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April 19, 2026, 10:35 AM
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Reuters:
At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo  —  Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills …
Zack Abrams / The Block:
An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts  —  Quick Take  — An attacker seemingly drained 116,500 rsETH from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge on Saturday …
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze  —  Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026  —  Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company.
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned “ICE Sightings - Chicagoland” Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A  —  Last year, the Trump administration demanded platforms remove a slew of apps that monitored ICE activity.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands  —  Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing “Headless 360” …
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian  —  Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warns broadcasters not to air “fake polls” or “suppression polls”, once again threatening regulatory action for news content

Owen Lewis / Defector:
Spotify-owned outlet The Ringer moves newsletters by some of its most popular staff to Substack; Spotify declines to explain the strategy behind the move

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How The Sun made video the “anchor of the newsroom”, expanding its video team from 25 to 80 staffers within a year and publishing two to three videos daily

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