Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. military killed four men on Tuesday in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Pacific, its fourth vessel attack in four days. Since Saturday, the United States has killed at least 11 people in strikes targeting alleged drug-trafficking boats under President Donald Trump 's anti-narcotics operation, which rights groups and legal experts have criticized as unlawful. With the ...
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Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Ideas We Shouldn't Need Accountants America's insane tax-filing process Bettmann / Getty Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 7:51 If you are anything like me, you have spent a lot of time over the past few weeks opening letters, finding receipts, requesting PDFs, scanning documents, and going through your credit-card statements line by line. It's tax season. And in the United States, taxes are a DIY affair. This ...
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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. ...
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Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, are missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea on the way to Malaysia , according to the United Nations' refugee and migration agencies. While details remained sketchy, Bangladesh Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Com. Sabbir Alam Suzan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that nine people, including three ...
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Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
OpenAI unveiled Tuesday its answer to artificial intelligence rival Anthropic's much-touted private release of a cybersecurity model by announcing the broader availability of GPT‑5.4‑Cyber. In a pointed announcement , OpenAI said its intent is to make tools that can identify vulnerabilities "as widely available as possible." Internal safeguards, know-your-customer verification and "trust signals" will ...
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Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Google to punish sites that trap people in with back button tricks Google says it is expanding its policies to crack down on websites which trap users with "back button hijacking". Back button hijacking is when a website interferes with a browser so the back button no longer takes users to the previous page, instead often keeping them on the site or presenting unsolicited ads. In a blog post the tech giant behind ...
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Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago. Trump commuted the prison sentences of several Proud Boys and ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Amazon is aiming to build-up its satellite business to offer internet and mobile phone services by spending $11.57bn (£8.5bn) on an acquisition of Globalstar. The deal, announced Tuesday, will allow Amazon to get thousands of satellites into low-earth orbit through the Amazon Leo project the company has been working on for several years. Amazon said the Globalstar takeover fits its "long-term vision for ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Measure twice, deploy once: Qlik makes the case for disciplined AI value generation The chief financial officer's priorities have decidedly shifted. AI value is no longer a promise to be made — it's a number to be defended. For most enterprises, delivery on that promise remains elusive. The challenge is not a shortage of AI ambition, according to Mike Capone (pictured, right), chief executive officer of ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
The 20-year-old Texas man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was having "an acute mental health crisis," his attorneys said Tuesday, calling the District Attorney's attempted murder charge unjust. "This case is clearly overcharged. This case is a property crime at best. No one was injured," Diamond Ward, a San Francisco public defender representing Daniel ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Lonna Drewes alleges Democratic congressman drugged and raped her at hotel Another woman has accused Eric Swalwell of sexual assault, claiming the California Democrat drugged and raped her in 2018. At a press conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, the woman, Lonna Drewes, said she delayed coming forward sooner with her allegations that Swalwell drugged and raped her in a West Hollywood hotel room because of his ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch Silas Stein/picture alliance Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It's introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different web pages without having to type them in again. Gemini AI into Chrome , which arrived alongside a slate of ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will hang three flags on its flagpole at the monument Removed from bookmarks The flag — one of several Pride banners at the 7.7-acre (3.1-hectare) park — won't be removed, except for "maintenance or other practical purposes," the filing said. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
at the White House has publicly touted the president's so-called "no tax on tips" policy before – causing some to question the encounter's authenticity and the company to confirm it was a stunt. and driving for the delivery platform because her husband's cancer treatments had made it difficult to make ends meet otherwise. That fact drew Simmons some skepticism after she delivered a McDonald's order to the ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Matt Crocker quit as sporting director of the U.S. Soccer Federation on Tuesday, just two months ahead of the World Cup, to take a new job in Saudi Arabia. The USSF said Crocker was leaving to pursue an unidentified international soccer opportunity, and a person familiar with the decision, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Crocker's new job was not announced, said he will work in ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multistep infiltration challenge. Last week, Anthropic announced it was restricting the initial release of its Mythos Preview model to "a limited group of critical industry partners," giving them time to prepare for a model that it said is "strikingly capable at computer security tasks." Now, the UK government's (AISI) has published an initial evaluation of ...
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Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles schools avoided a strike that would have impacted nearly 400,000 students in Southern California as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal early Tuesday. Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union announced on social media that it won a tentative agreement with "major gains" including raises and more hours. The district ...
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