46,225 square millimeters. That is roughly the size of a dinner plate. It is also the die area of Cerebras Systems’ WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3), a single AI chip 57 times larger than NVIDIA’s flagship B200 GPU. Read more »
$11.57 billion. That is the price tag Amazon just placed on its satellite war with SpaceX. On April 14, Amazon announced a definitive agreement to acquire Globalstar, the satellite communications operator that powers Apple’s iPhone Emergency SOS feature, in what amounts to the largest satellite industry acquisition in history. Read more »
$218 billion. That is the potential damage claim advertisers are preparing to file against Google. Two federal courts have already ruled against the company — one for its search monopoly in August 2024, another for its ad tech monopoly in April 2025 — and the Google antitrust reckoning is accelerating. Read more »
💡 Key Takeaways Passkeys use public-key cryptography with origin binding, making phishing technically impossible — the private key never leaves your device. 87% of US and UK enterprises are deploying or actively planning passkeys; consumer adoption hit 69% by March 2026. Google’s passkey implementation delivers 4x higher login success rates and 2x faster authentication compared … Read more
Seventy-four percent. That is the share of AI’s total economic value flowing to just one-fifth of global companies — the starkest measure yet of the AI divide. PwC’s 2026 AI Performance Study, released on April 13, surveyed 1,217 senior executives at director level and above across 25 sectors and multiple regions, evaluating 60 discrete AI management and investment practices. Read more »
“Pay or leak.” Three words. That was the entirety of the ultimatum ShinyHunters posted alongside its claim of having breached Rockstar Games’ Snowflake data warehouse environment. The hacking group made the declaration on April 11, setting an April 14 deadline for ransom payment — or face a full public dump of stolen corporate data. Read more »
Six hours. That is how long it took for the most sophisticated WordPress supply chain attack on record to unfold and get shut down. On April 7, hackers compromised the update infrastructure of Smart Slider 3 Pro — a popular slider plugin with 800,000 to 900,000 active installations — and pushed a weaponized build through the official distribution channel. Read more »
Four hundred and sixty terawatt-hours. That is how much electricity the world’s data centers consumed in 2024. By 2030, the International Atomic Energy Agency projects that figure will more than double, surpassing 1,000 TWh. Read more »
Three hundred billion dollars. That is the sum global venture capitalists poured into AI investment during the first quarter of 2026 — the largest single-quarter total in the history of startup financing. The figure represents 70% of all venture spending in 2025, compressed into just 90 days. Read more »
3.9 billion. That is the number of passwords infostealer malware extracted from 4.3 million devices worldwide in 2024. Cookie theft is no longer a peripheral nuisance — it has become the backbone of the modern cybercrime economy. Read more »