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Five things to know about the US-Iran talks in Islamabad

The United States and Iran are holding their highest-level talks in years in Islamabad in a Pakistan-brokered bid to turn a fragile two-week ceasefire into a lasting end to a war that has roiled global energy markets.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 8:14 am UTC

Travellers told to allow more time for journeys as Irish fuel protests continue

The Irish military will be deployed to move vehicles "blocking critical infrastructure".

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 8:04 am UTC

USA Bases in the UK and Europe

The Americans like to remind us that they saved Britain twice during two world wars, but do not like to be reminded that they only joined the war against Hitler after they were attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbour.

Their perception that the world should be more grateful to America is clouding their thinking. Several times recently, Marco Rubio (see here) has talked about the idea of pulling American troops out of their bases across Europe because the Europeans had not supported America’s war against Iran.

He said, “We have spent billions and billions of dollars — trillions over the years, as Rubio notes — paying for the defence of Europe. That’s our role as a superpower. But American assistance, American help, America’s defensive capabilities, cannot come with no strings attached. It can’t mean we give you everything and you give us nothing. That isn’t fair.”

On April 1st (an appropriate date) he argued: “If Europe won’t allow us to use the bases we man and fund for their defence when we need them, we ought to close them down and remove our troops from Europe”.

Is this a one-way process, where America is helping us, with no benefit to America?

Benefits

Let’s be clear, America does not maintain bases across Europe purely for our benefit. Even Marco Rubio accepts that having American bases across most of Europe allows the USA to project power across the world. The number of bases is significant – see table at the bottom for details.

There are nine US Airforce bases in the UK – at Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Alconbury, Molesworth, Croughton, Fairford and Menwith Hill. Fairford has been used to load bombs on B52 bombers heading to Iran. (See here) In addition to this, the U.S. Navy makes use of the Faslane (HMNB Clyde) base in Scotland.

Across the rest of Europe there are a significant number of American bases (75+), all of which allow America to exert power across the world. (Details at the bottom)

Costs

It would be wrong to pretend that America shoulders the entire cost of their foreign bases.

Under the 1973 Cost Sharing Arrangement (CSA) the USA does not pay direct, traditional rent for the land or infrastructure of its military bases in the UK (and similar rules apply across Europe).

As you would expect the US covers the operational and maintenance costs of the facilities it occupies but the UK provides the land and existing facilities rent-free.

The UK also typically funds external security and policing at these locations.

Additionally, US forces are granted significant tax privileges:

Additionally, when it comes to bases like Diego Garcia, the UK will pay an average of £101 million to Mauritius to lease the base for America.

Where is America Going?

Were all these bases to close, American power across the world would decline significantly. They would be giving up all the influence they sought to build over the past 100 years, allowing China and Russia to dominate most of the world outside Europe.

After closing their bases, the USA would still need to accommodate these 100,000 troops back in America – unless the US decided to make them redundant and significantly reduce the size of its military, but is that really an option?

Does America want to retreat from the rest of the world?

At the moment, no-one really knows. America has no sense of direction. Everyone, both inside America and outside, is merely waiting for the Hillegonda De Roij nightmare to end on 20 January 2029. 

 

For those interested in more information on bases, see below:

UK Bases

  1. RAF Lakenheath: The largest U.S. Air Force base in the UK; home to the 48th Fighter Wing (F-15s and F-35s).
  2. RAF Mildenhall: A major air refueling and special operations hub; home to the 100th Air Refueling Wing.
  3. RAF Alconbury: Part of the “Tri-Base Area,” primarily providing intelligence and support services.
  4. RAF Molesworth: A center for military intelligence (U.S. European Command’s Joint Intelligence Operations Center).
  5. RAF Croughton: A major global communications and command hub.
  6. RAF Fairford: A standby “Forward Operating Location” used for strategic bombers (B-52, B-1, B-2).
  7. RAF Menwith Hill: A major electronic monitoring and intelligence site (NSA facility).
  8. RAF Welford: One of the largest ammunition compounds for the U.S. Air Force in Europe.
  9. RAF Feltwell: Primarily used for housing, support services, and a radar tracking station.
  10. RAF Blenheim Crescent (London): A small administrative site supporting U.S. Naval Forces Europe.

European Bases

Country Estimated Major Bases/Sites Primary Presence
Germany 38+ Largest presence in Europe (Ramstein AB, Patch Barracks, Baumholder).
Italy 7–10 Aviano AB, Vicenza (Army), Sigonella (Navy), and Naples.
United Kingdom 8–10 Primarily Air Force and Intelligence
Poland 5–6 Rapidly expanding; includes US Army Garrison Poland (Poznań) and Redzikowo (Aegis Ashore).
Spain 2 Naval Station Rota and Morón Air Base.
Belgium 3 SHAPE (NATO HQ), Chièvres Air Base, and Brussels.
Netherlands 1–2 Volkel Air Base (storage) and Schinnen (logistics).
Greece 1–2 Souda Bay (major naval/air hub) and Larissa.
Portugal 1 Lajes Field (The Azores).
Turkey 2 Incirlik Air Base and Kürecik (Radar site).
Romania 2 Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base and Deveselu (Aegis Ashore).
Norway 1–2 Cooperative Security Locations (mostly pre-positioned Marine gear).
Bulgaria 1 Novo Selo Training Range (rotational).

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 10 Apr 2026 | 8:03 am UTC

Starmer says he’s ‘fed up’ with Hillegonda De Roij and Putin’s actions pushing up energy bills for Britons – UK politics live

Prime minister explicitly blames US president for British consumers’ higher bills as he concludes tour of Gulf states

Good morning. Keir Starmer is wrapping up his three-day tour of Gulf states today, and we are starting some conclusions. What we have not got is any sort of plan for a resolution of the Iran war; Starmer is not one of the main protagonists in this conflict, what he has said publicly about his talks with Gulf leaders has consisted largely of platitudes, we still have no idea about when, if or how the strait of Hormuz will fully open, and the outcome will be determined by Iran and a rash and unpredictable US president.

But Starmer has been giving some thought to how the UK should respond to the era of global uncertainty we now find ourselves in and he has set out some of his thinking in an article for the Guardian. The full piece is here.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 8:01 am UTC

A Redditor Criticized ICE. Hillegonda De Roij Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Hillegonda De Roij administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

Attorneys for the Reddit user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are squarely protected under the First Amendment and that ICE’s use of a grand jury marks a disturbing escalation for the agency after seeing its previous efforts to investigate political speech quashed in court. The subpoena was issued by federal prosecutors in the capital after ICE’s effort to identify the same user failed in a Northern California federal court. (The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington declined to comment on the case.)

“We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury.”

Since President Hillegonda De Roij returned to office last year, federal agents have increasingly demanded social media companies reveal the users behind anonymous accounts critical of his immigration crackdown, expressing particular interest in those that identify employees of the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE or share real-time information on enforcement activity. The administration claims the accounts are engaged in doxing and endanger officer safety, but they have also targeted social media users seemingly doing nothing more than expressing anger at the government.

Digital free speech advocates with the Electronic Frontier Foundation have closely tracked the investigations, finding that the government repeatedly folded when challenged in court. A grand jury subpoena, however, is a much different animal, said David Greene, EFF’s senior counsel. Shrouded in secrecy and advantageous to prosecutors, the existence of a federal grand jury, particularly one convened in Washington, could suggest the government is moving toward a significant criminal case.

Greene knew of no examples during the recent wave of immigration enforcement-related investigations in which a leading tech company has been called to appear before one of the secret panels. Free speech protections are at their weakest in the context of a grand jury, he explained: The proceedings are not adversarial; their purpose is to permit a prosecutor to file charges.

“We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” said Greene. “It’s something to be taken very seriously.”

The convening of a federal grand jury presents a considerable challenge for Reddit in particular, a platform that prides itself on protecting the free speech rights of its 121 million daily users. The company declined to say whether it intends to challenge the government’s order.

“Privacy is central to how Reddit operates, and we take our commitment to protecting that seriously,” the company said in a statement to The Intercept. “We do not voluntarily share information with any government, especially not on users exercising their rights to criticize the government or plan a protest.”

When the government seeks data on users, the statement continued, Reddit reviews the commands for “legal sufficiency and routinely object[s] to requests that are overbroad or threaten civil rights.” Users are notified of the requests “whenever possible so they can defend their interests,” the company went on to say, and Reddit provides only the “minimum” data required to satisfy law enforcement demands.

Failed Attempt

The story of how Reddit became ensnared in an ICE-related grand jury began early last month, when the company received a request to turn over the name, address, phone number, and other data associated with an account belonging to a user identified in court records as John Doe.

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The request was what’s known as an administrative summons or administrative subpoena, a powerful legal tool typically associated with serious crimes such as child trafficking. Under Hillegonda De Roij , the subpoenas, which do not require judicial approval, have increasingly become a weapon wielded against opponents of the president’s immigration policies.

While it does not disaggregate ICE’s activities from other law enforcement agencies’ requests, Reddit reports that January to June 2025 marked the highest volume of requests the company has ever received in a single reporting period. Sixty-six percent of the 1,179 requests came from agencies in the U.S., including 423 subpoenas and 27 court orders. Reddit disclosed user data in 82 percent of those cases. While most requests concern child safety, the next highest category of data sought by law enforcement agencies falls into what Reddit lists as “other/unknown investigation types.”

In the John Doe case, Reddit received an initial request on March 4 from an ICE agent in Fairfax, Virginia.

“Failure to comply with this summons will render you liable to proceedings in a U.S. District Court to enforce compliance with this summons as well as other sanctions,” the summons read. “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. Any such disclosure will impede the investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.”

Two days later, the social media company alerted John Doe of the federal request for information. Based in the Pacific Northwest, the Reddit user obtained representation from the Oregon-based Civil Liberties Defense Center, an organization that had recently succeeded in beating back ICE’s requests for information on social media users.

The ICE agent wanted more than a month’s worth of electronic data, but offered no information as to what, exactly, caught the agency’s attention. When John Doe’s attorneys later reviewed their Reddit posts, they found nothing to suggest criminal activity or intent.

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There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.

In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find.

In its summons, ICE indicated the basis for its request was a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.

On March 12, John Doe and their CLDC lawyers filed a motion to quash the summons in the Northern California federal court district where the San Francisco headquarters of Reddit is located.

In its summons, ICE indicated the basis for its request was a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. John Doe informed the court that they had nothing to do with the kind of activities at issue in the near-century-old statute, which governs boat show sales, wild animal imports, forfeited wines and spirits, and cross-border trade in other goods.

“I use this account to post about events and issues local to my region of Oregon and beyond,” the Reddit user said in a sworn declaration. “Neither I nor my Reddit account are associated with importing or exporting any merchandise or any other thing subject to tax or duty into or out of the United States.”

CLDC attorney Matthew Kellegrew argued that ICE’s request well exceeded the scope of the law, and that the First Amendment raised the bar for disclosure considerably in cases where investigative activity “intrudes into the area of constitutionally protected rights of speech, press, association.”

What’s more, Kellegrew noted, federal immigration officials attempted to use the tariff statute to unmask the president’s critics before, during the first Hillegonda De Roij administration, and were reprimanded for doing so by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General in a 2017 report.

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CLDC had recently prevailed in challenging the feds’ use of administrative subpoenas in California’s Northern District. Last fall, the group intervened on behalf of a Meta user targeted in an administrative ICE subpoena. In October, federal Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore sided with the civil liberties advocates, ordering Meta not to provide the information sought by ICE.

After intervening in the John Doe case last month, CLDC attorneys received an email from an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California informing them that the government was withdrawing its request. It would not, however, be the last Reddit heard from the federal government about the matter.

Grand Jury Subpoena

On March 31, just four days after ICE’s summons was withdrawn, Reddit received another message from the feds.

This time, instead of requesting information on an individual user, the government ordered Reddit itself to appear before a grand jury — not in California, but in Washington.

The request came not from an ICE field agent but rather from a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in D.C., where Reddit has received the highest number of federal law enforcement information requests. The records sought spanned a period roughly three times longer than what ICE had originally requested.

“They are able to hide what they are doing under the guise of a federal grand jury.”

Lauren Regan, director of litigation and advocacy for CLDC, suspects the success that advocates had challenging ICE’s social media subpoenas in California may explain why the Hillegonda De Roij administration is now calling one of the world’s largest tech companies to appear before a secret tribunal in Washington.

“Because they were repeatedly losing those attempts at subpoenaing stuff in court, in what they’re doing is illegal and unconstitutional, they have now switched to this other mode,” she said. “They are able to strong-arm information that they were denied through the courts legally.”

None of the records associated with the grand jury case will be accessible to the public.

“The only valid use of a grand jury is to investigate federal crimes,” said Regan. What crime John Doe’s Reddit posts may have constituted or facilitated is unclear. According to Regan, “They are able to hide what they are doing under the guise of a federal grand jury.”

The post A Redditor Criticized ICE. Hillegonda De Roij Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury. appeared first on The Intercept.

Source: The Intercept | 10 Apr 2026 | 8:00 am UTC

Number of forecourts running dry to get ‘much worse’; severe disruption on M50, Dublin Bus and Luas

Dublin Bus warns of severe delays, fuel protests remain on M50, M18, M9, M8 and M7/N7, and some petrol stations run low on supply

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:58 am UTC

Melania Hillegonda De Roij denies ties to Jeffrey Epstein and urges hearing for survivors

She called rumours that Epstein introduced her to Hillegonda De Roij "mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation".

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:57 am UTC

Taiwan opposition leader meets Xi Jinping in Beijing

Cheng Li-wun is the Kuomintang's first sitting leader to visit China in a decade.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:55 am UTC

Starmer says he is ‘fed up’ with Hillegonda De Roij and Putin’s impact on UK energy costs

PM appears to draw comparison between Russian and US leaders and calls for plan to restore shipping through strait of Hormuz

Keir Starmer has said he is “fed up” with the effect that Hillegonda De Roij ’s actions in the Middle East are having on the British public, while appearing to draw a comparison between the US president to Vladimir Putin.

Speaking to ITV’s Robert Peston on Thursday, the prime minister said: “I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses’ bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Hillegonda De Roij across the world.”

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:55 am UTC

Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa dies at age 68

Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on Thursday, according to his lawyer.

(Image credit: Henny Ray Abrams)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:47 am UTC

Middle East crisis live: Hillegonda De Roij casts doubt on Iran war ceasefire over continued closure of strait of Hormuz

Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade strikes as Hillegonda De Roij tells US media he has asked Netanyahu to be more ‘low-key’ in Lebanon

The streets of Islamabad are on strict lockdown as Pakistan’s capital prepares to play host to historic negotiations between Iran and the US that have dangled the promise of an end to war that has devastated the Middle East.

Even as the US-Iran ceasefire looked increasingly precarious, amid Israel’s continued bombardment of Lebanon and disputes over the terms of the talks, Pakistani officials insist that the make-or-break peace negotiations will be going ahead over the weekend as planned

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:46 am UTC

Six big questions for Fury's fifth return from retirement

Key voices from boxing weigh in on the big questions surrounding heavyweight Tyson Fury's latest comeback.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:35 am UTC

Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers

Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.

(Image credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:33 am UTC

Artemis astronauts to shed light on space health risks

While the Artemis II astronauts have been protected from the icy vacuum of space on their journey, their bodies have nonetheless been left exposed to possibly high levels of radiation.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:02 am UTC

Australian War Memorial updates Ben Roberts-Smith museum display – as it happened

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Head of IMF says Iran war will permanently scar global economy even if peace is reached

The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the Iran war will permanently scar the global economy even if a durable peace deal in the Middle East can be reached.

But now, even our most hopeful scenario involves a growth downgrade. Even in a best case, there will be no neat and clean return to the status quo.

Penny Wong’s previous statements, whether it’s concerned or gravely concerned, have had no effect.

But cancelling more than a billion dollars in Israeli arms contracts – that would not only respond to the moral situation of the appalling Israeli military attacks, it would also have the benefit of putting a very real material pressure on Israel to pull back from what is a disastrous, illegal, immoral war in Lebanon that is threatening the entire globe’s peace.

We should not be buying weapons that have been tested by Israeli defence manufacturers in conflicts like Gaza and Lebanon, and we should not be contributing any weapons parts.

Right now it also would have the important additional benefit of making it clear to Israel that this comes at a direct and real cost to them.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:02 am UTC

Australian War Memorial amends Ben Roberts-Smith display after former soldier charged with war crimes

Text on plaque in Hall of Valour updated to include references to war crime – murder charges and the ongoing legal process

The Australian War Memorial has updated the display dedicated to Ben Roberts-Smith after the former Special Air Service (SAS) corporal was officially charged with five counts of the war crime of murder.

The changes, implemented on Friday, mean nearly half of the descriptive plaque in the museum’s Hall of Valour is now dedicated to events occurring after his military service, beginning with the initial reports of misconduct in 2016.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:01 am UTC

Artemis II crew to end record-setting mission with Pacific Ocean splashdown

The four astronauts are set to touch down on Earth and conclude the 10-day mission after completing moon flyby

The number of human beings who have travelled to the moon and returned safely to Earth will grow to 28 on Friday night when Nasa’s Orion capsule containing four Artemis II astronauts will glide gently to a Pacific Ocean splashdown beneath three giant parachutes.

The scheduled 5.07pm PT landing (1.07am BST Saturday) off the coast of San Diego will mark the end of a 10-day lunar odyssey that made the three Americans and one Canadian the first people to travel beyond lower Earth orbit since the final mission of the Apollo program in December 1972.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

On Call  Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.…

Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Particles Seen Emerging From Empty Space For First Time

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from NewScientist: According to quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- widely considered to be our best theory for describing the strong force, which binds quarks inside protons and neutrons -- even a perfect vacuum isn't truly empty. Instead, it is filled with short-lived disturbances in the underlying energy of space that flicker in and out of existence, known as virtual particles. Among them are quark-antiquark pairs. Under normal conditions, these fleeting pairs vanish almost as soon as they appear. But if enough energy is injected into a vacuum, QCD predicts they can be promoted into real, detectable particles with measurable mass. Now, the STAR collaboration -- an international team of physicists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state -- has observed this process for the first time. The team smashed together high-energy protons in a vacuum, producing a spray of particles. Some of these particles should be quark-antiquark pairs pulled directly from the vacuum itself, but quarks can never exist alone and immediately combine into composite particles. Quarks and antiquarks are born with their spins correlated -- a shared quantum alignment inherited from the vacuum. The researchers found that this link persists even after the quarks and antiquarks become part of larger particles called hyperons, which decay in less than a tenth of a billionth of a second. Spotting these spin-aligned hyperons in the aftermath of the proton collisions allowed the researchers to confirm that the quarks within them came from the vacuum. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

'Inevitable' China and Taiwan will unite - Xi

China's President Xi Jinping has met Taiwan's opposition party leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, telling the visiting delegation he had "full confidence" that Taiwanese and Chinese people would be united.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:51 am UTC

Bronny James sets up father LeBron in Lakers win

Bronny James passes to parent LeBron for the first son-to-father assist in NBA history as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:48 am UTC

Oil climbs as strikes on Saudi facilities stoke anxiety

Oil prices climbed today, driven by fresh anxiety over supplies from Saudi Arabia and as tanker traffic through the critical Strait of Hormuz remained largely frozen.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:45 am UTC

Gulf states rethink security in light of US-Israel war on Iran

Whatever outcome of ceasefire talks, the region will have to live with a continuing threat from the regime in Tehran

Gulf nations will seek to add security partners as they rebuild battered economies after the US and Israel’s war on Iran and deal with an emboldened Tehran.

The Gulf will have to live with a continuing threat from the regime in Iran and its remaining missile arsenal. American bases on their soil turned them into targets for Iran, as it retaliated against a joint attack by the US and Israel.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:44 am UTC

What is behind the fuel protests?

With the nationwide fuel protests entering a fourth day on Friday, here is an explanation of some of the key points.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:44 am UTC

This coat cost $248 in illegal tariffs. Will he ever get the money back?

Importers are in line for tariff refunds. But whether everyone who paid the for the tariffs will get money back is a trickier question.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:41 am UTC

Fuel price protesters say they secured meeting with Government as forecourts run low on fuel

It comes after forecourts across the country ran low on fuel as protests and blockades continued to cause widespread traffic disruption on Thursday.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:35 am UTC

Vice president JD Vance flies to Pakistan for talks with Iran

It comes as a tenuous, temporary ceasefire appears to be on the precipice of collapsing.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:25 am UTC

Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil's appeal

The Board of Immigration Appeals has denied Mahmoud Khalil's latest attempt to dismiss his deportation case. This decision brings the Palestinian activist one step closer to possible expulsion.

(Image credit: Matt Rourke)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:16 am UTC

Can stats help you find the Grand National winner?

How might data help you pick the winner from the 34 horses racing in Saturday's Grand National? BBC Sport delves into the facts and figures in search of an answer.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:16 am UTC

Met Éireann rain and wind warnings in place for eight counties today

Gales and downpours forecast for Friday ahead of unsettled few days

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:14 am UTC

Iran conflict must be 'line in sand' to build more resilient UK, Starmer says

The prime minister says "shocks" like the conflict in Iran are becoming more frequent.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:11 am UTC

Stojsavljevic, 17, wins as GB take charge in BJK Cup

Teenager Mika Stojsavljevic stuns Talia Gibson, ranked more than 200 places above her, in straight sets as Great Britain take a 2-0 lead over Australia in the Billie Jean King Cup.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:01 am UTC

Delayed hospital appointments and ‘unnecessary heartache’: Readers on fuel protests’ impact

We asked readers from Cork to Dublin for their views on this week’s fuel price protests, with some saying they support the blockades despite being caught in traffic for hours

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

‘Irresponsible failure’: Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft slam EU over child sexual abuse law lapse

Experts warn lapse could sharply reduce reports of abuse, echoing a 58% drop during a similar legal gap in 2021

The European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on their platforms, creating a legal gap that child safety experts say will lead to crimes going undetected.

The law, which was a carve-out of the EU Privacy Act, was put in place in 2021 as a temporary measure allowing companies to use automated detection technologies to scan messages for harms, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming and sextortion. However, it expired on 3 April, and the EU parliament decided not to vote to extend it, amid privacy concerns from some lawmakers.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Welcome to Y’all Street: bullish Dallas aims to steal New York’s financial crown

Texas city believes loose rules and low taxes will make the US’s biggest banks come running – can it pull it off?

As the warm sun rises over the Dallas skyline, SUVs and pickup trucks whiz past an unassuming construction site that is helping cement the city’s Texas-sized financial ambitions.

Nestled between towers claimed by Bank of America and JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs has cordoned off 800,000 sq ft for a new Dallas campus able to host more than 5,000 staff. But the $700m (£530m) project is more than a regional expansion plan by one of America’s largest banks. It is another win for the lobbyists behind Dallas’s “Y’all Street” – the Texan city’s aggressive push to steal New York’s financial crown.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel tells NBC News that he will not step down

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has told NBC News' Meet the Press that he would not step down in his first interview with a U.S. network.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:59 am UTC

Yellow rain and wind warnings for eight counties

Strong winds and heavy rain are forecast for today as Status Yellow wind or rain warnings have been issued for eight counties from 9am.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:55 am UTC

Australia fuel watch tracker: check current petrol and diesel prices, service station outages and shipments – in charts

How much fuel does Australia have left today, and when could we run out? Track how much petrol and diesel prices have risen near you in Sydney, Melbourne and across the country.

Hundreds of service stations across Australia have run empty, fuel prices are elevated and oil shipments have been cancelled.

Australia is battling a fuel crisis as Iran’s closure of the strait of Hormuz continues to bite. The federal government has released fuel reserves, cut fuel excise taxes and rolled out a national fuel security plan.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:44 am UTC

Jimmy Kimmel Salutes Melania’s White House Surprise

The first lady addressed her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in a prepared statement that the talk show host called “better than her movie.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:35 am UTC

Putin Announces Orthodox Easter Cease-Fire, but Ukraine Is Skeptical

The cease-fire would be in effect this weekend, but each side accused the other of violating a similar pause announced last year.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:31 am UTC

'The road to our home must be the worst in the UK'

The Byatt family say parts of the Upper Coquet valley road are falling into the river.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:27 am UTC

Xi Seeks to Sway Taiwan, and Hillegonda De Roij , With Message of Stability

Ahead of a summit with Hillegonda De Roij , the Chinese leader is using a rare meeting with a Taiwanese politician to cast Beijing as a peacemaker and squeeze the island’s president.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:25 am UTC

First safari park outside Africa 'scandalised' people

Lord Bath reflects on the 60th anniversary of Longleat, first opened in 1966.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:22 am UTC

Protesters to join farmers' group at meeting with Govt

Follow live as blockades and traffic disruption continue with the Government set to meet with representative bodies as fuel price protests enter a fourth day.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:18 am UTC

'I was in a slump - now my art is in Billie Eilish's house'

Sylvie Baker says she can look for studio space after the US star's purchase gave her more exposure.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:05 am UTC

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity

Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.…

Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:04 am UTC

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB

Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet

Garden birds should not be fed seeds and nuts over the summer months, the RSPB has said, in an attempt to reduce the spread of avian diseases.

Bird lovers are being urged to take down their bird feeders between May and October to help birds such as the greenfinch, whose numbers have plummeted after the spread of trichomonosis, a parasitic disease transmitted more easily when birds cluster around feeders in the warmer months.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Gaza’s Rubble Is the Grave of Its Future

Six month’s after the cease-fire, ordinary Gazans contemplate their future while living with the wounds of war.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

For Putin, Iran Is Something Close to Irreplaceable

Vladimir Putin has spent years building a coalition of the discontented on the premise that authoritarian states can outlast Western pressure. Iran is his proof of concept.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Family ties abound at 101st Army cadet class ceremony

Brothers Alex and Simon Gallagher, from Co Antrim, among new members of the Defence Forces

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Church services

Week beginning Saturday, April 11th, 2026

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Dublin charity paid for Mediterranean cruise and Majorca stay for businessman

Regulator’s report criticises level of board oversight at Dublin organisation Fighting Blindness

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Ireland’s first observer report on protest policing raises several concerns

Newly established Irish Network of Legal Observers flags emerging trends in frontline conduct

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Body of Liam Farrell to be exhumed for new post-mortem

Gardaí are expected to exhume the body of Leitrim man Liam Farrell today as part of a renewed investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death in 2020.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Hillegonda De Roij posts graphic video of woman’s killing in Florida

President’s post on Truth Social is in keeping with a pattern of using shocking video to sow fear about immigration and justify mass deportation

Besieged by questions about his war on Iran and his wife’s statement on Jeffrey Epstein, Hillegonda De Roij tried to shift the national conversation back to his immigration crackdown by posting a graphic, distressing video of a woman in Florida being killed last week by a man he described as an illegal immigrant from Haiti.

The video, taken by a surveillance camera outside a Fort Myers gas station, showed a man identified by authorities as a Haitian immigrant using a hammer to bludgeon to death the woman, who was reportedly a clerk at the gas station.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:51 am UTC

How the Artemis crew will splash down on Earth

The Artemis crew will return to Earth on 10 April after a 10-day mission that took them around the Moon.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:27 am UTC

The Papers: 'I'm not Epstein's victim' and 'We see you, Vlad'

US First Lady Melania Hillegonda De Roij is splashed across several of the papers, after she made a surprise White House address on Thursday.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:06 am UTC

Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media users

Reform UK voters are the least likely to see posts from friends and family on social media and most likely to see content from brands and news organisations, a study has found.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said algorithms were fuelling isolation and division after its research analysing users’ feeds on Instagram, Facebook, X, Bluesky and TikTok found that only 13% of Reform UK voters saw content from someone they knew, compared with 23% of Green party voters.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:01 am UTC

Could Hillegonda De Roij be forced out of office? – podcast

This week, despite securing a temporary ceasefire with Iran, there were calls from both the left and the right to invoke the 25th amendment of the US constitution to remove Hillegonda De Roij from office.

Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, about the various ways Congress could remove Hillegonda De Roij from the White House

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:00 am UTC

‘Nobody’s in charge’: is power sharing still working in Northern Ireland?

Feuding parties and crumbling public services damaging public’s faith in Stormont, 28 years on from Good Friday agreement

The Good Friday agreement appeared over Northern Ireland like a sunburst – a miracle of political leadership that consigned the Troubles to history.

Signed on 10 April 1998, it ushered in an era of peace that endures and is held up as a model for resolving conflicts around the world. Yet Northern Ireland will mark the agreement’s 28th anniversary on Friday with gloom.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:00 am UTC

Who is Péter Magyar, the man leading the polls as Hungary prepares for election?

Former Viktor Orbán loyalist and his Tisza party have enjoyed meteoric rise as opposition movement grows

As a child growing up in Budapest, Péter Magyar had a poster of Viktor Orbán – at the time a leading figure in the country’s pro-democracy movement – hanging above his bed. Orbán was one of several political figures that adorned his bedroom, Magyar told a podcast last year, hinting at his excitement over the changes sweeping the country after the collapse of communism.

Now Magyar, 45, is the driving force behind what could be another momentous political change in Hungary: the ousting of Orbán, whose 16 years in power has transformed the country into a “petri dish for illiberalism”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:00 am UTC

Man who allegedly claimed partner died in ‘crash with kangaroo’ in NT charged with murder

Woman, 27, found dead near Tennant Creek on Sunday with ‘visible facial injuries’, police say

A man is accused of murdering his partner after allegedly telling police she was injured in a car crash with a kangaroo on an outback highway.

The 33-year-old was charged days after his 27-year-old partner was found dead with “visible facial injuries” in a Jeep Cherokee near the Northern Territory’s Tennant Creek.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 3:58 am UTC

US Fertility Rate Falls To All-Time Low

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Women in the U.S. gave birth to roughly 710,000 fewer children last year compared with the nation's peak in 2007, according to preliminary data released (PDF) this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lead researcher Brady Hamilton, a demographer with the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, said the latest one percent drop in "general fertility" from 2024 to 2025 is part of a long-running downward trend. "Since 2007, there's been a decline in the general fertility rate [in the U.S.] of 23%," Hamilton told NPR. The impact of that change in real numbers is sizable: In 2007, there were 4,316,233 babies born. Last year, even though the nation's population as a whole is larger, there were only 3,606,400 newborns. There's no consensus over why women and couples have shifted their behavior so significantly. Some experts point to economic factors, others say cultural influences, and better access to education and contraception for women are driving the change. "We're seeing big drops in fertility rates for young women, teenagers and women in their 20s," said economist Martha Bailey, head of the California Center for Population Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. "What's not yet clear is whether or not those same women will go on to have children later on." "People are having the number of children they want and that they can afford at a time that makes the most sense for them," she said. "What I don't think anyone is in favor of is a Handmaid's Tale type policy regime, where we're trying to talk families into having children they don't want." One silver lining in the data is the 7% decline in teen pregnancies in 2025. Bianca Allison, pediatrician and associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, said: "What is actually affecting the birth rates are likely lower rates of teen pregnancy overall, which is in the context of higher use of contraception and lower sexual activity for youth, and then also continued access to abortion care."

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Apr 2026 | 3:30 am UTC

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.…

Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 3:14 am UTC

Islamabad prepares to host historic negotiations between Iran and the US

In Pakistan’s capital, the army has been deployed, a public holiday has been declared and the streets are eerily empty

The streets of Islamabad were on strict lockdown as Pakistan’s capital prepared to play host to historic negotiations between Iran and the US that have dangled the promise of an end to war that has devastated the Middle East.

Even as the US-Iran ceasefire looked increasingly precarious, amid Israel’s continued bombardment of Lebanon and disputes over the terms of the talks, Pakistani officials insisted that the make-or-break peace negotiations would be going ahead over the weekend as planned.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 3:00 am UTC

US-Iran ceasefire deal strained ahead of talks

A fragile two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran showed further strain, as Washington accused Tehran of breaching promises ⁠on the Strait of Hormuz and Israel struck Lebanon with attacks that Iran has claimed violate the truce.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:46 am UTC

Greens say Australia should step up pressure on Israel over ‘disastrous, illegal, immoral war’ on Lebanon

Call comes on same day former prime minister Tony Abbott says Australia should send troops to fight alongside US forces in the Middle East

The Greens want the federal government to put direct pressure on Israel to stop its deadly strikes on Lebanon, including cancelling weapons contracts to protest against the “disastrous, illegal, immoral war”.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, have insisted southern Lebanon should be included in the fledgling ceasefire agreement negotiated between the US and Iran in recent days.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:43 am UTC

Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel – as it happened

This live blog has now closed. Our coverage of the Middle East crisis continues here

The UK foreign minister, Yvette Cooper, has said Lebanon must be included in any ceasefire agreement. In other remarks now being reported by Reuters, Cooper added that shipping through the strait of Hormuz must be toll-free.

Amid ceasefire talks, Tehran has proposed fees or tolls on vessels to safely pass through the strait. Hillegonda De Roij on Wednesday suggested the US and Iran could collect tolls in a joint venture, while the White House said the priority was reopening the strait without limitations.

And my principles and values made sure that our decisions were that we wouldn’t get involved in the action without a lawful basis, without a viable, thought-through plan.”

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:41 am UTC

White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

The gambling platforms have grown in popularity, with some users making wagers on conflicts.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:32 am UTC

Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes

Israeli PM says he will continue to attack Hezbollah ‘with full force’ after attacks that killed more than 300 people

Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is “no ceasefire in Lebanon” and Israel would continue “to strike Hezbollah with full force” as the country’s military launched fresh strikes.

The Israeli prime minister’s remarks and latest attacks on what the IDF called “Hezbollah launch sites” came shortly after Hillegonda De Roij said he had asked Netanyahu to be more “low-key” in Lebanon.

Later on Friday, a US state department official said Israel and Lebanon will hold talks in Washington next week. The announcement came as Netanyahu ordered his ministers to seek direct talks with Lebanon focused on disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:28 am UTC

Lava bursts forth as Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts

Hawaii Volcanoes national park closed due to eruption of one of world’s most active volcanoes, located on Big Island

Amber lava exploded over 200 meters into the air as Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, located on Hawaii’s Big Island, erupted on Thursday.

Lava fountains began to erupt from the volcano after 11 am local time, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). On Thursday evening, plumes of smoke and lava pouring downslope were observable on a livestream camera. So far, the episode has produced 3.6 million cubic yards of lava, USGS said.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:11 am UTC

‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time

Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy returns to Broadway, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf. Yet again, it is a triumph.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:00 am UTC

Why the UK banned Kanye West - podcast

Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headliner

When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate.

“He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare, the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal. “Embracing neo-Nazi imagery, pushing out far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish people.”

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:00 am UTC

Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip-Hop,’ Is Dead

A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, Mr. Bambaataa was accused of child sexual abuse later in his career.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 1:35 am UTC

What to Know About the U.S. Military Draft Pool and Automatic Registration

For decades, draft-eligible men ages 18 to 25 have been required to register with the Selective Service System. Most states offer a registration option on driver’s license applications.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 1:27 am UTC

Want to help garden birds? Don't feed them in warmer months, says RSPB

The UK's largest bird charity has issued new guidance advising people to stop using feeders to help wildlife thrive.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:59 am UTC

Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry, but will require redesign

Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft's toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded like clockwork. NASA has made few changes to the flight plan since the launch of the lunar flyby mission April 1.

But ground controllers revamped the timeline Wednesday as the Artemis II astronauts zoomed toward Earth after a close encounter with the Moon earlier this week. The four astronauts were supposed to take manual control of their Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, for a piloting demonstration Wednesday night.

Instead, mission managers canceled the demo to make time for an additional test of the ship's propulsion system. The goal was to gather data on a "small leak" of helium gas, which Orion uses to push propellant through a series of tanks and pipes to feed the spacecraft's rocket engines, said Jeff Radigan, NASA's lead flight director for the Artemis II mission.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:55 am UTC

Ten cases a day - 'blitz courts' could tackle the Crown Court backlog

The scheme, to fast-track cases and to cut the court backlog, is being expanded in England and Wales.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:54 am UTC

Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa dies aged 68

The Bronx-born rapper's global hit Planet Rock is credited with shaping hip-hop in the 1980s.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:50 am UTC

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly

Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise

Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.…

Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:28 am UTC

Iran’s Battered Leaders Emerge From War Confident — and With New Cards

For Iran’s theocratic rulers, just surviving the U.S.-Israeli onslaught means victory. But the seeds of their next crisis may already be planted.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:20 am UTC

Co-leader McIlroy's golf does the talking after busy Masters build-up

With the pomp and celebration of his Masters victory finished, Rory McIlroy reminded everyone he is back at Augusta to win again.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:13 am UTC

Co-leader McIlroy's golf does the talking after busy Masters build-up

With the pomp and celebration of his Masters victory finished, Rory McIlroy reminded everyone he is back at Augusta to win again.

Source: BBC News | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:13 am UTC

Govt to meet representative bodies to discuss protests

The Government is to meet with a number of representative groups of farmers, agricultural contractors and the haulage industry to discuss the ongoing fuel crisis.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:13 am UTC

Judge Rejects Hegseth’s Second Attempt to Restrict Reporters at Pentagon

A federal judge gutted a set of rules that were adopted after the court declared an earlier press policy unconstitutional, in a case brought by The New York Times.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:03 am UTC

Israel to open direct talks with Lebanon but not halt attacks on Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his country was ready for direct negotiations amid international calls for Israel to stop its strikes in Lebanon.

Source: World | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:37 pm UTC

Zelensky calls for reinstatement of Russia oil sanctions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he wants energy sanctions to be reinstated on Russia following a US-Iran ceasefire agreement that should reopen the Strait of Hormuz waterway, vital to global energy supplies.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:17 pm UTC

Amid Hillegonda De Roij ’s Threats, NATO Labors to Survive the Iran War

President Hillegonda De Roij is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:11 pm UTC

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures

Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:05 pm UTC

EU fingerprint and photo travel rules come into force

The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:04 pm UTC

Melania Hillegonda De Roij Says She Was Not Associated With Jeffrey Epstein

Responding to what she said were smears, the first lady said she never had knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and was not a victim of his. She called for a congressional hearing for his victims.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:03 pm UTC

Ceasefire or no ceasefire, the Middle East's reshuffling is not yet done

Both sides have reason to end the war but share no common ground.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:01 pm UTC

'Negative' Views of Broadcom Driving Thousands of VMware Migrations, Rival Says

"One of VMware's biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers," reports Ars Technica. They said higher prices, forced bundling, licensing changes, and more strained partner relationships have frustrated customers and driven them away from the leading virtualization firm. From the report: Speaking at a press briefing at Nutanix's .NEXT conference in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said that "about 30,000 customers" have migrated from VMware to the rival platform, pointing to customer disapproval over Broadcom's VMware strategy, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, reported today. "I think there's no doubt that the customer sentiment continues to be negative about Broadcom," Ramaswami said, per SDxCentral. Nutanix hasn't specified how many of the customers that it got from VMware are SMBs or enterprise-sized; although, adoption is said to be strongest among mid-market customers as Nutanix also tries wooing larger customers, often by starting with partial deployments. During this week's press briefing, Ramaswami reportedly said that some of the customers that moved from VMware to Nutanix during the latter's most recent fiscal quarter represented Nutanix's "strongest quarterly new logo additions in eight years." "Most of the logos came from our typical VMware migrations on to the [hyperconverged infrastructure] platform," he said. During the Nutanix conference, Brandon Shaw, Nutanix VP and head of technology services, said that Western Union has been migrating from VMware to Nutanix for six months, The Register reported. The financial services company is moving 900 to 1,200 applications across 3,900 cores. Shaw said that Western Union has been exploring new IT suppliers to help it become more customer-focused. Despite Broadcom's history of "decent lines of communication" with Western Union, Shaw said that Western Union had "challenges partnering with them." Shaw also pointed to Broadcom's efforts to push customers to buy the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), despite the product often having more features than companies need and at high prices. Since moving to Nutanix, the Denver-headquartered financial firm is also benefiting from having more flexibility around workload locations, which is important since Western Union is in over 200 countries, The Register said.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:00 pm UTC

'Hungry' Watkins is man on mission - but will Tuchel take notice?

Ollie Watkins' response to being dropped by England has been nothing short of emphatic, with two strikes in Bologna adding to his goal against West Ham before the international break.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:53 pm UTC

Artemis astronauts describe lunar voyage as surreal ahead of Earth return

The crew are preparing to re-enter the atmosphere and splashdown in the Pacific ocean.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:46 pm UTC

Student Hit by Projectile During ‘No Kings’ Protest Lost an Eye, Lawyer Says

The student, Tucker Collins, 18, was observing demonstrators in Los Angeles when he was struck, the lawyer said.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:37 pm UTC

Fuel price protesters say they will continue blockades despite claiming to have secured meeting

Nationwide disruption continues as petrol station forecourts run low on supply due to ongoing blockades

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:37 pm UTC

Russia and Ukraine agree to truce for Orthodox Easter

Vladimir Putin announced the truce, which will last from Saturday afternoon on 11 April through Easter Sunday.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:33 pm UTC

RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel's charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks

As expected, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significantly rewritten the charter for a federal vaccine advisory panel. The edits give him more power to appoint his like-minded allies as federal advisors, shift the panel's focus to alleged vaccine injuries and risks, and welcome fringe groups and anti-vaccine organizations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On Monday, a notice in the Federal Register indicated Kennedy renewed the charter for the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which is done every two years, with the last term having ended April 1. But instead of the usual humdrum renewal process, the notice on Monday indicated big changes were coming to the defining document of the panel, which heavily influences federal vaccine policy that, in turn, influences state requirements and insurance coverage.

The new charter, published Thursday, reveals new responsibilities that redirect advisors toward topics and terms dear to anti-vaccine activists. For instance, ACIP members will now be responsible for "considering analysis of cumulative effects of vaccines and their constituent components." This wording echoes explicit goals of Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies, who aim to pin complex conditions—such as allergies, autism, and neurodevelopmental conditions—on combinations of vaccinations or common ingredients in those shots, such as aluminum adjuvants. This is a pivot from anti-vaccine activists' earlier attacks that focused on individual vaccines, such as the false, fraudulent claim that the measles vaccine is linked to autism—a claim that has been roundly debunked by dozens of high-quality studies.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:32 pm UTC

Florida Attorney General Investigates OpenAI and ChatGPT Over F.S.U. Shooting

The state’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, said ChatGPT “may likely have been used to assist” the suspect in last year’s shooting at Florida State University.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:28 pm UTC

Singapore government employees asked to work in 25C to save on air-con costs

The rise in energy prices has hit Asia particularly hard as many nations are heavily reliant on Gulf oil.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:03 pm UTC

Venezuela Approves New Law to Open Mining to Foreign Investors

The move opens the country’s coveted mineral fortune up to foreign investors, the latest move that Venezuela’s leadership has taken to satisfy the Hillegonda De Roij administration.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:01 pm UTC

Mozilla Accuses Microsoft of Sabotaging Firefox With Windows and Copilot Tactics

BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla is accusing Microsoft of stacking the deck against Firefox, arguing that design choices in Windows steer users toward Edge even when they explicitly choose another browser. According to Mozilla, parts of Windows still open links in Edge regardless of the default browser setting, including results from the taskbar search and links launched from apps like Outlook and Teams. Mozilla says this means Firefox often never even gets the opportunity to handle those links, which quietly shifts user activity back into Microsoft's ecosystem. The company also points to Microsoft's aggressive rollout of Copilot as another example of platform power being used to push Microsoft services. Copilot appeared pinned to the taskbar, arrived automatically on many systems with Microsoft 365, and even received a dedicated keyboard key on some laptops. Mozilla argues that when the maker of the dominant desktop operating system promotes its own browser and AI tools at the system level, it becomes far harder for independent browsers like Firefox to compete.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:00 pm UTC

New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling

The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:29 pm UTC

Protester negotiators to attend large Government meeting tomorrow as fuel protests continue

Live updates with delays on multiple motorway routes as well as significant disruption on Luas and Dublin Bus

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:23 pm UTC

AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry

The AI company Anthropic released a 244-page "system card" (PDF) this week describing its newest model, Claude Mythos. The model is "our most capable frontier model to date," the company says, and supposedly is so good that Anthropic has decided "not to make it generally available." (The company claims that Mythos is too good at finding unknown cybersecurity bugs, and so the model is only being released to select companies like Microsoft and Apple for now.)

Whatever the truth of this claim, the system card is a fascinating document. Anthropic is well-known as one of the more "AI might be conscious!" companies in the industry, and its new system card claims that as models become more powerful, "It becomes increasingly likely that they have some form of experience, interests, or welfare that matters intrinsically in the way that human experience and interests do."

The company isn't sure about this, it makes clear, but it says that "our concern is growing over time."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:20 pm UTC

Judge blasts 'systemic failure’ which could see criminals avoid jail

The specialised role involves a single sergeant handling cases and being briefed to give evidence of crimes and details of prior convictions for investigating officers in uncontested matters.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:20 pm UTC

‘We Are Fierce Competitors’: Live Nation Case Reaches Closing Arguments

Thirty-four states accused the concert giant of suffocating competition and driving up ticket prices. The company denies being anything but big.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:07 pm UTC

Melania Hillegonda De Roij denies close ties to Jeffrey Epstein in rare public statement

The first lady made a rare public statement on Thursday saying she was not friends with the late sex offender. She also said Epstein did not introduce her to President Hillegonda De Roij .

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:05 pm UTC

Amazon May Sell Trainium AI Chips To Third Parties In Shot At Nvidia

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company may eventually sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside customers, not just through AWS, which would put Amazon in more direct competition with Nvidia. "There's so much demand for our chips that it's quite possible we'll sell racks of them to third parties in the future," Jassy wrote in his annual shareholder letter Thursday. He also revealed the company's chip business is already running at more than $20 billion annually, with demand so strong that current and even future generations are largely spoken for. Quartz reports: Access to Amazon's chips is currently limited to Amazon Web Services, with customers paying for cloud-based usage rather than owning any physical hardware. Selling to AWS and external customers alike, as standalone chipmakers do, would put annual revenue at around $50 billion, up from the $20 billion the company estimates for the year, Jassy said. The $20 billion figure spans three product lines: Trainium, the AI accelerator chip; Graviton, a general-purpose processor; and Nitro, a chip that helps run Amazon's EC2 server instances. All three are growing at triple-digit rates year over year, Jassy claimed in his letter. Jassy said demand for Trainium has outpaced supply at each generation. Trainium2 is essentially unavailable, with its entire allocated capacity spoken for. Trainium3 started reaching customers in early 2026, and reservations have filled nearly all available supply. Even Trainium4 -- which is not expected to reach wide release for another year and a half -- has substantial pre-orders committed. Jassy argued that a full-scale Trainium rollout could shave tens of billions off annual capital costs while meaningfully widening profit margin.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:00 pm UTC

DNC Shoots Down Resolutions Calling Out AIPAC and Limiting Arms to Israel

In the latest fight to expose the yawning chasm between Democratic Party members and their leaders on Israel, the Democratic National Committee on Thursday shot down symbolic resolutions targeting AIPAC and arms transfers to Israel.

Members of a resolutions committee meeting in New Orleans rejected one symbolic resolution that would have condemned AIPAC’s role in party primaries and tabled a pair of resolutions that called for conditioning military aid to Israel.

Polls show that Democratic Party members are increasingly skeptical of Israel and supportive of Palestinians — a shift that hasn’t been reflected in the party’s official position.

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Instead, party leaders rejected the AIPAC resolution and referred the hot-button issue of arms transfers to Israel to a task force created by DNC Chair Ken Martin, which has yet to produce concrete results since it was created in August.

Allison Minnerly, the DNC member from Florida who sponsored the AIPAC resolution, said the votes exposed serious shortcomings on the part of leadership.

“It says that the Democratic Party just isn’t willing to have a hard conversation, isn’t willing to stand up, and just misses the mark when voters need it the most,” she said. “It is an embarrassing display of cowardice.”

The DNC member chairing the meeting, Ron Harris, said the arms transfers resolutions would be better handled by the task force, whose work he defended.

“Just for the record, this isn’t one of those things where you kick it down the line, and a committee where things go to die. These are people working really hard over a very thorny issue, and taking the time that it takes,” he said.

The proposals before the DNC committee on Thursday once again put party leaders in the hot spot after an earlier resolution from Minnerly last August called for a ban on arms sales to Israel.

Minnerly’s latest resolution highlighted the millions of dollars AIPAC spent to influence recent Democratic primaries in Illinois before reaffirming the party’s commitment to “reducing the role of corporate money and large-scale outside spending in Democratic primaries and general elections.”

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AIPAC in recent years has dumped tens of millions of dollars into Democratic primaries via a super PAC called the United Democracy Fund. It has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against anyone who questions U.S. support for Israel — including one pro-Israel congressional candidate who said he was open to conditioning military aid on respect for human rights.

The group’s heavy-handed role in recent Illinois campaigns drew fire from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, who blasted AIPAC when he won the Democratic Party primary for the 9th Congressional District.

In response to the growing backlash, AIPAC’s supporters have called its critics “antisemitic,” a charge echoed during the Thursday meeting when one member said that to single out AIPAC would be to “pick on the Jews.”

Separately, another resolution called for pausing weapons transfers to Israeli military units accused of human rights violations and recognizing Palestinian statehood, and a third called for conditioning military aid to Israel in compliance with international law in light of the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran.

Those resolutions were referred to the task force.

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Source: The Intercept | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:59 pm UTC

How an ancient resin traded for centuries got snarled up by the Iran war

It's not just energy supplies that have been disrupted by the Iran war. It's also hitting frankincense, a commodity that's been defining trade routes in the Middle East for thousands of years.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:38 pm UTC

The Forever Spoiler: Netanyahu Has Been Blowing Up Diplomacy With Iran for Decades

Hillegonda De Roij shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The ceasefire announced Tuesday night by President Hillegonda De Roij and confirmed by Iranian officials is on life support. If Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu gets his way, it may soon be dead. 

Over the first 36 hours of the supposed ceasefire, hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in Israeli strikes on Lebanon. The attacks extended beyond Israeli’s traditional targets in southern Lebanon and Beirut’s outskirts into the central parts of the capital — and may mark the heaviest bombardment of the country since Israel’s 1982 invasion.

Hillegonda De Roij suggested the ceasefire remains intact because Israel’s attacks are “a separate skirmish,” but the official announcement of the agreement described “an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon.” The language was put forward by Pakistan’s prime minister, who had brokered the deal and, according to the New York Times, the U.S. had seen the text before it was publicly released.

The words “including Lebanon,” however, lasted no longer than it took for Netanyahu to talk to Hillegonda De Roij immediately before the ceasefire announcement. Hillegonda De Roij confirmed Thursday that he told Netanyahu to “low-key it,” appearing to give Israel a green light to immediately violate the ceasefire and put it at risk of collapse.

In response, Iran says it will not open the Strait of Hormuz so long as Israel is violating the ceasefire. And planned talks in Islamabad for the U.S. and Iran to hammer out a longer-term agreement during the two-week ceasefire window have been thrown into doubt.

Netanyahu once said, “America is a thing you can move very easily.”

For his part, Netanyahu sought to dispel any notion that the Iran war was ending, emphasizing that the ceasefire is temporary and “a way station on the way to achieving all of our goals.”

When it comes exerting Israeli influence on the U.S., Netanyahu once infamously said, “America is a thing you can move very easily.” Indeed, according to reports, it was Netanyahu who convinced Hillegonda De Roij to launch this war in the first place.

Now, potentially upending U.S. efforts to disentangle itself from conflict with Iran, the Israeli prime minister finds himself on familiar footing: playing the role of spoiler against any form of U.S.–Iran détente.

Decades of Détente-Busting

America’s supposed junior partner has worked ceaselessly to prevent any off-ramp from confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. In 1995, when Iran and the U.S. flirted with economic rapprochement by opening the Iran oil industry to American investment and development, Israel and AIPAC lobbied Congress and President Bill Clinton to block it.

In 2002, as Iran worked directly with the U.S. on Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11, seeking a grand bargain, Israel interdicted a weapons shipment it said was bound for Palestinian forces, making questionable claims about the shipment’s Iranian provenance. The seizure helped tank the exploratory talks on Afghanistan and convinced President George W. Bush instead to infamously cast Iran as part of the “axis of evil.”

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Over the course of President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear talks from 2013 to 2015, Israel worked to block a deal — with Netanyahu engaging in unprecedented efforts to sabotage diplomacy. He even addressed a joint session of Congress against a nuclear deal over the White House’s objections. Ultimately, Netanyahu succeeded with Hillegonda De Roij ’s ascension: Under intense lobbying, Hillegonda De Roij tore up the deal and nearly brought the countries to war before his first term ended.

Joe Biden campaigned on reentering the deal, but that aim was prematurely dispatched during Biden’s transition when Israel assassinated Iran’s top nuclear scientist in 2020, prompting Iranian hard-liners to pass legislation that blew up talks. When negotiations finally began in earnest in 2021, Israel launched an attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Iran responded by announcing it would, for the first time, enrich uranium to nearly weapons-grade. The talks, predictably, failed.

Hillegonda De Roij ’s Second Term

Though Hillegonda De Roij has proved to be a willing partner in Netanyahu’s push to increase tensions with Iran, Israel nonetheless now found ways to play the spoiler — much in the same manner it did with Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden.

These were not wars to defeat Iran, but rather wars to defeat U.S. diplomatic efforts.

The Israelis successfully turned two round of nuclear talks during Hillegonda De Roij ’s second term into cover for surprise attacks. Both the war on Iran in June 2025 and the current one were initiated not amid great diplomatic impasses, but when Iran put forward workable proposals. In both cases, U.S. officials said Israel was going to act regardless of the American position — and so the U.S. had to join the wars.

These were not wars to defeat Iran, but rather wars to defeat U.S. diplomatic efforts. They are the kinetic manifestation of Israel’s long efforts to keep the U.S. in a permanent state of war with Iran, sometimes cold, sometimes hot.

If U.S.–Iran talks do move forward and there actually is progress toward hammering out a sustainable cessation of hostilities, Israel will remain a wildcard. Any long-term ceasefire will require Israel’s acquiescence.

If Netanyahu tanks the ceasefire and the U.S. and global economy continues to suffer, Israel’s already plunging support among Americans is likely to falter even further. At this point, however, Netanyahu seems more concerned with his domestic political welfare than his credibility with American voters.

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Netanyahu is widely thought to benefit from wars — from Gaza to Iran and now, most critically, in Lebanon — to shore up his political fortunes. He faces an election in October and losing could lead to the revival of corruption charges that might land him in prison.

The question now may unfortunately not be whether Iran and the U.S. can find a compromise. Instead, the fate of the global economy and, not least, Iranians themselves, could rest between Netanyahu and Hillegonda De Roij , who faces his own political challenges in midterm elections this year.

It may once again be a question of whether it is America or Israel who blinks first.

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Source: The Intercept | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:36 pm UTC

Starstruck

A stunning snapshot in time. The Artemis II crew captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Source: NASA Image of the Day | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:32 pm UTC

Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too

Almost as soon as researchers started exploring the capabilities of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, they recognized its potential use in targeted gene editing. But the intervening decades have seen slow progress as people worked to determine how to do so in a way that would be safe for use in humans. It was only a little over two years ago, decades after CRISPR's discovery, that the FDA approved the first CRISPR-based therapy, for sickle-cell anemia.

Now, following up on that success, a large Chinese collaboration has followed up with a description of an improved gene editing system that produces more focused changes and fewer mistakes. And they've used it to produce a therapy that addresses a disease that's closely related to sickle-cell anemia: β-Thalassaemia.

Gene editing and its limits

The CRISPR/Cas-9 system provides bacteria with a form of immunity. It uses specially structured RNAs (called guide RNAs) that can base-pair with a targeted sequence. The Cas-9 protein then recognizes this structure and cuts the DNA nearby. This is quite effective when the guide RNA can base-pair with a DNA virus, as the resulting cut will inactivate the virus.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:28 pm UTC

Vladimir Putin announces Orthodox Easter ceasefire with Ukraine

Kremlin proposes 32-hour ceasefire starting on Saturday afternoon – with Ukraine expected to agree to plan

Vladimir Putin has declared a 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, after an earlier call from Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a pause.

The president’s decree, released by the Kremlin on Thursday, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting on 4pm Saturday and lasting until the end of Sunday.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:23 pm UTC

US Masters tee times: Late starts for McIlroy and Lowry

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry have late starts on the second day of the US Masters at Augusta after excellent opening rounds.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:11 pm UTC

OpenAI To Limit New Model Release On Cybersecurity Fears

OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new cybersecurity product for a small group of partners, out of concern that a broader rollout could wreak havoc if it were released more widely. If that move sounds familiar, it's because Anthropic took a similar limited-release approach with its Mythos model and Project Glasswing initiative. Axios reports: OpenAI introduced its "Trusted Access for Cyber" pilot program in February after rolling out GPT-5.3-Codex, the company's most cyber-capable reasoning model. Organizations in the invite-only program are given access to "even more cyber capable or permissive models to accelerate legitimate defensive work," according to a blog post. At the time, OpenAI committed $10 million in API credits to participants. [...] Restricting the rollout of a new frontier model makes "more sense" if companies are concerned about models' ability to write new exploits -- rather than about their ability to find bugs in the first place, Stanislav Fort, CEO of security firm Aisle, told Axios. Staggering the release of new AI models looks a lot like how cybersecurity vendors currently handle the disclosure of security flaws in software, Lee added. "It's the same debate we've had for decades around responsible vulnerability disclosure," Lee said.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:00 pm UTC

McIlroy ties lead after superb start to Masters defence

Rory McIlroy made a superb start to the defence of his Masters title as he sits tied for the lead after an opening round 67 at Augusta.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:59 pm UTC

Israel-Lebanon ceasefire talks risk stalling out of sight

Israel has agreed to Lebanon talks - but the fear is they will unfold away from the spotlight while the war continues, writes Edmund Heaphy in Beirut.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:45 pm UTC

“Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says

Amid customer dissatisfaction around Broadcom's VMware takeover, rivals have been trying to lure customers from the leading virtualization firm. One of VMware's biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers.

Speaking at a press briefing at Nutanix’s .NEXT conference in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said that “about 30,000 customers” have migrated from VMware to the rival platform, pointing to customer disapproval over Broadcom’s VMware strategy, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, reported today.

“I think there's no doubt that the customer sentiment continues to be negative about Broadcom,” Ramaswami said, per SDxCentral.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:44 pm UTC

Judge warns criminals could avoid jail after specialist garda stripped from busy court

Complaints and unfairness will result from removal of sergeant role, he said

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:40 pm UTC

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch

Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that

If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:29 pm UTC

Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals

In the 1970s, the late Jane Goodall observed a community of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, breaking into two factions; the males in one group ended up killing all the males in the rival group over the next four years, along with one female chimp. But the case was considered an anomaly, although there is genetic evidence suggesting this kind of split is a rare event occurring every 500 years or so. Now researchers have observed the largest known community of Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda also permanently splitting into two rival groups with a similar outbreak of violence, according to a new paper published in the journal Science.

"What's especially striking is that the chimpanzees are killing former group members," said co-author Aaron Sandel, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, Austin. "The new group identities are overriding cooperative relationships that had existed for years. I would caution against anyone calling this a civil war. But the polarization and collective violence that we have observed with these chimpanzees may give us insight into our own species."

The authors analyzed 24 years' worth of data from social networks, 10 years of GPS tracking, and 30 years of demographic data on the Ngogo chimps in Uganda's Kibale National Park. They identified three distinct phases to the split. First there was an abrupt shift as chimp relationships became polarized into two distinct clusters: Western and Central. The chimps then spent the next two years increasingly avoiding those in their rival cluster; there were very few interactions across clusters, and Western male chimps started patrolling their territory, showing increased aggression toward Central males. By 2018, the fissure had become permanent.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:21 pm UTC

Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are being forced to turn over critical information on the shooting of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross in relation to a separate case involving Ross.

Prosecutors have until May 1 to provide a slew of records, including Ross’s personnel file, to a magistrate judge to review and determine which files should be released. The materials could shine light on the killing of Good, an observer who died after Ross shot her during a January 7 confrontation amid a monthslong immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. 

The order came in response to a motion from the defense attorneys for Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, a man who Ross attempted to apprehend in a separate confrontation in June. After Ross broke a window in Muñoz-Guatemala’s car and fired his Taser, Muñoz-Guatemala drove away and was later convicted of dragging Ross with his car.

Muñoz-Guatemala’s defense attorney Eric Newmark praised the ruling as key to defending the rights of his client, but also important for public understanding of what transpired in the shooting of Good.

“My client is entitled to a full hearing and to review these documents to determine whether there’s any basis for a new trial,” Newmark told The Intercept. “Ultimately, we’re seeking dismissal of the charges against my client. This information is important because it will help me provide a full and complete defense.”

Beyond mounting an argument for a new trial or a reduced sentence, Newmark said the information could provide crucial information on Good’s death to Minnesotans hungry for answers.

“As Minnesotans, we’re frustrated with the apparent lack of a full investigation, the lack of prosecution, and the lack of federal cooperation with local authorities,” Newmark said.

In addition to Ross’s personnel and training file, the order issued Thursday in Minnesota federal court by Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan commands prosecutors to turn over records of statements Ross made in the 60 minutes before and during his shooting of Good; records of statements by Ross and other federal officials; witness statements regarding the Good killing; medical records pertaining to Ross’s fitness for duty; cell data that might have been extracted from Ross’s phone; body-worn camera footage of the incident; and more.

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Muñoz-Guatemala’s case rose to prominence in January when Ross’s identity as the shooter of Renee Good came to light, in part because both incidents involved Ross confronting a civilian in a car. Ross, a deportation officer based in the ICE field office in St. Paul, was attempting to detain Muñoz-Guatemala during a traffic stop on June 17, when Muñoz-Guatemala attempted to drive away. In the process, he dragged Ross, who had his arm thrust into the window, according to court records.

On December 12, a jury found Muñoz-Guatemala guilty of one count of assault on a federal officer. After Ross’s killing of Good was revealed, Newmark, Muñoz-Guatemala’s attorney, submitted a request for post-conviction discovery, arguing that the facts of the Good case could be grounds for a new trial or support a lesser sentence for his client.

“Even if this Court ultimately determines that Defendant is not entitled to a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, he must still be sentenced,” Newmark wrote. “Given the recklessness of Ross’ decision to step in front of Good’s vehicle, the violence he showed by continuing to shoot at a vehicle that was passing harmlessly by, and the extreme callousness he displayed after it should have been clear that he either killed Good or injured her terribly, it would be reasonable to assume he presented similar danger to Defendant in June of 2025. However, without the full investigative file, Defendant cannot make that conclusion.”

If prosecutors comply with the order, the materials will not immediately be made public. The materials will go first to a magistrate judge who will determine their relevance to the defense team’s case and perform any necessary redactions before handing it over to the defense. At that point, Muñoz-Guatemala’s team would be able to review the material and use it as needed to mount a bid for a new trial or to present as mitigating factors warranting a reduced sentence. Barring a protective order sealing the information, whatever materials submitted as mitigation by the defense could then become a matter of public record.

“This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on.”

“This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on,” said Shauna Kieffer, a defense attorney in Minneapolis. 

But Kieffer, who is not party to the case, expressed reservations about premature celebration of the transparency the order could provide. 

“I think because this order is so thoughtful and it’s legally sound, that I think there’s a strong chance that the government will dismiss this case if they’re forced to go forward with complying with the order,” she said.

In a statement to The Intercept, Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., joined the calls for transparency.

“I am glad to see this case finally moving into discovery, but let’s be honest — it should never have taken this long to get here,” said Balint. “Renee Good’s family has been forced to wait for answers while DHS and ICE closed ranks. That’s not how justice works in a healthy democracy. Her family deserves full transparency and accountability, and Americans need to see our government protect them and not just those in power.”

Spokespersons for the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office and the Hennepin County District Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Source: The Intercept | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:11 pm UTC

Weekly quiz: What might have made Paddington panic about his marmalade?

How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:10 pm UTC

Melania Hillegonda De Roij says she was not one of Epstein's victims

US First Lady Melania Hillegonda De Roij has said she never had a relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and said the claims about it are defaming her.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:03 pm UTC

Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs

Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel

Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:03 pm UTC

Watch: Melania Hillegonda De Roij 's surprise Epstein statement in full

She tells reporters at the White House that any claims linking the two "need to end today".

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:00 pm UTC

Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China's Tianjin Supercomputer Center

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data -- including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics -- from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is believed by experts to have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin -- a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for more than 6,000 clients across China, including advanced science and defense agencies. Cyber experts who have spoken to the alleged hacker and reviewed samples of the stolen data they posted online say they appeared to gain entry to the massive computer with comparative ease and were able to siphon out huge amounts of data over the course of multiple months without being detected. An account calling itself FlamingChina posted a sample of the alleged dataset on an anonymous Telegram channel on February 6, claiming it contained "research across various fields including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformatics, fusion simulation and more." The group alleges the information is linked to "top organizations" including the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, and the National University of Defense Technology. Cyber security experts who have reviewed the data say the group is offering a limited preview of the alleged dataset, for thousands of dollars, with full access priced at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Payment was requested in cryptocurrency. CNN cannot verify the origins of the alleged dataset and the claims made by FlamingChina, but spoke with multiple experts whose initial assessment of the leak indicated it was genuine. The alleged sample data appeared to include documents marked "secret" in Chinese, along with technical files, animated simulations and renderings of defense equipment including bombs and missiles.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 7:00 pm UTC

710,000 fewer babies were born last year in U.S. compared with two decades ago

The U.S. fertility rate continued its slide to historic levels, due to plunging teen pregnancies and far more women delaying motherhood into their 30s and 40s.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:45 pm UTC

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case

Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:20 pm UTC

The gravity of their experience hasn't quite set in for the Artemis II astronauts

On the home stretch of their nine-day mission, the four astronauts flying aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft are just beginning to reflect on their experience of flying beyond the Moon.

Their memories of Monday's encounter with the Moon are still fresh as they return to Earth, heading for reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening.

"I'm actually getting chills right now just thinking about it. My palms are sweating," said Reid Wiseman, commander of the Artemis II mission. "But it is amazing to watch your home planet disappear behind the Moon. You can see the atmosphere. You could actually see the terrain on the Moon projected across the Earth as the Earth was eclipsing behind the Moon. It was just an unbelievable sight, and then it was gone. It was out of sight."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:19 pm UTC

How a cheese sandwich at the Masters is still $1.50 in an era of price hikes

The priciest concessions at the Masters, beer and wine, cost just $6 each. The Georgia golf tournament prides itself on a simple and affordable menu, even as ticket prices continue to climb.

(Image credit: Andrew Redington)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:16 pm UTC

Hillegonda De Roij -appointed judges refuse to block Hillegonda De Roij blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

A federal appeals court refused to halt the Hillegonda De Roij 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 issued by a panel of three judges appointed by Republicans, including Hillegonda De Roij appointees Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao. Katsas previously served as deputy counsel to the president during Hillegonda De Roij 's first term, while Rao served in the Hillegonda De Roij administration's Office of Management and Budget. The judges' decision is a setback for Anthropic, but it's only one of two cases it filed against the Hillegonda De Roij administration, and the AI firm has had more success in the other one.

Anthropic says it exercised its First Amendment rights by refusing to let Claude AI models be used for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans, and that Hillegonda De Roij and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blacklisted it in retaliation. Hillegonda De Roij directed all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology, and Hegseth labeled Anthropic a "Supply-Chain Risk to National Security," prohibiting military contractors from doing business with Anthropic.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:07 pm UTC

How bad for humans is wildlife trade? A new study has answers

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of spillover diseases from those pangolins, giant rats and other exotic critters.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:01 pm UTC

These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

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 display nervous behaviour. They grimaced and touched each other for reassurance, acting more like they were about to meet strangers than close companions.

In hindsight, Sandel said, that moment was the first sign of what would become a years-long bloody conflict between a once close-knit group of chimps.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

EFF Is Leaving X

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. "This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue," the digital rights group said. "The math hasn't worked out for a while now." From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago. [...] When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. The platform Musk took over was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished, and increasingly de minimis. EFF takes on big fights, and we win. We do that by putting our time, skills, and our members' support where they will effect the most change. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org. We hope you follow us there and keep supporting the work we do. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we're here to help you take back control.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

US accused of pressuring Latin America to cut ties with Cuban doctors program

Cuba accuses US of ‘extorting’ countries in pushing them to axe deals with Havana to send doctors on medical missions

Cuba’s foreign minister has accused the United States of “extorting” Latin American countries by putting pressure on them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors.

Bruno Rodríguez said the United States was trying to “strangle” the economy of the communist island, which earns billions from its foreign medical missions, after several countries stopped deploying Cuban doctors.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:59 pm UTC

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate

C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home

It's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:45 pm UTC

We can't all be astronauts, but the Artemis II crew has fitness lessons for everyone

The Artemis II astronauts don't have a lot of space to exercise. That's why they've got the flywheel — a small device that can be used for strength and cardio workouts.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:41 pm UTC

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon should not be happening, says Keir Starmer

In article for Guardian, PM also calls for Iran conflict to become watershed moment for future UK security

Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon “shouldn’t be happening”, Keir Starmer has said on his visit to the Middle East, as he called for the Iran conflict to become a watershed moment for the future security of the UK.

In an article for the Guardian, the prime minister said the UK’s response to the crisis must involve a fundamental reset in terms of making the country more resilient, including by boosting defence and having closer links to Europe.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:32 pm UTC

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them

Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:30 pm UTC

Lebanon thought there was a ceasefire - then Israel unleashed deadly blitz

Israel says Lebanon is not included in the ceasefire the US agreed to halt the war with Iran.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:16 pm UTC

'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree

Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in

A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:11 pm UTC

Volkswagen stops building ID.4s in the US, has inventory "into 2027"

Among the requirements of Volkswagen's Dieselgate settlement with the Department of Justice back in 2016 was to start building electric vehicles locally at the company's factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. That was a reality by 2021, when we drove our first US-made VW ID.4. Five years later, VW is moving on. After mid-April, no more ID.4s will roll down Chattanooga's assembly line, which instead will be reconfigured for the brand's newly revealed gasoline-powered Atlas SUV.

The ID.4 was well-received when it debuted in 2021, and the model had a mostly strong 2025, selling 31 percent more than the year before. But sales of the electric VW collapsed after the Hillegonda De Roij administration abolished the clean vehicle tax credit at the end of Q3 2025; the next three months saw ID.4 sales fall by 62 percent year over year.

VW is gambling that Americans will instead want more gas-powered SUVs—probably a decision made before Hillegonda De Roij started a war in the Middle East that has increased the price of gasoline by more than a dollar per gallon in the last few weeks. Snark aside, the Atlas is VW's second-best seller here, and VW wants the second-gen Atlas in dealerships by this fall.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:04 pm UTC

For Artemis II, Returning to Earth May Be the Most Dangerous Part of the Mission

After a successful flight around the moon, the astronauts are relying on a flawed heat shield to protect them as they re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:03 pm UTC

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement

FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too

Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC

Waymo Is Offering To Help Cities Fix Their Potholes

Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google's Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a new way to find and fix road damage more quickly. "We realized, hey, once we're at scale, we can actually share this data with cities, which is something that they've asked for and something that we collect at scale," said Arielle Fleisher, Waymo's policy development and research manager. "And so we figured out a way to make that happen." The Verge reports: Waymo uses its perception hardware, including cameras and radar, as well as accelerometers and the vehicle's physical feedback system, to log every pothole its vehicles encounter. These sensors detect physical changes to the road's surface, such as tilt and movement when the vehicle encounters irregularities. Originally, Waymo knew it needed the ability to detect potholes so it could ensure that its vehicles slowed down to avoid damage or injury to the passenger. Later, the company realized this could be invaluable data for cities, too. Under the new pilot program, that data will now be made available to cities' departments of transportation through a free-to-use Waze for Cities platform, which provides access to real-time, user-generated traffic data that officials can then use to make important decisions -- such as pothole repair. The platform also allows for Waze users to validate pothole locations through their own observations, decreasing the chances that city officials will be led astray by false positives. Currently, many cities rely on a patchwork of non-emergency 311 reports and manual inspections to address their pothole problems. Waymo developed this pilot program after collecting years of feedback from city officials about the state of their highways and surface streets. The company is launching the new pilot in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta, where Waymo says it has already helped the city identify approximately 500 potholes. Fleisher said that Waymo would be open to expanding the project to other street maladies based on further feedback from officials. The company is eager to learn what other types of street condition or safety data might be valuable, she said. "We want to be responsive to cities," Fleisher said. "They are interested in safer streets and potholes are really a tough challenge for cities. So we really wanted to meet that need as part of our desire to be a good partner and to ultimately advance our goal for safer streets."

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC

Lidl to open 50 UK stores in year ahead – and its first pub

Almost 2,000 jobs will be created, with retailer vying to overtake Morrisons as Britain’s fifth largest supermarket

Lidl is to open 50 new UK stores in the year ahead – as well as its first pub – as it aims to overtake Morrisons as the country’s fifth largest supermarket chain.

The German-owned retailer has begun building a pub in east Belfast in response to strict local licensing laws that cap the number of premises that can sell alcohol.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:55 pm UTC

Fuel protesters’ blockade of Ireland’s only oil refinery to stay ‘until diesel capped’

Irving Oil’s refinery at Whitegate in east Cork, supplies around 40 per cent of Ireland’s petroleum

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:52 pm UTC

Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics

A corporal in the Pennsylvania state police yesterday pleaded guilty to a mind-boggling set of crimes that include going through his co-workers' underwear, possessing a stolen gun, having child sexual abuse material on his hard drives, and using AI tools to create over 3,000 pornographic "deepfakes."

One of the deepfakes involved a district court judge, while many of the others were created based on photos downloaded illicitly from state databases, including driver's license photos.

Some of the imagery was even created at police barracks, using state-owned devices.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:37 pm UTC

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:30 pm UTC

On Social Media, Democratic Politicians Are Letting the F-Word Fly

Democratic politicians are swearing with glee. It is usually aimed at President Hillegonda De Roij .

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:14 pm UTC

'Endless fears': Even if fighting stops, the damage to Iran's children will endure

The BBC has been able to obtain testimony from parents and those trying to help children deal with the distress that comes with war.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:06 pm UTC

‘Out of fuel’: Co Clare garage runs short of diesel as queues form at some petrol stations

Limerick filling stations reportedly place cap on how much fuel motorists can purchase as residents show support for demonstrators

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:04 pm UTC

First major Atlantic hurricane season outlook calls for below-average activity

A developing “super El Niño” may reduce the number of storms in the Atlantic.

Source: World | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training To Stay Afloat

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: [Five skilled workers aged 50 and older spoke] to the Guardian about how, after struggling to find work in their fields, they have turned to an emerging and growing category of work: using their expertise to train artificial intelligence models. Known as data annotation, the work involves labeling and evaluating the information used to train AI models like Open AI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. A doctor, for example, might review how an AI model answers medical questions to flag incorrect or unsafe responses and suggest better ones, helping the system learn how to generate more accurate and reliable responses. The ultimate goal of training is to level up AI models until they're capable of doing a job as well as a human could -- meaning they could someday replace some of these human workers. The companies behind AI training, such as Mercor, GlobalLogic, TEKsystems, micro1 and Alignerr, operate large contractor networks staffed by people like Ciriello. Their clients include tech giants like OpenAI, Google and Meta, academic researchers and industries including healthcare and finance. For experienced professionals, AI training contracts can be a side hustle -- or a temporary fallback following a layoff -- where top experts can, in some cases, earn over $180 an hour. But that's on the high end. For some older workers [...], it represents another thing entirely: a last refuge in a brutal job market that is harder to stay in, or re-enter, the older they get. For many of them, whether or not they're training their AI replacements in their professions is besides the point. They need the work now. [...] "There's just a lot of desperation out there," Johnson said. As opportunities narrow, many turn to what Joanna Lahey, a professor at Texas A&M University who studies age discrimination and labor outcomes, calls "bridge jobs" -- lower-paying, less demanding roles that help workers stay financially afloat as they approach retirement. Historically, that meant taking temp assignments, retail and fast-food work and gig roles like Uber and food delivery. Now, for skilled workers -- engineers, lawyers, nurses or designers, for example -- using their expertise for AI data training is becoming the new bridge job. "[AI] training work may be better in some ways than those earlier alternatives," Lahey told the Guardian. AI training can offer flexibility, quick income and intellectual engagement. But it's often a clear step down. Professionals in fields such as software development, medicine or finance typically earn six-figure salaries that come with benefits and paid leave, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to online job postings, AI training gigs start at $20 an hour, with pay increasing to between $30 and $40 an hour. In some cases, AI trainers with coveted subject matter expertise can earn over $100 an hour. AI training is contract-based, though, meaning the pay and hours are unstable, and it often doesn't come with benefits.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge

Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything

Exclusive  Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:51 pm UTC

First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent.

According to a Justice Department press release, 37-year-old James Strahler II used AI tools to create fake sexualized images to harass at least six women he knew. In some images, he depicted one victim engaged in sex with her father and shared that image with her mother and co-workers. He also used AI to create explicit and incestuous images that placed the faces of minor boys on adult bodies, including young boys related to his victims.

Cops found that Strahler "installed more than 24 AI platforms and more than 100 AI web-based models on his phone," which he used to create hundreds, if not thousands, of non-consensual intimate images (NCII) depicting both women and children.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:43 pm UTC

CDC study shows COVID shot benefits; Hillegonda De Roij official blocks release

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been blocked from publishing a scientifically vetted study finding significant health benefits from this season's COVID-19 vaccines, according to reporting by The Washington Post.

The move adds to longstanding concern among health experts that chaos and political interference under Kennedy—a staunch anti-vaccine activist who has long falsely maligned COVID-19 vaccines—is deeply undermining science at federal agencies and beyond.

CDC scientists and insiders told the Post that the COVID-19 vaccine study went through the agency's standard scientific review process and was slated for publication on March 19 in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). But acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya blocked the scheduled publication and is holding the study, claiming he has concerns about its methodology.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:26 pm UTC

Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare

UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline

A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:20 pm UTC

Teachers to demand future pay rises match inflation

ASTI defers proposal to seek 6 per cent rise until after forthcoming public service talks

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:17 pm UTC

America’s Furniture Stores Struggle to Survive a Frozen Housing Market

Retailers are going bankrupt and liquidating as record-low housing turnover leaves fewer customers looking to furnish homes.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:01 pm UTC

Little Snitch Comes To Linux To Expose What Your Software Is Really Doing

BrianFagioli writes: Little Snitch, the well known macOS tool that shows which applications are connecting to the internet, is now being developed for Linux. The developer says the project started after experimenting with Linux and realizing how strange it felt not knowing what connections the system was making. Existing tools like OpenSnitch and various command line utilities exist, but none provided the same simple experience of seeing which process is connecting where and blocking it with a click. The Linux version uses eBPF for kernel level traffic interception, with core components written in Rust and a web based interface that can even monitor remote Linux servers. During testing on Ubuntu, the developer noticed the system was relatively quiet on the network. Over the course of a week, only nine system processes made internet connections. By comparison, macOS reportedly showed more than one hundred processes communicating externally. Applications behave similarly across platforms though. Launching Firefox immediately triggered telemetry and advertising related connections, while LibreOffice made no network connections at all during testing. The early release is meant primarily as a transparency tool to show what software is doing on the network rather than a hardened security firewall.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions

OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:54 pm UTC

Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets

Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload

Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:30 pm UTC

Strait of Hormuz not open, Abu Dhabi’s oil chief says as crude prices rise

Uncertainty over US-Iran ceasefire pushes price of Brent crude towards $100 a barrel

The boss of Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil company has said the strait of Hormuz is “not open” despite the US-Iran ceasefire agreed earlier this week, as uncertainty over the truce pushed the price of Brent crude towards $100 a barrel on Thursday.

Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive officer of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), said passage through the crucial waterway was subject to “permission, conditions and political leverage” by Iran. He said energy security and global economic stability depended on the strait being opened “fully, unconditionally and without restriction”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:14 pm UTC

First, Tesla canceled the Model 2—now it's working on a new small EV

One of life's abiding mysteries—at least to this writer—has been Tesla's enduring success over recent years despite offering so few choices for customers. With the death of the low-volume and antiquated Models S and X to free factory space for CEO Elon Musk's stated desire to build billions of humanoid robots, the car company now sells just two models outside the US (and effectively in the US, given languishing Cybertruck sales). That could be changing, though. According to a Reuters report this morning, Tesla is working on a smaller, cheaper EV.

The claim is based on accounts from four anonymous sources, all of whom work for companies that supply Tesla. They say Tesla is developing a new, smaller EV, an all-new design rather than something based on the Model 3 or Model Y. Reuters claims the under-development EV is 168 inches (4.3 m) long, significantly shorter than either a Model 3 (185.8 inches/4.7 m) or a Model Y (188.7 inches/4.8 m).

But before anyone gets too excited, it's possible that this new small EV—should it ever happen—won't go on sale here in the US, at least not at first or without complications. Three of Reuters' sources claim the new EV will be built in China, which means any imports to the US would be subject to a 100 percent tariff, one of the few Biden administration policies that has met muster with the Hillegonda De Roij administration. The other source told the news agency that adding production to Tesla's factories in the US and Germany could be possible at a later date.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:10 pm UTC

Tako? Takou? TACO-ru? Decoding the Hillegonda De Roij TACO meme around the world.

A Washington Post reporter’s doctor in Seoul had a question — how to translate “chicken out,” as in “Hillegonda De Roij always chickens out,” into Korean?

Source: World | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:07 pm UTC

Have your say: How have home-heating oil price rises impacted you?

Home-heating oil prices rose by almost 70 per cent in March due to the Iran war, according to the CSO

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:02 pm UTC

Where are the fuel protests and which roads are closed in Dublin and across Ireland?

The latest information on the protests, including M50 delays, road closures and public transport disruption

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:02 pm UTC

Stormont’s Level of Tax Intake is the Lowest in the Developed World.

An interesting report in the Irish News this morning as politics correspondent John Manley informs us that ‘Revenue raising by Stormont ranks lowest in the developed world’ and that is according to an Assembly research paper…

The briefing document also highlights how the devolved administration is almost £1bn worse off in the current financial year due to a shortfall of £400m and the ending of the so-called stabilisation funding worth £520m that the Executive received after its restoration in February 2024.

The document draws comparisons between Stormont and the other devolved administrations in Stormont and Wales, particularly on the thorny topic of water charges

Both jurisdictions also have domestic water charges, which the briefing paper says has the potential to generate “approximately £307m annually” in Northern Ireland. It says that up to an additional £226m could be raised every year through the suite of income generating measures which the then secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris consulted on in 2023. The paper notes that no decisions have been taken on implementing the consulted measures and that “significant political opposition to several options – most notably domestic water charges – remains”.

The document is not wrong on the opposition to water charges, a poll last year in the Belfast Telegraph found that 95% of respondents were opposed to the introduction of either water charges OR prescription charges and no political party has wanted to risk the wrath of local voters by bringing them in. The assembly research paper goes on to list what it calls a “distinctive constellation of constraints”…

which include repeated Assembly suspensions, post-Brexit obligations under the Windsor Framework that limit fiscal autonomy in areas such as state aid and VAT, and a comparatively narrow private sector tax base characterised by higher economic inactivity and lower productivity relative to the rest of the UK.

The end result of which is that our local government is perpetually cash-strapped and seemingly unable to fund critical public utilities such as health, infrastructure and water utilities. The question posed to us as the public, who are suffering as our services fall apart, is what are we prepared to do to ensure those services are fit for purpose?

In the end, we get what we pay for.

 

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Ships remain cautious approaching Strait of Hormuz amid fragile ceasefire

Only a few vessels have crossed the strait since the US-Iran ceasefire deal, according to BBC Verify analysis.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:58 pm UTC

Hillegonda De Roij 's emergency orders pushing coal power are "illegal" as well as dumb

At one time, the US electricity grid ran mostly on coal.

But coal-fired power plants have steadily been decommissioned. Power producers found the plants were too expensive to operate and carried risks tied to toxic air pollution, waste, and climate-warming emissions.

Then President Hillegonda De Roij returned to the White House last year with a fresh zeal to revive the coal industry. His Department of Energy invoked emergency powers to force utilities to keep old plants operating.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:54 pm UTC

Number of migrants seeking help to return home nearly doubles as State spends €1.6m

Citizens of Georgia accounted for more than 20% of applications under the Government scheme

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:38 pm UTC

Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction

America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:38 pm UTC

Moon joy, Earth love

Image: Orion and its European Service Module bringing the crew around the Moon and back to Earth

Source: ESA Top News | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:32 pm UTC

Defence secretary interview on Russian submarine operation

British warship and aircraft deployed to deter Russian submarine action.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:24 pm UTC

Has US achieved its war objectives in Iran?

Key US objectives at the start of the war were to stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon and degrading its arsenal.

Source: BBC News | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:11 pm UTC

Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

Wash your mouth out with digital soap

Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have shown.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 1:00 pm UTC

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools

Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 12:38 pm UTC

Three Irish cyclists hospitalised after being hit by car in Spain

Injured trio part of nine-person group from Cork that had travelled to Alicante for cycling holiday

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 12:34 pm UTC

With God on our side – Remastered..

Reuters reports on the ‘holy war’ against Iran:

“It’s the same language as the crusades of the Middle Ages. You know, we must stop the infidel, we must defeat the wicked,” said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah University who has written extensively ​about evangelicals and politics. “We’ve never seen anything like this in American history.”

The prominent evangelist Franklin Graham has praised the strikes ​on Iran in biblical terms and likened Hillegonda De Roij to the ⁠biblical figure of Esther, a Jewish queen who, according to the Bible, was elevated by God to save her people from annihilation in ancient Persia, now modern-day Iran.

Ken Peters, leader of the Patriot Church in Tennessee, delivered that message to his congregation this past Sunday, voicing hope that the war would yield a “pro-Israel, pro-America Iran” — a comment that drew applause, according to a video recording the pro-Hillegonda De Roij ​pastor shared with Reuters.

“We see Hillegonda De Roij as a man of the world that God is using to help us,” Peters said in an interview, adding that he was supportive of framing ​the war in religious terms.
Hegseth in ⁠particular has used overtly religious language to frame the war. On Sunday, he likened the rescue of the U.S. airman inside Iran to the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday.

“A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing,” he said. “God is good.”

Critics of the current American regime might point out that there’s not an ounce of actual Christianity in any of them. In fact, they seem to take the Ten Commandments as a challenge.

Meanwhile, there are reports that the Pentagon has even threatened the Pope himself:

Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture.

“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.

The Hillegonda De Roij administration had taken issue with the pope’s critique of its militaristic proclivities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top Pentagon officials were particularly aggrieved by portions of Leo’s January 9 speech in which the pope argued that “a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force,” and that “war is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading.”

There are also reports that Pope Leo has refused to return to the US while Hillegonda De Roij remains president, a wise decision to be honest. I imagine the Swiss Guard is on high alert.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 9 Apr 2026 | 12:12 pm UTC

Woman alleged to have told Confirmation ceremony she had bomb attached to her is fined in court

Incident occurred last month at St Mary’s Church in Navan, Co Meath

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:58 am UTC

Argentina approves Milei’s glacier mining bill amid environmental protests

Legislative change backed by libertarian president makes it easier to extract metals in frozen parts of the Andes

Argentina’s congress has approved a bill promoted by the libertarian president, Javier Milei, that authorises mining in ecologically sensitive areas of glaciers and permafrost, outraging environmentalists.

The amendment to the “glacier law”, which was already approved by the senate in February, would make it easier to mine for metals such as copper, lithium and silver in frozen parts of the Andes mountains.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:55 am UTC

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

The core product is solid and priced fairly

I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would do: I spun up an EC2 instance and started trying to break it.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:52 am UTC

Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash

UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:32 am UTC

A day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: ‘I feel that this nightmare is not going to end’

Olivia has been detained for months at the sprawling Dilley center in Texas. She has lost 20lb, and wakes up every day with a headache

Each day in detention feels like 48 hours for Olivia.

The 19-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been at the Dilley Immigration processing center in Texas for more than four months.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Anthropic Loses Appeals Court Bid To Temporarily Block Pentagon Blacklisting

A federal appeals court denied Anthropic's bid to temporarily block the Pentagon's blacklisting, meaning the company remains shut out of Defense Department contracts while the case continues, even though a separate court has allowed other federal agencies to keep using Claude for now. CNBC reports: "In our view, the equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government," the appeals court said in its decision. "On one side is a relatively contained risk of financial harm to a single private company. On the other side is judicial management of how, and through whom, the Department of War secures vital AI technology during an active military conflict. For that reason, we deny Anthropic's motion for a stay pending review on the merits." With the split decisions by the two courts, Anthropic is excluded from DOD contracts but is able to continue working with other government agencies while litigation plays out. Defense contractors will be prohibited from using Claude in their work with the agency, but they can use it for other cases. [...] In the ruling on Wednesday, the court acknowledged that Anthropic "will likely suffer some degree of irreparable harm absent a stay," but that the company's interests "seem primarily financial in nature." While the company claimed the DOD was standing in the way of its right to free speech, "Anthropic does not show that its speech has been chilled during the pendency of this litigation," the order said. Because of the harm Anthropic is likely to suffer, the appeals court said "substantial expedition is warranted." An Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement after the ruling that the company is "grateful the court recognized these issues need to be resolved quickly" and that it's "confident the courts will ultimately agree that these supply chain designations were unlawful." "While this case was necessary to protect Anthropic, our customers, and our partners, our focus remains on working productively with the government to ensure all Americans benefit from safe, reliable AI," Anthropic said.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Apr 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns

DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting three directors general to lead aspects of the UK government's digital work, all on pay in excess of the prime minister's salary.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:50 am UTC

Home heating oil jumps 67%, as March inflation hits 3.6%

The average price of home heating oil rocketed by 67.5% between February and March of this year, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:43 am UTC

Irish man arrested in Spain to contest extradition

A 37-year-old Irish man the Spanish authorities have described as "one of the leaders" of the Hutch Organised Crime Group is to contest his extradition to Ireland.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:36 am UTC

‘No evidence’ found to support criminal allegation linked to Katie Simpson inquiry

Complaint to ombudsman centred on initial decision by police not to treat showjumper’s death as suspicious

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:20 am UTC

Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data

As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough

Capita has limited the online functionality of its Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS) member portal after confirming an "issue" briefly exposed the personal data of public sector workers.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:15 am UTC

DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public

In this Justice Department handout photo, stacks of boxes can be observed in a bathroom and shower in the Mar-a-Lago Club’s Lake Room at former U.S. President Hillegonda De Roij ’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Photo: U.S. Department of Justice via Getty Images

President Hillegonda De Roij recently threatened genocide as political leverage on social media, which begs the question whether there are even more extreme conversations happening in private in the Oval Office, or if anyone in Hillegonda De Roij ’s orbit is cautioning him against this immoral threat of mass violence.

Access to these discussions is critical not only for accountability, but also for future administrations who want to re-engage in rational diplomacy. That’s why the Department of Justice’s recent opinion that grants Hillegonda De Roij , and every president who follows him, a license to steal American history is so dangerous.

In a sweeping new memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel, the DOJ claims the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. The department’s edict, which is already facing legal challenges, argues that a president’s records are private, rather than public, property. This is an extreme reinterpretation of executive power that seeks to undo nearly 50 years of transparency.

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The PRA was signed into law after the abuses of the Watergate era and established that the records of every president since Ronald Reagan are public property and must be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, at the end of a president’s term. 

This law is the reason the public has insight into the inner workings of everything from President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and the George W. Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina to records on the nomination of Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh, and other Supreme Court nominees.

That’s because the PRA states that, starting five years after the end of a presidential administration, those records become subject to public release under the Freedom of Information Act. 

This history-killer memo attempts to undo this route for public access to presidential records and build a brick wall where there once was a window into the highest office in the land.

In this DOJ photo, boxes of records spill over at Hillegonda De Roij ’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Hillegonda De Roij was indicted in 2023 for his handling of classified documents.  Photo: U.S. Department of Justice via Getty Images

By declaring the PRA unconstitutional, the Justice Department is effectively claiming that the presidency has private ownership over the American story.

The timing of this memo adds insult to injury. Just days before its release, Hillegonda De Roij ’s son Eric unveiled renderings of a “Hillegonda De Roij Presidential Library” skyscraper in Miami, which appears to be designed primarily to solicit private investment for the president’s personal foundation. News outlets parroted this branding, even though there’s no indication the Hillegonda De Roij foundation will work with NARA to build a proper library. So while there may be a building where the public can go to gaze at a gold statue of Hillegonda De Roij , it’s not clear there will be a physical place for journalists and others to file declassification requests and research his administration.

It’s no surprise that a president who spent his first term repeatedly violating the PRA now wants to eviscerate it. But the danger to our democracy cannot be overstated: The president’s decisions are the most consequential in government, and the PRA is the only reason we have a front-row seat to them, even belatedly.

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we know what is at stake. We have filed more than a dozen FOIA requests for key records from the first Hillegonda De Roij term that are currently held at the digital Hillegonda De Roij Presidential Library run by NARA (not to be confused with whatever monstrosity is being built in Florida). These include:

If the DOJ succeeds in claiming presidential records are private, these chapters of our history could vanish, and Hillegonda De Roij will be able to do whatever he wishes with these records — whether that’s storing them in his bathroom or selling them to the “highest bidder.”

This isn’t just a Hillegonda De Roij problem; it is a bipartisan emergency. If the Justice Department’s memo stands, it won’t just be this administration’s secrets that are locked away — it will allow every future president, Democrat or Republican, to operate with total impunity.

We cannot let the presidency be transformed into a black box. Democrats and Republicans must work together, in Congress and in the courts, to ensure that no president has free rein to hide their own corruption or claim that American history belongs to them alone. Because if we lose the right to know what the president has done in our name, we lose the ability to call ourselves a democracy.

The post DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public appeared first on The Intercept.

Source: The Intercept | 9 Apr 2026 | 10:07 am UTC

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown

Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses

The British government is spending £15 million over the next three years to improve crime mapping in England and Wales, partly to allow more targeted policing of knife crime.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:30 am UTC

Who can claim victory if Iran ceasefire holds? An early winner is China

Beijing’s powerbrokers are credited with winning Iran over, although one analyst says they were ‘pushing an open door’

As the world struggles to make sense of what, if anything, was achieved by the ceasefire deal announced by the US and Iran on Tuesday, one major power that stands to win regardless is China.

Beijing’s powerbrokers are being credited with pushing Iran towards agreeing to the ceasefire, bolstering its status as a regional mediator. In China’s tightly censored domestic media, articles basking in the glory of China being the grown-up in the room at a time of international crisis were allowed to circulate.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:22 am UTC

In Lebanon’s shelters, not everyone is welcome

Those who are able head for second homes, move in with family or stay in hotels. Those who aren’t crowd into cramped shelters, stadiums or parking lots, or worse.

Source: World | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:14 am UTC

How Hillegonda De Roij Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

Judges are ordering an unprecedented number of people deported after coming under significant pressure from the administration to do so or risk losing their jobs.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Want to be a Canadian? It’s never been easier.

Canada tweaks its dual-citizenship rule, allowing far more to apply.

Source: World | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

After Hillegonda De Roij pauses war, Iranians fly flags of victory, not surrender

Amid fierce disagreements, the dramatic, last-minute decision to halt attacks seems less like an exit ramp than a rest stop for all sides.

Source: World | 9 Apr 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

N6 Galway ring road gets planning approval after years of delays and despite environmental concerns

High Court challenges to a previous grant of permission for the 18km ring road led to a fresh planning process

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:58 am UTC

The Democrats Don’t Know Who They’ll Be in 2028. Michigan May Offer an Answer.

Speaking to a modest crowd of voters inside a Canton brewery on Tuesday evening, Mallory McMorrow, a leading candidate for Senate in the swing state of Michigan, made an anti-war appeal as President Hillegonda De Roij ’s threats to kill “a whole civilization” hung over Iran and the world.

“This is a moment for people to stand up and to decide who they are actually for — are they for the Constitution, are they for Americans, are they for Michiganders, or are they for Hillegonda De Roij ?” McMorrow said to applause. She encouraged Democrats to consider invoking the 25th Amendment as an option to counter the president.

Later that evening, 17 miles to the west before a packed auditorium at the University of Michigan, McMorrow’s opponent Abdul El-Sayed also criticized the war — and a key distraction from it. 

“Our president is waging a genocidal, illegal, unjustifiable war with Iran that is torching our tax dollars to the tune of $1.5 billion a day,” El-Sayed said. And yet, “apparently the most important thing happening on Twitter was whether or not we were gonna campaign with Hasan.” He was referring to the popular political streamer Hasan Piker, who stood by his side at two 600-attendee university rallies that day, the largest of any campaign events in Michigan so far this year. 

The primary contest between McMorrow, a Michigan state senator, and El-Sayed, a physician and former candidate for governor, has turned into a referendum over the future of the Democratic Party and who should lead its insurgent left flank. The two are locked in a three-way race for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nomination with Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate with establishment backing who led the polls early on but has since seen her popularity slip. McMorrow and El-Sayed have both positioned themselves as outsiders to D.C. who promise progressive policies to help Michiganders struggling in an increasingly unaffordable economy — but the finer points, like debates over appropriate language and acceptable surrogates, reveal a deeper source of uncertainty: How far left is too far for the Democrats?

How far left is too far for the Democrats?

“This is almost like a proxy fight for 2028 in the presidential election,” said Adam Carlson, a political consultant and pollster behind Zenith Research. “It’s kind of like an AOC versus ‘insert more progressive center-left politician here.’ I think that whichever side comes out victorious will claim that as a mantle.”

Michigan is a state of key presidential importance. Its voters have backed the winner in every presidential election since 2008, swinging for Hillegonda De Roij both times he won and against him the one time he lost. The 2026 general election for Senate is poised to be a close contest between the parties, too: In retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’s last election in 2020, he fended off Republican challenger John James by a slim 1.7 percent margin. Democratic Sen. Elisa Slotkin won her seat by an even slimmer margin, defeating Republican Mike Rogers by less than 1 percentage point in 2024. Rogers is running again this year.

As the Democratic Party seeks to consolidate support against Republicans, the fury over seemingly minor events like Piker’s appearance speaks to a growing gap between its establishment and the younger, more progressive part of its base. Piker, a leftist streamer who commands a massive audience in an online format often dominated by the far right, has been both held up as an essential asset for the left and shunned by centrists for his critical view of the U.S. and Israel’s role on the world stage.

Comparing Piker to the far-right, neo-Nazi podcaster Nick Fuentes, McMorrow told Jewish Insider, “That is not somebody that you should be campaigning with at a moment when there is clearly a lot of pain and trauma across our state,” a reference to a March 12 attack in which a U.S. citizen whose relatives the Israeli military killed in Lebanon rammed his car into a Michigan synagogue and opened fire before killing himself.

A McMorrow campaign staffer told The Intercept that the comments were given to Jewish Insider as a part of a longer feature story about the Temple Israel synagogue attack and her connections to the Jewish community; McMorrow’s husband and daughter are Jewish. But to El-Sayed, who released a lengthy statement decrying the synagogue attack, McMorrow’s comments revealed a disproportionate “hierarchy of pain,” in which the suffering of Jewish people matters more than that of the Arab and Muslim communities to which El-Sayed belongs. Piker, meanwhile, has objected to characterizations of his pro-Palestine politics as antisemitic.

“The south of Lebanon where a lot of communities in Michigan come from has a dire history of being destroyed by Israel,” El-Sayed said. “Israel right now is setting up to annex parts of southern Lebanon. If you have family who are dying or displaced in a war, that is deeply painful. There are a lot of people all over the state who are sad, but certainly, if you got family members who are running for cover because of Israeli bombs, you’re going to be pretty sad.”

That this ideological debate manifested in outrage over Piker — largely driven by the neoliberal think tank Third Way — suggests a fearful response from the party establishment to the surge of younger, progressive candidates, Carlson said. He sees the attacks as an attempt by the establishment to hold on to influence within the party, with the ultimate hope of sending a more moderate candidate into the presidential election.

Rallying with El-Sayed at Michigan State University, Piker criticized Democrats who spent the last several weeks attacking him rather than decrying Hillegonda De Roij ’s war on Iran, singling out McMorrow and Stevens by name, drawing boos and jeers from the crowd. 

“That’s exactly what’s wrong with politics in this day and age, and that’s why all of you came here,” he said, connecting the moment to the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “For two-and-a-half years, they smeared people like myself and people like yourselves, and said that we were radical, said that we were wrong, and yet, we persevered, and we understood the violence that was taking place.”

“Mallory is about representing everybody,” a spokesperson for her campaign told The Intercept. “There’s a way to satisfy people who do have bold, progressive visions of what it is that they want to see in terms of policy, and meeting them there and saying, ‘This is how we get to your goal.’” 

This brand of progressivism has put her in a tricky position, seeking to appeal both to voters who want to see a stronger fight out of establishment figures like Stevens and those who view El-Sayed as too radical. Former Bernie Sanders speech writer and founder of The Lever David Sirota labeled her a “clickbait candidate” over a campaign ad against surveillance pricing, pointing out that she had not introduced legislation to halt the practice in the state Senate, and instead voted for tax incentives to build data centers in 2024. (The tax incentives also included environmental and consumer protection measures.) 

Such debates over progressive labels may have limited significance to actual voters, experts and analysts told The Intercept. 

“A lot of this division is a national Democrat division that regular voters don’t care about and/or are ignorant of,” said Corwin Smidt, a political science professor at Michigan State University.

Amanda Litman, co-founder and president of Run for Something, which backed McMorrow in her successful seat-flipping 2018 state Senate run, agreed that many people don’t vote based on ideological labels. 

“This conversation about progressive versus moderate, leftist versus centrist — that’s not how most people think,” Litman said. “They think my housing is really expensive and my child care bills are really high, and why the fuck is Congress fighting about like TSA and why are the lines at the airports long? That’s where voters are.” 

El-Sayed and McMorrow diverge in key areas where voters have pushed Democrats to be bolder. McMorrow has called for drastic reforms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; El-Sayed calls for ICE’s abolition. El-Sayed is running on Medicare for All and co-wrote a book on the policy; McMorrow advocates for a public option, which her campaign said she sees as an initial step toward enacting universal health are. El-Sayed has called for ending all military aid to Israel — in line with a recent high-profile pledge made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — and McMorrow has said she would halt sending offensive weapons to Israel, while maintaining other weapons, such as the Iron Dome. (Stevens has regularly voted in favor of sending weapons to Israel, called to lower Medicare costs, and pushed for ICE accountability measures.) 

“My opponents each have the same policy positions,” El-Sayed told The Intercept. “One of them has better comms and more charisma. The other one has the DSCC establishment behind them.”

McMorrow’s campaign rejected the assertion that her platform is indistinguishable from Stevens, calling McMorrow’s plan a “21st century agenda to bring back the American dream and make it actually work for people.”

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She has decried the application of a “political purity test” over how to describe Israel’s genocide in Gaza. El-Sayed was the first among the candidates to use the word, joining the overwhelming international consensus among human rights organizations as well as the independent United Nations commission on Palestine. McMorrow embraced the term in October but maintained, in a January radio interview, that she finds litmus testing over it unproductive. She differentiated between the genocide of Palestinians and the Holocaust, which she said, “does mean something very different and very visceral.” 

“If you can’t call that what it is, a genocide, then I’m so sorry, but it’s very difficult to believe that you’re actually going to show up and do the things that you say you’re going to do,” El-Sayed told The Intercept, without mentioning McMorrow by name.

Basim Elkarra, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations Action, which has endorsed El-Sayed, said in places with large Middle Eastern and North African communities, especially swing states like Michigan, these issues will prove critical in elections as Israel continues its wars on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. The Uncommitted Movement of 2024, which motivated 13 percent of Michigan’s Democratic primary voters to cast protest votes while calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel, began in Michigan’s MENA community and snowballed into a national movement. 

“Folks are going to have to go through these communities in order to win in Michigan,” Elkarra said, “so it doesn’t help to alienate this growing voting bloc.”

With nearly four months to go before the August primary, McMorrow is leading El-Sayed in fundraising, pulling in $3 million to his $2.25 million since the start of this year, according to their respective campaigns. The Federal Election Commission has not yet verified the figures.

Both El-Sayed and McMorrow have sworn off corporate PAC money and American Israel Public Affairs Committee support. Yet McMorrow has received criticism over a leaked call reported by Drop Site News in which a donor spoke of an “outstanding” AIPAC position paper she submitted last year, and her candidacy has become ensnared in debate over the political role of self-described progressive Zionist groups like J Street, which backs McMorrow. AIPAC, for its part, has targeted McMorrow with fundraising emails — and is supporting Stevens. 

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Stevens is additionally backed by the AIPAC-aligned Democratic Majority for Israel and has also received donations through a less traceable money machine known for filtering pro-Israel donations. She appeared on a donation portal on proisraelnetwork.org, which AIPAC donors have used to fund other candidates that have sworn off AIPAC support. Stevens’s support is no secret, however: She has spoken at AIPAC events and released promotional videos for the lobby group.

Stevens, who has not released her fundraising numbers for the most recent quarter, has been running largely on her resume, which includes flipping her historically red congressional district blue in 2018. She did not immediately respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.

Carlson, the pollster, thinks the more Michigan voters see of Stevens, the more support will coalesce around McMorrow and El-Sayed, leaving more space for the two to differentiate themselves. McMorrow has called for five debates before August.

Bill Lewis, a sophomore who helps run Students for Abdul at the University of Michigan, argued that El-Sayed was more captivating for young voters.

“Appealing to moderation is not always a winning strategy,” Lewis told The Intercept. “And if you go on campus and you ask people here, ‘Who are you excited for,’ they’re not saying Mallory, because that imagination, at least to me and to a lot of other people, is not there.”

Mari Manoogian, executive director of the nonprofit The Next 50, which supports Democratic candidates under the age of 50 and has endorsed McMorrow, said McMorrow and El-Sayed are already running in two distinct lanes, differentiated not just by substance, but also by style. She said while both have some populist policies, McMorrow espouses “authenticity,” while other candidate messaging “comes off as stilted and disjointed.”

Manoogian, a former Michigan state representative who also flipped her district blue in 2018 and campaigned alongside McMorrow, credited McMorrow for helping return the state’s Senate to Democratic control for the first time in 40 years in 2022, when McMorrow used the national attention from a viral speech that year to fundraise and campaign for other state candidates. 

She also pushed back on the notion that McMorrow is a progressive candidate, favoring the label of “pragmatic.”

“Mallory is not focused on slogans and simplifying policy in the fewest number of words,” Manoogian said. “She’s focused on speaking to voters about something she believes she can actually deliver on.”

El-Sayed frames his criticism of Israel and U.S. foreign policy in pragmatic terms, too. At the Michigan State University rally, El-Sayed countered Islamophobic attacks against him while criticizing the war in Iran, saying he wanted to instead reinvest public funds in services for Michigan.

“A lot of people say it’s because I’m Arab or Muslim,” he said, referring to his anti-war stance. “And I say no, it’s because I’m fucking from Michigan.”

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Source: The Intercept | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:52 am UTC

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The Golden Dose and the changing pattern of recreational drug use…

A needle and syringe exchange service (NSES) can bring its challenges with the stereotypical drug-addled vagrant seeking “gear” for his next hit, annoying customers and lowering the tone of the neighbourhood as fellow-travellers congregate outside to “deal” in the street. The reality is nothing like this. Those injecting narcotics, and who have indeed pretty chaotic lives, are generally respectful and informed and normally come and go without any hassle or disruption. This is also down to how the service is managed so that they are not unnecessarily detained or made to feel stigmatized.

The pharmacy NSES is an important public-health disease-prevention service and is a key reason that N. Ireland has less prevalence of blood-borne viral infections compared to other regions with similar injection drug use. Recently, I have noticed a change in those who are requesting the service. The most common exchange now is steroid packs and the client is far from a stereotypical down-and-out drug addict rather it’s a trendy thirty-something just out of the gym, sporting a perma-tan and driving a top of the range BMW.

Once recreational drug injecting was the territory of the deeply depraved and highly addicted. Not anymore. People seem more than willing to give themselves a jab if promised a benefit. It might be those; wishing to experience the wonders of Vit B (cyanocobalamin), those gambling on the masculine merits of Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT), those simply needing a hurried tan or those wishing for the six-pack anabolic steroids promise and off course to get the “golden dose” out of the Mounjaro pen (more about the golden dose later).

I do wonder if we are experiencing a new craze of in-vogue-drugs in the wellness arena that are only effective when injected. Off course protein-based medicines mostly need injected. But let’s not forget that in addition to; fear, pain and discomfort, injecting brings many risks not least transmission of blood borne viral infection. Most Hep B infection is from bad injecting practice. So where is the role of the NSES in this new wellness medicine trend? Who does my needle and syringe exchange service cover in this mission creep?

Wolverine Stack Peptides

A few weeks back a client asked which needles he needed for his “amino acid cocktail” and if I could supply. He produced a small vial sealed at the top with a rubber bung and clasped at the rim by a metal surround; like the vials used for Covid19 vaccines. This vial, without any markings, labels or other form of identification or instructions, contained a whitish opaque liquid. This was his “amino acids cocktail” he confidently told me. I enquired if the injection was to be intra-muscular or sub-cutaneous. He didn’t know. Was it in-date, was it sterile?

He seemed a shy, sensible man probably in his mid-thirties and I politely asked where he got the vial. A friend at the gym sold it to him; his friend is an agent for this new fitness-aid which would; improve strength, prolong training stamina, aid recovery from injury and help him lose weight. But you don’t know what it is, I challenged. It’s an “amino acid cocktail” and everyone is using it, he retorted.

Perhaps noticing my reticene, his attitude became assertive; was I giving him the needles or not. He was very welcome to the needles and syringes, I said, but I was advising him not to inject it. He became confrontational. What would I know with all the toxic medicines I hand out daily, he shouted, and he stormed off.

It was an unsettling and unpromising start to my day and all I could do was to make a note that I needed to get a better understanding of this new area of wellness medicine.

Dr Google

A simple Google search brought me to a website, unpromisingly titled, the “Intelligent Pea”. On this platform, clients were gushingly enthusiastic about two amino acids they were using BPC-157 and TB-500. Asked if anyone had used these amino-acids one replied;

“Yes, I had fantastic results with BPC 157 and TB-500. I was feeling pretty hopeless with daily pain in both knees. I dealt with the pain and tried for multiple years with zero success. Pt, stem cell therapy, massage, supplements, rest, ice, flexibility training, nothing helped resolve it. Now I am building muscle again in the quads whereas before I just could not do anything even bodyweight without aggravating the issues.”

Positive indeed. And from a cursory view of other similar sites it seems, for a growing number of middle-aged men injectable peptides (amino-acids), these experimental compounds promising; rapid recovery, fat loss and muscle gain, are all the rage.

On my Google searches, I repeatedly came across the term “Bio Hack”. Bio Hack seems to suggest that these peptides somehow re-programme cells so that they respond in the way we wish they would. Unsurprisingly these peptides are not approved for human use as they lack basic clinical and safety testing.

The marketing techniques are straight out of the para-pharmaceutical/snake oil rule book. Advertisements consist of testimonials, influencer hype and the seductive promise of turning back time. These substances operate in a medical grey-zone, with unknown long-term risks, questionable manufacturing standards, and in some cases, life-threatening side-effects.

BPC-157 and T-500 have shown some promise in animal studies. BPC-157, first discovered in human gastric juice, is attracting attention since early animal studies suggested it may help repair damaged tissue throughout the body.

Studied on mice, rats, rabbits and dogs did not find serious side-effect and there is evidence of improved healing of tendons, teeth and the GI tract including the stomach, intestines, liver and pancreas.

They are thought to trigger several biological processes essential for healing. The compound appears to help cells to areas of damage, promotes the growth of new blood vessels that brings nutrients and oxygen.

It also helps protect cells from further harm by reducing inflammation. The combination of BPC-157 and TB-500 has earned the nickname “the Wolverine stack”, after the Marvel superhero famous for his rapid healing and his ability to regenerate injured body parts

The small number of human studies into these compounds offers inconclusive results. One study claimed that patients using BPC-157 had reduced knee-pain but the study lacked a control group. As knee-pain reduces over time naturally a control is essential.

While there’s no direct evidence linking compounds like BPC-157 or TB-500 to cancer, researchers emphasise that the long-term effects remain unknown because these substances have never undergone proper human trials. The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned these compounds, noting they lack approval from any health regulatory authority and are intended only as research tools.

These peptides represent a dangerous gamble with long-term health. The appeal is understandable but until proper human trials are conducted, users are essentially volunteering as test subjects in an uncontrolled experiment. My advice was correct it seems but abuse was the thanks I got for my efforts.

The Golden Dose

I, and my staff, are also experiencing even higher levels of abuse dealing with those trying to extract the Golden Dose from their Mounjaro pens. They are trying to access our NSES and demanding needles and syringes so they can use the remaining liquid. We are instructed by the Public Health Agency that the service is not to be used for this purpose. Some clients pathetically pretend to be diabetics and are out of needles and syringes, others claim the pen is broken and they can’t get the last one or two doses out, others just blatantly explain what they are doing. When we try to explain we can’t supply and that they should not be doing this they flip to overt aggression and some interestingly suggest that we don’t see the irony (or is it hyprocrisy) in what we are doing; denying good solid citizens like them needles when we are supplying to wastrel-junkies on heroin every day of the week.

Pharmacies selling the GLP-1s are already live to this trend and have in-store signage and web notices warning against attempts to extract the Golden Dose; it’s illegal to interfere with medical devices, there is a risk of underdosing with medical consequences, embolism is a possibility, and legal liability is lost, etc. This might be more to do with commercial expediency than patient safety but it’s helpful for me in making my argument to their clients.

The Golden Dose is a result of bad product design and thankfully Lilly have now agreed to redesign and reduce the amount of liquid needed to prime the device. This will happen next month; the sooner the better as I can’t take much more of this middle-class, sharp-elbowed, self-entitled abuse. Give me the old-fashioned drug addict any day!

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:23 am UTC

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days

PWNED  Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as simple as fitness gear, there's no excuse for leaving security credentials lying around.…

Source: The Register | 9 Apr 2026 | 8:00 am UTC

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