Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 23. Today we are covering:

* Apple security fix — a bug that let police extract deleted messages from iPhones has been patched

* X and Grok — the platform is handing timeline curation to its AI for Premium users

* Microsoft and Cursor — why Microsoft passed on the AI coding startup SpaceX is now buying

* AI workplace divide — top earners use AI daily at nearly 4x the rate of low-income workers

* Bob Lee’s murder — a new Bloomberg investigation revisits the killing that shook Silicon Valley

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