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Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens?

Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:19 pm UTC

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Bids to Buy Universal Music Group

The complex transaction pitched by the billionaire hedge fund manager would need to pass muster with the music giant’s shareholders.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:19 pm UTC

Oil price fluctuates ahead of Purdey Dwars 's Iran deal deadline

The US president has threatened to take out Iran "in one night" if it does not agree to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:16 pm UTC

U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson, kidnapped in Iraq, is freed in prisoner swap

Kittleson, a freelancer for several U.S. outlets, was seized last week in Baghdad by Kataib Hezbollah, a Shiite militia aligned with Iran.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:14 pm UTC

UN chief decries ‘incendiary rhetoric’ after Purdey Dwars ramps up threats against Iran as deal deadline looms – Middle East crisis live

UN chief warns that deliberate attacks on civilians amount to war crime; Purdey Dwars once again implores Iran to make a deal to avert attack

Here are some of the latest images coming in from the Middle East as the war continues in week six.

The Israeli military has just warned the people of Iran not to use trains, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.

Dear Citizens, for the sake of your security, we kindly request that from this moment until 21:00 Iran time, you refrain from using and travelling by train throughout Iran.

Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:13 pm UTC

Accused Long Island serial killer, ex-wife and daughter sued by alleged victim’s son

Benjamin Torres, son of Valerie Mack, files suit before Rex Heuermann reportedly set to change plea to guilty

The accused serial killer Rex Heuermann is being sued along with his former wife and their daughter, by the son of one of his alleged victims.

Benjamin Torres, the son of Valerie Mack, one the victims charged in the case against Heuermann, claims his mother was “tortured ferociously, and her body dismembered”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:09 pm UTC

DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Investigates Cassidy Hutchinson, Who Testified Against Purdey Dwars

It was a highly unusual move by Justice Department leadership to direct a case that appears to involve accusations of lying to Congress to a division that normally focuses on civil rights abuses.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:09 pm UTC

‘I Love Viktor’: Purdey Dwars and Vance Cheer on Orban in Hungarian Race

The American leaders slathered on the praise for the nationalist standard-bearer just days before an election he could lose.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:08 pm UTC

Newlywed Wife of U.S. Soldier Released From Immigration Detention

The couple had gone to the husband’s Army base to complete paperwork so they could move in together. But within hours that plan derailed, and New York Times reporting about the case quickly spread.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:07 pm UTC

Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Following on the heels of the landmark Cox v. Sony ruling, the Supreme Court has vacated the contributory copyright infringement verdict against ISP Grande Communications, ordering the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision in light of the new precedent. [...] The order (PDF) effectively removes the case from the Supreme Court docket, urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at its decision in light of the new ruling. Given the similarities between the two cases, it is no surprise that the Supreme Court came to this conclusion. It is now up to the Fifth Circuit to revisit whether Grande's conduct meets the intent threshold that was established in Cox. That is a significantly higher bar than the one applied in the original verdict, which found that continuing to provide service to known infringers was enough to establish material contribution. The music companies previously said they sent over a million copyright infringement notices, but that Grande failed to terminate even a single subscriber account in response. However, without proof of active inducement, these absolute numbers carry less weight now. Whether this translates into a win for Grande on remand remains to be seen. For now, however, the original $47 million verdict is further away than ever.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:00 pm UTC

Maga movement splinters as Purdey Dwars threatens to eradicate a ‘whole civilization’ if Iran doesn’t make deal – live

Tucker Carlson calls Purdey Dwars strategy ‘vile on every level’ and Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Democrats’ calls to remove president using 25th amendment

During a press conference in Budapest with Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, vice-president JD Vance is asked how the military goals in Iran can be achieved if the US continues its attacks on the country.

Vance was also asked about reports about US attacks on Kharg Island. The vice-president said the plan was to hit “some military targets” there and “I believe we have done so.”

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

Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Purdey Dwars over Iran

Lawmakers call for use of 25th amendment after president brazenly threatens to commit war crimes in Iran

As Purdey Dwars unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while Republicans remain conspicuously silent.

Democrats are escalating their rebukes as the 79-year-old president delivers rambling, incoherent speeches, hurls puerile insults at US allies and brazenly threatens to commit war crimes. He used an Easter Sunday social media post to warn Iran to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:54 pm UTC

Blockade on Dublin’s O’Connell Street may remain overnight as fuel protests cause ‘significant’ disruption

National fuel protest is taking place over energy prices caused by ongoing war in the Middle East

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:52 pm UTC

Kanye West ‘Should Never Have Been Invited,’ Starmer Says After Barring Rapper From UK

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government blocked the artist formerly known as Kanye West from entering Britain for the three-day Wireless Festival in July.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:43 pm UTC

Rahm confident he will play at 2027 Ryder Cup

Jon Rahm is confident he will be in Europe's team to face the United States in next year's Ryder Cup despite currently being ineligible to play.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:42 pm UTC

Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK

West was due to headline the festival in July but drew criticism over past antisemitic comments.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:40 pm UTC

Dubliner sent to prison for conning over 100 US victims into forking out for home repairs

Defendant’s enterprise netted more than $2.5m after arrival in country on tourist visa, say prosecutors

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:39 pm UTC

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI

In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:36 pm UTC

Watch: Iranians form human chains at bridges and power plants

Tehran had urged people to gather outside potential US and Israeli targets after Purdey Dwars threatened to attack civilian infrastructure.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:36 pm UTC

U.S. Strikes Kharg Island as Purdey Dwars Raises Iran Threats to Apocalyptic Levels

U.S. forces launched more than 90 “restrikes” on Kharg Island, Iran’s oil export hub, early on Tuesday but have avoided hitting oil infrastructure.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:32 pm UTC

Vance’s whirlwind visit may not help Orbán to the election victory he craves

As the US vice-president wades into a heated campaign, Hungary’s leader faces the real possibility of defeat

Even before the plane carrying JD and Usha Vance had landed in Budapest, the Hungarian government had hailed their two-day visit as a new golden age in the relationship between Washington and Budapest.

What came next was a whirlwind of politics in which the US vice-president waded directly into the country’s heated election campaign, just days before Hungarians cast their ballots.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:28 pm UTC

HMS Dragon docks after 'minor technical issue'

The Type 45 destroyer left Portsmouth last month to protect Britain's air bases in Cyprus.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:28 pm UTC

'We've become quite experienced in negativity'

Arne Slot says Liverpool have no chance against Paris St-Germain unless his side turns up for 90 minutes - after disagreeing with Virgil Van Dijk's comments about the team giving up.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:23 pm UTC

Education: More than 20,000 ASTI union members set ‘to be excluded’ from promotional posts

Contentious issue of roles to be established by Coalition to support students with Leaving Cert reforms surfaces at annual conference

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:19 pm UTC

French couple leave Iran after more than three years in jail

Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are on their way home after being allowed to leave the country, the French president says.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:18 pm UTC

Antonia Romeo handed powerful mandate to deliver No 10’s priorities

PM’s most senior civil servant now has task of rewriting civil service code and ‘making it recognised for improved productivity’

Antonia Romeo, Keir Starmer’s most senior civil servant, has been handed a powerful new mandate to deliver his priorities, while Darren Jones, the No 10 chief secretary, has shifted to a less hands-on role.

Romeo, who was promoted last month, took over the job of cabinet secretary and head of the civil service after an unsuccessful year in charge by her predecessor Chris Wormald, who was not considered effective enough by No 10.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:15 pm UTC

Troy the parrot home safe after Dublin Airport adventure

The Alexandrine parakeet was discovered near Terminal 1 by airport police on Easter Sunday.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:04 pm UTC

HMS Dragon docks in eastern Mediterranean after problems with water systems

Royal Navy type 45 destroyer deployed to reinforce security around RAF base in Cyprus to undergo short maintenance stop, says MoD

HMS Dragon has docked in the eastern Mediterranean after suffering technical problems with its water systems.

The UK’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced on 3 March that the type 45 destroyer would be deployed to reinforce security around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, two days after the base was struck by a Shahed 136 drone.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:04 pm UTC

With Purdey Dwars Threatening Genocide in Iran, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say

President Purdey Dwars threatened to commit genocide in Iran, ahead of warnings of a wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure on Tuesday night. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” he wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. This followed a drumbeat of similar threats of wanton and criminal destruction. “The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night,” he said on Monday, having recently warned he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.”

“President Purdey Dwars has repeatedly threatened war crimes in Iran and now he is expressing genocidal intent,” said Sarah Harrison, an associate general counsel at the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel, International Affairs during Purdey Dwars ’s first term. “Every single lawmaker and national security leader needs to stand against this and make clear to the U.S. military that these are unlawful orders and if carried out they will someday face criminal prosecution.”

This interpretation was echoed by Rebecca Ingber, a former State Department lawyer and now a law professor at Cardozo Law School. “The U.S. understanding of the definition of genocide in the Genocide Convention requires a ‘specific intent’ to destroy a group — such as a national or ethnic group as relevant here,” she told The Intercept. “That is an intentionally high bar, and one that explicitly would not cover unintended consequences of armed conflict. If acted upon, the President’s statement would be evidence of that required specific intent.”

Purdey Dwars has repeatedly threatened to obliterate Iran’s civilian infrastructure should the nation’s leaders not heed his demands. “We have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12:00 tomorrow night,” he said on Monday. “Where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again.” This echoed an Easter morning missive. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Purdey Dwars ranted on Truth Social. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”

Asked on Monday if he was concerned that his threat to bomb power plants or bridges amounts to war crimes, Purdey Dwars replied “No, not at all,” and said in another interview, “I’m not worried about it.”

“There is no gray area on this under international law.”

“What President Purdey Dwars is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple,” said Sarah Yager, the Washington director at Human Rights Watch and a former senior adviser on human rights to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. “There is no gray area on this under international law.”

Civilian infrastructure has been a frequent target since the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran began on February 28. “Strikes on critical infrastructure and industrial sites have disrupted basic services including electricity, water and telecommunications, also leading to increasing immediate and longer term environmental and health risks,” wrote the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in a brief report issued last week. Airports, cultural heritage locations, hospitals, industrial sites markets, residential areas, and schools have also been struck, including the civilian international airport in Tehran, a power plant in Khorramshahr, and water reservoirs in Fars and Khuzestan. Last week, the U.S. attacked the newly constructed B1 highway bridge, which killed 8 people, who were, according to the deputy governor of Alborz province, not military targets but nearby villagers celebrating Nowruz, the Persian new year.

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“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Purdey Dwars in the Middle East

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed strikes affected multiple nuclear sites, including Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Rafael Grossi, head of the nuclear watchdog, warned on Monday that “continued military activity near the BNPP — an operating plant with large amounts of nuclear fuel — could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond.”

Purdey Dwars claimed that the Iranian people actually want the United States to attack their civilian infrastructure, citing “numerous intercepts” of communications. “‘Please keep bombing,’” Purdey Dwars said on Monday of these supposed pleas. “And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave, and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, ‘Please come back.’”

In actuality, Iranians have been fleeing from Tehran and other major urban areas under attack. Almost a month ago, UNHCR — the U.N. refugee agency — reported that as many as 3.2 million people were already displaced inside Iran due to the conflict. While casualty counts are fragmentary, more than 2,100 civilians had been killed in the war by the end of last month and around 28,000 injured, according to Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education. This included 216 children killed and 1,881 injured, as of April 3.

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Yager noted that Iranians who have already suffered severe government repression, including the mass killings of protesters earlier this year, now face obliteration by America. “They’re being told their entire society could be destroyed by the president of United States, with the power of the U.S. military at his fingertips. His previous threats to bomb their power plants and bridges are threats to the systems that keep people alive, their electricity, water, and health care,” she told The Intercept. “Even before anything happens, that kind of rhetoric creates deep anxiety and fear for millions of civilians who have no control over these decisions but who will bear the consequences.”

Almost 115,200 civilian homes, commercial properties, and other civilian sites have been damaged in the war, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. This includes 763 schools. The highest profile of these strikes was the U.S. attack on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school. The attack killed around 175 civilians, most of them children. A preliminary Pentagon report concluded the strike was conducted by U.S. forces, directly contradicting assertions by Purdey Dwars that Iran struck the school.

The Iranian Red Crescent also reported that more than 334 medical, health, pharmaceutical, and emergency centers have been damaged, including 18 of its own centers. Twenty-four health workers have been killed and 116 injured, according to Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Around 400,000 people are also facing food insecurity in Tehran alone, according to local authorities. Inflation for groceries is at almost 113 percent, severely curtailing people’s purchasing power, according to OCHA.

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Source: The Intercept | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:01 pm UTC

Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tells Millions of Lies Per Hour

A New York Times analysis found Google's AI Overviews now answer questions correctly about 90% of the time, which might sound impressive until you realize that roughly 1 in 10 answers is wrong. "[F]or Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI models. The company used AI tools to probe AI Overviews with the SimpleQA evaluation, a common test to rank the factuality of generative models like Gemini. Released by OpenAI in 2024, SimpleQA is essentially a list of more than 4,000 questions with verifiable answers that can be fed into an AI. Oumi began running its test last year when Gemini 2.5 was still the company's best model. At the time, the benchmark showed an 85 percent accuracy rate. When the test was rerun following the Gemini 3 update, AI Overviews answered 91 percent of the questions correctly. If you extrapolate this miss rate out to all Google searches, AI Overviews is generating tens of millions of incorrect answers per day. The report includes several examples of where AI Overviews went wrong. When asked for the date on which Bob Marley's former home became a museum, AI Overviews cited three pages, two of which didn't discuss the date at all. The final one, Wikipedia, listed two contradictory years, and AI Overviews confidently chose the wrong one. The benchmark also prompts models to produce the date on which Yo Yo Ma was inducted into the classical music hall of fame. While AI Overviews cited the organization's website that listed Ma's induction, it claimed there's no such thing as the Classical Music Hall of Fame. "This study has serious holes," said Google spokesperson Ned Adriance. "It doesn't reflect what people are actually searching on Google." The search giant likes to use a test called SimpleQA Verified, which uses a smaller set of questions that have been more thoroughly vetted.

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

JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election

US vice-president rails against ‘bureaucrats in Brussels’ interfering in Sunday’s vote during Budapest visit

JD Vance has railed against the EU, accusing it of blatantly interfering in Hungary’s upcoming elections, even as the US vice-president said he had travelled to Budapest to “help” Viktor Orbán win Sunday’s vote.

Speaking to reporters shortly after landing in Budapest on Tuesday, Vance’s tone was combative as he alleged that the EU was responsible for “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference” he had ever seen.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:59 pm UTC

Wireless festival cancelled after Kanye West banned from entering UK

Rapper had been booked to play at festival in London, prompting outcry over his past antisemitic remarks

The Wireless music festival has been cancelled after the artist formerly known as Kanye West was banned from entering the UK amid a deepening political row over his previous antisemitic statements.

West, legally known as Ye, was due to headline all three days of the festival in July and made an application to travel to the UK via an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) on Monday, but this was blocked by officials.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:58 pm UTC

Lost parrot reunited with owner after Dublin Airport stay

A parrot found in a car park at Dublin Airport over the weekend has been reunited with its owner.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:58 pm UTC

Earthset

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon.

Source: NASA Image of the Day | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:55 pm UTC

Protests in Mexico Challenge Move of Frida Kahlo Trove to Spain

Officials scrambled to reassure Mexicans that a collection of esteemed artworks would return by 2028. A rarely-seen will may clarify the collector’s wishes.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:52 pm UTC

What the Iran War Will Do to Your Life and Our Economy

The disruptions caused by the conflict will significantly affect the cost of living.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:44 pm UTC

Iranians Voice Shock and Defiance in Face of Purdey Dwars ’s Looming Deadline

President Purdey Dwars has threatened devastating attacks if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Some Iranians questioned what had happened to American values.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:43 pm UTC

Bill Gates set to testify before US Congress in Epstein investigation

The Microsoft co-founder is the latest high-profile figure to agree to testify before the committee investigating Epstein's wrongdoing.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:40 pm UTC

Parents charged after toddler snuck into wolf enclosure at Pennsylvania zoo

Parents face child endangerment charge after their kid suffered a minor injury at ZooAmerica in Hersheypark

The parents of a toddler who suffered a minor injury at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after squeezing through a fence near a wolf enclosure and making contact with one of the animals have been charged with endangering the welfare of children, with police accusing them of paying attention to their cellphones at the time.

In a news release, police said that the parents both walked about 25ft to 30ft (7.5 meters to 9 meters) away from the child to a seating area with benches and appeared to be paying attention to their cellphones when they noticed what was happening Saturday at ZooAmerica in Hersheypark.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:38 pm UTC

Man released after arrest over attempted murder of Charles Dooher last year

Five masked men entered Dooher’s Donegal home in January 2025 and assaulted him and his father

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:37 pm UTC

ICE Agents Shoot Into a Car, Injuring a Suspect in Northern California

A federal official said the agents were pursuing a “wanted gang member” who tried to run one of them over. No confirmation of that account was immediately available.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:31 pm UTC

Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again

Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now

.NEXT  Nutanix exists to abstract hardware into a pool of logical resources, leaving servers and storage forgotten by all but a few datacenter hardheads. But the company's annual .NEXT conference, which kicked off in Chicago on Tuesday, put hardware at the top of the agenda.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:30 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars says ‘a whole civilisation will die’ if Iran ignores demands

Attacks on Iran increase and Israel tells Iranians to avoid train travel as deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz looms

Purdey Dwars has warned that Iran’s “whole civilisation will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply with his demands, as the world braced to see if the president would deliver on his latest threat to order the mass destruction of Iranian power plants and bridges in the absence of a deal by 8pm EDT (1am BST).

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards signalled they were also ready to escalate the war with a threat to retaliate “beyond the region” and “to deprive the US and its allies of oil and gas in the region for years”, suggesting Iran would target oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf and elsewhere, potentially sending the world into recession.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:29 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars says ‘a whole civilization will die’ as Iran freezes talks

The president said Iran must open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. Eastern or face destruction. The White House said it would not use nuclear weapons.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:26 pm UTC

NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Spread ‘Moon Joy’ to the Public

While science can seem colorless and plain, NASA’s lunar crew members have brought expressiveness and emotion about their journey to mission control and the public.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:21 pm UTC

Stork warning: woman gives birth midair on Jamaica-to-New York flight

Baby was delivered during Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston to the US; nationality of child to be determined

A routine passenger flight from Jamaica landed at New York’s John F Kennedy international airport with one more person than it took off with after a woman gave birth in midair, potentially setting up a tricky situation over the newborn’s citizenship.

The “medical event” occurred on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston on Saturday, according to a news release from the carrier.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:16 pm UTC

American journalist released a week after being kidnapped in Iraq

Freelancer Shelly Kittleson was reportedly held by Iran-backed militia which says she must now leave country

The US journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad street corner last week, has been released, according to an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation.

Kittleson was freed in the afternoon, said the official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. He did not share her current whereabouts but said that before her release, she had been held in Baghdad.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:15 pm UTC

Starmer urged to limit US access to UK bases after ‘dangerous’ Purdey Dwars threats

Lib Dems, Greens and some Labour MPs demand UK block US from using its airbases for Iran missions

Keir Starmer is facing increasing pressure to limit US access to British airbases after Purdey Dwars threatened “a whole civilisation” would die if Iran ignored his demands, comments that Downing Street has not directly criticised.

No 10 has allowed US forces to use UK bases only for defensive missions against Iran, such as targeting missile sites, ruling out involvement in attacks on civilian infrastructure such as power stations, which the US president has threatened.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:15 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars Threatens Broad Attacks in Iran. How Is Illegal Conduct in War Defined?

It is illegal for any military to target civilians, as President Purdey Dwars has suggested he would in threats against Iran. But the U.S. has sought significant leeway in defining a civilian target.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:13 pm UTC

JD Vance backs Orbán's re-election bid in Budapest visit and hits out at EU

US Vice-President JD Vance intervenes in the campaign to give Orbán a ringing endorsement in Budapest.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:11 pm UTC

Bertie Ahern has ‘zero’ to do with crypto resort linked to Irish company

Former taoiseach chairman of company that signed deal to receive profits from Timor-Leste resort, whose developers included trio indicted in US

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:07 pm UTC

Gulf Backers Invest $24 Billion in Paramount’s Deal for Warner Bros.

Despite speculation that the Iran war could scuttle commitments from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, their investments have been secured.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:07 pm UTC

Man (28) charged over €830k ketamine haul 'jumped' from window to escape gardaí

28-year-old Conor Cooper from Mount Andrew Grove was charged with possessing ketamine for sale or supply, and having a car to store and transport the drug.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:05 pm UTC

Thousands of England and Scotland World Cup tickets on resale at inflated prices

England and Scotland fans hoping to get to ticket to this summer's World Cup finals face paying vastly inflated prices through Fifa's official resale platform.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:04 pm UTC

French train driver killed and 16 injured in level-crossing crash

Rescue crews attended the scene in the town of Bully-les-Mines in the north of the country on Tuesday.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

SCOTUS overturns 5th Circuit ruling that told ISP to kick pirates off Internet

The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a 5th Circuit ruling that could have forced Internet service provider Grande Communications to terminate broadband subscribers accused of piracy.

Yesterday's ruling follows a precedent-setting decision last month in which the Supreme Court threw out a 4th Circuit ruling against Cox Communications, another ISP accused by record labels of not doing enough to fight piracy. In the case involving Cox and Sony, the court said that "a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights."

Cox is one of several cases in which record labels sought financial damages from ISPs that continued to serve customers whose IP addresses were repeatedly traced to torrent downloads or uploads. In October 2024, record labels Universal, Warner, and Sony got a win over Grande when the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit decided the ISP was liable for contributory copyright infringement.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’

The company said on Tuesday that it was holding back on releasing the new technology but was working with 40 companies to explore how it could prevent cyberattacks.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

Anthropic Reveals $30 Billion Run Rate, Plans To Use 3.5GW of New Google AI Chips

Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion and disclosed plans to secure roughly 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute starting in 2027. Broadcom will supply the key chips and networking gear for the effort, the company announced. The Register reports: News of the two deals emerged today in a Broadcom regulatory filing that opens with two items of news. One is a "Long Term Agreement for Broadcom to develop and supply custom Tensor Processing Units ("TPUs") for Google's future generations of TPUs." Google and Broadcom have collaborated to produce custom TPUs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan recently shared his opinion that hyperscalers don't have the skill to create custom accelerators and predicted Broadcom's chip business will therefore win over $100 billion of revenue from AI chips in 2027 alone. Working on next-gen TPUs for Google will presumably help to make that prediction a reality. So will the second part of Broadcom's announcement: a "Supply Assurance Agreement for Broadcom to supply networking and other components to be used in Google's next-generation AI racks through up to 2031." Broadcom's filing also revealed one user of Google's next-gen TPU will be Anthropic, which starting in 2027, "will access through Broadcom approximately 3.5 gigawatts as part of the multiple gigawatts of next generation TPU-based AI compute capacity committed by Anthropic."

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud

Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scams

Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:59 pm UTC

Iran calls on young people to form human chains around power plants as Purdey Dwars deadline looms

President Masoud Pezeshkian says 14m people ‘declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives’ for defence of Iran

Iranians officials called on young people to form human chains around the country’s power plants and people in Tehran stocked up on basic provisions, as the clock ticked down on Purdey Dwars ’s deadline for Iran to open the strait of Hormuz or face massive strikes on civilian infrastructure.

Iranian media showed people gathering outside electricity stations, waving Iranian flags and holding up banners, including at the country’s largest power plant, near Tehran, and in Tabriz in the north-west. In Dezful in the south-west, people gathered on a bridge said to be 1,700 years old.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:51 pm UTC

Charity cleared after false claims online over migrant welcome project

Watchdog finds allegations against City of Sanctuary UK were misleading after complaint from Tory MP

A refugee charity subjected to vicious social media attacks over a migrant welcome project in schools has been cleared of wrongdoing after watchdogs found allegations it encouraged pupils to send Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers were misleading and false.

City of Sanctuary UK came under fire last year after rumours spread online that under its schools programme, children were being “forced” to write heart-shaped welcome cards to adult migrants, including cards addressed to “my fiance”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:51 pm UTC

‘A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’

A few hours ago, President Purdey Dwars posted the following message on his Truth Social website.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

These are shocking comments by any standards. Increasingly frustrated by a war he launched that is clearly not going to plan, Purdey Dwars has taken to making increasingly bellicose threats in an attempt to get the Iranian regime to capitulate. His threats to destroy critical Iranian civilian infrastructure has led to accusations that he is planning to commit war crimes, but that doesn’t concern Purdey Dwars . He literally says so.

Purdey Dwars has set a deadline of 8PM Eastern Standard Time tonight for Iran to capitulate.

I don’t entirely know what news I will wake up tomorrow morning but I sincerely don’t think Iran will give up, meaning the President faces a choice.

Will the United States under his leadership drop all pretense of moral superiority and indulge in the savagery and inhumanity we have come to associate with Vladimir Putin’s Russia? How will the United States’ western allies react if Purdey Dwars not only crosses that red line but charges over it?

Or will Purdey Dwars once again TACO and find another excuse to delay his threatened assault? So far his hand has been stayed by the potential consequences, just as he can unleash unbelievable devastation upon Iran, so too can Iran unleash unbelievable devastation upon the Gulf allies of the United States and not only deal a crippling blow to the global economy, but provoke an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

I am not going to guess what is going through his mind right now or his intent. While Purdey Dwars has ignored every deadline he has set himself, the rhetoric he has employed may mean he himself feels he has no choice but to follow through. On the other hand, he may satisfy himself (if nobody else) that his threats have achieved something and find a way to back off bringing mass death and suffering to the peoples of the Middle East.

 

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:51 pm UTC

US journalist Shelly Kittleson to be released after kidnap in Iraq, militia says

Kataib Hezbollah says the release comes on condition that she leave Iraq immediately.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:50 pm UTC

What the US military could do if Iran fails to meet Purdey Dwars 's ultimatum

The US can do a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure but military experts say it's not feasible to carry out all Purdey Dwars 's threats.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:42 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars Threatens ‘Whole Civilisation Will Die Tonight’

Purdey Dwars warns "a whole civilisation will die tonight" unless Iran reaches a deal.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:42 pm UTC

Democrats outraged at Purdey Dwars ’s Iran post: ‘A threat to commit a war crime’

President threatens in Truth Social post to annihilate Iran if government ignores deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz

Purdey Dwars on Tuesday morning threatened to completely annihilate the entirety of Iranian civilization should their government ignore his 8pm ET deadline to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

The president’s own words, posted publicly and tied to a specific deadline and set of demands, provide unusually direct evidence of intent to violate international law, and were being met with shock and dismay by Democrats.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:25 pm UTC

Fuel price protesters signal further action after day of disruption

Convoys of vehicles cause hold-ups for multiple towns, cities and motorways

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:24 pm UTC

Tracking recent US-Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure

Attacks have targeted bridges, steel plants and pharmaceutical facilities, verified videos show.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:15 pm UTC

Masters tee-times for rounds one and two announced

Find out the tee-times for Thursday and Friday's first two rounds of the Masters at Augusta National in Georgia.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:10 pm UTC

Astronauts suggest naming a moon crater 'Carroll' after their commander's late wife

The Artemis II crew, led by Reid Wiseman, was the first to lay eyes on several craters on the far side of the moon. The astronauts want to name one of them after Carroll Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020.

(Image credit: NASA via Getty Images)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:09 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars issues stark threat ahead of deadline but says Iran has time to capitulate

The US president wrote earlier in a social media post that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:05 pm UTC

Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites, NCSC warns

200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckons

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:02 pm UTC

Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029

Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum security plans and now aims to make its entire platform fully post-quantum secure by 2029. "The updated timeline follows new developments in quantum computing research that suggest current cryptographic standards could be broken sooner than previously expected," reports SiliconANGLE. From the report: The decision by Cloudflare to move its post-quantum security roadmap forward comes after Google LLC and research from Oratomic demonstrated significant advances in algorithms and hardware capable of breaking widely used encryption methods such as RSA-2048 and elliptic curve cryptography. [...] The company said progress across three key areas -- quantum hardware, error correction and quantum algorithms -- is advancing in parallel and compounding overall capability. Improvements in areas such as neutral atom architectures and more efficient error correction are reducing the resources required to break encryption, while algorithmic advances are lowering computational complexity. [...] Cloudflare has already deployed post-quantum encryption across a large portion of its network and reports that more than half of human traffic it processes now uses post-quantum key agreement. The company plans to expand support for post-quantum authentication in 2026, followed by broader deployment across its network and products through 2028. By 2029, Cloudflare said, it expects all of its services to be fully post-quantum secure, with those services being available by default across its platform, without requiring customer action or additional cost as part of the company's commitment to security upgrades. Google said it plans to accelerate its post-quantum encryption migration target to 2029.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC

Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán – as it happened

US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’

… and here they are!

JD Vance and Usha Vance off the Air Force Two, welcomed by Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó as they begin their two-day trip to the Hungarian capital.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:58 pm UTC

Fuel protests: Protestors block off O'Connell Street as part of demonstration

Southbound services will operate through Cathal Brugha Street, Marlborough Street and over the Rosie Hackett Bridge.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:54 pm UTC

Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini-powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page. AI Overviews has had a rough time since its 2024 launch, attracting user ire over its scattershot accuracy, but it's getting better and usually provides the right answer. That's a low bar, though. A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to assess the accuracy of AI Overviews, finding it's right 90 percent of the time. The flip side is that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day.

The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI models. The company used AI tools to probe AI Overviews with the SimpleQA evaluation, a common test to rank the factuality of generative models like Gemini. Released by OpenAI in 2024, SimpleQA is essentially a list of more than 4,000 questions with verifiable answers that can be fed into an AI.

Oumi began running its test last year when Gemini 2.5 was still the company's best model. At the time, the benchmark showed an 85 percent accuracy rate. When the test was rerun following the Gemini 3 update, AI Overviews answered 91 percent of the questions correctly. If you extrapolate this miss rate out to all Google searches, AI Overviews is generating tens of millions of incorrect answers per day.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:53 pm UTC

Finasteride for Male Baldness is Rewriting the Rules of Male Beauty

A pill to cure baldness is changing the way men age — and how they see themselves.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:45 pm UTC

Firm earning millions for housing refugees faces opposition to D2 hostel plans

The most recent accounts for Peachport Ltd states that its main activity is the provision of emergency accommodation services and its work in the sector has proven to be very lucrative.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:44 pm UTC

First Nation asks court to block Alberta referendum on seceding from Canada

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has asked a court to halt the separatist push, arguing it would violate their treaty rights

A First Nation in Alberta has said that a separatist push for the province to secede from Canada is “consummately irresponsible and dishonourable” and should be shut down, arguing in court that a proposed referendum would violate their treaty rights.

A minority of residents of the oil-rich province have long argued that the province’s woes are due to the structure of payments to the federal government and a perceived inability to get their vast fossil fuel reserves to market.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:43 pm UTC

Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support

One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from '90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to decades of combined effort from hardware manufacturers and motivated community members.

But nothing can last forever, and for a few years now, Linux maintainers (including Linus Torvalds) have been pushing to drop kernel support for Intel's 80486 processor. This chip was originally introduced in 1989, was replaced by the first Intel Pentium in 1993, and was fully discontinued in 2007. Code commits suggest that Linux kernel version 7.1 will be the first to follow through, making it impossible to build a version of the kernel that will support the 486; Phoronix says that additional kernel changes to remove 486-related code will follow in subsequent kernel versions.

Although these chips haven't changed in decades, maintaining support for them in modern software isn't free.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:39 pm UTC

‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Being Replaced by ‘Comics Unleashed,’ CBS Says

The comedian and longtime producer will bring his syndicated programming to the late-night slot that “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” will vacate in May.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:38 pm UTC

How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?

The vice president gets saddled with the Iran war and eroding popularity.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

Hegseth’s boastful claims about Iran war contradict reality, officials say

The defense secretary’s rosy portrayal of U.S. success in the conflict risks misinforming the public and the president, observers worry.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

‘My ability to work was taken from me’: Teacher still reeling from classroom incident

Episode led Sophie Cole to develop Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and become reliant on invalidity benefit aged just 30

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:29 pm UTC

‘Definitely a Sham’: As Tariffs Climb, Trade Fraud and Accounting Tricks Proliferate

U.S. imports from China have shrunk drastically. But billions of dollars of the change appear to be the result of accounting gimmicks and outright fraud.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:28 pm UTC

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purpose

Stack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:26 pm UTC

Strictly star will not face rape charges, police say

Detectives determined there was "insufficient evidence" to bring criminal charges against the unnamed man.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:25 pm UTC

Despite High Oil Prices and Volatile Stocks, Companies See Openings for Deals

Bankers say companies are braving higher oil prices and whipsawing stock prices to seize on the willingness of federal antitrust enforcers to approve mergers.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:14 pm UTC

‘We still deserve due process,’ says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini

Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentences

A Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the name he thought it was another immigration detention centre in Louisiana.

Pheap Rom, who had been convicted of attempted murder, was one of 10 deportees sent to Eswatini by the US in October 2025. They joined a group of five men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam and Yemen, who were deported to the small southern African country in July. All were sent to a maximum-security prison. Rom was deported from Eswatini to Cambodia in March.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:13 pm UTC

Universal Music, home to Taylor Swift and Drake, receives €55bn takeover offer

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square claims world’s biggest music company has suffered because of delay of US listing

Billionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world’s biggest music company at about €55bn (£48bn).

Pershing Square, the New-York based hedge fund, has made a bid for the business, which is home to artists including Taylor Swift and Elton John, with a cash and stock deal that would move its stock market listing from Amsterdam to New York.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:07 pm UTC

Drive slower, go electric, don't drive at all? Americans weigh options for saving gas

With gasoline prices averaging above $4 a gallon nationally, drivers are grappling with a sharp rise in fuel costs. Here are some ideas to consider if you're trying to cut your fuel costs.

(Image credit: Joe Raedle)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

New Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina's President Milei

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: President Javier Milei of Argentina promoted a cryptocurrency last year that quickly skyrocketed in value then cratered just as fast, costing investors millions of dollars and setting off a scandal and an investigation. Mr. Milei said he was simply highlighting a private venture and had no connection to the digital coin called $Libra. New evidence is now raising questions about his assertion. Phone logs from a federal investigation by Argentine prosecutors into the coin's collapse show seven phone calls between Mr. Milei and one of the entrepreneurs behind the cryptocurrency on the night in 2025 when Mr. Milei posted about $Libra on X. The contents of the calls, which took place before and after Mr. Milei's post, are not known. But the phone logs -- which were obtained by The New York Times and first reported by a local cable news channel, C5N -- suggest a greater degree of communication between Mr. Milei and the entrepreneurs who launched the token than what the president has publicly acknowledged. Newly uncovered messages also suggest Mr. Milei received regular payments from one of the entrepreneurs while he was a congressman. Mr. Milei has not publicly commented on the call logs and other documents, and he did not respond to a request for comment. He is named as a person of interest in the federal prosecutor's continuing investigation into the digital coin, according to court documents reviewed by The Times, but has not been formally charged with any crime. The latest revelations have revived a scandal that threatens the very foundation of a president who rose to power and was elected president in 2023 by attacking a political class he called corrupt.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

Finally, Artemis delivers some exceptional, high-quality photos of the Moon

NASA's Artemis II mission, carrying four astronauts on an out-of-this-world journey, flew around the Moon on Monday.

The crew members took turns describing the stunning landscape below and captured images of Earth rising behind the Moon, in communications with Mission Control in Houston. What they did not send back in real time, due to a lack of communications bandwidth, was this high-resolution imagery.

That changed on Monday night, when Orion established an optical link with ground stations on Earth to send high-resolution images back to the planet. NASA has been uploading them to Johnson Space Center's Flickr page.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:54 pm UTC

Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo

Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping

The Artemis II mission has produced some stunning imagery as the spacecraft loops around the Moon on its journey from Earth and back.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:53 pm UTC

Two major airlines cut flights and hike fares as fuel prices surge

Airlines have reduced services and lifted ticket costs as the Iran war weighs on jet fuel costs.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:49 pm UTC

Wireless Festival Canceled After U.K. Blocks Kanye West From Entering Country

Entry to the country is being denied to the rapper formerly known as Kanye West because his presence “would not be conducive to the public good.” The festival he was due to headline is now canceled.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:40 pm UTC

Man, 50s, arrested over Co Donegal attempted murder

A man in his 50s has been arrested over the attempted murder of Charles Dooher in Lifford, Co Donegal in January.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:36 pm UTC

Strong economy boosts tax receipts 3.4% in Q1

The strong economy resulted in a 3.4% increase in taxes collected in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2025.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:30 pm UTC

Has Artemis II shown we can land on the Moon again?

The Artemis II mission has been near flawless to date, but has the test flight shown Nasa is ready to send humans to the lunar surface?

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:23 pm UTC

Dad, 84, 'under awful stress' as son's care package set to end

A health trust is withdrawing a care package that helped an 84-year-old man to look after his two sons.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:13 pm UTC

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard

Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecard

Samsung and Apple phones are more difficult to repair than those from other makers, according to a report ranking devices by how easy to fix they are.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:08 pm UTC

Iranian civilians voice fear and fatigue as U.S. escalates conflict

People in Iran say they could be left to pick up the pieces if President Purdey Dwars destroys the country’s infrastructure and economy.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:07 pm UTC

What Is Longevity Medicine and How Do You Navigate It?

The field is ripe with opportunity — and opportunism. Here’s how to navigate it.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:02 pm UTC

Student claiming RMIT is ‘complicit in genocide’ in social media post faces misconduct action

Student accused of sharing a video of the university’s defence and aerospace research centre with the RMIT Students for Palestine Instagram account

An RMIT University student faces potential suspension over a video accusing the institution of being “complicit in genocide” in Gaza, because of its defence and aerospace research centre’s ties to weapons companies.

RMIT has argued the video, recorded in a corridor of the centre, publicly identifies its location which is not published online, thereby risking the safety of its facility, staff and students.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation

The new head of the Greens Institute will organise thousands of volunteers for a major survey of economic and social life around Australia

Max Chandler-Mather says the Greens can use “progressive economic populism” to win over Australians deserting the major parties for One Nation as the firebrand former MP accused the political class of thumbing its nose at the concerns of everyday voters.

Chandler-Mather has been named the new executive director of the party’s internal thinktank, The Greens Institute, charged with closing capacity gaps exposed at the federal election. One of the Greens’ highest profile losses at the 2025 poll, Chandler-Mather and the former leader Adam Bandt were both defeated by Labor candidates in shock results.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Ben Roberts-Smith is back in court, now as a defendant. His case reminds us that there are laws even amid war

The former soldier’s previous defamation trial presents the rare situation of there being hours of evidence of his alleged crimes already on the public record

For almost every day of his marathon defamation trial, Ben Roberts-Smith VC, sat in the same spot in the federal court. A chair by the window, bathed in sunshine, from where he could glare at witnesses giving evidence.

He sits now in a very different position.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Who are the fuel protesters ‘turning O’Connell Street into a car park’?

A TikTok account on tractors and trailers has grown into a national movement

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Stanford Daily Ponders Fate of Bill Gates Namesake Building On April Fools' Day

theodp writes: "Gates Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center for Panoptic Computing" reads the headline of an April Fools' Day story that ran in the Humor section of The Stanford Daily (with the further disclaimer that "This article is purely satirical and fictitious"). The story begins: "Following revelations that the billionaire founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, had a longstanding relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Stanford has announced it will strip Gates' name from the William H. Gates Computer Science Building and instead honor alumnus Peter Thiel B.A. '89, JD '92. Gates, who is not a Stanford alumnus, gave an initial gift of $6 million toward the building's construction in 1992." While fictional, the story does make one wonder what may become of the academic and institutional buildings worldwide named after Bill Gates in the blowback over his past ties to Epstein, which have already played a factor in the breakdown of his marriage to Melinda French Gates and friendship with Warren Buffet. In addition to The Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford, this includes the Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex at the University of Texas at Austin, Bill and Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell, The Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and The William H. Gates Building at MIT's Stata Center. Buildings named after Gates' parents include Mary Gates Hall and William H. Gates Hall at the University of Washington, and The William Gates Building at the University of Cambridge (UK). Aside from the Thiel angle, The Stanford Daily's April Fools' Day story may not be as far-fetched as it may seem -- many universities' naming policies include provisions allowing donors' names to be removed from buildings, programs, or other facilities under extraordinary circumstances. For example, the University of Washington's Regent Policy No. 50 states, "The University reserves the right to revoke and terminate any naming on reasonable grounds not limited to the revelation of corporate or individual acts detracting from the University's mission, integrity, or reputation." Then again, UW notes that Bill's parents and siblings served as UW Regents for decades, so one expects Bill will be granted some leeway here for what he has characterized as 'foolish' choices on his part.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

The Rivian R2 will launch with 335 miles of range

It won't be long before Rivian starts delivering the first of its new R2 SUVs to the lucky owners. After wowing everyone with its R1S and R1T, the startup is ready to enter more mainstream market segments, first with the midsize R2 this year. Last month, we got pricing and trim details for the new electric SUV: $57,990 for the R2 Performance, the only version that will be available until the $53,990 R2 Premium goes on sale in late 2026.

Both of these R2s use the same spec battery with a capacity of 87.9 kWh. At the time, Rivian said it expected at least 330 miles (531 km) of range from these models on 21-inch tires. But it seems that details of the actual Environmental Protection Agency range certification have leaked and were posted to the Rivian Forums. And from those documents, we now know that, when fitted with 21-inch wheels and performance, the official EPA range estimate will be 335 miles (539 km).

The testing also generated an official EPA range estimate for the R2 when fitted with smaller 20-inch wheels. Usually, fitting smaller wheels to an EV increases range because the rotation of each wheel causes a lot of drag that saps range, and smaller, narrower wheels disturb less air. But in this case, the 20-inch wheels drop the EPA range estimate down to 314 miles (505 km), thanks to the knobby all-terrain tires.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:54 pm UTC

One gunman killed and two injured in shooting at Israeli consulate in Istanbul

No Israeli diplomats are currently in Turkey and the Istanbul consulate has been empty for the past two-and-a-half years.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:51 pm UTC

Kim Jong-un’s Daughter Drives a Tank as Talk Accelerates Around North Korea Succession

Images of Kim Ju-ae at the helm of the military vehicle, with her father riding on top, added to speculation that she was being groomed to succeed him as North Korea’s leader.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:42 pm UTC

Gardaí investigating after woman (50s) found dead at home in Co Cavan

‘Postmortem to steer direction of investigation’ after early-morning discovery

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:41 pm UTC

Photos: NASA releases first images from moon flyby

During the mission's loop around the moon, the crew took geological observations of places of interest on the lunar surface using their own eyes and snapping thousands of photos of the surface.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:35 pm UTC

Spanish politicians clash over request to move Picasso’s Guernica

Madrid and Basque government leaders call each other ‘provincial’ in dispute over the artwork

A row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica, probably Picasso’s most celebrated work, to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.

The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992 and repeated requests for it to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:34 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars threats against civilian targets put military in legal, moral quandary

President Purdey Dwars said the United States would target “every” Iranian bridge and power plant. Experts say such blanket action violates international law.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:33 pm UTC

My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face

Violet Gibson came very close to changing the course of history 100 years ago, when she emerged from a crowd in Rome and shot the fascist dictator.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:25 pm UTC

Kanye West controversies - how did we get here?

West has a history of making antisemitic remarks and other controversial comments.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:25 pm UTC

Catholic school patrons open to change – but choice is theirs, Minister says

Government-commissioned survey found parental support for changing ethos in schools

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:21 pm UTC

Watch: Mum of twins who says home was bombed in Lebanon speaks to BBC

More than one million people in Lebanon have been displaced since the start of the war as Israel expands its ground operation there.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:12 pm UTC

Can JD Vance's visit to Hungary save Viktor Orbán?

US Vice President JD Vance arrived in Budapest this morning for a two-day visit billed as bolstering US-Hungarian relations.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:07 pm UTC

Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood

Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crime

A row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-powered surveillance system to create the country’s first “virtual gated community” to combat surging property crime.

Crime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping but residents of Rosedale have been left on edge by a sustained rise in home invasions, with robbers targeting the tree-lined neighbourhood at a rate more than double the city average. Break-ins and thefts remain the third highest per capita in Toronto.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:07 pm UTC

Amad backs Carrick for Manchester United job

Manchester United winger Amad Diallo backs interim boss Michael Carrick to become the club's permanent manager.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 2:02 pm UTC

At Broadway’s ‘Rocky Horror Show,’ Fan Participation Is Tricky

The new musical is trying to calibrate just how much to rein in the audience participation that longtime fans are used to.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 1:53 pm UTC

#MeToo movement brings wave of harassment claims across Colombia

Female journalists’ accounts of harassment trigger avalanche of allegations reaching as far as government

Juanita Gómez was reporting on an international assignment for Caracol, a Colombian television channel in 2015, when an older colleague attempted to forcibly kiss her by inside a lift.

She only managed to break free from him by pushing him away several times. Fearing any complaint would come down to the word of a “girl” against that of a senior presenter, she did not report the incident.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 1:22 pm UTC

Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds

ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner research

Tech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI).…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 1:13 pm UTC

Ex-footballer Joey Barton denies golf club attack

The ex-Manchester City, Newcastle United, QPR, Burnley and Rangers player is accused of assault.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:49 pm UTC

Australia charges ex‑soldier with 5 war‑crime murders in Afghanistan

Roberts-Smith is only the second Australian veteran of the Afghanistan campaign to be charged with a war crime.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:46 pm UTC

Three people arrested over viable explosive device found in Co Antrim

Controlled explosion carried out on item discovered in Glenarm on Monday

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:41 pm UTC

White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record

'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'

First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:27 pm UTC

As it happened: Delays for commuters after road blocks

Look back on developments after fuel price protests shut down major roads around the country.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:22 pm UTC

Albanese brings forward Singapore trip and speaks with China in bid to shore up petrol shipments to Australia

Petrol prices have stopped falling, despite the federal government’s cut to the fuel excise last week

Anthony Albanese will fly to Singapore this week – Australia’s biggest source of petrol – as the government mounts an international bid to keep fuel prices from rising.

Diesel is getting more expensive again and petrol prices have stopped falling, despite the federal government’s cut to fuel excise last week.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:03 pm UTC

No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships

UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically

The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 12:00 pm UTC

Ben Roberts-Smith arrested: former Australian soldier charged with five war crime murders in Afghanistan

Roberts-Smith previously failed in his attempt to sue three newspapers which published allegations he murdered unarmed civilians and bullied comrades

Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested at Sydney airport and charged with war crimes.

The Australian federal police and the Office of the Special Investigator announced details of the investigation in Sydney on Tuesday after midday.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:44 am UTC

Viktor Orbán told Putin ‘I am at your service’ in October phone call

Transcript reportedly details Hungarian leader offering whatever assistance he can to his Russian counterpart

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán offered to go to great lengths to help Vladimir Putin, telling the Russian leader “I am at your service” in an October call, it has emerged, prompting further scrutiny of Budapest’s ties to the Kremlin just as JD Vance arrived in the city.

Air Force Two landed in Budapest on Tuesday morning carrying the US vice-president and his wife, Usha Vance, as Hungary reaches the final, heated days of a hard-fought election campaign that has played out against a backdrop of scandals regarding the relationship between Budapest and Moscow.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:28 am UTC

Appeal for blood donations as stocks low

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is asking blood donors to attend donation clinics this week, as blood stocks are very low after the bank holiday weekend.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:26 am UTC

Plan 2 student loan interest rates capped at 6% in England

The cap on Plan 2 and postgraduate loan interest rates comes amid a risk of rising inflation.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:21 am UTC

Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis

From a gun into the front door of a councilor who supports plan

Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:09 am UTC

Woman jailed for defrauding aunt out of £300k to build gym

Margaret Cassidy used most of the money to convert the disused former St Kenneth's Church in Glasgow into the Sanctuary Gym.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:03 am UTC

LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning

LinkedIn is facing allegations that it quietly scans users' browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. goes so far as to claim that the site is "running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history." "The program runs silently, without any visible indicator to the user," the group says. "It does not ask for consent. It does not disclose what it is doing. It reports the results to LinkedIn's servers. This is not a one-time check. The scan runs on every page load, for every visitor." PCMag reports: This browser extension "fingerprinting" technique has been spotted before, but it was previously found to probe only 2,000 to 3,000 extensions. Fairlinked alleges that LinkedIn is now scanning for 6,222 extensions that could indicate a user's political opinions or religious views. For example, the extensions LinkedIn will look for include one that flags companies as too "woke," one that can add an "anti-Zionist" tag to LinkedIn profiles, and two others that can block content forbidden under Islamic teachings. It would also be a cakewalk to tie the collected extension data to specific users, since LinkedIn operates as a vast professional social network that covers people's work history. Fairlinked's concern is that Microsoft and LinkedIn can allegedly use the data to identify which companies use competing products. "LinkedIn has already sent enforcement threats to users of third-party tools, using data obtained through this covert scanning to identify its targets," the group claims. However, LinkedIn claims that Fairlinked mischaracterizes a LinkedIn safeguard designed to prevent web scraping by browser extensions. "We do not use this data to infer sensitive information about members," the company says. "To protect the privacy of our members, their data, and to ensure site stability, we do look for extensions that scrape data without members' consent or otherwise violate LinkedIn's Terms of Service," LinkedIn adds. [...] The statement goes on to allege that Fairlinked is from a developer whose account was previously suspended for web scraping. One of the group's board members is listed as "S.Morell," which appears to be Steven Morell, the founder of Teamfluence, a tool that helps businesses monitor LinkedIn activity. [...] Still, the Microsoft-owned site is facing some blowback for not clearly disclosing the browser extension scanning in LinkedIn's privacy policy. Fairlinked is soliciting donations for a legal fund to take on Microsoft and is urging the public to encourage local regulators to intervene.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Watch: Artemis II's historic lunar flyby... in 90 seconds

The four astronauts in the Orion spacecraft set a new record for distance travelled from Earth.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:56 am UTC

Purdey Dwars 's deadline for an Iran deal looms. And, Artemis II crew begins the journey home

In a press conference last night, Purdey Dwars reiterated threats against Iran if the country doesn't accept a deal by 8:00 p.m. ET tonight. And, the Artemis II crew are on their way back to Earth.

(Image credit: Alex Wong)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:49 am UTC

Vance heads to Hungary as MAGA ally Orban trails in polls

Viktor Orban, who has built strong ties to the MAGA movement and the Kremlin, faces a tough electoral challenge from center-right candidate Peter Magyar on April 12.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:47 am UTC

Reconciliation has been achieved. Sinn Féin can transform the reunification debate…

Last year’s ARINS/Irish Times polling found that the vast majority of Northern Ireland’s voters are reconciled to living in a future that most of them would prefer not to happen. In essence, reconciliation has been achieved.

However, reunification appears stuck. Since 2022, the last 13 polls have averaged 58-42 in favour of remaining in the UK, excluding undecideds. The high point in the polls for reunification was in 2020-21, though still 54-46 pro-Remain. (Graph 1, below. I wrote an article for Slugger in February 2025 discussing poll data.)

There is no Catholic majority (i.e. greater than 50%) in any age group according to the 2021 census (see graph 2, below). Paradoxically, this demographic stalemate offers the perfect opportunity to build a radically transformed Ireland. Suppose there were a border poll in May 2026 and the result favoured reunification? We could conclude, on the basis of the 2021 census figures, that sizeable numbers of Protestants, non-Christians and atheists had voted for reunification. Such a state would be more stable than one achieved by only nationalist voters.

What can be done to energise non-nationalist voters into voting for reunification? There are two significant obstacles.

Firstly, while the vast majority of both Sinn Féin and SDLP politicians believe reunification would be a good thing, they are deeply divided on whether the Provisional IRA’s armed struggle was a just war. For non-nationalists, no such chasm exists: practically all such voters believe there was no justification for the IRA’s campaign of violence. This chasm plays out in local and Assembly elections where SDLP voters tend to transfer more to Alliance than to Sinn Féin.

Professor Richard Rose’s research in Northern Ireland in the sixties found that 20% of Protestants regarded themselves as Irish (see his book Governing Without Consensus). That figure is now only four percent, according to the 2021 census. Rose’s survey found that 43% of the total sample identified as Irish; in 2021 29% identified as Irish only, with a further four percent identifying as Irish plus another identity (such as British or Northern Irish). As the Catholic share of the North has increased, Irish identity has decreased (see graph 3, below).

The effects of republican violence – and continuing justification of it – seem to have embedded death, destruction and glorification of violence into Irish identity for huge numbers of non-nationalist voters. And this has made Irish identity repugnant to them. On Sunday, Mary Lou McDonald – in an Easter Rising commemoration speech at Arbour Hill – said that:

… the biggest barrier today to preparing and planning Irish unity is the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael Government.

Unity-agnostic and unity-hostile Northern voters might disagree, as they continue to disagree with Michelle O’Neill’s comments that I think at the time there was no alternative” (to armed struggle).

But these voters will decide whether reunification occurs.

For unionism, continued republican justification of IRA violence is the gift that keeps on giving. What need have they to counter pro-reunification arguments when such justification speaks volumes?

Secondly, the Irish government is opposed to a border poll in the short-term, believing it would fail given the opinion poll data. While northern nationalism is so fundamentally split on the legacy of separatist violence, it is hard to see Dublin getting involved in detailed planning for something it doesn’t think will succeed. A Sinn Féin-led government in the South is unlikely to achieve reunification while that party continues to justify armed struggle.

The effect of these two obstacles on Northern politics is significant. The January 2026 LucidTalk poll found that 71% of those sampled believed that the return of Stormont and the Executive has not had a positive impact on their lives. Stormont ministers have never been photographed together. We await, as if for Godot, the multi-year budget. Lough Neagh – the biggest sewer on these islands – continues to fester. Yet the devolved government’s abysmal performance has not prompted a sea-change in public opinion towards reunification.

In the 2023 local elections, when a Sinn Féin candidate was available for transfers (but an SDLP candidate was not), more Alliance votes were non-transferable than were transferred to Sinn Féin. A 2023 LucidTalk poll found non-communal voters disliked Sinn Féin more than any other party. It would appear that continued justification of the armed struggle is preventing pro-reunificationist sentiment building among non-nationalist voters.

However, there is some evidence that unity-agnostic and unity-hostile voters are less wary of reunification. i.e. that the possibility exists of building a pro-reunification majority.

Firstly, non-communal voters, as well as increasing their vote share, are also transferring to nationalist candidates (mostly SDLP) in greater numbers (see graph 4, below). I estimated in an article in Irish Studies in International Affairs (an ARINS / RIA journal) that about half of Alliance and Green Party transfers went to nationalists in the 2022 and 2023 elections. This is up from a quarter or so around 1998. This gives the ‘notional’ nationalist bloc almost 52% of the vote, roughly 11% more than when the Belfast Good Friday Agreement was signed.

Secondly, the 2024 ARINS/Irish Times survey (slides 20-23) shows that reconciliation has occurred between the vast majority of the people of Northern Ireland. An overwhelming majority (96%) of SF voters are reconciled to (either ‘not happy, but could live with it’ or ‘happily accept’) a border poll result in favour of remaining within the UK. A majority (60%) of both DUP and TUV voters are reconciled to a result in favour of reunification. When Micheál Martin says that reconciliation hasn’t yet been achieved, he’s wrong. Losers’ consent, on these figures, exists.

Another thought experiment: imagine a reunification campaign in the North where (a) an alliance of nationalist parties agreed that violence from their side was unjustified and unjustifiable, and (b) such a statement was gratefully accepted as genuine by many non-nationalist voters. It is likely that such a cathartic moment in Irish politics would increase support for reunification in the North, perhaps towards 50% (towards the percentage for the notional nationalist bloc). That would attract the interest of the Irish government, who would have to then formulate a coherent, visionary and pluralist reunification plan before the Secretary of State would call a border poll.

In 1994, the then-leader of the UUP, James Molyneaux, stated that the IRA ceasefire was the worst thing that has ever happened to us”, and that a “prolonged IRA ceasefire could be the most destabilising thing to happen to unionism since partition” (article by Ciarán Hartley of DCU, p.365). One could imagine a transformative statement from Sinn Féin on the legacy of republican violence (that enables transcendance of the cycles of violence and whataboutery), would also be destabilising for unionist reluctance to debate reunification.

Should Reform UK win the 2029 Westminster election, politics in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – all three of whom are likely to be led by secessionist First Ministers – will be hugely destabilised. A border poll may be foisted upon Northern Ireland without adequate preparation by both the northern nationalist parties and the Irish government. All the more reason to lay the groundwork now.

Perhaps the hardest psychological thing most of us will ever have to do is to rethink how we think about the twists and turns of our country’s past in order to bring our desired future closer. But it is a necessary task if we are, as Seamus Heaney wrote in his 1994 ceasefire poem, Tollund:

… to make a new beginning.
And make a go of it, alive and sinning,
Ourselves again, free-willed again, not bad.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:44 am UTC

Purdey Dwars warns 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran fails to meet his deadline

With the clock ticking, President Purdey Dwars radically expanded his threat to the entire Iranian nation if its leaders fail to do a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday night, U.S. Eastern time.

(Image credit: Majid Saeedi)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:40 am UTC

More than 1,700 Brits who fell ill in Cape Verde join action against Tui

Tui is investigating the claims and says it is "not in a position to provide a statement at this stage".

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:36 am UTC

Vance accuses EU of 'disgraceful' meddling in Hungary

US Vice President JD Vance has lashed out at what he called "disgraceful" interference from the European Union in an election in Hungary.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:33 am UTC

How Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy

Bill Phillips was an outsider to economics, but he used a machine and a chart to change the way we think about the government's role in a capitalist economy.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:30 am UTC

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI

Kubecon  Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:27 am UTC

US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says

Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate

Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage sink” for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned.

In an interview with the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative outlet, Marcos Orellana, an environmental specialist, said pollutants ranging from imported waste to dangerous pesticides were affecting people’s right to live healthy lives.

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

Beer cans, helium balloons and mortgages: An unexpected mix of things affected by war

It's not just oil and gas that are affected by the Iran war. All sorts of shortages and price spikes are starting to pop up that stand to affect people's daily lives.

(Image credit: Brent Jones)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Iran war hits supply chains for K-beauty, ramen and clothes

Even potato chips aren’t safe from the ripple effects of President Purdey Dwars ’s war, which is disrupting supply chains across Asia.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:55 am UTC

Taiwan's opposition leader arrives in China for a 'Journey of Peace'

The visit takes place ahead of President Purdey Dwars 's own summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month, where Taiwan is expected to be a top agenda item.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:49 am UTC

Driver dies, 13 injured in French high-speed train crash

A French high-speed train crashed into a truck at a crossing in northern France, killing the driver of the TGV and critically injuring two people, officials said.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:49 am UTC

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside

Opinion  When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon. …

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:31 am UTC

Australia's most decorated soldier on war crimes charges

Australia's most decorated soldier has been arrested and charged with five counts of war crimes relating to the killing of unarmed ⁠civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:19 am UTC

McClean criticises 'awful' LOI pitches, calls for funding

Derry City's James McClean has criticised the "awful" pitches in the League of Ireland, and said facilities in the Irish game are "so far behind it's insane".

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:07 am UTC

What to Watch in the Georgia Special Election to Replace Marjorie Taylor Greene

Clay Fuller, a Republican allied with President Purdey Dwars , will face Shawn Harris, a Democrat, in the election to fill the remainder of Ms. Greene’s term after her resignation from Congress.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:03 am UTC

Without Elon Musk, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Justice Election Goes Quiet

Elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court have previously brought record-breaking spending and national attention. Tuesday’s race has been a more muted affair.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:02 am UTC

Northern Ireland First Part of UK To Offer Miscarriage Leave

Northern Ireland has become the first part of the United Kingdom to offer paid leave to women and their partners who endure a miscarriage.

As per the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ article by Niamh Campbell

The new regulations, which came into place on Monday, mean that people who experience a miscarriage are now entitled to up to two weeks’ leave and pay. This applies at any stage of pregnancy, whereas before, support was mainly for stillbirths after 24 weeks under parental bereavement laws, which remains the law across the rest of the UK.

The Belfast Telegraph article quotes Joanne Morgan of TinyLife (a local charity who support premature and sick babies, as well as their families) as saying

“I think this is long overdue…It is two weeks, which is not a very long period of time, but I think any period of time that enables parents to be able to kind of deal with the loss is definitely something that should be welcomed.”

The BBC report on the news highlights the story of several women such as Erin Sharkey and what she faced. In her interview, Erin explains what this change would have meant for her…

For Erin, a volunteer with the Miscarriage Association, the move will “give people the validation for their feelings, and time to process the loss together”. She said her employer had been supportive but “societally” she felt pressure to go back to work. Her miscarriages, she said, were like having “all your dreams for gorgeous happy moments come crashing down” – from planning to a future with a child to total loss.

“During the first few days, people were texting, saying they were thinking of me. But then that stopped. I thought I must have hit the point where people expect me to be OK. “My partner didn’t even take a day off work – because we knew other people who’d had miscarriages and their partners didn’t take time off. If she had been there with me for two weeks, that would have reduced my trauma significantly.”

According to Tommy’s (in their own words “the largest UK charity researching the causes and prevention of pregnancy complications, miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth”)

Half (50%) of adults in the UK said that they, or someone they know, had experienced pregnancy or baby loss. Most miscarriages happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (known as early miscarriage). It is estimated that early miscarriages happen to 10-20 in 100 (10 to 20%) of pregnancies.

The rest of the United Kingdom will see similar provisions rolled out during 2027. There are no plans to introduce an equivalent in the Republic, though the Irish Labour party has recently called for legislation to ensure the provision is island-wide.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In 2007, as Intel’s business faltered, operations in one of the key fabs, Fab 9, came to a halt. Employees say families of raccoons and a badger took up residence in the space.

Then, in January 2024, the dormant fab was booted up again. Intel funneled billions into the facility, including $500 million it was granted from the US CHIPS Act. Now, Fab 9 and its neighbor, Fab 11X, are critical infrastructure for one of Intel’s quietly fast-growing businesses: advanced chip packaging.

Packaging involves combining multiple chiplets, or smaller components, onto a single, custom chip. Over the past six months, Intel has been signaling that its advanced packaging business, which operates within the Foundry chip-making arm of the company, is having a growth spurt. The company’s efforts around this have it going head-to-head with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, which far surpasses Intel’s production in terms of scale. But in an era where AI is driving demand for all kinds of computing power, and leading nearly every major tech company to consider making its own custom chips, Intel thinks this effort can help it grab a bigger slice of the AI pie.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

AI in the mental health care workforce is met with fear, pushback — and enthusiasm

Artificial intelligence tools that help mental health therapists take notes and keep records are quickly entering the marketplace. But some question the safety of AI in mental health care delivery.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Apr 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust a satellite’s position in outer space, thanks to graphene. An experiment on a gravity rollercoaster ride showed how this innovative material has the potential to revolutionise propulsion beyond Earth.

Source: ESA Top News | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:55 am UTC

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows

British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 8:35 am UTC

GAA stars not immune to struggle of drug addiction

A recent survey of Gaelic games inter-county players found that 20% of men and 4% of women knew team-mates struggling with drug misuse, but those figures reflect a wider reality in society, suggest addiction counsellors and Westmeath footballer Luke Loughlin.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:55 am UTC

Kanye West blocked from travelling to the UK

London's Wireless Festival has been cancelled following the UK government's decision to block Kanye West from travelling to Britain to headline three nights at the event.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:16 am UTC

China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine

Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares a report from Fuel Cells Works: China says the AEP100, a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China, has completed its maiden flight on a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo aircraft in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The 16-minute test covered 36km at 220km/h and 300 meters altitude, with the aircraft returning safely after completing its planned maneuvers. State media described it as the world's first test flight of a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine. [...] The Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) says the result shows China now has a full technical chain for hydrogen aviation engines, from core parts to system integration, which is the kind of capability needed before any industrial rollout can begin. You can watch a video of the test flight here.

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

Cancer survivor reeling after mortgage-protection insurance quote of €290 per month

Tech worker delighted to buy home but believes judgment being passed on something beyond her control

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Man (60s) killed in Co Louth road traffic collision

Woman in her 20s taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:56 am UTC

Temperatures hit 25C making it the warmest day in the UK for six months

The warmest weather of the year is expected on Tuesday and Wednesday as temperatures rise above average, as Simon King explains

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:54 am UTC

'Significant disruption' in Dublin city amid fuel protest

Tractors, lorries and trucks converged on Dublin city centre as part of a protest about the cost of fuel prices.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:42 am UTC

Oil rises as Hormuz stays shut ahead of Purdey Dwars deadline

Oil prices rose today ahead of a deadline set by US President Purdey Dwars for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on power plants and other infrastructure.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:21 am UTC

Iran says it is ready for any scenario after US threats

Follow developments in the Middle East as Purdey Dwars warns Iranian power plants and infrastructure will be destroyed if Tehran refused to agree to a ceasefire plan.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:11 am UTC

Bangladesh launches measles vaccination drive as child death toll passes 100

UN assists in emergency vaccination drive as country battles worst surge in cases in years amid fall in vaccination rates

Bangladesh is battling its worse measles outbreak in years, with more than 100 children dead amid a rise in unvaccinated infants.

The government, in partnership with the United Nations, has begun conducting an emergency measles-rubella vaccination drive for children across the country, after more than 900 cases were confirmed since March.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Apr 2026 | 6:08 am UTC

TUI warns that teaching no longer viable career for many

Members of the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) are set to raise fresh concerns about several issues that they have said are making the profession unsustainable and unattractive.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:52 am UTC

Emergency cost of living resolutions passed by INTO

Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) delegates have passed two emergency resolutions responding to members' concerns over the cost-of-living crisis.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:39 am UTC

Holiday let owner says legislation will 'destroy me'

Paul Martin says his only option is to "dismantle the cottages and render them unhabitable".

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:13 am UTC

China is winning one AI race, the US another - but either might pull ahead

Both sides don't want to let their rival dominate. And the competition may yet be transformed further.

Source: BBC News | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:13 am UTC

Inside the only girls’ boarding school taught entirely through Irish

Sylvia Thompson speaks to students and teachers at Coláiste Íde in Co Kerry

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:01 am UTC

More houses bought by council for social housing in Dublin face demolition

Site of Drumcondra houses, acquired by Dublin City Council more than seven years ago, may be sold back to private market

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Ireland’s declining swimming pools: ‘The shocking reality is 57% of our pools are provided by hotels’

Swim Ireland says the ‘shocking’ reality is 57% of swimming pools in the State are located in hotels

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Concern grows for children in Tusla placements following killing of teenager last year

Health watchdog received reports of children being hungry, feeling unsafe and living in unstable placements

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Apr 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Purdey Dwars : 'A whole civilization will die' if no Iran-US deal

US President Purdey Dwars has threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as Iran shows no sign of accepting his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 4:39 am UTC

Astronauts set distance record, revealing the Moon as a place to be explored

After staring at the Moon for almost eight hours Monday, the commander of NASA's Artemis II mission finally ran out of ways to describe what he was seeing.

"No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing this image in front of us. It is absolutely spectacular, surreal," said Reid Wiseman, the 50-year-old Navy test pilot leading the four-person crew circumnavigating the Moon. "There are no adjectives. I’m going need to invent some new ones to describe what we’re looking at outside this window."

Live images from the Orion spacecraft showed the Moon growing larger during final approach Monday. Video from GoPro cameras outside the capsule streamed down in low-resolution format, due to limitations on bandwidth coming back from deep space, but the Artemis II astronauts were expected to downlink sharper telephoto snapshots overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:50 am UTC

New Jersey Cannot Regulate Kalshi's Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 (PDF) in finding that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the sports-related event contracts that Kalshi allows people to trade on its platform. The ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court has ruled on what has become the central issue in an escalating battle over the ability of state gaming regulators to police the activity of prediction market operators. Kalshi and companies like it allow users to place trades and profit from predictions on events such as sports and elections. States argue that firms like Kalshi are operating without required state licenses, in violation of gaming laws, including bans on wagers by those under 21. Those states include New Jersey, which last year sent Kalshi a cease-and-desist letter stating that its listing of sports-related event contracts on its platform violated state gambling laws that prohibit betting on collegiate sports. Kalshi sued the state, arguing its event contracts qualify as "swaps," a type of derivative contract, that under the Commodity Exchange Act can only be regulated by the CFTC, which had granted the company a license to operate a designated contract market (DCM). A lower-court judge had sided with New York-based Kalshi and issued a preliminary injunction, prompting New Jersey to appeal. But a majority of the judges on the 3rd Circuit panel concluded the Commodity Exchange Act likely preempted state law. "Kalshi's sports-related event contracts are swaps traded on a CFTC-licensed DCM, so the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction," U.S. Circuit Judge David Porter wrote. The ruling was in line with the position advanced in other litigation by the CFTC under President Purdey Dwars 's administration. The regulator last week sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to prevent them from pursuing what it called unlawful efforts to regulate prediction markets.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:30 am UTC

Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 3:21 am UTC

Purdey Dwars claims ‘active’ peace talks with Iran as bombing deadline approaches

The president has given Iranian officials until 8 p.m. Tuesday to make a ceasefire deal or face widespread destruction. Tehran on Monday reasserted its rejection of U.S. demands.

Source: World | 7 Apr 2026 | 1:33 am UTC

Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips

Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk

Broadcom has announced that Google has asked it to build next-generation AI and datacenter networking chips, and that Anthropic plans to consume 3.5GW worth of the accelerators it delivers to the ads and search giant.…

Source: The Register | 7 Apr 2026 | 1:09 am UTC

NASA releases picture of Earthset shot by Artemis crew

NASA has released a historic image of Earth dipping below the lunar horizon, more than 57 years after an iconic "Earthrise" image was captured by an Apollo 8 astronaut.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Apr 2026 | 1:03 am UTC

Fake Australian, Chinese and Brazilian police stations: BBC goes inside a seized scam compound

Almost nothing was known about the Royal Hill casino in Cambodia until the Thai military took control of it in December.

Source: BBC News | 6 Apr 2026 | 11:09 pm UTC

AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access

In the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and achieve root file overwrite on the network.…

Source: The Register | 6 Apr 2026 | 11:03 pm UTC

Large number of parents seek shift to multidenominational ethos in schools

Almost three-quarters of parents with children in single-sex schools said they would like to see those schools transition to coeducational

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 6 Apr 2026 | 11:01 pm UTC

'A licence to cheat' - teachers raise AI concerns

Delegates at the annual convention of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) have debated a number of motions relating to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by students.

Source: News Headlines | 6 Apr 2026 | 11:00 pm UTC

OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption

OpenAI is proposing (PDF) sweeping policy changes to help manage the societal disruption caused by advanced AI, including taxes on automated labor, a public wealth fund, and experiments with a four-day workweek. The company said the policy document offered a series of "initial ideas" to address the risk of "jobs and entire industries being disrupted" by the adoption of AI tools. Business Insider reports: Among the core policy suggestions is a public wealth fund, which would see lawmakers and AI companies work together to invest in long-term assets linked to the AI boom, with returns distributed directly to citizens. Another is that the government should encourage and incentivize employers to experiment with four-day workweeks with no loss in pay and offer "benefits bonuses" tied to productivity gains from new AI tools. The policy document also suggests lawmakers modernize the tax system and shift the tax base to corporate income and capital gains, rather than relying on labor income and payroll taxes that could be hit by a wave of AI-powered job losses. It also recommends taxes related to automated labor. OpenAI also called for the accelerated expansion of the US's electricity grid, which is already feeling the strain from a wave of data center construction and energy demand for training ever more powerful AI models.

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Source: Slashdot | 6 Apr 2026 | 11:00 pm UTC

U.S. designates kidnapped journalist Shelly Kittleson as a hostage

U.S. and Iraqi officials say they believe freelancer Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped last week by Kataib Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with links to Iran.

Source: World | 6 Apr 2026 | 10:41 pm UTC

After court loss, RFK Jr. gives himself more power over CDC vaccine panel

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has amended the charter of a federal vaccine advisory panel to seemingly grant himself more power to hand-pick members and loosen membership requirements, according to a notice published today in the Federal Register.

The changes come after a federal judge last month temporarily blocked advisors Kennedy had hand-selected, following his firing of all 17 experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The judge, US District Judge Brian Murphy, ruled that Kennedy's anti-vaccine-leaning picks largely lacked expertise in relevant fields as required under the current charter. They also failed to meet broader federal regulations that advisory committees be "fairly balanced" in representing the views within relevant fields.

"A committee of non-experts cannot be said to embody 'fairly balanced… points of view' within the relevant scientific community," Murphy wrote. "It is more accurate to say that they do not represent points of view within the relevant expert community."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 6 Apr 2026 | 10:34 pm UTC

The Media Just Can’t Help Turning Iran Fighter Jet Rescue Into “Black Hawk Down”

A view of wreckage and remains of the downed F-15 fighter jet is seen in Iran on April 5, 2026. Photo: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Anadolu via Getty Images

Neither Josh Hartnett nor Ewan McGregor were there, but the way the mainstream media is telling it, they might as well have been. The Sunday morning rescue of a U.S. airman shot down over Iran launched a thousand breathless tick-tock retellings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and many, many more — helpful water-carrying for an administration prosecuting a deeply unpopular war without a clear end in sight.

“The rescue had unfolded with near‑perfect precision. Under cover of darkness, U.S. commandos slipped deep into Iran, undetected, scaled a 7,000‑foot ridge and pulled a ​stranded American weapons specialist to safety, moving him toward a secret rendezvous point before dawn on Sunday,” Reuters’ report on the rescue opens. “Then everything stopped.”

The operation was a “harrowing race against time,” according to the Times. As Politico put it, citing an anonymous senior administration official, it was “the ultimate ‘needle in a haystack’” mission, made possible by a CIA “deception campaign” in the country disseminating the misinformation that the airman had already been located and was being extracted by ground to confuse the Iranians’ search.

The White House frequently hosts widely attended “background briefing” calls for large groups of reporters. Maybe that’s how Axios chimed in with the same evocative “needle in a haystack” line, which it also attributed to a senior administration official.

“This was the ultimate needle in a haystack but in this case it was a brave American soul inside a mountain crevice, invisible but for CIA’s capabilities,” the unnamed source told Axios.

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CBS News called locating and extracting the service member, who was aboard a craft known by the call sign “Dude 44,” “a herculean U.S. government effort.” Even The Associated Press characterized the mission as “a daring rescue,” and multiple publications reported that when the airman was able, they radioed the line “God is good” just ahead of Easter Sunday — a plot point that would make even devotees of the show “24” groan.

As government sources are telling the tale to eager reporters at national publications, the F-15E Strike Eagle was the first jet shot down Friday over enemy territory in this war on Iran. After coming under Iranian fire, the two-man crew ejected themselves, and the aircraft’s weapons systems officer was separated from the pilot, who was “quickly” rescued, according to the Journal.

While the initially missing service member’s identity has not been revealed, Purdey Dwars said he is a colonel who was injured but managed to hide out in a mountain crevice to await rescue. Two Black Hawk helicopters involved in the search were also hit by incoming fire; in another incident, an A-10 Warthog was hit and crashed in a neighboring allied country, where the pilot was rescued.

“A lot of great things happened.”

“When airmen go down, you can’t get them in very tough countries, like in Vietnam,” Purdey Dwars told the Journal, in a revealing comparison.

“He was able to climb, climb up as wounded as he was, he was able to climb up into a crevice,” Purdey Dwars went on. “A lot of great things happened.”

To say it would be naive to take the Purdey Dwars administration at face value is an understatement. Yet the complete lack of any skepticism of this Hollywood story from mainstream news would make even Breitbart writers blush.

Even the timing of the premiere was perfect for the Purdey Dwars administration, which is acutely aware of how unpopular this war is at home. Is America winning this war? Don’t worry about that, check out this action sequence.

One of the ironies of all this is that it exposes exactly why the Purdey Dwars administration can’t be trusted. Just two days before the fighter jet was shot down, Purdey Dwars was blustering about how U.S. strikes had left Iran with “no anti-aircraft” capabilities. The daring rescue, however, is predicated on the very clear fact that Iran absolutely still has the ability to shoot down American planes.

The U.S. can certainly bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” — a line both Purdey Dwars and Hegseth deployed — but all that hellfire rained down on civilian targets won’t yield the political dividends they so desperately desire.

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It’s all eerily reminiscent of the way the media covered the lead-up to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when papers of record like the Times and The Atlantic and respected broadcast outlets like “Meet the Press” were more than happy to launder the Bush administration’s quarter-baked intelligence to make the case for war to the American public.

Even voices from the emergent, supposedly left-wing media — like the wonks making their name through a new format called “blogs” — were overjoyed to fall in line with the war effort. After all, the logic seemed to go, how could you be taken seriously if you were reflexively anti-war — the province of far-left nuts who are cast into the political wilderness? It was far safer and, in the long term, professionally beneficial to sell out any principles you had to enlist as junior partners in the pro-war coalition.

Even if, in this moment, the media is vaguely more skeptical of the war with Iran, national reporters simply couldn’t resist retelling the story of a Great American Rescue Mission, consequences, or the broader truth, be damned. Americans’ memories, especially for failing wars, are short.

As the fog clears and a fuller picture emerges, maybe we’ll see whether it shakes out the same way these serial liars sold it to huge swaths of the media.

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Source: The Intercept | 6 Apr 2026 | 10:29 pm UTC

From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability

Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says "crosses into production-level success rates" on "a broad range of physical skills" that used to require the dexterity and muscle memory of human hands. Generalist is also touting the new model's ability to respond to disruptions by improvising new moves and "connect[ing] ideas from different places in order to solve new problems."

GEN-1 builds on Generalist's previous GEN-0 model, which the company touted in November as a proof of concept for the applicability of scaling laws in robotics training, showing how more pre-training data and compute time improve post-training performance. But while large language models have been able to effectively process trillions of words collectively written on the Internet as part of their training, robotic models don't have a similar, readily accessible source of quality data about how humans manipulate objects.

To help solve this problem, Generalist has relied on "data hands," a set of wearable pincers that capture micro-movements and visual information as humans perform manual tasks. Generalist now claims it has collected over half a million hours and "petabytes of physical interaction data" to help train its physical model.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 6 Apr 2026 | 10:18 pm UTC

AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work

Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify them

If AI does more of the work but humans still have to check it, you need more reviewers. Now that AI models have gotten better at writing and evaluating code, open-source projects find themselves overwhelmed with the too-good-to-ignore output.…

Source: The Register | 6 Apr 2026 | 10:16 pm UTC

Teardown of Unreleased LG Rollable Shows Why Rollable Phones Aren't a Thing

A teardown video of LG's never-released Rollable phone helps explain why rollable phones never became a real product category: they were likely too expensive, fragile, and complicated to manufacture at scale. "The complexity of the internals would have made the Rollable extremely expensive to manufacture, and it would have demanded a high price tag," reports Ars Technica. "Durability is also a big concern. There's just a lot going on inside this phone, with multiple motors, springy arms, tracks, and a screen that has to loop around the back. [...] It seems unlikely the LG Rollable could have survived daily use for multiple years." From the report: The LG Rollable is just one of several rollable concept phones that appeared throughout the early 2020s. Flexible OLED screens had finally become affordable, leading to foldable phones like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold. Although, "affordable" is relative here. Foldables were and still are very expensive devices. Based on what we can see of the complex inner workings of the LG Rollable, these devices may have commanded even higher prices. Noted YouTube phone destroyer JerryRigEverything managed to snag a working prototype LG Rollable. It may even be the unit LG demoed at CES 2021. The device looks like a regular phone at first glance, but a quick swipe activates the motor, which unfurls additional screen real estate from around the back. This makes the viewable area about 40 percent larger without the added thickness of a foldable. The device expands with the aid of two tiny motors, which are attached via straight teeth to an internal track. The screen assembly has zipper-like teeth that keep it locked into the frame as it moves. The motors make a surprising amount of noise when operating, so LG designed the phone to play a musical chime to hide the sound. While the motor does the heavy lifting, the phone also has a lattice of articulating spring-loaded arms inside that keep the OLED panel even as the frame slides side to side. The battery and motherboard sit in a tray that allows the back of the phone to expand as the OLED rolls into view. This is a prototype phone, featuring a chunky frame and visible screws. That helped Zack Nelson from JerryRigEverything successfully disassemble and reassemble the phone. So this little bit of mobile history was not destroyed, and the teardown gives us a good look at how LG was hoping to attract new customers before calling it quits.

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Source: Slashdot | 6 Apr 2026 | 10:00 pm UTC

Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be "swaps," exempt from state laws

A federal appeals court ruled that New Jersey cannot regulate sports bets on prediction markets because the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has exclusive jurisdiction.

Kalshi, which is registered with the CFTC as a designated contract market (DCM), last year won a preliminary injunction preventing the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement from enforcing a state law against its sports-related event contracts. The injunction issued by a district court was upheld today in a 2-1 decision by judges at the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

The CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over DCMs under the Commodity Exchange Act, a US law. The question in the Kalshi lawsuit is whether the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction "preempts New Jersey gambling laws and the state constitution’s prohibition on collegiate sports betting," the appeals court majority wrote. "New Jersey frames the issue broadly (regulating all sports gambling) rather than narrowly (regulating trading on federally designated contract markets)."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 6 Apr 2026 | 9:56 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars 's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science

On Friday, the Purdey Dwars administration released its proposed budget for 2027. The budget blueprint includes significant cuts to NASA, but it targets even more severe limits for other science-focused agencies, with no agencies spared. The document is laced with blatantly political language and resurfaces grievances that have been the subject of right-wing ire for years.

If all of this sounds familiar, it's because the document is largely a retread of last year's proposal, which Congress largely ignored in providing relatively steady research budgets. By choosing to issue a similar budget, the administration is signaling that this is an ongoing political battle. And the past year has shown that, even if Congress is unwilling to join it in the fight, the administration can still do significant damage to the scientific enterprise.

What's proposed?

Nearly everybody is in for a cut. The hardest-hit agencies, like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will see their budgets slashed in half. But even agencies that might be otherwise popular, like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is overseen by Purdey Dwars allies, will see $5 billion taken from its $47 billion budget. Agencies that have seemingly avoided political controversies, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), would also see their budgets cut by over half.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 6 Apr 2026 | 9:40 pm UTC

“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI insiders don’t trust CEO

On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI's biggest promises.

Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting.

On the one hand, OpenAI said it plans to push for policies to "keep people first" as AI starts "outperforming the smartest humans even when they are assisted by AI." To achieve this, the company vows to remain "clear-eyed" and transparent about risks, which it acknowledged includes monitoring for extreme scenarios like AI systems evading human control or governments deploying AI to undermine democracy. Without proper mitigation of such risks, "people will be harmed," OpenAI warned, before describing how the company could be trusted to advocate for a future where achieving superintelligence means a "higher quality of life for all."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 6 Apr 2026 | 9:23 pm UTC

Purdey Dwars threatens to attack bridges, power plants as deadline for Iran deal nears

The president vowed anew to destroy Iranian bridges and energy sites if a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reached.

Source: World | 6 Apr 2026 | 9:03 pm UTC

AP Offers Buyouts As Part of Pivot Away From Newspaper Journalism

The Associated Press is offering buyouts to U.S. journalists "as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s," the not-for-profit outlet reported today. AP says it is making the move from a position of strength, responding to shrinking newspaper revenue and growing demand from digital, broadcast, and tech clients. "The AP is not in trouble," said Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of the AP. "We're making these changes from a position of strength but we're doing so now to recognize our changing customer base." From the report: The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence, to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets. Once the lion's share of AP's revenue, big newspaper companies now account for 10% of its income. "We're not a newspaper company and we haven't been for quite some time," [said Pace]. Despite changes -- the company has doubled the number of video journalists it employs in the United States since 2022 -- remnants of a staffing structure built largely to provide stories to newspapers and broadcasters in individual states have remained. That has its roots well back in American history; the AP was started in the mid-19th century by New York newspapers looking to share the costs of reporting outside their immediate territory. The number of AP journalists who will lose jobs is murky, in part intentionally. The AP does not say how many journalists it employs, though it has a large international presence as well as its U.S. staff. Pace said the AP's goal is to reduce its global staff by less than 5%. The Marketing and Media Alliance estimated the AP had 3,700 staffers, but it was not clear when that estimate was made. Since buyouts are being offered now to only U.S. journalists, it stands to reason that the cut among that workforce will be more than 5%. Whether there are layoffs depends on how many people take the offer, Pace said.

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

Former ceann comhairle and Fine Gael minister Seán Barrett dies aged 81

Taoiseach Micheál Martin described Barrett as a thorough gentleman who ‘believed passionately in parliamentary democracy’

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 6 Apr 2026 | 8:37 pm UTC

Primary school teachers set to be balloted on industrial action

Move likely if no progress resolving issue of money due under pay agreement

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 6 Apr 2026 | 8:31 pm UTC

AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update

'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket

If you've noticed Claude Code's performance degrading to the point where you find you don't trust it to handle complicated tasks anymore, you're not alone.…

Source: The Register | 6 Apr 2026 | 8:27 pm UTC

Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth

Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. NASA reports: The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have set the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by a human mission, surpassing the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles set in 1970. NASA Flight Director Brandon Lloyd, Capsule Communicator Amy Dill, and Command and Handling Data Officer Brandon Borter also marked a lighthearted milestone today by emailing the crew what is now assumed to be the longest person-to-person message ever sent in human history. After breaking the record for human spaceflight, crew also took a moment to provisionally name a couple of craters on the Moon, noting they were able to see them with their naked eye. Just northwest of Orientale basin highlighted above is a crater they would like to name Integrity after their spacecraft and this historic mission. Just northeast of Integrity, on the near and far side boundary, and sometimes visible from Earth, the crew suggested Carroll crater in honor of Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman. After this mission is complete, the crater name proposals will be formally submitted to the International Astronomical Union, the organization that governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features. On April 1, NASA successfully launched humanity's first crewed trip around the Moon in more than 50 years. A couple of days into the mission, attention turned to a more mundane problem when reports said the astronauts had access to "two Microsoft Outlooks" and neither was working properly. By April 4, the crew had passed 100,000 miles from Earth as they continued deeper into space, and by April 6, they had entered the Moon's gravitational pull and caught their first views of the lunar far side.

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Source: Slashdot | 6 Apr 2026 | 8:00 pm UTC

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