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Top News Stories for Friday, April 10th 2026
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered officials to begin direct negotiations with Lebanon "as soon as possible", citing requests from Beirut as tensions remain high despite a broader regional ceasefire. Lebanon declared a day of mourning on Thursday after Israeli attacks killed at least 200 people and wounded more than 1,000 in a single day. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
New platform is designed to help cloud providers, data center operators, system integrators, and enterprises deploy application-level AI services faster, reduce cost per query, and create recurring AI service revenue Blaize Holdings, Inc. ("Blaize"), a leader in programmable, energy-efficient AI computing, announced the planned launch of Blaize AI Services , a platform designed to help AI infrastructure providers ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
According to Sensor Tower's estimates, Meta AI reached an all-time high in daily web visitors in the US. Meta's iOS AI app saw roughly 46,000 downloads, an 87% day-over-day increase in downloads on the US Apple App Store. "The excitement surrounding Meta AI's new AI Model, Muse Spark, wasn't limited to the US as downloads of the app on iOS in Canada, the UK, France and Germany soared 51%, 32%, 27% and 25% ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Records were set. History was made. Now all that's left is to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe. NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are in the final run of a 600,000-mile trip that began on April 1 when they launched from Kennedy Space Center on the first crewed mission of the Artemis ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' belief that they pay too much in taxes remains elevated for the fourth consecutive year, with 59% saying this. Most others, 37%, say their taxes are "about right," while 3% think they are too low. Americans' displeasure with their tax burden has held near 60% since 2023. This is higher than the roughly 50% average recorded in the early 2000s after the 2001 tax cuts went through, ...
Source: news.gallup.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
April 10 (UPI) -- A federal judge has again ordered the Pentagon to restore access to credentialed journalists, ruling the Trump administration was attempting to flout his previous order by disguising it as an interim rule. "The Department cannot simply reinstate an unlawful policy under the guise of taking 'new' action and expect the court to look the other way," U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in his ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Intel® Xeon® processors to continue powering Google Cloud infrastructure across AI, inference and general-purpose workloads Expanded co-development of custom ASIC-based infrastructure processing units (IPUs) to improve efficiency, utilization and performance at scale Collaboration reinforces the central role of CPUs and IPUs in modern, heterogeneous AI systems and Google announced a multiyear collaboration ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Taipei, Taiwan – Opposition leader Cheng Li-wun and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met in Beijing, where both leaders stated their opposition to Taiwan independence and expressed a desire for a "peaceful" resolution to the long-running dispute over the island's future. They posed for photos at the Great Hall of the People and exchanged public remarks, in addition to holding their closed-door meeting. Cheng ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they're reversed, lasting damage has already been done. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pursued an aggressive overhaul of federal vaccine guidance and infrastructure since he took office a little over a year ago. Now, his agenda is on hold after a federal judge blocked many of those ...
Source: wired.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 -
Lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives have called on former Attorney General Pam Bondi to address a committee probing how the government handled files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Thursday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee accused Bondi of stonewalling Congress's oversight powers and defying a subpoena for her testimony. Their statement comes one day after the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica's most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change Two of Antarctica's most iconic species, the emperor penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) and the Antarctic fur seal ( Arctocephalus gazella ), have declined so dramatically and rapidly that they have been classified as ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
PHOENIX (AP) — Renewable energy advocates in Arizona made gains against a business-backed slate in a fight over how the nation's largest public power utility will meet fast-rising electricity demand in a data center hot spot. However, election results released by the Phoenix-area Salt River Project mean that the rival slates will be forced into compromises over potential questions of whether to increase rates ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there are parallels with civil wars in human societies A once harmonious group of wild chimpanzees has split into two, leading to intractable conflict and escalating violence. Researchers say the rift suggests that human wars are a deeply rooted part of our nature, rather than something that emerged recently as ...
Source: newscientist.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 -
Amazon will continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a 2025 Letter to Shareholders posted Thursday (April 9). Jassy said that while investment spikes invite scrutiny, AI is a game-changer that will reinvent every customer experience. "I've followed the public debate on whether this technology is over-hyped, whether we're in 'a ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A woman with three different autoimmune conditions had all of them treated simultaneously by genetically modifying her immune cells to kill off the rogue ones causing problems A woman who had three different autoimmune conditions has not required treatments for almost a year after her immune cells were genetically modified and used to kill off the rogue cells attacking her body. "She was deathly sick and bedridden ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Britain said it detected and tracked a Russian attack submarine and other Russian undersea vessels near critical infrastructure in the High North, saying the operation failed after British and allied forces made clear the vessels had been spotted. The operation began several weeks ago, when British aircraft and warships detected an Akula-class submarine in international waters north of the UK, according to the UK ...
Source: bnonews.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 -
So this is what Rory McIlroy's new normal looks like. The defending champion is footloose and fancy-free at Augusta National. He is plainly no longer of a mind to revel in the events of the 2025 Masters. McIlroy returned to Augusta, for so long a place that exacted psychological torture on him, to deliver an emphatic statement. The floodgates are wobbling. Parallels between McIlroy on day one at this major and his ...
Source: theguardian.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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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Source: livescience.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
In 2003, a shipment of exotic African rodents to a pet store in Illinois sparked the United States' first mpox outbreak . Gambian giant rats and other rodents infected prairie dogs, which in turn infected nearly 100 people who handled the animals. Ebola outbreaks are often triggered after contact with bats, which are sometimes eaten or used for traditional medicine. And more famously, a string of scientific papers ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from . And among more jarring bets recently, the fate of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran. Shortly ahead of a fragile ceasefire agreement earlier this week, a new group of accounts on prediction market platform Polymarket made betting there'd be an announcement about a halt in fighting for April 7. Some quickly pocketed awards, which amounted ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
Best-selling The Housemaid author Freida McFadden reveals true identity One of the biggest mysteries in publishing has been solved, after the best-selling US author known to millions of readers as Freida McFadden revealed her true identity. McFadden has been one of the world's most popular authors of recent years, thanks to thrillers like The Housemaid. The author has never made a secret of the fact Freida McFadden ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Jasveen Sangha, the woman prosecutors refer to as the "Ketamine Queen," was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison during a hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to federal drug charges last year in connection with the 2023 death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry. The sentencing comes after Sangha, 42 of North Hollywood, pleaded guilty last September to three counts of ...
Source: cbsnews.com