Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model launched within a three-day period, saying it "drastically enhanced" agentic coding (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)
An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
Raspberry Pi reports 2025 revenue up 25% YoY to $323.2M, driven by demand in the US and China; its stock is down 21% in the past year due to memory chip costs (Bloomberg)
A supply chain attack compromises HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency and deploying a multi-stage payload (Socket)
Official data shows India's smartphone exports hit $11B in H1 FY2026, up 55% YoY; analysts warn the Iran war could trigger a 22% to 25% drop in the coming weeks (Quratulain Rehbar/Nikkei Asia)