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Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from doing construction work above ground on the controversial proposed White House ballroom. Judge Richard Leon is allowing the administration to continue below-ground construction, including work related to national security facilities at the White House. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States is suing the Trump administration in U.S. ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US federal jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated illegal monopoly A US federal jury Wednesday found Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster violated multiple federal antitrust laws, determining the companies held an illegal monopoly over the live entertainment industry and overcharged consumers $1.72 per ticket. The verdict, reached in United States v. Live ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Resolution needed two more votes to pass, but Democrats now appear solidified in opposition The US House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolution that would have prevented further military action against Iran, as Democrats united against continued US involvement in the conflict amid peace talks that have yet to make a breakthrough. The resolution introduced by Greg Meeks, the top ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The post The Shadow AI Trap: Why Your AI Inventory is Your Biggest EU AI Act Compliance Risk – FireTail Blog appeared first on FireTail – AI and API Security Blog . The EU AI Act cares about evidence, not intent When National Competent Authorities begin enforcement on August 2, 2026, they will ask organisations what AI systems they operate, how those systems are being used, and what controls are in ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The Atlantic Daily The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right? Its pivot to AI could be an escape hatch for a company with nothing to lose. Illustration by The Atlantic April 16, 2026, 6:52 PM ET Save This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Walk into ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons Maine passes first moratorium on large data centers in US Maine's legislature on Tuesday passed a temporary moratorium on the construction of large data centers through November 1, 2027, making Maine the first state in the US to impede facility expansion as lawmakers study their strain on the state's power grid. The bill prohibits state agencies and municipalities from approving data ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
At least two US-sanctioned, Iran-linked vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on Thursday, signalling a possible shift in transit routes even as the US naval blockade entered its third day. Shipowners and traders are closely tracking movements through the strategic waterway, with only a limited number of vessels attempting crossings amid heightened checks by both US and Iranian forces. ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
I have a question about rhetoric, which is also a rhetorical question. Am I offending against civility if I point out that, in addition to his other glaring faults, our president is a vengeful prick ? From the Miami Herald : The Trump administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between ...
Source: esquire.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia launched its deadliest aerial assault so far this year on Ukraine , killing 16 people, including a 12-year-old child, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Thursday's overnight attack included nearly 700 drones and 19 ballistic missiles targeting cities across the country. Ukraine's capital bore some of the heaviest damage. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.3%, Freddie Mac says Mortgage rates fell this week, 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 6.3% from last week's reading of 6.37%. The average rate on a 30-year loan was 6.83% a year ago. "Compared ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and his wife, Cerina, are dead from an apparent murder suicide in their home in Annandale, Va. Justin Fairfax, 47, shot and killed Cerina in the home and then shot himself , police said. The couple's two teenage children were home, and their son called 911 shortly after midnight Thursday. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said the same gun appears to ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's new pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a public health veteran who has led vaccination programs, a new sign of the administration's shifting views on vaccines. Dr. Erica Schwartz's nomination to lead the embattled agency came just hours after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appearance at a congressional hearing where he made some ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. military killed three people Wednesday in its fifth strike in five days targeting suspected drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific, marking U.S. Southern Command's most concentrated stretch of publicly announced strikes in its monthslong anti-drug smuggling operation since the war in Iran began. Fourteen people were confirmed killed during that five-day span, which included strikes ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Drugs that were once hailed as possible breakthroughs in the battle to treat Alzheimer's have no meaningful clinical effect on the disease's progression, a new Cochrane review found. Cochrane reviews have a reputation in the medical and life sciences fields as a gold-standard, independent analysis of the evidence for and against specific health interventions or treatments. The drugs assessed in the new review, ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Days after Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos , OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model optimized for defensive cybersecurity usage. Unlike Anthropic, which chose to limit the Mythos model to a select few partners, OpenAI is scaling access to its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to thousands of verified, individual defenders as well as hundreds of groups protecting critical infrastructure. OpenAI states , ...
Source: securitymagazine.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
At the moment, the Supreme Court is preparing to decide the case of Louisiana v . Callais, a case about the legality of the creation of minority-majority voting districts. Not coincidentally, this case would allow Chief Justice John Roberts to complete his life's work of destroying the Voting Rights Act. Slate' s Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick shrewdly with some salty recent comments from the court's liberal ...
Source: esquire.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
– South African opposition party leader was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after he was convicted of breaking firearm laws by firing a rifle at a political rally in 2018. He was released on appeal, which will be heard at a later date. If the verdict and sentence are upheld, Malema will be disqualified as a lawmaker. South African law bars anyone from serving in Parliament if they have been ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Gov. Kathy Hochul is turning sharply to the left: On Tuesday, she announced a new "pied-à-terre tax," flatly breaking her no-new-taxes vow; this follows her embrace of a public-employee-pension giveaway that could cost taxpayers $1.5 billion a year. Far from "moderating" Mayor Zohran Mamdani's socialism, she's rushing his way. The pied-à-terre tax will slap people who own second homes in the city ...
Source: nypost.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Investors are starting to focus on what will replace compounded GLP-1 as a growth driver for telehealth companies like Hims & Hers Health. Peptides are gaining attention as a potential new growth vector, despite clinical evidence for efficacy being limited. The FDA review process is only just beginning, with a Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for July 2026. In this article As its ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has been going through turmoil and several leadership shakeups under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- The California Supreme Court has disbarred John Eastman , President Donald Trump 's former lawyer, over his involvement in the so-called fake electors scheme to overturn the 2020 election. The state's high court ruled Wednesday that Eastman, 65, is disbarred from practicing law in California and must pay a $5,000 sanction to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund, a discretionary fund ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
NIST is overhauling how it manages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and switching to a risk-based model that prioritizes "enrichment" of only the most critical security vulnerabilities. "This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025," the National Institute of Standards and Technology . "We don't expect this trend to let up anytime soon." A two-year ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Tax Day (April 15) has come and gone. If you completed and filed your 2025 US federal income tax return on time, congratulations. Now the only hard part is waiting to see when your tax refund will arrive . But what about procrastinators or people missing tax info who weren't able to finish by yesterday? Well, it depends. If you filed a free six-month extension , received an automatic two-month extension because ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
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Source: livescience.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey. You'll never have to worry about the dozens of tabs open on your desktop again. In fact, you'll never even have to leave AI Mode , Google's chatbot-style search tool, at all. That's the idea behind Google Chrome 's latest update. Starting today in the US, if ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Earlier this year, Google introduced Personal Intelligence , a feature that goes beyond just letting its Gemini AI remember conversations you have with it directly and gives it access to your internet history. On Thursday, the company announced that it will expand the reach of Personal Intelligence to its image generation model Nano Banana, allowing it to pull details from your life to create ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Canva has launched an AI-centric overhaul to its 13-year-old graphic design platform. Canva 2.0, announced Thursday (April 16), is being billed by the Australian company as its most significant update ever, turning Canva into "a conversational, agentic platform." "Rather than starting with a template or a blank page, you can now start with an idea, a goal, a brief, a rough sketch, even an ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. was charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, and there is a warrant out for his arrest, a Minnesota prosecutor said. An ICE agent who was part of the federal immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year was charged with felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, a Minnesota prosecutor announced Thursday. The agent, Gregory Donnell Morgan ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
By The United States Government will begin accepting tariff refund applications by April 20, 2026. The U.S. Supreme Court declared Donald Trump's tariffs illegal in February , effectively negating price hikes on imported goods. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency announced that it will start processing the first phase of the refund program. President Donald Trump's use of the International Emergency ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Could planes soon be stuck on the ground due to a lack of fuel? The risk of jet fuel shortages is growing each day the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, although it isn't certain when exactly supplies will run out. The risk of shortages is greatest in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe, as they both rely on oil from the Gulf and its refineries for their supplies. "The situation can, within the next three, four ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
PARIS (AP) — Europe has "maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left," the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations "soon" if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called "the largest energy crisis we have ...
Source: pennlive.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission of a downed pilot in Iran this month, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness , a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he claims was delivered at the beginning of the ...
Source: mediaite.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project , according to two people familiar with the visit. Two prosecutors and an investigator from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office were turned away on Tuesday by a building contractor and referred to Fed ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A student opened fire randomly at two classrooms at a middle school in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 20 others, an official said, in the second such shooting in the country in two days. The student, who was also killed, arrived at the school, armed with guns believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer, Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
https://media.blubrry.com/podcasts_techspective/content.blubrry.com/podcasts_techspective/20260415_Capsule_Security_Naor_Paz.mp3 Every conversation I've had for the past couple of years has followed the same arc. First, it was generative AI. Then agentic AI. Now the question everyone is circling is how you actually secure agentic AI — and it turns out that's a harder problem than most people expected. I sat ...
Source: techspective.net
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
As another Tax Day arrives, the average refund this year is $3,462, up 11%, or around $350, from 2025, according to IRS data . "Aggregate refunds are up, average refunds are up, and clearly millions, if not tens of millions, of taxpayers are claiming one of the new deductions" under the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" enacted last year, Andrew Lautz, director of tax policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center, a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Perry denies the allegations, shared by Rose on social media, calling them 'dangerous reckless lies' Police are investigating claims Katy Perry sexually assaulted the Australian actor Ruby Rose at a Melbourne nightclub more than a decade ago, allegations the American pop star strenuously denies. Victoria police on Wednesday said in a statement: "Melbourne sexual offences and child abuse investigation team (SOCIT) ...
Source: theguardian.com