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Steven Corcelli named William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science

Steven A. Corcelli, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science by University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., effective April 1. Corcelli, who has served as interim science dean since July, was selected through a comprehensive national search launched after his predecessor, Santiago Schnell, was appointed as Dartmouth’s provost.

Mar 24 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • news.nd.edu

Ice In New Orleans, Floods In Los Angeles: Businesses’ Risk Reality

Extreme weather is reshaping business risk management, from billion‑dollar storm losses to unexpected climate events that disrupt operations.

Mar 24 • 7:20 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Fayetteville Community’s Choice Awards business spotlight: Woods Plumbing

We're in the final stretch! Ready to recognize your favorite local businesses? Submit your Fayetteville Community’s Choice Awards nominations today.

Mar 24 • 6:03 AM EDT • Business • fayobserver.com

Former Brazilian leader Bolsonaro's health improves and he could serve sentence under house arrest

One of his doctors says former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been transferred to a regular hospital room in the capital of Brasilia as he continues to recover from pneumonia

Mar 23 • 7:45 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com

Democratic and Republican Party officials face internal backlash after primaries

Party officials have received calls to resign amid endorsements and campaign spending in national and state primary elections.

Mar 23 • 5:12 PM EDT • Politics • newsobserver.com

Health inspectors found thawed seafood, food stored in buckets leading to temporary closure of Mama Tina’s Gumbo

Houston health inspectors investigating a customer illness complaint after eating Mama Tina’s Gumbo at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo found thawed seafood labeled “keep frozen” and learned the gumbo had been moved to a freezer at an unlicensed off-site location without temperature logs before being served, according to Houston Health Department records obtained by KPRC 2 News.

Mar 23 • 2:14 PM EDT • Health • click2houston.com

Beyond The Hype: How AI Is Rewiring Fashion’s Art And Science

AI is recalibrating fashion from design to supply chain. Explore how leaders at Levi’s, ALO Yoga, and REVOLVE bridge data-driven precision with human-inspired creativity.

Mar 23 • 1:52 PM EDT • Science • forbes.com

From radio to newsreels to Netflix, Yankees chart course through entertainment history

For more than a century, the Yankees have been more than a baseball team. The sport’s most storied franchise is a pop culture touchstone, a versatile backdrop that serves as both a symbol of excellence and a punchline across television, movies and more. So as the Yankees prepare to break

Mar 23 • 1:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • mlb.com

5 ChatGPT Prompts To Start Your Own Business From Scratch

Plenty of people want to work for themselves but never start. Use these ChatGPT prompts to go from idea to business owner today.

Mar 23 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com

New ‘Crimson Desert’ Patch Fixes Storage, Combat, Controls, Bosses, Fast Travel

A new Crimson Desert patch has fixed many of the game's biggest issues not even a week after launch. They really transform the game.

Mar 23 • 9:11 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Sewing And Munro Continue Dominance In New Global Sports Alliance International Pickleball Tour With Two Golds In Vietnam

The third event of the new Global Sports Pickleball Alliance saw the tour head to Ho Chi Minh City over the weekend, where Jack Munro and Sofia Sewing both won two golds.

Mar 23 • 8:48 AM EDT • Sports • forbes.com

How AT&T Business Powers TGL, a New Tech-Driven Golf League

Powered by AT&T Connectivity, TGL presented by SoFi preserves what makes golf great while transforming how fans experience it.

Mar 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • about.att.com

Personnel note: Tampa Electric names Ed Narain as Director of Regional Affairs

'Tampa Electric has a long history of supporting the growth and success of the communities it serves, and I look forward to helping strengthen those partnerships.'

Mar 23 • 4:45 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Volunteer US and UK fighters in Ukraine face hidden health crises, new study suggests

Former soldiers who have served as volunteer fighters in Ukraine experience high levels of mental and physical health difficulties yet are rarely able to access the health care they need, either during ...

Mar 23 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

AI Swarm Attacks Are Coming, Is Your Business Ready?

Leaders need a new cybersecurity playbook for the agentic era, with stronger governance, faster response systems, workforce awareness, and up-to-date security frameworks.

Mar 23 • 2:27 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Dean for Basic Science Colin Duckett tapped to serve as Boston University Provost

Duckett, executive vice dean for basic and preclinical science, will begin his tenure as chief academic officer at Boston University starting in July.

Mar 22 • 11:39 PM EDT • Science • dukechronicle.com

This Couple Turned A Facebook Marketplace Side Hustle Into A Seven-Figure Business

When Harrison Gordon and Paige Sandher couldn't find a modular custom sofa that was also affordable, they designed their own. They built a fast-growing business around their idea.

Mar 22 • 6:19 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Your Thymus and Your Healthspan

Our thymus gland plays a central role in the development or our immune system, specifically for supporting T cell development (how these cells got their name, maturation and differentiation in the thymus) and discriminating between self and foreign, non-self antigen proteins with production of dendritic cells. As we age, our thymus gland shrinks—the process known as involution—with progressive change from spongy to fatty tissue, with loss of functionality. But this process, with respect to timeline and extent, markedly varies from one person to the next. And to make things even more complicated, our thymus gland anatomy and precise location in the chest also is highly variable. So the famous Frank Netter diagrams from the 1960s (such as at left below) don’t capture the remarkable heterogeneity that a random set of 12 chest CT scans (below at right). What I consider as 2 landmark papers in Nature this week (here and here) used AI to quantify health of the thymus in 2 large cohorts, and then correlate the metric to a broad array of health outcomes. In this edition of Ground Truths, I’m going to cover three questions: (1) How was thymus health determined by AI?; (2) How is thymus health linked to key clinical outcomes? and (3) Are there ways we can promote a healthy (aka rejuvenate) thymus gland in our later years? Subscribe 1. How was thymus health determined by AI? This was accomplished by extensive work developing and validating an AI pipeline for 2 stages, the first for localization and segmentation of the thymus bed, and the second to quantify a digital marker, termed the thymic health score. There’s a lot to this algorithmic development, so I won’t go into all the details, but just provide a rudimentary outline of what was done. The 1st stage used supervised learning with 2 radiologists reviewing 2,461 chest CT scans. That work trained a 3D U-Net model to automatically identify the thymic bed’s 3D cropped region using center of mass coordinates, which reached 99.8% accuracy. The 2nd stage used a foundation model that was pre-trained with SwAV (which stands for Swapping Assignment between multiple Views), a self-supervised model, that generated a high-dimensional thymus representation of 4,096 features. That compares to the radiology reductionist and subjective scoring of 0 to 3 where 0 means the thymus is fully degenerated and fatty, and 3 is considered dense, intact glandular soft tissue. Notably, the self-supervised learning (SSL) performance was superior to supervised (AUC ~0.75 vs 0.55, respectively) reflecting the shallowness of the 0-3 classifier vs SSL’s holistic, self-taught AI. The thymic health score ranged from 0 to 100, with the highest number indexed to fully preserved thymic health. The algorithmic work extended to explainability with both Shapely value distribution, meaning the model was holistic not relying on any “magic” pixel, and occlusion sensitivity, demonstrating the model’s performance was not affected by ribs, sternum, lung tissue, but rather focused on the thymic bed directly. Below are a few saliency maps from the occlusion sensitivity that indicate the thymic bed focus, not affected by neighboring structures, using the jet color scale. Now the AI was ready for processing ~25,000 CT scans, each over 30 MB files, from the 2 large participant cohorts to provide a thymic health score, it did so in less than 14 hours, which is less than 2 seconds per scan! Share 2. How is thymus health linked to key clinical outcomes? The two cohorts were the National Lung Screening Trial, NLST (N=25,031) and the Framingham Heart Study, FHS (N=2,581) each with baseline demographics and long term follow up of >12 years for health outcomes. From the NSLT, you can see below that increased age and body-mass index were correlated to reduced thymic health. And, overall, men had reduced thymic health scores compared with women. There are a lot of graphs in the paper for outcomes, for both the NLST and FHS cohorts. To simplify the major outcomes, below is a composite Figure with striking reduction of all-cause mortality and for the different causes of death. The results were consistent between the 2 cohorts. For example, the cardiovascular mortality hazard ratio average was 0.57 in NLST and 0.38 in FHS (weighted to be 0.53 for the aggregate). The reduction of mortality also extended to digestive diseases and pulmonary disease (data not shown below). Lung cancer incidence was reduced by 36% for high vs low thymic health (Figure below, with a panel -incidence and b panel-mortality, adjusted for age, sex, BMI, smoking status). Notably, there was a smoker’s paradox: lower incidence and improved survival for lung cancer in smokers who had a high thymus health score. Smoking was associated with lower thymic scores whereas alcohol was not. Higher thymic health was linked to higher HDL cholesterol, lower triglycerides, lower fasting blood glucose, and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Inflammation biomarkers, such as C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, were elevated in the people with lower thymic health scores. In their second paper, the same team looked at the relationship between thymic score and outcomes for 3,476 patients receiving cancer immunotherapy. The non-small cell lung cancer progression-free survival was reduced in patients with low thymic health score. A parallel relationship for survival was seen for other types of cancer including melanoma, breast, and kidney with a 44% lower risk among high thymic scores (Figure). A similar pattern was seen with different immune checkpoint inhibitors. The thymus health score outperformed programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1)and tumor mutation burden (TMB) assay of the tumor and was an independent prognostic marker of progression-free survival. In this dataset, a direct connect with thymus score and adaptive immune function was noted with a correlation before cancer treatment for both T-cell diversity and thymus T-cell production (a metric known as T cell receptor excision circles). Thymus Removal Study There is a highly relevant citation about thymus function before moving onto ways to rejuvenate it. In 2023, a very important study of thymus removal during cardiothoracic surgery was published, with 1146 patients undergoing thymus removal vs 1146 matched controls (mean age 55 years). The adverse outcomes for thymus removal were striking, with a 2.9 higher risk of all-cause mortality and doubling of cancer incidence, 1.5 fold increase in cancer mortality, and 1.5-fold increase in autoimmune diseases. The immune function showed marked compromise after thymus removal, as reflected by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells (Figure below) Share Ground Truths 3. Are there ways we can promote a healthy (aka rejuvenate) thymus gland in our later years? In recent months we’ve learned a lot about the process of thymus involution and the pathways by which this may be modulated. Thymus involution is primarily due to loss to thymus epithelial cells (TECs) and there are 2 subtypes with different functions: the cortical, responsible for positive selection of T cells, and the medullary, for negative selection. When adipose tissue infiltrates the thymus, thymic adipocytes are pro-inflammatory, knocking out T-cell output. Likewise, systemic inflammation, or “inflammaging,” from smoking, obesity, and chronic stress promote thymic adipocytes. Now, from preclinical studies, we know about key pathways that account for these processes. Historically, back in 2014, FOXN1 was recognized as a single master transcription factor essential for TEC function, with studies in mice with forced FOXN1 upregulation leading to thymus regeneration. That laid the foundation for potential regrowth of quiescent thymus cells. It took awhile to find pathways to accomplish this goal and to even refute its role as the master regulator. The Liver-Thymus Axis Feng Zhang and his team recently showed that injection of an mRNA vaccine to the liver encoding DLL1, IL-7 and FLT3-L in combination, factors known to support thymopoiesis (Figure), successfully enhanced immune function in aged mice. However, the effect was transient. The FGF21 Story Two reports in 2025 addressed the thymus gland’s production of FGF21, a growth factor (fibroblast growth factor 21) and its control of thymus involution. This growth factor is also produced by the liver, but it doesn’t have impact on the thymus in aged rodent models. In contrast, The liver’s hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has been shown to reverse senescent TEC structural changes. Growth hormone stimulates production of insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in the liver and the thymus. Two small studies in human participants (TRIIM, for Thymus Regeneration, Immunorestoration, and Insulin Mitigation) of 6 and 50 people, respectively, treated with combined human growth hormone, metformin and DHEA, suggested the potential of slowing epigenetic aging and improving thymus mass and function. But the combination of drugs, small sample, and lack of controls make conclusions murky. Increased thymus FGF21 led to increased CD8 T cells in old mice and extended healthspan and improved physical performance. Building on the previous FOXN1 data, ablation of β-klotho, the obligatory co-receptor for FOXN1, accelerated thymic aging. The benefit to FGF21 was confirmed in a companion paper using an FGF21 knock-in mouse model showing thymus enlargement and increased TECs throughout the lifespan. (schematic Figure below). The accompanying editorial for these 2 papers speculated: “The proposed link between age-associated thymus involution and organismal aging is intriguing, and suggests we might seek to achieve systemic rejuvenation by counteracting thymic involution.” Other Factors Lessons from the Axolotl (Mexican Salamander) In an elegant set of experiments of the axolotl (Figure), known for its complete thymus regeneration after total surgical removal, mediators were identified. Surprisingly FOXN1 was dispensable. But midkine, a growth factor, appeared to be the driver, the initiator of thymus cell growth, survival, and repair. Other components that contributed were Postn+ (periostin-expressing mesenchymal niches) and Ccl19, a chemokine protein from the bloodstream. RANK and RANKL RANK (receptor activator of nuclear factor κB its ligand (RANKL) have been considered key regulators of medullary TECs. In a study of both aged mice and human thymus cell cultures, their key role was confirmed, with multiple benefits of resorting TEC function, recruitment of progenitor cells, and T cell development. Subscribe Summing Up This body of work strongly supports the health of the thymus gland as a critical regulator of human healthspan, not just a correlate or link. The new landmark studies are reinforced by the regenerative biology experimental models that have shown, via an array of mediators, that healthspan of aged mice is at least in part dependent on thymus gland function and its critical role for maintaining adaptive immunity. It sure seems that we’d be better off having an immune reservoir of naive T cells instead of a profile in older adults of exhausted, low quality, memory T cells, with a senescent phenotype. It is striking that we ignored the importance of the thymus gland for many decades. A wake-up call was the results of the thymectomy matched control study reviewed here, with the opposite of high thymic health score improved health outcomes. The convergence of AI and healthspan here is notable. The exceptional and laborious work for developing and validating (no less explaining) the AI to quantify thymus health set the foundation for probing the connect the major health outcomes in two cohorts with extensive follow-up. We’ve never had a way to meaningfully quantify the thymus gland before, so this represents important leverage of supervised, self-supervised, and transformer models. The study wouldn’t have been possible without AI. And it begs the question as to whether there are ways we can maintain our thymus at a high health score. But it’s not so simple to rejuvenate our thymus. There are multiple risks including the induction of autoimmunity, increasing the risk of cancer, and inducing a pro-inflammatory state. For example, factors that increase TEC proliferation could compromise the medulllary negative selection process and leak out auto-reactive (self-attacking) T cells. Thymic cells could be induced to proliferate, but we know, for example, that growth hormone and IGF-1 are associated with an increase risk of cancer. If thymus rejuvenation doesn’t clear out the accumulated senescent cells in older adults, then inflammation within the gland could block the production of TECs. Keeping these risks in mind, we now have identified many ways to keep our thymus healthy as we age that undoubtedly will be tested in clinical trials going forward. Ultimately, the benefit-to-risk tradeoffs will be defined. In the meantime, we have desperately needed an immunome. As I’ve stressed in multiple prior Ground Truths, we have no test in the clinic to assess a patient’s immune status! It was very encouraging for me to get an email from Hugo Aerts, the senior author of the landmark papers in the days after they were published: “I also wanted to say that your Substack on “Why We Need an Immunome” was inspiring for this work. We found it a very compelling perspective and greatly enjoyed reading it.” Just having an assessment of a person’s immune status via a chest CT scan, with millions of these performed per year, might help in guiding the right immunotherapy for cancer (e.g. more intensive, combinations for those with low thymic health scores) and help define people who are increased risk for age-related diseases of cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative. The main theme of Super Agers is that we now have many layers of data (genetics, proteins, biomarkers, organ clocks that can be integrated via multimodal AI) for us to define a person’s specific risk decades before one of these age-related diseases leads to symptoms, enabling prevention. From the new studies this week, we can add thymus health score as yet another way to understand a person’s risk, a window into their adaptive immune system and healthspan. And perhaps someday we will be able to safely rejuvenate the thymus, or maintain its health through one’s life, and use the thymus health score to monitor. NB: I wrote this post (No A.I.) A Quick Poll Loading... ********************************************************************* Thanks to Ground Truths subscribers (now > 200,000) from every US state and 212 countries. Your subscription to these free essays and podcasts makes my work in putting them together worthwhile. Please join! If you found this interesting PLEASE share it! Share Ground Truths Paid subscriptions are voluntary and all proceeds from them go to support Scripps Research. They do allow for posting comments and questions, which I do my best to respond to. Please don’t hesitate to post comments and give me feedback. Let me know topics that you would like to see covered. Leave a comment Many thanks to those who have contributed—they have greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for the past two years. It enabled us to accept and support 47 summer interns in 2025! We aim to accept even more of the several thousand who will apply for summer 2026.

Mar 22 • 2:18 PM EDT • Health • erictopol.substack.com

Sony PlayStation Network down: PS5 users report widespread server issues; 'please fix it'

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Mar 21 • 4:35 PM EDT • Technology • hindustantimes.com

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Mar 21 • 3:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • nypost.com

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Saturday lauded the policy record of the late Fed Chair Paul Volcker, who raised interest rates and sparked a recession to tame the high inflation that took off during the 1970s.

Mar 21 • 1:30 PM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com

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In an incredibly lucky cosmic accident, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet breaking apart in real time—something astronomers have long tried and failed to observe. The comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), wasn’t even the original target, but when researchers pivoted to it, they unknowingly caught it mid-disintegration into multiple pieces.

Mar 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

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Mar 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

The insular bubble of caucuses and assemblies

Nearly 30 years ago, then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan coined the term “irrational exuberance” to describe the overheated stock market. That descriptive phrase could also apply to much of the political realm. The hype in politics often grossly exceeds the reality on the ground. In that vein, let’s focus on Colorado’s precinct caucuses held earlier […]

Mar 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

One arrested, another cited in shoplifting incident at business on East Avenue in Chico

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Mar 20 • 11:07 PM EDT • Business • actionnewsnow.com

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Mar 20 • 7:17 PM EDT • Business • fortune.com

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Christy Carlson Romano is firing shots at her old 'Even Stevens' costar Shia LaBeouf's direction, agreeing with Demi Lovato that LaBeouf 'doesn't deserve' to be counted among the all-time Disney Channel greats.

Mar 20 • 8:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

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Mar 20 • 7:04 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

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Mar 20 • 12:43 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com

Justice Department probe of Powell could backfire on Trump and keep Fed chair in office

President Donald Trump has for months wanted to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. But instead, an investigation by one of his own officials could end up extending Powell's time at the top of the central bank even after his term formally ends May 15.

Mar 19 • 5:31 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

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Nvidia’s DLSS 5 graphics upgrade sparked backlash, memes and mockery, with gamers rejecting the proposed “AI slop” filter.

Mar 19 • 4:30 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

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Mar 19 • 10:23 AM EDT • Entertainment • forbes.com

Crimson Desert’s Metacritic Score Leads To 30% Pearl Abyss Stock Drop

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Mar 19 • 9:53 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

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Businesses that create superior value—delivering customer benefits exceeding costs, driving loyalty and retention—consistently outperform those chasing short-term profits

Mar 19 • 9:16 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

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Sauce Labs says its approach to testing, based on business intent, can help enterprises break the logjam caused by the need for quality assurance in software development

Mar 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

What Business Leaders Can Learn From A Symphony Orchestra

How Montreal Symphony Orchestra leaders balance artistic excellence and business strategy, offering lessons in leadership, innovation and audience growth.

Mar 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Rats, gnats and Yik Yak. Queens University responds to dining health concerns

The university received a lackluster health inspection in January and an improved one in February before other student concerns emerged.

Mar 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • charlotteobserver.com

Samsung may open One UI 8.5 beta program for Galaxy S24 series

Firmware for the Galaxy S24 series featuring One UI 8.5 (Android 16 QPR2) has been spotted on Samsung's server.

Mar 19 • 2:09 AM EDT • Technology • sammobile.com

Dickens calls on business community to help tackle neighborhood disparities

In his State of the City address, the mayor urged businesses to "say yes" and help invest in underserved areas.

Mar 18 • 9:47 PM EDT • Business • ajc.com

John Bolton: Gabbard focused on ‘trying to preserve her job’ even if it means looking incompetent

Mar 18 • 9:44 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady

Federal Reserve policymakers chose to leave interest rates unchanged at their March meeting amid a softening labor market and uncertainty over the economic impact of the Iran war.

Mar 18 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com

Here’s The Release Time For ‘Fortnite’ Chapter 7, Season 2: Showdown

Fortnite Chapter 7 season 2 is about to arrive, and here's the release time, along with some of the things we know are coming.

Mar 18 • 9:47 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

The Road Less Considered: The Overlooked Connection Between Infrastructure, Nature And Public Health

Improving infrastructure with nature in mind, including building wildlife crossings that save animal and human lives.

Mar 18 • 1:15 AM EDT • Health • forbes.com

Juliana Stratton wins Democratic primary, set to become Illinois’ second Black woman senator

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton is all but certain to make history, becoming one of three Black women to serve in the Senate at the same time.

Mar 17 • 10:21 PM EDT • Politics • 19thnews.org

MacBook Neo rivalis cloud servers in database workload test

DuckDB compared the MacBook Neo with a range of cloud servers to see how Apple’s new entry-level laptop performs on heavy database workloads.

Mar 17 • 9:29 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

‘Just really unique’: Williamsport business preserves history — and finds surprise in basement

“You hate to see history disappear,” said Adam Roskowski, owner of Rosko’s Brew House in Williamsport. That was his motivation for buying the building now housing his craft beer pub at 601 Pine Street. After being vacant for years, Adam was keen to buy the Victorian – not just because of its historic charm but […]

Mar 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • sungazette.com

Douglas County Commissioner Mary Ann Borgeson reflects on 32 years in politics

As Women’s History Month highlights the achievements of women in society and culture, one woman has served the metro area community for more than three decades.

Mar 17 • 6:01 PM EDT • Politics • wowt.com

Orange Bank & Trust Company Celebrates Women’s Leadership at Annual Bronx Women in Business Event

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Mar 17 • 3:00 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Nvidia’s AI-Powered Photorealistic Gaming Technology Roasted As ‘AI Slop’

Nvidia promised its new technology is a “dramatic leap in visual realism,” though gamers voiced fears it will diminish the artistic appearance of video games.

Mar 17 • 1:31 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Science & Innovation

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Mar 17 • 10:24 AM EDT • Science • thefai.org

Environmental science student earns prestigious internship at Germany’s Freiburg University

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Mar 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • kennesaw.edu

Plan to light Earth at night with space mirrors angers scientists

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Mar 17 • 7:05 AM EDT • Science • thetimes.com

Entertainment district expands in Lakewood Ranch

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Mar 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yourobserver.com

'Arteta has been smart in managing Dowman'

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Mar 17 • 4:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Why Colorado businesses should oppose SB26-134

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Mar 17 • 2:15 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

Legislation shifts too big a burden onto family court

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Mar 17 • 1:45 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

NVIDIA launches RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, single-slot GPU with 32GB memory and 165W TDP

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Mar 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com

A new era for understanding mental health with smartphone-derived digital traces

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Mar 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com

Salt: A Vital Compound for Science and Society

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Mar 16 • 1:38 PM EDT • Science • eos.org

Bleak Economic Indicators Add To Business Risk

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Mar 16 • 1:28 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Is Working Through Cancer

Wiles, who is the first woman to serve as chief of staff, has been diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer.

Mar 16 • 1:15 PM EDT • Politics • nymag.com

Breaking: First One UI 9 build is here for the Galaxy S26 Ultra

Samsung has started the development of the Android 17-based One UI 9 update for the Galaxy S26 Ultra. It has appeared on Samsung's servers.

Mar 16 • 3:02 AM EDT • Technology • sammobile.com

Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms

A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifts away from talking about vaccine policy.

Mar 15 • 6:51 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com

Google Zero-Day Alert For 3.5 Billion Chrome Users—Attacks Underway

Google has confirmed an emergency Chrome security update amid reports that attackers are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities.

Mar 15 • 10:45 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Why Are People Hating ‘Marathon’ As A Sport?

Marathon has been the target of a relentless hate campaign for months now, which is amplifying after launch. But why?

Mar 15 • 8:29 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental...

Mar 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time

‘Cryosleep’ remains the preserve of science fiction, but researchers are getting closer to restoring brain function after deep freezing

Mar 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com

Scientists Unveil Cheaper and Faster Way To Extract Lithium From Massive Untouched Reserves

A new solvent-based technique could change how lithium is extracted from brines, potentially making the process faster, cheaper, and viable in places where conventional methods fail. Few elements are as key to the clean energy transition as lithium, and global demand for it is soaring. The metal

Mar 15 • 1:49 AM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

Scientists Solve a 70-Year Mystery Behind the Universe’s Strange Magnetic Fields

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, but their origin has remained one of plasma astrophysics’ most persistent mysteries. Planets, star

Mar 14 • 11:28 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

Duke battles Virginia in the ACC Tournament Championship game

See photos from the ACC Tournament championship game between the Blue Devils and the Cavaliers

Mar 14 • 9:46 PM EDT • Sports • charlotteobserver.com

Seahawks free agency 2026: Seattle brings back a reserve cornerback

Seattle re-signs Shemar Jean-Charles to bolster the cornerback depth.

Mar 14 • 8:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Scientists discover hidden water beneath Mars that could have supported life

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago, leaving behind minerals that can preserve signs of life. Even after surface water disappeared, subsurface flows may have created protected environments for microbes. These hidden habitats could be key targets in the ongoing search for past life on Mars.

Mar 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Scientists Discover Ice Age Forests in the North Sea’s Sunken “Lost World”

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

Mar 14 • 11:26 AM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

‘ARC Raiders’ Head Praises ‘Unusual’ Marathon Turnaround

ARC Raiders and Marathon may be genre rivals, but the boss of Embark has kind words for Bungie and their turnaround sparked by implementing feedback quickly.

Mar 14 • 8:45 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Google Zero-Day Alert For 3.5 Billion Chrome Users—Attacks Underway

Google has confirmed an emergency Chrome security update amid reports that attackers are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities.

Mar 14 • 8:43 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Linux Finally Catches Up to Windows with a Game-Changing Performance Feature

For years, the Linux kernel’s scheduler has been world‑class at balancing loads, yet it missed a crucial, cache‑aware instinct. In modern multi‑core systems, that gap can turn into measurable latency, especially when threads bounce between cores that don’t share the same cache. A new upstream feature, often called Cache Aware Scheduling, is now set to change that equation. A cache‑savvy scheduler arrives At the heart of any OS, the scheduler decides which thread runs where and for how long. In modern CPUs, small private caches (L1 and L2) sit beside each core, while a larger Last Level Cache (LLC, typically L3) is shared among groups of cores. When a task migrates across LLC boundaries, its warm data may vanish from the cache, forcing slower trips to main memory. Cache Aware Scheduling keeps related tasks close to their shared LLC, reducing destructive migrations. By respecting cache topology, the kernel minimizes cold‑start penalties and preserves locality that many workloads desperately need. The result is less thrashing, fewer memory stalls, and more consistent throughput. "Keep tasks close to their data, and the system will keep performance close to its peak." Why this narrows the Windows gap Windows has long leaned on topology‑aware, cache‑sensitive heuristics, especially since the Windows 10 era. That advantage helped Microsoft handle hybrid designs with P‑cores and E‑cores, plus complex cluster and NUMA layouts. With cache awareness integrated upstream, Linux brings parity to this vital dimension, without sacrificing its trademark flexibility. The Linux approach remains deeply configurable, reflecting the ecosystem’s breadth across servers, desktops, and embedded devices. It layers atop existing NUMA‑balancing and energy‑aware logic, refining placement rather than reinventing the wheel. Crucially, it aligns scheduling with the hardware’s real shape, not just with abstract CPU counts. Real‑world gains and who benefits Early tests on Intel Sapphire Rapids platforms point to gains in the 30–45% range for select workloads. Those wins appear in cache‑sensitive tasks like in‑memory analytics, high‑thread compilation, and microservices with tight working‑sets. Games and latency‑bound engines can also feel steadier frame‑times, especially when threads share hot assets. The benefits extend to AMD’s 3D V‑Cache parts, where keeping threads near enlarged cache slices prevents needless misses. Hybrid x86 designs with performance and efficiency cores further profit when cache and core roles are scheduled in concert. Even handhelds running SteamOS can squeeze more out of limited power, translating cache locality into smoother play. Key advantages include: Lower end‑to‑end latency Fewer expensive misses to RAM Better multi‑socket and NUMA behavior Improved energy efficiency More predictable QoS under mixed loads Stronger scaling on dense servers Caveats, tuning, and rollout No scheduler change is purely free, and trade‑offs still exist. Favoring locality can reduce cross‑cluster balance if limits are set too tight. Likewise, fairness and utilization must remain healthy, especially under heterogeneous, bursty workloads. Linux’s implementation is designed to be measured and tunable, not a blunt instrument. It cooperates with energy‑aware scheduling for mobile efficiency, and with NUMA‑balancers on big iron. Expect architecture‑specific refinements as vendors surface richer topology hints and cache‑sharing maps. Upstream integration has begun, with broad distribution adoption likely over the next cycles. Many users will encounter the change through standard kernel updates in 2025–2026, depending on distro cadence. Server‑class kernels may enable or tune it sooner for targeted fleets where cache locality is money in the bank. How to think about performance impact Cache Aware Scheduling amplifies gains when your workload is both CPU‑bound and cache‑sensitive. Think tight inner loops, hot code paths, and datasets that fit snugly in shared LLC. It’s less dramatic for I/O‑bound services or memory‑hungry tasks that blow past cache capacity. Still, even modest locality improvements often translate into smoother tail‑latency, which is where user experience and SLAs typically break. Developers can further help by pinning related threads, batching work, and aligning data to reduce cross‑cluster chatter. The scheduler’s new awareness works best when applications expose good hints. The bottom line By understanding and honoring cache topology, Linux removes a subtle yet costly bottleneck. The kernel’s smarter placement keeps hot data hot and work near where it belongs. That narrows a long‑standing gap with Windows, while preserving the openness and tunability Linux champions. For gamers, creators, and operators, the payoff is practical: more consistent frames, faster builds, and snappier services. For the ecosystem, it’s another step toward hardware‑savvy scheduling that turns transistor complexity into real‑world speed. And for Linux itself, it’s a timely upgrade that matches today’s silicon with tomorrow’s expectations.

Mar 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • iowaparkleader.com

Small Business Technology News: Musk: X Money Launching In April

Will your customers pay with X? Also, new scams announced by the FBI and Microsoft wants you to hire its agents instead to do tasks.

Mar 14 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Why Pentesting Is Important For Small Businesses

Learn why businesses need penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities, prevent breaches and strengthen cybersecurity defenses as cyber threats rise.

Mar 14 • 4:45 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

CFTC Urges Prediction Markets To Partner With Sports Leagues

CFTC issued guidance and an ANPRM for event contracts. Sports—up to 90% of volume—are a focus of the guidance encouraging platforms to partner with sports leagues.

Mar 14 • 12:52 AM EDT • Sports • forbes.com

Scientists discover ancient DNA “switches” hidden in plants for 400 million years

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million regulatory DNA sequences that act like genetic switches, controlling when and how genes are activated. These sequences, known as conserved non-coding sequences (CNSs), were detected using a new computational tool called Conservatory.

Mar 13 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Many Indigenous peoples and local communities live in close contact with nature and learn to identify the wildlife around them from an early age. New research published in the International Journal of Conservation draws on that knowledge to better understand a scientifically documented trend: large bird populations are shrinking. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, an ethnobotanist with the […]

Mar 13 • 7:21 PM EDT • Science • news.mongabay.com

Opinion | A Judicial Climate Science Scandal

How political actors hijacked an education manual for judges to serve the plaintiffs bar.

Mar 13 • 5:43 PM EDT • Science • wsj.com

Stick to sports or not, student-athletes need a voice in the room

President Donald Trump's college sports roundtable didn't include any current college players. They deserve a voice, not to be scapegoated.

Mar 13 • 4:54 PM EDT • Sports • andscape.com

Judge tosses DOJ's subpoenas to Federal Reserve

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro took issue with a federal judge's decision to strike down subpoenas sent to the Federal Reserve.

Mar 13 • 3:44 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Judge quashes Justice Department subpoena of Federal Reserve

Judge James Boasberg said that a "mountain of evidence suggests" that the purpose of the subpoenas was simply to pressure the Fed to cut its key interest rate

Mar 13 • 3:41 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

The New CEO Of Acquisition.com: From Goldman To Building The ‘Disney Of Business’

Most Goldman Sachs bankers leave with a set of deal-structuring skills and a polished LinkedIn profile. Sharran Srivatsaa left with a lesson he learned at a closing dinner.

Mar 13 • 1:06 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Drake University’s Zimpleman College of Business Announces 2026 Social Impact Award Winners

Drake University’s Zimpleman College of Business today announced the recipients of the 2026 Social Impact Awards for Research and Outreach. These annual awards, valued at $5,000, recognize faculty and staff who model positive societal impact through work that aligns with the College’s “North Star” mission: ensuring business education serves as a force for good. To...

Mar 13 • 12:40 PM EDT • Business • news.drake.edu

Five Ways Small Business Is Represented In This Year’s Oscar Nominee

The 98th Academy Awards are this Sunday at 7:00 PM ET, airing on ABC and streaming on Hulu. Here are five Oscar nominees where small business is featured prominently.

Mar 13 • 11:01 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Google Zero-Day Alert For 3.5 Billion Chrome Users—Attacks Underway

Google has confirmed an emergency Chrome security update amid reports that attackers are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities.

Mar 13 • 10:10 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

Fed's favored inflation gauge remained stubbornly high in January as consumer price pressures persist

The Commerce Department on Friday released the January 2026 PCE inflation report, which showed the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge remained stubbornly high for consumers.

Mar 13 • 8:34 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com