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Melania Trump says 'I am not Epstein's victim' in stunning public address
- WASHINGTON —  Melania Trump reignited interest in the Jeffrey Epstein case Thursday by shockingly declaring she wasn't the dead sex trafficker's victim or accomplice — and then urging Congress to hold public hearings with victims to expose his associates. The first lady delivered her stunning remarks in the ornate foyer of the White House, stoking speculation that she was trying to get ...

Source: nypost.com
Apiiro launches command-line interface to bring AI-native security into software development workflows
- Application security posture management company  Apiiro Ltd.  today announced the launch of a new command-line interface designed to bring application security directly into artificial intelligence-driven software development workflows as organizations grapple with the rapid rise of AI-generated code. Apiiro CLI is targeting the growing gap in modern software development, where traditional security tools ...

Source: siliconangle.com
TECHNOLOGY  
User anger as Amazon ends support for some older Kindles
- Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry Amazon has told owners it will soon stop supporting older Kindle models - a move which has left some users outraged. In emails from the tech giant, affected users were thanked for being a "longtime Kindle customer" but told devices released during or before 2012 would no longer receive updates from 20 May. The move will mean owners of older Kindles, ...

Source: bbc.com
BUSINESS  
Meta debuts new AI model in first test of costly 'superintelligence' team
- Muse Spark was competitive with models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in language, but lagged in coding Meta on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the AI race. US tech companies are under pressure to prove their huge AI outlays will pay off. The stakes are especially high for Meta after it hired Alex Wang, ...

Source: theguardian.com
Takeaways from the Gilgo Beach case as Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to 7 murders and admits to an 8th
- RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island man who carried out a series of murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings pleaded guilty to murder charges this week, bringing finality to the long-unsolved case more than 30 years after the first killing. Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life as a serial killer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional ...

Source: apnews.com
US   POLITICS  
Democrats Are Badly Failing to Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran
- Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Bluesky As the world watches to see whether the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran ever gets off the ground, President Donald Trump's genocidal threats against the Iranian people risk fading from our attention. But we cannot move on so quickly from the gravity of Trump's ...

Source: thenation.com
Emperor Penguins Join Endangered List as Sea Ice Continues to Disappear
- By Emperor penguins have been classified as endangered after satellite data revealed a rapid population decline driven by vanishing Antarctic sea ice, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced. The IUCN, which maintains the Red List — widely regarded as the most comprehensive global inventory of conservation status for animal, fungus and plant species — also classified Antarctic fur ...

Source: miamiherald.com
US  
IRS touts a 24% increase in tax refunds compared to the previous administration
- Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax refunds this season are up 24% compared with the four-year average of refunds before President Donald Trump took office, his administration said Thursday — a change credited to Republicans' tax legislation signed into law last year. As the tax season kicked off in January, the White House had boasted that average returns ...

Source: orlandosentinel.com
US  
Court Backs Pentagon Anthropic Ban - But the Fight Continues
- Ruling Keeps Claude Models Out of Defense Systems During Separate Legal Challenges A federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday refused to pause the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic, setting up a split legal landscape that leaves the artificial intelligence company locked out of Department of Defense work - even as parts of the policy face challenges elsewhere in other courthouses. The D.C. Circuit ...

Source: bankinfosecurity.com
TECHNOLOGY  
Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem
- Technology Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem What happens when AI can hack everything? Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic April 9, 2026, 1:22 PM ET Save For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry ...

Source: theatlantic.com
Wild chimpanzees recorded waging 'civil war' with coordinated attacks between two groups
- New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees' wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to ...

Source: theguardian.com
Coal's fortunes shift as Trump uses orders and taxpayer money to keep plants operating
- WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Biden administration and many electric utilities were building a future dominated by renewable energy. They aimed to replace coal, slashing greenhouse gases and reducing air pollution that kills more than a thousand people annually. Dozens of coal plants — emitting as much planet-warming pollution as 27 million cars — were ...

Source: apnews.com
UK tracked Russia submarines in alleged Atlantic 'covert' operation: defence secretary
- John Healey said warships and military aircraft forced Russia to halt activity in UK waters near vital undersea cables and pipelines 3-MIN READ Britain said on Thursday it had tracked and deterred three Russian submarines on an alleged month-long "covert operation" in UK waters in the North Atlantic near vital undersea cables and pipelines. Disclosing details of the joint mission with Norway and other unspecified ...

Source: scmp.com
MEDICINE  
In Medical First, a Single Therapy Knocked Out 3 Autoimmune Diseases at Once
- Reading time 3 minutes In recent years, CAR T-cell therapy has become a revolutionary, if risky, treatment for some late-stage cancers. Yet CAR T may also have another life as a near-miraculous intervention for certain immune-related diseases. It now appears to have treated not one, not two, but three separate autoimmune conditions in a 47-year-old woman. Doctors in Germany detailed the remarkable case in a report ...

Source: gizmodo.com
DIGITAL   BUSINESS  
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy highlights AI growth in annual shareholder letter
- Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rose more than 5% today after Chief Executive Andy Jassy published his latest shareholder letter. The memo is the fifth that Jassy has penned since taking the top post in 2021. Amazon's first shareholder letter was written by founder Jeff Bezos in 1997, the year the company went public.  One potential reason Wall Street responded positively to the letter is that it contains new data ...

Source: siliconangle.com
AWS previews a cloud-agnostic registry for managing agentic fleets at scale
- Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to make sure enterprises that embrace artificial intelligent agents and automation aren't getting lost in the curse of "agentic sprawl." The cloud computing giant is trying to prevent that from happening with the launch of AWS Agent Registry in preview today. It's a new capability that acts like a centralized discovery and governance hub for AI agents, designed to help companies ...

Source: siliconangle.com
US   MARKETS  
Mortgage rates fall for first time in weeks after US-Iran ceasefire
- Average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.37%, Freddie Mac says Mortgage rates fell this week after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage declined to 6.37% from last week's ...

Source: foxbusiness.com
US   POLITICS  
Judge says Pentagon must restore press access
- A federal judge ruled the Defense Department violated a court order requiring it to ease stringent restrictions imposed on reporters who cover the Pentagon and blocked a new press policy issued by the department last month. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman again  sided with the New York Times and its reporter Julian Barnes, who filed a lawsuit last year that argued the new Pentagon policy violated the First ...

Source: cbsnews.com
HEALTH   MEDICINE  
10 Proven Ways to Make Your Skin Look Younger, According to Dermatologists
- These solutions really do work. 14 min read Death. Taxes. Aging. These are three things that are totally unavoidable. And when it comes to skin aging in particular, it's no secret that exactly when and how it presents itself can vary greatly. One person might notice stubborn dark spots crop up on their face after years of unprotected sun exposure, for instance. On someone else, the passage of time could come in the ...

Source: womenshealthmag.com
Justice Department investigating NFL over games on paid platforms, sources say
- The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games simultaneously to multiple platforms — paid streaming platforms, paid cable networks, and others, sources told CBS News. A government official familiar with the matter said the probe is about affordability for consumers and creating an "even playing field for providers." ...

Source: cbsnews.com
MEDICINE  
Cancer risk is much higher in adults who have never married
- Follow Earth on Google Many people think cancer happens only because of genes or bad luck. In reality, life is more complex. Daily habits, along with social support, can slowly affect health over time. A new study shows that even something like being married or not may be connected to cancer risk. This may sound surprising, but it offers a new way to understand health. Researchers from the Sylvester Comprehensive ...

Source: earth.com
WORLD  
US had hottest March on record as nation faced 'unprecedented' heat
- The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El ...

Source: theguardian.com
US  
Jim Whittaker, First American to Climb Mount Everest, Dies at 97 in Washington
- By Jim Whittaker, the towering mountaineer who became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest and went on to shape the nation's outdoor culture for decades, died Tuesday, April 7, at his home in Port Townsend, Washington. He was 97. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Dianne Roberts ; sons Bob , Joss and Leif Whittaker ; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. "Whether at home, in the ...

Source: miamiherald.com
Meta expands CoreWeave deal with another $21B commitment
- By Meta is not waiting for its own data centers to catch up with its AI ambitions. It is renting the capacity it needs right now. CoreWeave and Meta announced an expanded agreement on April 9 in which Meta will pay approximately $21 billion for dedicated AI cloud capacity through December 2032, CoreWeave confirmed this in a press release . The new deal layers on top of a prior $14.2 billion arrangement between the ...

Source: miamiherald.com
US   POLITICS  
Doctor Accused Of Trying To Kill Wife On Birthday Hike Found Guilty Of Lesser Charge
- While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii anesthesiologist who was accused of trying to murder his wife on a scenic cliffside hike with ocean views last year has ...

Source: huffpost.com
Drug dealer Jasveen Sangha sentenced to 15 years in connection with Matthew Perry's death
- April 8 (UPI) -- Jasveen Sangha of Los Angeles, called the "Ketamine Queen"by prosecutors, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday in connection with the 2023 overdose death of actor Matthew Perry . Sangha pleaded guilty last year to federal charges related to the case, including several counts of distribution of ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. ...

Source: upi.com