Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security update breaks VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later  —  Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms.

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
Karius, which uses AI to help analyze blood tests in 400 hospitals, raised $100M led by Khosla, after raising $165M in early 2020 led by Vision Fund II  —  Karius’ technology is already being used to test patients’ blood for infections.  —  Blood-testing company Karius Inc. raised $100 million …

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program  —  Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net:
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21; the game is PS4-only, hinting at a PS5 release  —  Horizon Zero Dawn to leave later this month.  —  News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief  —  Follow Horizon: Zero Dawn

Tess Owen / Wired:
Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot  —  After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles …

Kate O’Keeffe / Bloomberg:
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard via an independent Washington-based foundation  —  – Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition  — Blacklisted company’s role kept private by DC-based group

Bloomberg:
Starlink users in some unauthorized regions can seemingly still use the internet, despite SpaceX telling users the service would be unavailable to them by May 1  —  – Company told users it would crack down in unlicensed areas  — A March Bloomberg investigation revealed the extent of misuse

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A profile of US District Court judge Amit P. Mehta, who is presiding over the US v. Google case, which could set a precedent for other US tech antitrust cases  —  Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.

Justin Ling / Wired:
A look at Ukraine’s combat drone startup industry, based on commercial first-person-view or photography drones; an estimated ~200 local companies produce drones  —  Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.

Molly White / Citation Needed:
As people yearn for the web’s “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users  —  Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web.  We could have those good old days back — or something even better …