As US President Donald Trump threatens wholesale demolition of Iran’s infrastructure in the midst of an escalating war, Iran now appears to have already reciprocated with its own form of infrastructure sabotage: A hacking campaign hitting industrial control systems across the United States, including energy and water utilities, that... Read more
Amazon S3 Files gives AI agents a native file system workspace, ending the object-file split that breaks multi-agent pipelines
News April 8, 2026
AI agents run on file systems using standard tools to navigate directories and read file paths. The challenge, however, is that there is a lot of enterprise data in object storage systems, notably Amazon S3. Object stores serve data through API calls, not file paths. Bridging that gap has... Read more
Polymarket prepares major exchange overhaul amid recent controversies and expansion moves
News April 7, 2026
Polymarket is getting ready to rebuild the core of its exchange, a shift the team says will be the most significant change in the platform’s history. The upgrade will roll out over the next few weeks and quietly replace the machinery underneath the app without altering how it looks... Read more
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve... Read more
Experts say prediction markets challenge tribal sovereignty in post-IGA 2026 showdown
News April 7, 2026
“It’s an interesting time in federalism.” When Professor Steven Light said that in a recent ReadWrite interview, it landed with weight. He was sitting next to fellow Professor Kathryn Rand, his longtime collaborator on tribal gaming law and co-author of Indian Gaming Law and Policy, and the two were... Read more
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that ISP giant Cox Communications couldn’t be held liable for a billion-dollar judgment over music piracy in a case brought by Sony. On Tuesday, by sending another case back to a circuit court involving Grande Communications and music companies, including Sony, for reconsideration, the... Read more
Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to grapple with the cybersecurity implications of the new model... Read more
AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro
News April 7, 2026
Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful, open source GLM family of models, has unveiled GLM-5.1 today under a permissive MIT License, allowing for enterprises to download, customize and use it... Read more
The escape plan hatched in last week’s episode of Daredevil: Born Again may have brought Matt Murdock/Daredevil into the same vigilante orbit with another Marvel hero — the Swordsman — but this group isn’t out of the woods yet. What’s next? The Red Devil is still trying to expose Kingpin and... Read more
Other Ebikes We Like Bike Friday All-Day Photograph: Adrienne So Bike Friday All-Day for $5,600: Bike Friday bills the irresistibly tiny All-Day (7/10, WIRED Review) as the world’s lightest Bosch-powered ebike, and it’s true. You can customize all the colors and components of this folding electric bike, and it... Read more










