5. Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals (steveblank.com)

One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, β€œWe’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be th…

6. Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)

After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a genuine Ledger product, people entered their seed phrases into the app, then discovered their wallets were immediately drained.One victim, a musician who goes by G. Love, wrote: "I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant." According to him, he lost 5.9 BTC (~$445,000).Crypto sleuth zachxbt traced some of the stolen funds through Kucoin, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange that was recently fined and forced to exit US markets over licensing and anti-money laundering failures. "The three largest victims lost seven figures each," he wrote.Apple removed the malicious app from their App Store on April 13, six days after it had been added.

7. Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure (ir.allbirds.com)

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following its prior announcement that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Allbirds brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group, which intends to continue to build on Allbirds’ legacy and deliver compelling products to

9. Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness (terrypratchett.com)

Perhaps one of the most popular quotes from the Discworld series is Sam Vimes’s β€˜Boots’ Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness, propounded in Men at Arms: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really...

16. Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem (www.voxweb.nl)

OPINION - It is not surprising that a case of scientific fraud occasionally comes to light, according to associate professor Empirical Political Science Alex Lehr. β€˜Many of us are doing our stinking best to maintain scientific integrity and produce rigorous research. But we do that mostly despite the incentives created by the academic system, not because of them.’

17. MIT Radiation Laboratory (www.ll.mit.edu)

The early signs of war in Europe in the late 1930s did not initially stir a significant response among the scientific and technical communities in the United States. However, by 1940, the premonition of impending war began to galvanize action.

20. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (www.manchester.ac.uk)

A new study led by Dr Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester has found that a grammar-based approach to language analysis can match or outperform advanced AI systems in identifying who wrote a text. The method, called LambdaG, uses patterns in grammar and sentence construction rather than large-scale AI models, offering comparable accuracy ...

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