British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report — Back refutes investigation, says parallels to Satoshi are just a coincidence

The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto has circled back to a likely candidate, Adam Back, thanks to a New York Times article that draws striking parallels between the two. Back denies being Satoshi, saying it’s all just a coinciden…

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI

Many of these job cuts are blamed on AI, but some experts say that it’s actually caused by bad business decisions or corporate pivots. Still, they do not discount the disruption that AI will have on the job market, even as…

Taiwanese chip makers call on government to stockpile helium, liquid natural gas — TSIA pleads for strategic supplies as US and Iran sign ceasefire in Middle East

Taiwan’s semiconductor industry alliance is urging the government to expand its strategic stockpiles of LNG and helium, find alternative suppliers, and restart nuclear power plants to ensure stability during times of crisi…

Russian state hackers are hijacking TP-Link and MicroTik routers to steal Outlook credentials, cybersecurity center warns — APT28 group targets DNS and redirects traffic to attacker-controlled servers

The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that Russian state hackers have been exploiting vulnerable small office and home office routers since 2024 to overwrite their DHCP and DNS settings

China intensifies efforts to poach semiconductor talent from Taiwan, claims report — international restrictions motivate illicit efforts to obtain talent and equipment

Taiwan’s National Security Bureau claims that China is intensifying efforts to steal semiconductor process technologies and other chip-related know-how from Taiwan as international restrictions get more severe.

Anthropic’s latest AI model identifies ‘thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities’ in ‘every major operating system and every major web browser’ — Claude Mythos Preview sparks race to fix critical bugs, some unpatched for decades

Anthropic’s latest frontier AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so adept at finding software vulnerabilities that the lab is holding it back to allow companies and institutions to proactively patch their products against t…

Indianapolis politician’s home shot at 13 times over data center dispute — police and FBI investigating ‘isolated, targeted incident’ after city councilor backed project

A city councilor’s home has been shot up for allegedly supporting a data center project in Indianapolis. Opposing neighborhood groups condemn the shooting, while the authorities have yet to determine who’s behind the crime…

Broadcom to supply Anthropic with 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity from 2027 — Claude pioneer says its annual revenue run rate has passed $30 billion

Broadcom disclosed in a securities filing on Monday that it’ll supply Anthropic with roughly 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity starting in 2027.