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Top News Stories for Friday, April 10th 2026
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A government filing shows that men of a certain age could be automatically registered for a military draft before this year ends. The website of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs shows that a proposed rule submitted on March 30 would fast-track a change to go in effect by December 2026 after initially being approved by Congress in 2025 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The rule was ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
In a new survey released Thursday , a nonprofit AI research center found that half of American adults used AI in the past week, either for personal or work use, with 20% of full-time workers saying that AI has taken over parts of their job. The poll , conducted by Ipsos in partnership with Epoch AI — a leading nonprofit focused on data-driven research about artificial intelligence's development and impact ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles Amazon is to stop supporting older Kindle models leaving longtime ebook fans unable to access new content from the Kindle store. Devices released during or before 2012 will no longer receive updates from 20 May, affecting owners of older Kindles, including the earliest models such as the Touch and some Fire tablets. It is thought that ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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
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 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! has been a Maine editor, columnist and reporter for 40 years. He welcomes comment at of a mini revolution by affixing a 2% "millionaire's tax" surcharge onto the ...
Source: pressherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
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 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Data centers are not new. For decades, they have served as the infrastructure behind the internet. What is new is the role data centers play as the "factories" for rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI). As AI continues to develop, the deployment of energy-intensive computing increases, in turn raising the power demand of the data centers that house it. By way of example, the AI boom has driven the ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
John Healey says warship and aircraft forced Russia to abandon activity in North Sea in month-long operation A British warship and aircraft tracked and monitored Russian submarines trying to survey vital undersea infrastructure in the North Atlantic, ensuring they fled the area, the defence secretary, John Healey , has said. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Healey said the UK operation lasted more ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Science Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment's Full Potential CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases. Illustration by The Atlantic Save By the time Fabian Müller met the patient at the center of his newest research paper , he was fairly certain that an experimental treatment was her last hope. The patient, a ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Mortgage rates backed off their recent 2026 high this week after concerns over an escalation of the Iran War temporarily subsided, but the numbers don't necessarily mean an end to ongoing volatility, economists warned. Processing Content The 30-year fixed average decreased 9 basis points to 6.37%, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey of April 9. The rate fell from the previous survey ...
Source: americanbanker.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 federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling "Friends" star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023. "You're going to have to show some epic resilience," Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha, echoing the defendant's words earlier in the hearing about her self-improvement. The 42-year-old became ...
Source: bostonglobe.com