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Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel's bombardment of Beirut, Tehran's continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainty over whether talks expected on Saturday can find common ground. Iran and the U.S. — which both declared victory after Tuesday night's ceasefire announcement — appeared to apply pressure. ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Think young people are charging eagerly into an AI-mediated future? Think again. More than half of Generation Zers living in the United States use generative artificial intelligence regularly, but their feelings about the technology are souring, according to a new survey released on Thursday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation, and GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm that works in education technology. The ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
THIS WEEK ONLY: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch Meta's AI app has seen a sizable jump in installs following Wednesday's launch of the company's newest AI model, Muse Spark — its first model release under Alexandr Wang, the head of Meta's Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Scale AI last year to overhaul ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Takeaways from the Gilgo Beach case as Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to 7 murders and admits to an 8th
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Welcome to From the Politics Desk , a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, Jonathan Allen takes stock of the political risk the Iran war presents for President Donald Trump and the GOP heading into the midterms. Plus, Bridget Bowman and Ben Kamisar share their findings from focus ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Taxes on Social Security benefits have become a hot-button issue. Originally, Social Security benefits were not taxed. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, lawmakers imposed new taxes on up to 50% or up to 85% of benefits, depending on income. These taxes originally hit only high earners, but the thresholds when they kicked in were not indexed to . The result is that a growing number of retirees owe taxes on their ...
Source: fool.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Appeals court denies Anthropic's emergency motion for a stay. A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration's efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company's emergency motion for a stay. But the court granted the US-based AI firm's request to expedite the case and will hold oral arguments on May 19. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda's Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community. Then suddenly, one set charged the other, touching off yearslong bloodshed that researchers are comparing to a human civil war. "It was just chaos," said John Mitani, a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Michigan who had been ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The United Kingdom has issued a strong warning to Russia after detecting what it described as a covert submarine operation targeting vital undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic. Defence Secretary John Healey said British forces had successfully tracked multiple Russian vessels operating near sensitive infrastructure, stressing that any attempt to cause damage would trigger serious consequences. Watch ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy released his annual shareholder letter, where he once again made the case for huge investments in artificial intelligence. The company has said it expects to spend roughly $200 billion on capital expenditures this year, with the lion's share going toward AI development. Jassy wrote that AI revenue in its cloud computing segment has hit a $15 billion annual run rate. In this article Amazon CEO ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
'In a holding pattern' is how economists are describing the spring market moving into April, with more policy stability and conflict resolution needed to move buyers and sellers back from the sidelines. The average mortgage rate ticked down 9 basis points to 6.37% this week, down from 6.46% last week after several weeks of increases, according to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A Washington federal judge found the Pentagon violated a court order by reinstating restrictions on press access in an opinion that sharply criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for curtailing free speech rights with the nation at war. Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said on Thursday that the Trump administration's decision to remove credentialed reporters from ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
You've likely heard about K-beauty and its countless benefits for your skin. But take it from a beauty writer: Japanese skin care, aptly called J-beauty, should also be on your radar if it's not already. Unlike the more elaborate routines that Korean beauty is known for, Japanese skin care routines tend to be much more simplistic and focus on getting your best skin in the least amount of steps. I spoke to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the NFL is forcing football fans to pay too much in subscription fees, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. In years past, football fans watched NFL games over broadcast TV, delivered free into their homes. The 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act allowed for sports leagues to get around some antitrust concerns and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Washington — 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 Niño will reach superstrength. Not only was it the hottest March on record for the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Meta expanded its agreement with CoreWeave to $21 billion for AI compute capacity, according to a Thursday (April 9) report from Bloomberg . The deal runs through 2032 and builds on a prior multibillion-dollar contract between the companies. The agreement gives Meta access to large-scale GPU clusters used to train and run artificial intelligence models. CoreWeave builds its infrastructure around chips from Nvidia. ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who admitted to selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him is set to be sentenced Wednesday. Jasveen Sangha will be the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the 2023 overdose of the 54-year-old actor. His role as Chandler Bing on NBC's "Friends" in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of his era. ...
Source: apnews.com