Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry 6:23 AM PDT · April 29, 2026 Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the U.S. Postal Service has been missing for several weeks, after U.S. officials reported that the payment had failed to arrive, reports...

Claude Can Connect to More Apps You Use Every DayClaude is getting a series of new connectors that will link the AI tool with services that you probably already use in your everyday life, Anthropic announced on Thursday. Think of connectors as an easy way to extend Claude's functionality. You can let connectors access your apps, retrieve data and take actions within that service....

Distrust, conflict hamper Congo's Ebola response A health worker in protective equipment carries out safe burial procedures beside the coffin of a suspected Ebola victim outside a family home in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 24, 2026....

Amazon Is Down for Thousands, It's Not Just You Amazon/Screenshot by CNETIt's not just you. If you tried to indulge in some retail therapy on Thursday, you may have had trouble accessing Amazon, the mega shopping site. According to DownDetector, which is owned by CNET parent company Ziff Davis, checkout issues were the most-reported problem with 38% of reports, followed by mobile app...

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. The new funds came from Bezos himself, as well as from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and...