OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

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With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training on its “latest models intended for deployment,” and an ongoing delay to its “largest planned frontier RL run.”

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/982323/openai-hit-brakes-voluntary-pacing-ai

Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites

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Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a newly discovered vulnerability in the widely used web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM). The bug allows hackers to hijack and take full control of the servers running the affected software, which is thought to be used by tens of millions of website owners around the world.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/hackers-are-actively-exploiting-a-bug-in-cpanel-used-by-millions-of-websites/

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

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The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a recent trial told 404 Media.

https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

Anthropic’s Claude sees ‘elevated errors’ as it tops Apple’s free apps after Pentagon clash

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Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models had “elevated errors” on Monday, as the app held its spot as the most popular free app on Apple ’s App Store. On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered every U.S. government agency to “immediately cease” using Anthropic’s technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on X shortly after that the Pentagon would be labeling the company a “supply-chain risk to national security.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/anthropic-claude-ai-outage-apple-pentagon.html

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

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image via 404media.co

A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.

https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

Discord’s age verification mandate is a leap toward a gated internet

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Discord is about to force some of the people who use its messaging app to make a choice: Use the platform with restricted features, or prove their age. It’s a move that platforms have been slowly approaching, but Discord’s teen-by-default rollout is a stronger clampdown that could offer a glimpse at an age-gated future on the web worldwide.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/876131/discord-age-verification-mandates-web-future