Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions |

2:00 PM PDT · April 8, 2026 Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto,…

A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage |

2:19 PM PDT · April 8, 2026 The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about…

Delta Showcases Integrated Automation and Smart Charging Solutions for Intralogistics Applications at MODEX 2026

/PRNewswire/ — Delta, a global leader in power management and smart green solutions, will attend MODEX 2026 to showcase integrated automation and charging solutions demonstrate…

AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict |

AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in Anthropic, is the…

Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices |

Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012 — cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making them virtually unable…

Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a 'ground-up overhaul' of its AI |

11:53 AM PDT · April 8, 2026 Meta released an AI model on Wednesday called Muse Spark, which marks its “first step” toward an “overhaul…

Hackers steal and leak sensitive LAPD police documents |

Cybercriminals have allegedly stolen a large amount of sensitive internal documents from the Los Angeles Police Department and leaked the data online. The stolen data…

Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups |

Security researchers say they have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa. The hackers used…

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already' |

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah,…