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'The Last Airbender' Leaked Online. Some Fans Say Paramount Deserves the Fallout

  • Miles Klee
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 22:53:44

After the full movie leaked, animators mourned the chance to release their work as intended. Others feel the leak is justified in light of Paramount’s marketing blunders and association with Trump.

The online leak of a full version of Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbendera highly anticipated animated film in a multimedia fantasy franchisehas divided passionate fans while upsetting those who spent ye… [+3281 chars]

Who’s Afraid of A.I.?

  • Kyle Chayka
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 22:00:00

From the daily newsletter: the many mixed messaging from artificial-intelligence companies.

Illustration by Ariel Davis You may have recently heard of the ominous-sounding terms Mythos and Project Glasswing coming out of the A.I. world. These are the latest projects from Anthropic, and the… [+2332 chars]

Show HN: Springdrift – A persistent runtime for long-lived LLM agents

  • s_brady
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 21:41:39

I wanted to share something that I have been working on since about 2019, in one form or another. Springdrift is a persistent, auditable runtime for long-lived agents written in Gleam on the BEAM. It is my attempt at filling in some of the gaps in agent devel…

Most AI agents have no memory of yesterday. Every session starts from scratch. If something went wrong, you cannot find out why. If the agent made a bad decision, there is no trail to follow. If a pr… [+38497 chars]

Inside the alarming cyborg future ‘transhumanists’ Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Sam Altman are already preparing for

  • Rikki Schlott
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 20:24:08

The idea that humanity as we know it should not endure is a frighteningly common one in Silicon Valley.

Some AI entrepreneurs are flirting with the extinction of humankind as we know it. Sam Altman has invested in technology that aims to “upload consciousness” to a machine. Elon Musk is pursuing human… [+6065 chars]

Co-op survival horror game Dark Hours coming to PS5, Xbox Series on April 22

  • Sal Romano
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 20:11:50

Piece of Cake Studios will release cooperative survival horror game Dark Hours for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on April 22 for $14.99, the developer announced.

Piece of Cake Studios will release cooperative survivalhorror gameDark Hours for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on April 22 for $14.99, the developer announced. Dark Hours first launched in Early Ac… [+2847 chars]

Hacking Fermentation for Infinite Pickles from Pass-thru Bioreactor

  • Tyler August
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 20:00:42

Home-fermented foods are great– they’re healthier, more flavourful, and cheaper than store-bought alternatives. What they aren’t is convenient: you need to prep a big batch of veggies, let it sit, …read more

Home-fermented foods are great– they’re healthier, more flavourful, and cheaper than store-bought alternatives. What they aren’t is convenient: you need to prep a big batch of veggies, let it sit, an… [+2206 chars]

Where Is Your Router Made? Surprisingly, It's Probably Not China

  • Michael Kan
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 19:33:12

Though the FCC's router ban has its roots in fears of Chinese hacking, a new study says imports of Wi-Fi models from China have collapsed and shifted to Vietnam, Mexico, and Thailand. Where is your Wi-Fi router made? You might assume China, but a new report s…

Where is your Wi-Fi router made? You might assume China, but a new report says the US imports a relatively small share of routers from the country.  US router imports from China have essentially "co… [+3662 chars]

Where Is Your Router Made? Surprisingly, It's Probably Not China

  • Michael Kan
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 19:33:12

Though the FCC's router ban has its roots in fears of Chinese hacking, a new study says imports of Wi-Fi models from China have collapsed and shifted to Vietnam, Mexico, and Thailand. Where is your Wi-Fi router made? You might assume China, but a new report s…

Where is your Wi-Fi router made? You might assume China, but a new report says the US imports a relatively small share of routers from the country.  US router imports from China have essentially "co… [+3662 chars]

CVE-2026-33032: severe nginx-ui bug grants unauthenticated server access

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 18:17:50

An actively exploited critical nginx-ui flaw (CVE-2026-33032) lets attackers bypass authentication and take full control of Nginx servers. A critical vulnerability in nginx-ui, tracked as CVE-2026-33032 (CVSS score of 9.8), is being actively exploited, allowi…

CVE-2026-33032: severe nginx-ui bug grants unauthenticated server access A critical vulnerability in nginx-ui, tracked as CVE-2026-33032 (CVSS score of 9.8), is being actively exploited, allowing at… [+2383 chars]

Catastrophic new iPhone threat leaked to hackers — are you safe?

  • Zach Laidlaw
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 17:00:00

Apple can’t catch a break. With another week comes another major exploit capable of infecting millions of iPhones worldwide.The latest threat, dubbed DarkSword, leverages “multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to fully compromise devices,” according to the Google…

Apple cant catch a break. With another week comes another major exploit capable of infecting millions of iPhones worldwide. The latest threat, dubbed DarkSword, leverages multiple zero-day vulnerabi… [+4455 chars]

Rockstar hack backfires on hackers as Take-Two Interactive share price skyrockets

  • Jak Connor
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 16:51:05

Rockstar Games' hack has actually turned out to be extremely positive for the GTA publisher, Take-Two Interactive, as it has gained $1 billion in value.Continue reading at TweakTown

After demanding Rockstar Games pay $200,000 for the stolen data, hacking group ShinyHunters released a treasure trove of financial data about the developer, revealing key insights about how much mone… [+1516 chars]

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)

  • None
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 16:00:51

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Cal is reluctantly moving away from open s…

About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:00 PM ET, April 15, 2026. The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To vi… [+69 chars]

Notes from the War in Geminate

  • Wilhelm Arcturus
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 15:15:22

It has now been over a week since the Imperium’s shaky start in the Geminate campaign, where we lost 33 titans and assorted other capital ships and subcaps totaling up to around 8 trillion ISK in value in our first attempt to deploy a Keepstar in Geminate. Th…

It has now been over a week since the Imperium’s shaky start in the Geminate campaign, where we lost 33 titans and assorted other capital ships and subcaps totaling up to around 8 trillion ISK in val… [+6493 chars]

Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency

  • Margaret Tucker
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 14:10:01

We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead. The post Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency appeare…

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> We’re sharing a few timely updates on developer policy that reflect GitHub’s ongoing work on… [+4672 chars]

Russia ramps up ‘destructive’ cyberattacks on Europe, says Sweden

  • Milena Wälde
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 14:01:00

Moscow behind attack on Swedish heating plant last year, Swedish minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said.

The minister said a group with links to Russian intelligence targeted a heating plant in western Sweden in spring 2025. The facilitys security systems stopped the attack, he added, declining to name … [+731 chars]

April Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Flaws Across SAP, Adobe, Microsoft, Fortinet, and More

A number of critical vulnerabilities impacting products from Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft, and SAP have taken center stage in April's Patch Tuesday releases. Topping the list is an SQL injection vulnerability impacting SAP Business Planning and Consolidation an…

A number of critical vulnerabilities impacting products from Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft, and SAP have taken center stage in April's Patch Tuesday releases. Topping the list is an SQL injection vulne… [+5440 chars]

Teenager arrested after several school IT systems hacked

  • Conor Macauley
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 12:36:30

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by police investigating the hacking of IT systems at a number of schools in Northern Ireland.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by police investigating the hacking of IT systems at a number of schools in Northern Ireland. He was detained by the PSNI in the Portadown area in Co Armagh earli… [+1349 chars]

Mirax malware campaign hits 220K accounts, enables full remote control

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 11:41:10

Mirax, a new Android RAT, spread via Meta ads, infected 220,000 users and turns devices into SOCKS5 proxies, giving attackers full remote control. Mirax is a new Android remote access trojan spreading through ads on Meta platforms, targeting mainly Spanish-sp…

Mirax malware campaign hits 220K accounts, enables full remote control Mirax is a new Android remote access trojan spreading through ads on Meta platforms, targeting mainly Spanish-speaking users an… [+5097 chars]

WATCH: Principal stops alleged potential school shooter on surveillance video

  • ABC News
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 11:39:31

New video shows a principal taking down a gunman who officials say planned to carry out a Columbine-style mass shooting.

<ul><li>7 twisters reported across Heartland as East Coast heats up </li><li>Trump signals new peace talks with Iran </li><li>JD Vance on pope </li><li>New Rep. Swalwell accuser speaks out over al… [+4410 chars]

WATCH: Man collects more than 40,000 pieces of McDonald's history

  • ABC News
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 09:57:35

Bobby Beauchesne is on a mission to preserve relics produced by the fast-food chain.

<ul><li>Strait of Hormuz blockade holds as Trump signals second round of talks with Iran </li><li>Camp Mystic directors' emotional testimony on deadly Texas flooding </li><li>Eric Swalwell official… [+4533 chars]

PHP Composer flaws enable remote command execution via Perforce VCS

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 08:19:26

Two high-severity flaws in PHP Composer could let attackers run arbitrary commands via malicious repository configs and crafted inputs affecting Perforce VCS. Two high-severity vulnerabilities in PHP Composer could allow attackers to execute arbitrary command…

PHP Composer flaws enable remote command execution via Perforce VCS Two high-severity vulnerabilities in PHP Composer could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands. PHP Composer is a dependenc… [+2968 chars]

North Korean hackers used AI-enabled social engineering in Zerion attack

  • Cointelegraph by Martin Young
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 06:31:17

North Korean hackers used AI social engineering to breach Zerion, stealing $100K in a targeted attack echoing the $280M Drift exploit.

Crypto wallet Zerion revealed that North Korean-affiliated hackers used AI in a long-term social engineering attack to steal about $100,000 from the companys hot wallets last week.  The Zerion team … [+2759 chars]

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026 fixed actively exploited SharePoint zero-day

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 05:18:18

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2026 fixed 165 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited SharePoint zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 165 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest updates by CVE count. …

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026 fixed actively exploited SharePoint zero-day Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 165 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest updates by CV… [+3360 chars]

Network segmentation projects fail in predictable patterns

  • Mirko Zorz
  • Published date: 2026-04-15 04:00:26

Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed segmentation projects finds that failure clusters into four distinct patterns, and …

Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed segmentation projects f… [+6062 chars]