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Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account

The maker of the popular open-source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.

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Apr 8 • 11:21 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Amid rising costs, Miami considers new financial assistance programs for seniors

Roughly one-third of Miami’s senior population lives at or below the poverty line.

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Apr 8 • 10:48 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
The World’s First Computer Sank 2,000 Years Ago. Science Finally Solved One of Its Biggest Mysteries.

Using, oddly enough, techniques developed to analyze gravitational wave signals.

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Apr 8 • 10:41 AM EDT • Science • aol.com
The World’s First Computer Sank 2,000 Years Ago. Science Finally Solved One of Its Biggest Mysteries.

Using, oddly enough, techniques developed to analyze gravitational wave signals.

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Apr 8 • 10:41 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Access, AI and an aging population: ‘Business Report’ examines the state of Capital Region health care

Louisiana’s health care industry is contending with a convergence of pressures—an aging population, workforce shortages, access gaps and rapid technological change—and Business Report’s annual Trends in Health Care edition examines how Capital Region providers are responding. Here’s what you’ll find: AI is reshaping how care is delivered across the Capital Region. Area health care organizations […]

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Apr 8 • 10:32 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Downtown Keene Business Owners Sound Off on Pop-up Chain Bakery, Call for Local Support on WKBK

B Bakes owners discuss chain pop-up controversy, community impact, and why supporting local businesses matters.

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Apr 8 • 10:20 AM EDT • Business • mykeenenow.com
Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

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Apr 8 • 9:59 AM EDT • Technology • 404media.co
Entire Human Populations Vanished 3,000 Years Ago. Scientists Figured Out Where They Went.

The population drop opened the door for outsiders to repopulate with new demographics and cultures.

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Apr 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Southern cafeteria are closing. Can small business owners save them?

While chains like Morrison's, Luby's, Piccadilly, and S&S close tons of cafeteria locations, two mom-and-pop ones in Tucker, Georgia are thriving.

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Apr 8 • 6:32 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Baton Rouge General's Health Tip of the Week: What to know about new cholesterol guidelines

Sponsored by Baton Rouge General Heart health is getting a head start—and the new guidelines say your 30s are the time to begin. Updated recommendations call for annual cholesterol screenings starting at age 30, lower LDL (“bad” cholesterol) targets (under 100, or 70 if you’re higher risk), and additional tests like lipoprotein(a) at least once. […]

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Apr 8 • 2:01 AM EDT • Health • businessreport.com
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Do adaptogens really work? What the science says

Adaptogens are popular plant and fungi compounds, but the science on their effectiveness and safety is still evolving.

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Apr 8 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • detroitnews.com
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Mayor Mamdani appoints 'mom and pop czar' to reduce red tape for NYC small business owners

Delia Awusi was hired to reduce the runaround mom and pop small businesses often face in dealing with permits, inspections and fines.

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Apr 7 • 11:20 PM EDT • Business • abc7ny.com
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It's Becoming Almost Impossible To Get A Mac Studio Or Mac Mini In 2026

Having trouble getting your hands on a Mac Studio or Mac mini in 2026? You're not alone, as both popular products are on long-term backorder.

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Apr 7 • 6:01 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home

Amid the war with Iran, the president has proposed to scale back some of the very programs meant to ease families’ financial burdens.

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Apr 7 • 4:36 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Judge tosses PETA’s lawsuit against the American Kennel Club over dog breed health

NEW YORK (AP) — The animal rights group PETA's lawsuit over the health of French bulldogs and some other popular dog breeds has been dismissed, with a judge saying a New York law was misapplied to the…

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Apr 7 • 1:08 PM EDT • Health • wtop.com
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Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis Next announced for Nintendo Switch

Today, Gameloft unveiled Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis Next for Nintendo Switch. The game is launching on May 28, 2026. Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis is a fast-paced arcade tennis game featuring popular characters from SpongeBob, Avatar, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more. Expect character customization, a story mode, split-screen multiplayer, and more. Here’s an official overview: Become your favorite Nickelodeon character, like SpongeBob...

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Apr 7 • 12:22 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
WSP-RC holds population health, wellness fair

Wasco State Prison-Reception Center (WSP-RC) held a health and wellness fair for the incarcerated population during the week of March 9-13.

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Apr 7 • 11:57 AM EDT • Health • cdcr.ca.gov
Affordability and Preventive Public Health Policy

Affordability pressures increasingly shape health risk in the United States, influencing both the upstream conditions that sustain health and the downstream ability to access health promoting resources. Financial stability is a key driver of health, affecting patterns of health, health care use, and the tradeoffs people must make among competing needs. The economic policy landscape aimed at improving financial security for Americans is expansive, complex, and often difficult to organize, making it challenging to discuss how different policies influence financial resilience and population health. We propose the Earn–Keep–Grow framework as a practical way to organize and guide discussion of these policies in population health research and policy decision-making.

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Apr 7 • 10:04 AM EDT • Health • milbank.org
Is ‘lab-grown’ meat actually safe?

It isn’t identical to regular meat, but that might be a good thing.

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Apr 7 • 9:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles

This 'jiggle tech' is proprietary.

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Apr 7 • 6:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Seattle Parks and Recreation Releases Draft Outdoor Racquet Sports Strategy and Hosts Events to Gather Community Feedback

Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is excited to release the Draft Racket Sports Strategy. We invite the community to learn about the proposed approach to balance the needs of pickleball and tennis users in our park system and look forward to gathering community feedback. This strategy was developed in response to growing popularity of both […]

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Apr 6 • 8:09 PM EDT • Sports • parkways.seattle.gov
New poll reveals Spanberger's popularity is plummeting amid backlash over gerrymandering

Gov. Abigail Spanberger battles record unpopularity in Virginia with 46% disapproval, the lowest rating for a governor since 1994, a new poll shows.

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Apr 6 • 7:34 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Trump says God supports U.S. cause in Iran war as he threatens wider bombing

The president offered a new rationale for the costly, unpopular conflict: “God wants to see people taken care of,” he said.

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Apr 6 • 7:14 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for April 7 #561

Here's today's Connections: Sports Edition answer and hints for groups. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Connections: Sports Edition, every day.

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Apr 6 • 5:54 PM EDT • Sports • cnet.com
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From Jurassic Park to dreams of AI doom, pop culture shapes science more than we like to admit

We all know science influences books, movies and TV – but the influence goes both ways.

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Apr 6 • 2:20 PM EDT • Science • theconversation.com
Rome unleashed an ancient ‘machine gun’ on Pompeii

The polybolos was centuries, if not millennia, before its time.

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Apr 6 • 12:47 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Is Cade Cunningham playing today? Pistons vs Magic prediction, injuries

The Detroit Pistons will be shorthanded against the Orlando Magic on Monday, but the good news is they've already clinched the 1-seed.

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Apr 6 • 11:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Earth's Population Has Surpassed The Planet's Capacity, Study Suggests

"We are pushing the planet harder than it can possibly cope."

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Apr 6 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Trump threatens Iran with ‘Hell’ as pope prays for peace

Trump’s message featured obscenities and appeared to mock Islam

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Apr 6 • 10:39 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
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Ten Exits SM Entertainment—Here's What It Means For NCT and WayV Full Statement Drama

The K-pop star's departure was announced April 6.

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Apr 6 • 10:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • lofficielusa.com
Apopka Mayor early voting starts this week as more personal accusations fly

Here's how to vote early in the heated Apopka Mayor runoff election.

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Apr 6 • 10:08 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Supreme Court clears way for Trump DOJ to wipe out Steve Bannon's conviction

Bannon, now a host of a popular MAGA podcast, was convicted in 2022 for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack .

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Apr 6 • 9:41 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
Scientists may have found a way to keep your bones strong for life

Scientists have identified a little-known receptor, GPR133, as a powerful regulator of bone strength. By activating it with a newly discovered compound called AP503, they were able to boost bone density in mice and counteract osteoporosis-like damage. The finding opens the door to a new kind of treatment that could not only prevent bone loss but also rebuild weakened bones, offering fresh hope for millions affected by osteoporosis, especially aging populations.

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Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Popular rock band cancels, postpones tour dates due to family health crisis

If you were planning on seeing Cold on tour in the near future, you might have to wait a bit longer.

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Apr 6 • 7:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
Platner using trivia games, happy hours to power Senate campaign

Democrat Graham Platner is attracting support for his Maine Senate campaign from voters willing to forgive his past transgressions and embrace his populist message.

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Apr 6 • 7:04 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Amid Trump support, prediction markets face political headwinds

Concerns about illegal gambling have prompted lawmakers to introduce proposals in Congress and the California Legislature to crack down on prediction markets, which are growing in popularity.

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Apr 6 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • sfchronicle.com
Why are popcorn buckets popular? Inside the collectibles rage

Struggling movie theaters have turned to selling increasingly elaborate novelty popcorn buckets to increase fans' concessions spending.

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
NCT's Ten leaves SM Entertainment, maintains group ties

Ten, a member of K-pop boy group NCT, has parted ways with SM Entertainment after his contract expired Wednesday. SM said both parties decided not...

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Apr 6 • 3:38 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreatimes.co.kr
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A global consensus establishes a basis for measuring and improving gut health

While “gut health” is becoming a popular term, mainly in media and marketing claims but also in the clinical context, researchers have not yet nailed down a definition. Now, a global group of 13 scientists and clinicians updates a consensus definition of gut health and implications from bench to bedside.

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Apr 6 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com
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Shiloh Jolie makes surprise cameo in Korean star Dayoung's music video

Shiloh Jolie, the 19-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is a backup dancer in K-pop star Dayoung's \

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Apr 5 • 8:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • usatoday.com
RAM pop-up clinics provide free medical, dental, and vision care to uninsured or underinsured Americans
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Apr 5 • 7:00 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Cubs Take Game One of Double Header

After last night’s postponed game, the Guardians faced a chilly Sunday double header against the Chicago Cubs. In game one, Slade Cecconi took the mound for Cleveland and Edward Cabrera for Chicago. Both starting pitchers gave it their all, keeping it a scoreless game into the eighth with both teams only notching one hit. Your […]

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Apr 5 • 4:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What did Pompeii smell like before it burned?

Ash from Roman incense burners indicate families burned tree resins from thousands of miles away.

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Apr 5 • 2:10 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
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Trying Italian sandwiches at Subway, Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's; best

I ordered an Italian sandwich from Subway, Jimmy John's, and Jersey Mike's to see which popular chain does the classic sub justice. One stood out.

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Apr 5 • 10:48 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Is it okay to eat standing up? A doctor weighs in.

That grab-and-go lunch might be the real problem.

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Apr 5 • 8:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

Democrat Graham Platner is attracting support for his Maine Senate campaign from voters willing to forgive his past transgressions and embrace his populist message

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Apr 5 • 7:20 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

Democrat Graham Platner is attracting support for his Maine Senate campaign from voters willing to forgive his past transgressions and embrace his populist message.

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Apr 5 • 7:19 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
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Winner and Loser of the Week in Florida politics

Pam Bondi is out. Alex Vindman is raising serious bucks. And school choice is more popular than ever.

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Apr 5 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
How a custom $84,962 tiny home became a luxury Airbnb

Sakura Kishiro, 26, bought a 400-square-foot tiny home and designed "every square inch." It became a popular vacation rental — and a source of income.

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Apr 5 • 5:10 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Influencers tout injectable peptides as key to youth and beauty. Scientists say they're 'a giant scam'

Crocodile dung. Tapeworms. Raw meat facials. Yes, at some point in history these wildly popular — and wildly unproven — treatments were how people tried to stay young. Right now, plenty of influencers will tell you that injectable peptides are the answer. But the scientists? Not so much.

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Apr 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca
Netflix, CBS, ABC & NBC Cancel 11 Popular Shows in 2026

Here are some of the television programs on the chopping block in 2026.

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Apr 4 • 10:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • mensjournal.com
Major changes delays entertainment complex headed for Texas coast

It'll be worth the wait as the company adds go-karting and mini-golf to its plans.

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Apr 4 • 5:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Apple’s latest acquisition is telling sign of where the company is headed

Last month, Apple acquired a popular Final Cut Pro plugin maker: MotionVFX. It isn’t clear what this acquisition will turn...

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Apr 4 • 12:43 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
University of Kansas Health System to discontinue pediatric intensive care services

The University of Kansas Health System will discontinue pediatric intensive care services due to low patient numbers and demand for beds by other populations.

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Apr 4 • 12:36 PM EDT • Health • kctv5.com
YouTube’s Gaming Historian Steps Back After 15 Years

Saying he's lost the spark, the popular gaming chronicler has a parting gift of Kong

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Apr 4 • 11:52 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Humans can still beat AI at video games

AI may have teams of engineers on its side, but humans have lived experience and better learning skills.

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Apr 4 • 11:19 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
1000 new African genomes added to global science

Wits-led AGenDA project sequenced 1,000+ African genomes, uncovering vast genetic diversity and novel variants. This helps correct Eurocentric bias in global datasets, improving disease prediction, treatment design, and ensuring African populations benefit from genomic medicine.

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Apr 4 • 10:25 AM EDT • Science • newswise.com
Apple CarPlay Just Got Three Popular iPhone Apps

Apple's CarPlay system for accessing iPhone apps on a vehicle's dashboard screen received three popular apps this week: ChatGPT, Google Meet, and Audiomack. CarPlay Ultra in an Aston Martin In addition, WhatsApp is beta testing a revamped CarPlay app that will improve upon the basic Siri-based functionality that was previously available. Make sure you have the latest version of each app and they will automatically appear on CarPlay.

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Apr 4 • 9:22 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
23 Things That Used To Be "Good"...Until They Became Way, Way, Way, Wayyy Too Popular

"National parks are ruined. I remember when the entrance was free... Now, there are permits, reservations, waiting lines, fast food, crowds, and trash everywhere."

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Apr 4 • 8:16 AM EDT • Technology • sg.style.yahoo.com
When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems

As online betting has grown in popularity, a new report from the New York Federal Reserve builds on the troubling link between legal sports wagering and financial health.

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Apr 4 • 5:15 AM EDT • Sports • npr.org
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Frescoes, bird-feeding lawsuit, judicial politics. Our top stories

Other popular reads: URI introduces new women's basketball coach; and Newport Creamery sold to Cape Cod developer.

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Apr 4 • 5:05 AM EDT • Politics • providencejournal.com
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Beauty as strategy: Why K-beauty is also a political success

K-beauty is more than just a cosmetics trend. South Korea has combined popular culture, innovation and national strategy to create a business model where beauty products are an economic and political tool.

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Apr 4 • 12:57 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com
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Thieves smash through 8-liner business wall to reach ATM after deputies' raid.

The owner of an 8-liner game room is out of luck—and apparently out a lot of money. Her business has been hit twice: Bexar County deputies shut it down last week, and then last night thieves struck. The owner tells our Pachatta Pope she didn't think she was doing anything illegal.

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K-Pop Star Mark Lee Exits SM Entertainment, Announces He's Leaving NCT 127 and NCT Dream

K-Pop star Mark Lee has announced he's leaving NCT 127 and NCT Dream following the conclusion of his contract with SM Ente...

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Apr 3 • 7:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • complex.com
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Pope Leo's political voice and how much influence he holds

Pope Leo XIV is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and after nearly a year of advocating for the poor and cautiously opposing controversial U.S. policies, Leo is offering a more public contrast with Trump. Compass Points moderator Nick Schifrin discusses the pope's first year and what his recent criticism says with Joseph Capizzi, Father Thomas Reese, Annie Selak and Stephen White.

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Apr 3 • 7:30 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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From Hollywood headlines to Heartland buzz: Are you on the pulse?

Test your knowledge of entertainment with this quiz on celebrities, trends and headline-making moments. Featured this week: celebrity scandals and guess the celebrity photo.

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Apr 3 • 5:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com
Downed fighter jet punctures Trump’s and Hegseth’s claims of air invulnerability

An Iran war that was already proving quite unpopular with the American people has entered a new, more problematic phase for President Donald Trump.

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Apr 3 • 4:07 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Scientists Witnessed the Formation of a Mysterious Particle for the First Time

Theories long predicted how polarons form, but now there’s proof.

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Apr 3 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Apr 3 • 12:57 PM EDT • Technology • interconnects.ai
Artemis II crew snaps stunning portrait of Earth on their way to the moon

The new, awe-inspiring image even features two auroras.

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Apr 3 • 10:56 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
K-pop Star Mark Lee Departing Sm Entertainment, Boy Groups Nct 127 and Nct Dream

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Apr 3 • 9:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • imdb.com
Trump pushed the Iran war in prime time. The public wasn’t sold.

The president is in a precarious political moment seven months before the midterm elections, facing some of his lowest approval ratings and presiding over an unpopular war.

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Apr 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
K-pop Star Mark Lee Departing SM Entertainment, NCT 127 and NCT Dream

In a surprise move, the 26-year-old, a founding member of the K-pop mega-group NCT, will exit the boy group and its subunits next week.

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Apr 3 • 3:35 AM EDT • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
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Mark leaves SM Entertainment after 10 years with NCT

Mark of K-pop boy band NCT will terminate his contract with SM Entertainment and leave the group, the agency said Friday. The decision, effective n...

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Apr 3 • 2:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreatimes.co.kr
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Guardianship is not a homelessness policy

By Amelia McKeon The federal government’s proposal to expand guardianship for homeless veterans is being framed as compassionate. It is anything but. It is a dangerous shift toward using one of the most restrictive legal tools we have as a substitute for real solutions — and it risks turning guardianship into a mechanism for forced […]

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Apr 3 • 2:30 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Dennis Quaid to Be Honored at Military and Veteran Entertainment Awards

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Apr 2 • 11:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • imdb.com
Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for April 3 #557

Here's today's Connections: Sports Edition answer and hints for groups. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Connections: Sports Edition, every day.

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Apr 2 • 9:22 PM EDT • Sports • cnet.com
Scientists say BMI gets it wrong for over one third of adults

A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the population. By comparing BMI classifications with precise body fat measurements using advanced DXA scans, researchers found that more than one-third of adults were placed in incorrect weight categories. Many people labeled as overweight or obese did not actually have the corresponding body fat levels, while others were missed entirely.

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Apr 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Migration can influence cardiovascular risk profiles, study shows

A new study shows that migration from Mexico to the United States can influence cardiovascular risk profiles. The study's findings are important for clinicians who serve immigrant populations and who ...

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Apr 2 • 6:50 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com
A ‘forbidden planet’ the size of Jupiter has astronomers stumped

TOI-5205 b has an odd amount of heavy metals.

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Apr 2 • 5:15 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
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Ancient Roman bone penis discovered in forgotten museum box

Phallic sculptures often guarded against the 'Evil Eye.'

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Apr 2 • 2:47 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Author Mary Roach to speak on weird science, human anatomy at Lawrence event

Mary Roach, a popular science writer with a funny bone, will talk in Lawrence about her new book on weird science and human anatomy, as part of a public library reading series.

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Apr 2 • 2:39 PM EDT • Science • lawrencekstimes.com
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The Human Population Has Overshot Earth's Long-Term Carrying Capacity, Scientists Warn

Have we overshot Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity?

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Apr 2 • 10:27 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Space now has 10 toilets

Artemis II's four astronauts share one toilet—and it already had issues.

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Poll shows Donald Trump underwater in home state of Florida

The President is significantly less popular in Florida than Ron DeSantis.

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Apr 2 • 9:07 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Poll: Congressional redistricting popular among Republicans, underwater with everyone else

Legislators are expected to convene later this month for a rare mid-decade reapportionment.

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Apr 2 • 8:52 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Pee changes how some mushrooms ‘talk’

Fungi communication networks are complicated, but urine may help translate their conversations.

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Apr 1 • 5:32 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
PDX launches year two of the pop-up program; two local businesses open up shop

Two new local businesses have opened up shop at Portland International Airport as part of the PDX pop-up program.

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Apr 1 • 3:03 PM EDT • Business • katu.com
All that magician chitchat? It’s not fooling your brain.

Researchers found patter doesn’t do much to misdirect viewers in a classic card trick.

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Apr 1 • 2:25 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Play every sport, try something new at Canlan Sports Camps

Kids ages 5-12 stay active at Canlan Sports Camps in Lake Barrington and Libertyville with sports, team games, pop-up activities and extended care options.

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500-million-year-old spider relative has claws where it shouldn’t

‘Megachelicerax cousteaui’ is named for French explorer Jacques Cousteau.

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Apr 1 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
The Strange, Shaky Alliance Taking on Trump and His Big Tech Friends

A billionaire-backed movement from Silicon Valley and populists like Bernie Sanders are eager to stop an AI disaster — but can they overcome their mutual distrust and work together?

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Apr 1 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
The best new popular science books of April 2026

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers, thanks to Richard Elwes

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Apr 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • newscientist.com
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Raising Cane's looks to add Sioux Falls location

Popular national chicken restaurant Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is taking steps toward a Sioux Falls location.

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Apr 1 • 8:48 AM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business
Here's That Random Selection Of Ads From A 1969 Issue Of 'Popular Science' You Wanted So Badly

Remember how you woke up last night, screaming and drenched in sweat, and reached for your phone to give me a call? You sounded pretty unhinged, I’ll be honest with you, and if you can deal with even more honesty, you were scaring me a bit. You asked – no, wait – demanded that I […]

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Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ: DVLT) and Demora Foundation Execute Technology Integration Agreement to Power the K-Entertainment & K-Wave Global Platform

DVLT × Demora Foundation: Datavault AI's Enterprise AI Stack Deployed as the Data Intelligence & RWA Tokenization Layer for K-Pop,…...

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Apr 1 • 7:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • ir.datavaultsite.com
Exclusive-Worries over science, new addicts stymie US nicotine pouch fast-track scheme

LONDON/NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - Popular nicotine pouch products have yet to be cleared for sale in the United States despite a fast-track Food and Drug Administration scheme, as agency scientists...

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Apr 1 • 7:45 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Exclusive: Worries over science, new addicts stymie US nicotine pouch fast-track scheme

Popular nicotine pouch products have yet to be cleared for sale in the ​United States despite a fast-track Food and Drug Administration scheme, as agency scientists hesitate to authorise them due to potential risks to new users, including ‌children, three sources told Reuters.

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Apr 1 • 7:40 AM EDT • Science • reuters.com
The Block in Bloom: Spring market pop-ups energize historic Black business district

Throughout the spring, entrepreneurs will flock to The Block — the historic heart of Asheville’s Black business and cultural district — for the Ujamaa Marketplace. The monthly, recurring vendors’ market launched in March and will continue to run through May, with a final special all-day gathering set for Juneteenth. On this week’s cover, starting left, alexandria ravenel, Aisha Adams and Ramona Young.

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