☕️ Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data

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💥 Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data

🚀 Blue Origin lands New Glenn but drops satellite into wrong orbit

🔒 NSA is reportedly using Anthropic's Mythos

⌚ Google's screen-less Whoop rival is Fitbit Air

🎵 Deezer says 44% of daily uploads are AI-generated songs

📱 Apple hints at redesigned Siri in WWDC 2026 logo

Plus: 🎁 15 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 3 papers.

💥 Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data LINK

Vercel, the cloud development platform behind Next.js, has confirmed a security breach after a hacker claiming to be "ShinyHunters" posted on a forum offering stolen company data for sale.

The threat actor claims to be selling access keys, source code, database data, API keys, and NPM and GitHub tokens, along with a file containing 580 employee records from Vercel.

The attacker says they demanded a $2 million ransom from Vercel, though actual ShinyHunters members have denied involvement, and BleepingComputer has not confirmed the data is authentic.

🚀 Blue Origin lands New Glenn but drops satellite into wrong orbit LINK

Blue Origin successfully landed and reused a New Glenn booster for the first time on Sunday, but the rocket's upper stage placed AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite into an orbit too low to operate.

The satellite powered on after separation but will need to be de-orbited and burn up in Earth's atmosphere, with AST SpaceMobile saying insurance covers the loss and more BlueBirds are coming soon.

This marks New Glenn's first major failure and could affect Blue Origin's push to become a key NASA Artemis launch provider, especially as the company plans to launch its lunar lander this year.

🔒 NSA is reportedly using Anthropic's Mythos LINK

The NSA is reportedly running Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model for operational work, even as its parent organization, the Defense Department, has labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk and told contractors to avoid the company.

The NSA is believed to be among roughly 40 unnamed organizations granted Mythos access beyond the 12 public Project Glasswing launch partners like Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Amazon Web Services.

The exact way the NSA is using Mythos remains unclear, but other organizations with access are mainly using the model to scan their own environments for exploitable software vulnerabilities.

⌚ Google's screen-less Whoop rival is Fitbit Air LINK

Google's upcoming screen-less health band, already teased by basketball player Stephen Curry at the end of March, will officially be called the "Google Fitbit Air."

The "Fitbit Premium" subscription service that unlocks AI features is being rebranded as "Google Health," tying health and wellness more closely to the core Google brand.

The "personal health coach" currently in public preview will be renamed "Google Health Coach," and an official announcement about the new product is expected in the coming weeks.

🎵 Deezer says 44% of daily uploads are AI-generated songs LINK

Deezer reported that AI-generated songs now make up 44% of all new music uploaded daily to its platform, with nearly 75,000 AI tracks arriving each day and over two million per month.

Despite the flood of uploads, AI-generated music accounts for only 1-3% of total streams on Deezer, and the company says 85% of those streams are detected as fraudulent and demonetized.

Deezer removes AI-tagged tracks from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists, and announced it will no longer store hi-res versions of AI songs as daily upload numbers continue to rise.

📱 Apple hints at redesigned Siri in WWDC 2026 logo LINK

Apple's WWDC 2026 logo appears to tease a redesigned look for Siri, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says the glowing visual style in the event branding reflects changes being tested internally.

Gurman's sources describe a revamp where Siri shows a "Search or Ask" prompt inside the Dynamic Island pill, paired with a glowing cursor that matches the bright style seen in WWDC graphics.

The glow effect in the branding resembles a photography phenomenon called halation, where overexposed white details bleed color into darker areas — a look some iPhone photographers actively seek out.

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📚 Trending papers & reports

A survey of 25 leading AI researchers found that 20 identified automating AI research as one of the most severe and urgent risks, though they disagreed on timelines and governance approaches.LINK

AI assistance in tasks improves short-term performance but causes people to perform significantly worse without AI and give up more easily after just 10 minutes of use.LINK

Warmth and cognitive empathy significantly predicted how human-like and trustworthy people found chatbots across more than 2,000 interactions, with personally relevant topics amplifying these effects more than objective topics.LINK

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