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«delphitools — A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.
No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can't believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web.»
Resource to bookmark alert: a collection of small, low stake, no login tools, all in one place. In a world where everything becomes a monthly subscription, it’s quite refreshing!
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Sicherheitsbedenken: EU-Parlament deaktiviert KI-Tools auf Diensthandys
EU-Abgeordnete und ihre Angestellte können auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Tablets keine KI-Funktionen mehr nutzen. Man wisse zu wenig zur Datensicherheit.

Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/robloxs-ai-assistant-gets-…

Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games | TechCrunch
The new new tools are designed to help creators throughout the entire development process.

Did AI cure a dog of cancer?
The most viral health story of late concerns Paul Conyngham -- a Sydney tech entrepreneur with no biology background
⭐️who used AI tools to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog, Rosie.
Conyngham paid $3,000 to sequence Rosie’s tumor DNA, used AI tools to study the sequence, and then worked with a nearby university to manufacture and inject a custom mRNA vaccine.
‘The tennis ball-sized tumour on Rosie’s hock has shrunk in …

What’s New in Biology? (March 2026) | Notion
Niko:

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

Honest curiosity: are current interviews for software development positions asking candidates to use AI to solve the problems?
If not familiar with tools, then the candidate will now face three challenges: solving the problem, explaining the line of thinking, and using the tools to display the work.

Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/the-app-store-is-booming-again-and-ai-may-…

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why | TechCrunch
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

One thing I find actually infuriating about GrapheneOS is their unexplained, unexplored, unquestionable religious mantra that mere enabling of developer tools or ADB is automatically responsible for every aberrant behavior exhibited by the OS rather than their insane paranoid security-at-any-cost philosophy. Yes, I'm sure using ADB to push some audiobooks to my device and turning off UI animations in dev tools is what caused my phone not to be able to run a 2FA tool and Firefox simultane…

@… @… @… I am curious what tools/stack y’all do use!

Luminar: KI-Tools für präzise Retusche und schönes Bokeh
Luminar hat seine KI-gestützte Bildbearbeitung um neue und verbesserte Werkzeuge für die Porträtretusche und möglichst natürliche Hintergrundunschärfe ergänzt.

Microsoft only gets more and more likeable, eh. https://www.972mag.com/ice-microsoft-azure-leaked-files/
For those who haven't seen it:

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.
An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.
So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

Corporations demand perfection from workers, but AI gets unlimited slack.
LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?

«Sicherheitsrisiken — Meta und andere Techkonzerne verbieten die Nutzung von OpenClaw:
Der aktuelle Hype lässt manche leichtsinnig bei der Installation des Tools werden. Unterdessen springt der Aktienkurs von Raspberry Pi um 80 Prozent nach oben und Mac Minis werden knapp»
An was dies wohl liegen könnte, sicherlich emotional Konkurrenz aber techn. ist es vorallem unkontrollierbare Schadsoftware.
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Meta und andere Techkonzerne verbieten die Nutzung von OpenClaw
Der aktuelle Hype lässt manche leichtsinnig bei der Installation des Tools werden. Unterdessen springt der Aktienkurs von Raspberry Pi um 80 Prozent nach oben und Mac Minis werden knapp

Apple schickt Siri-Entwickler ins KI-Bootcamp
Apple schickt Siri-Entwickler laut einem Bericht in ein KI-Bootcamp, um sie im Einsatz von KI-Coding-Tools zu schulen und das Team zu modernisieren.
https://www.

Scientists Discover 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools, Rewriting Human History
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-430000-year-old-wooden-tools-rewriting-human-history/

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears
AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

from my link log —
Container networking is simple.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/
saved 2021-01-21 https://…

How Container Networking Works: Building a Bridge Network From Scratch | iximiuz Labs
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.

Lieschen Müller und Agentic AI mit Open Claw und Moltbook
"Da draussen sind tausende Menschen, die ohne Sicherheitsverstaendnis Systemzugriffe an Tools verteilen, Accounts anbinden, API-Keys reinkippen und sich dann wundern, wenn irgendwas schiefgeht. " @… zu #AgenticAI

Raiders Must Give Rob Leonard the Tools to Work With https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-give-rob-leonard-tools-work-with

Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure-devops-remote-mcp-server-public-preview/

Tons of updates to my CM tool:
* An agent for continuous management with fast-monitoring features
* JSON Schemas for editors
* Manifests and Hiera now support HTTP(s)
* ccm extendible with appbuilder for custom UIs around manifests (no code needed)
* Pre-, Post-messages to help users use things they installed
* Generic if / unless on every resource
* New docs
Focus is to excel at adhoc, snow flakes, devel VMs, a la carte CM etc, place where other too…

Die meisten SEOs raten, was Google auf ihrer Seite tut. Man kann es auch einfach nachlesen. 📋
Server-Logfiles zeigen exakt, welche URLs der Googlebot wann besucht hat. Kein Schätzen, keine Tool-Interpretation. Rohdaten.
Oft steckt ein Großteil vom Crawl-Budget in Bereichen die niemanden interessieren. Parameter-URLs, alte Paginierung, vergessene Pfade. Logfiles zeigen das schonungslos.
Wer Crawling optimieren will, braucht keine teuren Tools. Erstmal die Logs lesen 🕵️

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives https://github.com/Digital-Scholarship-Oxfor…

GitHub - Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools: Crowdsourced data tools
Crowdsourced data tools. Contribute to Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

I found my liner notes for a track I have in a compilation and I think they're still valid.

Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite Tracking and Decoding

The software presents as a web-based UI that allows users to manage satellite passes, view SDR waterfall data, decode basic signals such as GMSK telemetry, view telemetry packets, synchronize TLEs, manage multiple SDR devices, browse downloaded weather imagery, monitor DSP performance, and interface with antenna rotators.
Unlike tools such as SatDump, which focus primarily …

Well-written article from Marlink on the Black Shrantac #ransomware group. I like that they have sections on “What defenders should watch for” and “How to reduce exposure” in addition to IOCs.

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VRCX is a way better tool than I ever imagined. Back when I heard about it for the first time, it just sounded like one of those lowkey stalker tools. But it's actually so good. Being able to see things like when I met a person and where, how much time we've been together, etc. is really helpful. I often struggle remembering stuff like this and VRCX gives me just the right amount of context I need to remember.

Google is testing a new ad format in AI Mode that displays retailers selling the products a user is searching for in a Sponsored box (Vidhya Srinivasan/Google Ads & Commerce Blog)
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce…

New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era
An overview of Google’s new open standard for agentic commerce and AI tools to help retailers connect with shoppers and drive sales.

The 1% club in IP4 concentration continues:
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KHBBFZYFV9GTB8CSWYNRFZ3V

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"T-Mobile USA, Inc." transferred: 70.0.0.0/13, 70.10.0.0/15 (Taken from 70.10.0.0/14), 174.144.0.0/12, 173.128.0.0/11, 107.24.0.0/13, 75.92.0.0/14, 71.20.0.0/14, 173.96.0.0/11, 108.96.0.0/11, 70.12.0.0/15 (Taken from 70.10.0.0/14) to "Amazon.com, Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $208.1...

Nuanced and balanced blog about the role AI now plays in Coding, the good, the bad etcetera.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/developers-say-ai-coding-tools-work-and-thats-precisely-what-worries-them/

Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them
Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.

As with all uses of AI tools, seems like it’s not worth spending a lot of time now trying to get the most of them, since they likely will have soon have different capabilities.
-- Peter Woit

«Sicherheitsbedenken — EU-Parlament deaktiviert KI-Tools auf Diensthandys:
EU-Abgeordnete und ihre Angestellte können auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Tablets keine KI-Funktionen mehr nutzen. Man wisse zu wenig zur Datensicherheit.»
An den Schulen wird weiterhin fleißig anhand der KI "gelernt" und nun sieht die EU ein, was dies für ein IT-Sicherheits Problem ist. Wer ist nun wie schlau?!??
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Sicherheitsbedenken: EU-Parlament deaktiviert KI-Tools auf Diensthandys
EU-Abgeordnete und ihre Angestellte können auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Tablets keine KI-Funktionen mehr nutzen. Man wisse zu wenig zur Datensicherheit.

The dbcooper package turns a database connection into a collection of functions. #rstats #database

I Audited the #Privacy of Popular #FreeDev #Tools — The Results Are Terrifying

Different Corners X ▶️
不同的角落 X ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."

Platypus - Create Mac apps from command line scripts |
Sveinbjörn's personal website. Also some open source software stuff.

"The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies to let the military use their tools for "all lawful purposes," including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations, but Anthropic has not agreed to those terms and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of negotiations, according to the Axios report."
Anthropic is not ruthless enough, apparently.

Behind the Guns: Western Tools, Russian Firepower: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/behind-the-guns-western-tools.html

It’s rare that I get excited about a big tech acquisition but Motion VFX are very well regarded in the Final Cut Pro scene (I own a few plugins myself) for high quality work but they’ve been clearly struggling financially lately, as shown by their switch to subscriptions-only. Hope they’ll be able to continue their work and Apple’s offer just got way more interesting.

MotionVFX Team Joins Apple
Earlier today, MacRumors reported that MotionVFX was acquired by Apple. Based in Poland, MotionVFX has been a go-to resource for YouTubers and other creators for years with its highly-regarded plugins, templates, and tools for Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and other apps. According to MotionVFX's note: For over 15 years, we’ve been on a mission

rss-tool 1.2 release adds Markdown Journals and Calendar Heatmaps Latest
Version 1.2 brings two new tools to rss-tools, major improvements to Markdown journal generation, and a broad set of fixes and robustness updates across the codebase.
#rss #atom

Release rss-tool 1.2 release adds Markdown Journals and Calendar Heatmaps · adulau/rss-tools
Release Notes — v1.2 Release date: 2026-04-06 Version 1.2 brings two new tools to rss-tools, major improvements to Markdown journal generation, and a broad set of fixes and robustness updates acros...

The reference to <https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/master/tools/clang-format/git-clang-format> (archived in 2020) can probably change to:
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Wow, I finally have a functional grammar check in #emacs that seems like what I've been looking for.
https://stebalien.com/blog/grammar-tools-in-emacs/

Herzlichen Glückwunsch: Laut SEJ haben Marketer den höchsten „AI brain fry“ aller Berufe. 🏆 Ausgerechnet die, die KI am meisten nutzen. Vielleicht, weil man mit 12 Tools schneller Dinge produziert, die man danach auch noch rechtfertigen muss.
@sejournal
#KI #Marketing

Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/20…

Exclusive: Beautiful.ai gets $45M from General Catalyst's CVF
The company is one of several presentation startups looking to gain market share.

Project #introduction
Introducing DITS — a Developer Issue Tracking System built exclusively for solo developers. 🛠️
Tired of Jira-shaped tools designed for teams of 50? Every feature in those tools assumes collaboration — approvals, assignments, team dashboards — and you pay the complexity tax even when you're the only user. DITS strips all of that away.
What makes…

It’s pretty “funny” that the generative AI companies seem to think their tools telling people to kill themselves is a bigger PR fiasco than allowing their tools to help commit war crimes

A recent spate of espionage and cybercriminal campaigns has deployed phone-takeover tools,
embedded in infected websites,
to indiscriminately hack phones by the thousands.
And one new technique in particular
—capable of taking over any of hundreds of millions of iOS devices
—has appeared on the web in an easily reusable form, putting a significant fraction of the world's iPhone users at risk.

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

Microsoft macht Copilot in Notepad zu Writing Tools
In der Windows-Insider-Vorschauversion von Notepad heißen die KI-Funktionen nun Writing Tools. Zuvor hieß die Funktion Copilot.
https://www.

London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/ai-field…

AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure - SiliconANGLE
AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure - SiliconANGLE

Die Transformation findet in zwei Geschwindigkeiten statt. Auf der einen Seite stehen hilfreiche, transparente Assistenzsysteme und innovative Forschungsprojekte. Auf der anderen wächst im Schatten der Geheimhaltung ein Apparat an Analyse-Tools der Sicherheitsbehörden heran, dessen Fähigkeiten und Risiken im Dunkel bleiben. |
Missing Link: Unsichtbare Revolution – wie der Bund die Verwaltung mit KI flutet @…

«Brainrot — Schon 10 Minuten mit einem KI-Chatbot reduzieren unsere Denkleistung:
Wenn wir Rechenaufgaben oder Übungen zum Textverständnis an KI-Tools abgeben, verlernen wir, sie selbst zu lösen, zeigt eine britisch-amerikanische Studie»
Ich lasse das mal hier so stehen und obwohl ich ein KI-Kritiker bin, gibt es mMn durchaus Anwendung dafür wenn mensch gezielt Hinweise zu gewisse Dinge sucht und lösen möchte.
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Schon 10 Minuten mit einem KI-Chatbot reduzieren unsere Denkleistung
Wenn wir Rechenaufgaben oder Übungen zum Textverständnis an KI-Tools abgeben, verlernen wir, sie selbst zu lösen, zeigt eine britisch-amerikanische Studie

Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software…

Exclusive: AI observability startup raises $80M at an $800M valuation
ICONIQ led the new Series B

A free, #opensource #offline #server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever.

NPR receives two of its largest ever gifts: $80M for innovation in use of digital tech and $33M to build and buy tools to be shared with US public media orgs (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5787634/npr-113-million-chari…

I have some thoughts on making CLI tools that are easy to use by LLM agents.
We spend a lot of time making CLI UIs for humans - colours, columnar output, tables etc - suggesting the same for LLMs
Here's a demo of my current efforts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq1lBTBski0…

Steve Sanderson names the tension most developers feel: "It feels weird to type it out now. I am not proud of that." The tools are accelerating but the responsibility to understand what we build still rests with us. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/we-are-still-engineers…

Google packt jetzt KI-Antworten direkt über die Suchergebnisse. 🤖
Für viele Seiten heißt das: Der Nutzer bekommt seine Antwort ohne zu klicken. Zero-Click auf Steroiden.
Reine Infoseiten die nur Fragen beantworten, werden Schritt für Schritt ersetzt. Inhalte die zu komplex für eine KI-Zusammenfassung sind (Rechner, Tools, interaktive Elemente) bekommen weiterhin echte Klicks.
Wer nur Fragen beantwortet, wird ersetzt. Wer echte Probleme löst, bleibt dauerhaft relevant. 💡

Ramp data: Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/ai-enterprise-revenue-anthropic-openai

The AI spending flip
With the way AI companies are spending, they have no choice but to generate more revenue — and quickly.

Good grief
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KGWE6T9V6MW6WWTMA2X5A6M0

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"University of Idaho" transferred 199.104.20.0/24 (Taken from 199.104.11.0 - 199.104.21.255) to "Catawba Two Kings Casino" (Estimated Market Value: $6.40 K)

«DarkSword: iOS-Exploit-Kit von Staatshackern und Spyware-Anbietern aktiv genutzt»
Ich bin immer noch erstaunt, dass viele glauben, das Apple Produkte wie iOS sicherer sei als der Rest und sie ja nichts zu verbergen haben. Jegliche digitale Tools können Schwachpunkte wie Fehler haben und dies werden bewusst gegen die User*innen eingesetzt.
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DarkSword: iOS-Exploit-Kit von Staatshackern und Spyware-Anbietern aktiv genutzt
Googles GTIG deckt iOS-Exploit-Kit DarkSword auf – sechs Schwachstellen, drei Malware-Familien, mehrere Angreifer weltweit. Alle Lücken inzwischen gepatcht.

Bericht: KI-Coding-Tools verursachten Ausfälle bei Amazon
Nach Ausfällen im März führt Amazon strengere Kontrollen für KI-generierten Code ein. Interne Berichte sehen mangelnde Sicherheitsmechanismen als Ursache.
…

DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/deepl-known-for-tex…

DeepL, known for text translation, now wants to translate your voice | TechCrunch
DeepL says its tech could be used for real-time translation with meeting tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams

«Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor @… ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen»

Zu viele glauben immer noch nichts zu verbergen zu haben und realisieren nicht, dass sie das Produkt sind anhand von IT- & Online-Tools.
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Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor Sniffnet ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen.

Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

China snaps up US chip tools via Southeast Asia amid supply chain shift
Imports from Singapore and Malaysia hit record as Chinese players' earnings surge

A curated list of awesome tools to assist 📦 development in R programming language. #rstats #📦

Consider the Strongest Notification Protections for Your Secure Messaging Apps
Secure chat tools are designed to keep the content of the messages safe inside the app.
So, for secure chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal, that means the company that makes those apps cannot see the content of your messages,
and they’re only accessible on your and your recipients’ devices.
Once messages land on a device, it’s still important to consider some privacy precautions, particularly…

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations that Apple and Google now both require a judge’s order to hand details about push notifications over...

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require "regular adoption" of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ac672f97-a603-4c56-afa3-4a5273d45674

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins
Consulting firms use ‘carrot and stick’ with some senior staff less willing to use technology than junior colleagues

HÄPPI: Wie Hausärzte mit Delegation und digitalen Tools mehr Patienten versorgen
In der Hausarztzentrierten Versorgung ist der Hausarzt für Millionen Patienten bereits heute die erste Anlaufstelle. Dr. Susanne Bublitz erklärt das Modell.

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/salesforce-

Wikipedia setzt bei KI nicht auf Textgeneratoren, sondern auf Qualitätskontrolle. Wie Ulrike Langer in News Machines zeigt, testet die Wikimedia Foundation Tools, die Quellen prüfen, Bias erkennen und erfundene Referenzen entlarven. Motto: KI hilft Redakteuren – ersetzt sie aber nicht.
https://newsmaschinen.beehiiv.com/p/…

Apple acquires MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-motionvfx/

Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Plugin Company MotionVFX
Apple today acquired MotionVFX, a major developer of plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro. MotionVFX is a Polish...

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China
used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.
The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups,
including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals.
Last week, Google revealed that over the course of 2025, it discovered that a sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit had been used in a series …

A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals | TechCrunch
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into iPhones have been found to be used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for "secondhand" exploits.

PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd365ae8-0f9c-4c33-8ee0-7fad89abd125

«Über 100 Erweiterungen — Schädliche Chrome-Extensions greifen Nutzerdaten ab:
Im Chrome Web Store verbreiten Cyberkriminelle über 100 schädliche Erweiterungen, die Nutzerkonten und Daten stehlen. Die Tools sind Teil einer koordinierten Kampagne mit gemeinsamer Infrastruktur.»
Ein Argument mehr um Chrome zu vermeiden und egal auf welchem Browser nicht blind jegliche Plugins nutzen. Seit Jahr(zent)en ein Thema.
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Render, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Salesforce-owned Heroku, raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation, says 4.5M developers use its tools (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/render-raises-100-million-at-1point5-billio…

Cloud startup Render raises funding at $1.5 billion valuation as AI-built apps boom
Render is one of the beneficiaries of growing competition in the cloud computing world spurred by the booming demand for artificial intelligence.

Microsoft reagiert auf Anthropics KI-Agenten – und baut sie gleich in Word & Excel ein. „Copilot Cowork“ soll künftig selbstständig Aufgaben erledigen, vom Mail-Sortieren bis zur Präsentation. Laut Christof Kerkmann & Stephan Scheuer zeigt das: KI entwickelt sich gerade vom Assistenten zum digitalen Kollegen. Für 99 $ im Monat.

KI: Microsoft erweitert seine Office-Produkte um KI-Tools von Anthropic
Mit neuen KI-Agenten für Büroarbeit hat das Start-up Anthropic zuletzt Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen. Microsoft reagiert nun mit einem eigenen Ansatz für den Copilot-Assistenten.

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises | TechCrunch
The creative company's monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

Microsoft-Forscher warnen vor Manipulation: KI-Antworten werden fremdgesteuert
Sicherheitsforscher warnen: Hinter Links und KI-Schaltflächen können sich unsichtbare Manipulationsmechanismen verbergen, die sich tief in die Tools eingraben.

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/worl

World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows | TechCrunch
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases. 

Kana, which builds AI marketing agents to perform data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and more, emerges from stealth and raised $15M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/kana-emerges-from-s…

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers | TechCrunch
Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/17/c…

Crypto trading firm GSR expands token advisory with $57 million in acquisitions
The firm, best known for being one of the oldest crypto market makers, acquired Autonomous and Architech to combine token launch services, trading and treasury management tools.

heise | Persönliches Wissensmanagement: Die besten Tools und Techniken für Einsteiger
Personal Knowledge Management hilft, Notizen und persönliches Wissen besser zu sammeln, zu ordnen und zu nutzen. Wir erklären das Konzept und empfehlen Tools.

How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (Fiona Kelliher/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135898/cyberscammer…

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram
MIT Technology Review identified nearly two dozen channels and groups purporting to break major crypto exchanges and name-brand banks.

Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and "Glimmer" UI design language (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/16/android-xr-glasses-ui/

Here’s how you’ll control and navigate Android XR glasses
Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here’s what you can expect from the user interface and experience...

A group of Tennessee teenagers sue xAI, alleging its AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

Teens allege Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual images of them as minors
Three teenage plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Monday accuse xAI of distributing, possessing and producing with intent to distribute child pornography.

Agentic cybersecurity startup Surf AI, which helps teams read signals from identity, cloud, and other tools, emerges from stealth with $57M in seed and Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/1…

Exclusive: Cybersecurity startup Surf AI raises $57M
Surf AI helps expand security teams through AI agents.

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 (Laura Bratton/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can…

Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets
Uber’s surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026, according to chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli Naga.“I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away ...

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-courts-private-e…

Manus introduces My Computer, a desktop application that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and applications (Manus)
https://manus.im/blog/manus-my-computer-desktop

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-next-phase-of-open-models

What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

Internal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-p…

EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears
AI tools on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a $27M Series A led by Khosla (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/nas-daily-f…

This startup raised $27 million to help 'solopreneurs' run their businesses with AI. Read the pitch deck.
Nuseir Yassin's startup, Nas.com, uses AI tools to help entrepreneurs with a range of business functions like marketing and storefront design.

AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-…

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends
In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

Companies that hire young "AI natives" have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-a16z-backed-hilbert-raises-28-million

Exclusive: a16z-backed Hilbert raises $28 million
The a16z-backed startup says their tools can fix AI's ROI problem.

Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/03/12/qualified-health-s…

Scoop: AI evaluation startup Qualified Health raising roughly $100M Series A
The funding would come as a gold rush in health care AI ushers in demand for better ways to implement and evaluate the tools.