access to Claude for developer OpenClaw, but shortly after lifted the restriction.

Short summary of events Anthropic temporarily blocked Peter Steinberger’s account—the creator of the OpenClaw project—just hours after the company changed its terms for working wi...

hardware 17.04.2026

AI agents demonstrated vulnerability to router attacks

Critical Vulnerability in the AI‑Agent Chain: Routers Routers (API intermediaries) that connect local agent applications with cloud AI models represent a little‑known but highly d...

hardware 17.04.2026

The FBI has gained the ability to decrypt remote messages in Signal

Brief summary of the news material The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to recover copies of incoming messages from the Signal messenger that had already been delete...

hardware 17.04.2026

Meta was unable to evade the new lawsuit alleging that teenagers are dependent on social media

The Massachusetts Supreme Court found Instagram intentionally “addictogenic” Today the Massachusetts Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that the social network Instagram, devel...

hardware 17.04.2026

Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider: there are fewer channels now and you can change them without rebooting the system.

Microsoft Simplifies Windows Insider: Two Channels Instead of Four Microsoft announced a reorganization of the Windows Insider program that allows testing new versions of Windows ...

hardware 17.04.2026

Smartphones grow by 1 % in the first quarter, but a decline of 15 % is forecast for summer.

Brief summary * In the first quarter of 2026 the global smartphone market grew by 1% – exceeding analysts’ forecasts. * The growth was temporary and related to inventory buildup...