In March 2025, World Uyghur Congress members were targeted with a spearphishing campaign via Windows malware in a legitimate Uyghur language word processor (The Citizen Lab) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Tel Aviv-based Lightrun, an observability platform that uses AI to identify and debug code in production, raised a $70M Series B co-led by Accel and Insight (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
IBM says it plans to invest $150B in the US over the next five years to fuel the economy and to "accelerate its role as the global leader in computing" (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Lagos-based OmniRetail, which digitizes order management for manufacturers, distributors, and others, raised a $20M Series A, taking its total funding to $38M (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
A look at Microsoft freezing ~1.5GW of data centers set for 2025 and 2026; Microsoft has walked away from significantly more than 2GW of non-binding contracts (SemiAnalysis) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement (Jessica Testa/New York Times) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including 2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China (Financial Times) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says for ~$50M; sources say Splice has $100M+ in annual revenue (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Google Chrome won the browser wars fair and square, and the web will be worse off if Google is forced to sell it, even to atone for ad market monopoly abuses (David Heinemeier Hansson/HEY) April 28, 2025 by appcompact