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Fastenal CEO says business has been ‘slowly ramping up’ since last summer

Fastenal CEO Dan Florness joins 'Money Movers' to discuss an uptick in industrial production, tariff impacts, and more.

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Apr 13 • 12:11 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Mystery item spotted in 2,000-year-old Egyptian child mummy

Critical information about this unknown boy was destroyed during World War II.

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Apr 13 • 11:45 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Iran war has some US water utilities facing a fluoride shortage

Some U.S. water utilities are reporting that the Middle East war is disrupting their ability to maintain recommended fluoride levels in the drinking water.

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Apr 13 • 11:36 AM EDT • Health • click2houston.com
Suspect allegedly steals 26 pounds of honey from Weld County business

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a thief who allegedly stole 26 pounds of honey from a business over the weekend.

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Apr 13 • 11:32 AM EDT • Business • kdvr.com
ECU Health Medical Center Surgical Intensive Care Unit earns Beacon Award for Excellence

National award from American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recognizes exceptional patient care

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Apr 13 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • ecuhealth.org
4A Games announces Metro 2039, and we're getting an Xbox-themed reveal stream later this week

Developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver have announced Metro 2039, the fourth entry in the post-apocalyptic FPS series. A full reveal is coming this week.

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Apr 13 • 10:39 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
NASA Night-light Imagery Tracks US Energy Transition, Global Volatility

New nighttime maps based on NASA satellite imagery are upending assumptions, revealing a world where artificial brightening and dimming have intensified over

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Apr 13 • 10:31 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
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A decade in, the Baton Rouge Health District plans its next 10 years

For the past decade, Baton Rouge’s largest health systems, hospitals and research institutions have been engaged in an exercise that may seem counterintuitive on its face. In an industry defined by competition—for patients, for employees and for research dollars—the city’s health care leaders are attempting to prove that collaboration can be just as powerful. The […]

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Apr 13 • 10:24 AM EDT • Health • businessreport.com
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Smart Adhesive Is Key to Crease-Free Foldable iPhone Display

Advances in optically clear adhesive (OCA) will be a key factor in achieving a near-invisible crease in Apple's first foldable iPhone expected later this year, according to TrendForce. The supply chain intelligence firm outlined the key technologies in a new report on foldable display innovation, explaining that creases form when layers within the display panel fall out of alignment, concentrating stress at the fold and causing micro-cracks or permanent deformation over time.

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Apr 13 • 9:57 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Tune in on Thursday for Xbox First Look: Metro 2039

Get ready for the world premiere of Metro 2039, the next entry in 4A Games’ beloved post-apocalyptic FPS series, presented by Xbox this Thursday.

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Apr 13 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
Data Breaches Announced by DermCare Management; Option Care Health; Aetna

Data breaches have recently been announced by DermCare Management in Florida, Option Care Health in New York, and Aetna in Connecticut. DermCare Data breaches have recently been announced by DermCare Management in Florida, Option Care Health in New York, and Aetna in Connecticut.

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Apr 13 • 8:20 AM EDT • Health • hipaajournal.com
IRA Financial Named Business of the Year by Sioux Empire United Way

SIOUX FALLS, S.D., April 13, 2026--IRA Financial, a leading provider of self-directed retirement solutions, today announced it has been named Business of the Year by Sioux Empire United Way as part of its 2026 annual Thank You Event. The award recognizes organizations that demonstrate exceptional commitment to supporting the Sioux Empire community through philanthropy, volunteerism, and leadership.

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Apr 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Leaker adds support for red iPhone 18 color rumor, in a slightly weird way

Bloomberg reported back in February that Apple was considering a new deep red color option for the iPhone 18 Pro,...

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Apr 13 • 7:08 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
9 questions radiology practices should ask when pursuing ‘disruptive innovation’

CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. Kaihan Krippendorff, MBA, spoke on April 12 during the opening keynote of the Radiology Business Management Association’s annual meeting.

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Apr 13 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
‘Lady Disdain’ world premiere rides sparkling into Overture

Madison company Forward Theater presents Lauren Gunderson’s bawdy enemies-to-lovers adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” through April 26.

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Apr 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com
New data suggests Trump’s assault on democracy may be stalling out

Three new reports give some surprising reasons for optimism.

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Apr 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com
The ‘Wild West’ of peptides is booming. Here’s what’s real, what’s risky and what’s next

In the early 2020s, interest in GLP-1 weight loss drugs exploded. Now, as we move deeper into the decade, a new buzzword is taking over: peptides.

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Apr 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • cnn.com
Seth Cohen on Accelerating AI Adoption for Lasting Business Impact

P&G’s Chief Information Officer Seth Cohen took the stage at Human[X] to share how companies can leverage AI to drive real, measurable impact across their business.

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Apr 13 • 3:25 AM EDT • Business • us.pg.com
Schwalbe Reveals New Romy Tire, UltraSoft Compound & Radial Tacky Chan

New tread patterns and new rubber compound options.

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Apr 13 • 3:01 AM EDT • Technology • pinkbike.com
Trump’s strait blockade risks another serious blow to the global economy

The failure of US-Iran peace talks leaves President Donald Trump with a set of unattractive options that are unlikely to hand him a decisive or swift victory.

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Apr 13 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Michigan U.S. Senate 'primary storm' captivates, but worries Democrats

For decades, Democrats have avoided competitive primary contests to pick the party's nominees for U.S. Senate. That's not the case this year.

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Apr 12 • 11:12 PM EDT • Politics • detroitnews.com
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Linux 7.0 Released With New Hardware Support, Optimizations & Self-Healing XFS

As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release

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Apr 12 • 9:07 PM EDT • Technology • phoronix.com
Making light spin with a gold nanorod

Controlling photon spin, or the handedness of light, is useful for storing and transmitting information. However, generating circularly polarized light typically requires complex or chiral structures. Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science show that hitting a gold nanorod slightly off-center with an electron beam causes the light around it to rotate. This method offers a simpler way to control photon spin and could accelerate the development of smaller, more efficient optical and quantum devices.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Northern Poll: Ohioans prioritize political civility despite future uncertainty

Ohioans find political incivility unacceptable but differ on optimism for the future.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • onu.edu
Oppo officially reveals Find X9 Ultra days before global launch

The Oppo Find X9 Ultra is an upcoming flagship smartphone set to launch globally on April 21. The company's official Weibo account has revealed the device's design ahead of launch, showcasing it in three color options.

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Apr 12 • 4:18 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Commissioner Bill Canda created septic business to evade taxes

Thanks to a miscommunication in March between the Custer County Sheriff’s Office and the 12th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Alamosa, the majority of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into Custer County Commissioner Bill Canda for alleged sales tax fraud was made public. The

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Apr 12 • 2:09 PM EDT • Business • wetmountaintribune.com
Stein questions whether state’s data center incentives still make sense

Sales tax exemptions could cost N.C. $450 million as new data centers come online, the Democratic governor said.

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Apr 12 • 1:18 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Samsung to fix Adaptive Clock glitch in One UI 8.5 update

Adaptive Clock has a glitch on One UI 8.5 devices, and Samsung is working on a fix. The problem has been acknowledged by a community moderator, who promised the addressal with the next Beta software update. It’s already a big day for Samsung users, thanks to One UI 8.5 rollouts. Whether it’s new Beta releases […]

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Apr 12 • 1:06 PM EDT • Technology • sammyfans.com
The Guardian view on AI politics: US datacentre protests are a warning to big tech

Editorial: In both Republican and Democratic states, scepticism and hostility towards an unregulated construction boom is growing

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Apr 12 • 12:42 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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Snapdragon X2 Elite Offers A Solid Foundation For A Windows On ARM Ecosystem, But OEMs Current Strategy Risk Its Future

Qualcomm has made incredible strides with the Snapdragon X2 Elite, but OEMs using the SoC risk that higher adoption with their current strategies

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Apr 12 • 9:36 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Ancient Egyptian stone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh discovered in Luxor

A stone slab depicting the Roman emperor Tiberius was found during restoration work at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor.

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Apr 12 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
A slowdown in federal science grants has Vermont researchers worried

Though leaders at the National Institutes of Health say they intend to allocate all the federally assigned dollars, changes in how they do so is disrupting the research of early career scientists.

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Apr 12 • 8:41 AM EDT • Science • vtdigger.org
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Police remove fuel protesters from Dublin center as disruption over soaring costs continues

Police have broken up a blockade in Dublin by protesters who have disrupted Ireland for a week over the soaring cost of fuel.

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Apr 12 • 7:31 AM EDT • Business • click2houston.com
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) Valuation Check As Options Volatility Climbs And Analyst Caution Grows

Recent trading in Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) options has shown unusually high implied volatility. This points to expectations of sharp share price swings, while analyst sentiment on the stock and sector remains cautious. See our latest analysis for Tencent Music Entertainment Group. The latest share price of $9.36 sits against a 30 day share price return of 34.04% and a year to date share price return of 47.59%, while the 1 year total shareholder return of 21.48% contrasts...

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Apr 12 • 5:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Former ‘Citgo 6’ political prisoner sees ‘karma’ in Maduro ouster, but Venezuelan oil won’t rebound until there’s true regime change

Former 'Citgo Six' captive sees democratic elections as the only way to build international business trust in Venezuela again.

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Apr 12 • 3:03 AM EDT • Politics • fortune.com
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Young Republicans more skeptical of Iran war, dividing Trump base

Even within Trump’s GOP base, cracks are showing when it comes to the Iran conflict. Younger Republicans are much less likely to support the war.

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Apr 12 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
Where will diners park at downtown food hall?

Developer Jim Long of Heritage Real Estate Co. says there should be plenty of parking options, with nearby garages and metered parking.

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Apr 12 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • santafenewmexican.com
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What Now? Vance Leaves Iran Talks Without a Deal.

The lack of a breakthrough after 21 hours of negotiations leaves the Trump administration facing several unpalatable options.

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Apr 12 • 12:09 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Mt. Carmel church hosts Minority Health Month men’s breakfast to raise awareness

Men gathered at Mt. Carmel Community Baptist Church on Saturday for the annual Minority Health Month Men’s Breakfast, an event aimed at raising awareness about

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Apr 11 • 11:51 PM EDT • Health • wtov9.com
Football fans are being taken for a ride by the NFL — the DOJ could stop that

Nobody should be surprised that the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the NFL’s antitrust exemption — but it’s far from clear how this game will end.

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Apr 11 • 8:56 PM EDT • Business • nypost.com
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A Look At Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) Valuation After New Impossible Foods Partnership

Partnership with Impossible Foods puts food trends in focus for MSGE stock Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) is in the spotlight after announcing a multiyear partnership with Impossible Foods that introduces a dedicated plant-based concession concept inside The Garden. The agreement ties Impossible Foods branding to New York Knicks and New York Rangers home games and expands plant-based menu options across concourses and premium areas, giving investors a fresh angle on how MSGE...

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Apr 11 • 5:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
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IBA NOMAD 14 delivers spectacular night of combat sports in Almaty

Almaty, Kazakhstan – A historic night for combat sports concluded at the Almaty Arena as the inaugural IBA NOMAD 14 joint tournament captivated a capacity of 13,000 spectators. The event, […]

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Apr 11 • 5:22 PM EDT • Sports • iba.sport
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Chamber of Commerce Presents Achievement Awards

Event also marked 110th of the chamber’s presence in Oswego [caption id=attachment_10469 align=alignright width=450] Abby Waever and Keara Patterson (in the middle) receive the Community Leadership & Legacy Award, presented to The Alberts Group.[/caption] The Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce (GOFCC) on March 4 hosted its 2026 Annual Meeting, presented by Constellation, at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center in Oswego. The event’s theme, Rooted in Community. The meeting celebrated the GOFCC’s 110th anniversary in the Oswego community and 10th anniversary of integration with CenterState CEO. The chamber also unveiled a new logo. “I am proud to say the GOFCC has been a force for business success, growth and opportunity, supporting organizations of every size, connecting neighbors and entrepreneurs and ensuring that every voice in Oswego County is heard,” said GOFCC Executive Director Sara Broadwell. The event featured keynote remarks from Novelis’s Kevin Schutt, vice president, manufacturing and production support at Novelis North America. [caption id=attachment_10454 align=alignright width=450] Maria Hudson of Constellation, holding the award, receives the Nancy L. Premo Woman of Distinction Award.[/caption] The GOFCC recognized the following organizations and individuals with achievement awards: • Oswego County Impact & Excellence Award, presented to Oswego County Office of Mobility Management. This award Honors a small business or nonprofit organization that demonstrates outstanding achievement through innovation, growth and measurable positive impact on Oswego County’s economy or quality of life. • Community Leadership & Legacy Award, presented to The Alberts Group. This award recognizes an individual, business or organization whose long-term leadership, investment or philanthropy has significantly advanced the vitality, resilience and future of Oswego County’s communities. • Nancy L. Premo Woman of Distinction Award, presented to Maria Hudson of Constellation. This award honors a woman in business who has made a meaningful impact on her community, inspired others through her leadership, and exemplified the values of service, integrity and empowerment. This award is presented in tribute to the late Nancy Premo, CenterState CEO’s former vice president of Human Resources.

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Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com
It’s Time To Forget About The MacBook Air

Apple’s MacBook Neo has disrupted the PC laptop market while leaving the MacBook market relatively intact. Is there value in Tim Cook disrupting the MacBook Air?

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Apr 11 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
5 Uterine Fibroid Treatments That Can Help Relieve Symptoms

Uterine fibroids can cause heavy periods, pelvic pressure and bloating. An expert shares five common treatment options.

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Apr 11 • 8:04 AM EDT • Health • healthnewshub.org
Ahead of fishing opener, health officials update fish consumption guidelines

The new fish consumption guidelines include warnings about eating too much fish caught in northeastern Minnesota lakes and rivers, where fish tend to have higher mercury levels. And the state warns against consuming fish from the Vermillion River, south of the Twin Cities, because of PFAS contamination.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • mprnews.org
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New York Jets Flight Connections 04/11/26

Happy Saturday, Jets fans! Here are your links to kick off this weekend. Jack Bell – TE Kenyon Sadiq Could Be a ‘Really Interesting’ Pick for the Jets Antwan Staley – Jets still high on Mason Taylor, but Oregon TE Kenyon Sadiq could be draft option Michael Nania – Should Jets seize chance to trade […]

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Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Peru's election: A battle for the Presidency amid political chaos and crime

With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?

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Apr 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Democrats denounce Trump’s plan to use foreign steel in White House ballroom

A New York Times report that the president was accepting a donation of foreign steel for the ballroom was seized on by Democrats.

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Apr 10 • 10:04 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Energy drink boom raises heart health concerns, doctors warn

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — As energy drinks continue to grow in popularity, health experts in Fort Wayne are raising concerns about what frequent consumption could be doing to the heart. Many of the…

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Apr 10 • 5:54 PM EDT • Health • wane.com
MINNEAPOLIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT | This Weekend in the Twin Cities – Entertainment Guide: April 12 ~ April 13, 2026

Twin Cities weekend offers sports, concerts, theater, and family events, with overlapping options across Minneapolis and Saint Paul shaping a high-energy, choice-filled experience.

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Apr 10 • 5:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news
TikTok as an engine of entertainment consumption and conversion

New research conducted by TikTok in collaboration with Ipsos explores how social and video platforms drive real-world conversion and long-term IP value.

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Apr 10 • 4:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • ipsos.com
Baptist Health confirms Cigna contract termination, here’s what that means for patients

Certain Baptist Health patients are expected see a shift in insurance coverage after Cigna Healthcare terminated its agreement with the health system, set to take effect June 23, 2026.

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Apr 10 • 3:47 PM EDT • Health • news4jax.com
Pontiac Once Ran A Super Bowl Commercial Featuring An Option That Was Cancelled Almost Immediately Because The Suits Freaked Out

Super Bowl commercials have always been a big deal, right from the beginning. You have a massive captive audience, suitable primed on beer and nachos to be as suggestible as possible. That’s why carmakers have always been some of the most eager purchasers of Super Bowl ad time, and why they’ve tended to use it […]

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Apr 10 • 3:17 PM EDT • Technology • theautopian.com
Update on Proposed Dissolution of SBE Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) -

On Friday, April 3, 2026, it was reported that interim leadership at the National Science Foundation announced during an internal all-staff meeting that they would preemptively start making moves to dissolve the SBE Directorate in [...]

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Apr 10 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • politicalsciencenow.com
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100 Best & Brightest Undergraduate Business Majors Of 2026

Our annual celebration of the world's most promising business majors to graduate in 2026, featuring 100 truly exceptional students

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Apr 10 • 2:50 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
Scientists turn 'mess' into breakthrough: Chaotic design unlocks next-generation optical devices

Researchers from the Monash University School of Physics and Astronomy have flipped a long-held assumption in optics, showing that deliberately introducing controlled disorder into ultra-thin optical ...

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Apr 10 • 2:40 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases

Third-party game purchases and stores will disappear from Amazon Luna in June.

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Apr 10 • 1:31 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Amazon Luna ends support for third-party subscriptions and game purchases

You'll no longer be able to stream games you bought from EA, GOG and Ubisoft through the platform.

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Apr 10 • 1:13 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Andrej Karpathy says there's a 'growing gap' among AI users

Ex-Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy wrote that AI power users and skeptics are "speaking past each other."

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Apr 10 • 1:08 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Democrats Denounce Trump’s Plan to Use Foreign Steel in White House Ballroom

A New York Times report that the president was accepting a donation of foreign steel for the ballroom was seized on by Democrats.

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Apr 10 • 1:03 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
📸 The maddest moments of the European week 👽

UCL, UEL, UECL — this is crazy! A closer look at the most captivating moments from this European week. The kilometer-long tunnel at Bologna’s stadium!When Olise does... ballet!We almost had the a...

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Apr 10 • 11:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Amazon Luna goes all in on Stadia Pro-like subscription, removing everything else

Effective today, Amazon Luna is shutting down basically everything that’s not a single Stadia Pro-like subscription. Amazon Luna started off...

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Apr 10 • 11:35 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
18th Annual Hamilton Film Festival Set for July; Accepting Submissions Until May 15

Filmmakers are invited to submit their work to the 18th annual Hamilton New York International Film Festival.

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Apr 10 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • wktv.com
Wisconsin's future Michelin stars, a new poke spot and murder mysteries

This week in the food and culture newsletter, Michelin comes to Wisconsin, reinventing "Much Ado," Blind Shot closes, two mysteries to read and more.

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Apr 10 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com
Why the World’s Biggest TikTok Star’s $975 Million Business Deal is Suddenly Falling Apart

Khaby Lame’s landmark merger drew in traders and creator economy optimists alike, but the stock has since plunged more than 90 percent and major brokerages are restricting trading.

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Apr 10 • 10:35 AM EDT • Business • inc.com
NFL news, live updates: Texans reportedly pick up fifth-year options on QB C.J. Stroud and edge Will Anderson Jr.
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Apr 10 • 10:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs

GlassWorm uses a fake WakaTime VS Code extension to infect IDEs, deploy RATs, and steal data, prompting urgent credential rotation.

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Apr 10 • 9:23 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Adaptive sports program visits Southern Arizona P.E. classes, wheelchairs in tow

When her class moved outside for P.E., special education teacher Tiffani Jaseph saw the excitement. After coaches and players from Adaptive Sports In Schools, or ASIS, unloaded dozens of wheelchairs at Copper View Elementary in the Sahuarita School District, they told students about racing the chairs and playing wheelchair basketball. Jaseph saw the difference in […]

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Apr 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • azluminaria.org
Dodgers notes: Alex Vesia, Andy Pages, stadium name change

Last season the Dodgers were able to complete their quest of two straight titles without the help of their best left-handed relief option in the World Series. Alex Vesia was away from the Dodgers during last year’s Fall Classic as he and his wife were grieving the sudden loss of their newborn daughter, Sterling, and […]

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Apr 10 • 8:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Brookdale Launches New Sports Management Option A.S. Degree to Prepare Students for Careers in the Growing Sports Industry

Brookdale Community College is expanding its academic offerings with the introduction of a new Associate of Science (A.S.) degree in Sports Management, designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers in the fast-paced

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Apr 10 • 7:08 AM EDT • Sports • brookdalecc.edu
Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile devices

Google says Gmail end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is now available on all Android and iOS devices, allowing enterprise users to read and compose emails without additional tools.

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Apr 10 • 6:44 AM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com
Sony Pictures Entertainment frames layoffs as a reset; ProPublica union conducts 24-hour strike as organization asks to explore AI more

Plus, a study about RTO and employee perception.

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Apr 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ragan.com
Opinion | With straight faces, GOP accuses regents of playing politics

Dave Zweifel: Rothman obviously did something deeply unpopular. The vote to sack him was unanimous, and getting 17 people to agree on anything is pretty rare these days.

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Apr 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • captimes.com
How JD Vance went from well-known foreign war skeptic to the public face of peace talks with Iran

Vice President JD Vance will travel to Pakistan to helm talks aimed at solidifying the fragile truce between the US and Iran — and in the process, elevate himself as the key peacemaker within an administration that has devoted its last several weeks to war.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
5 Android phones you should buy instead of the Samsung Galaxy A57

The Galaxy A57 is a really solid Android deal at just $550. But for some people, these five other phones might be better options.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Countries are turning against U.S. fossil fuels after Iran war

As economies in Asia and Europe reel from the energy disruption, leaders make plans to permanently replace imported oil and gas with homegrown energy.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com
Former Trump White House insider says she’d bet the President did not get a heads up about the First Lady’s Epstein remarks
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Apr 10 • 12:39 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Scientists May Have Found a New Cause of High Blood Pressure, And a Way to Treat It

There's an urgent need for new treatment options.

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Apr 9 • 11:16 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Lansing small business empowerment program accepting applications

Time is running out for small businesses to take advantage of a program designed to help them grow.

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Apr 9 • 11:16 PM EDT • Business • wilx.com
Agriculture secretary’s religious Easter message to all employees sparks internal backlash and a formal complaint

A “Christ is Risen” Easter message sent by the secretary of agriculture has sparked backlash inside the department, angering some of its nearly 100,000 employees and prompting a formal complaint against the secretary for the religious message.

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Apr 9 • 10:19 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Deadly Philly parking garage collapse leaves Grays Ferry shopping center, businesses closed

Grays Ferry residents and businesses are dealing with ongoing closures and disruptions after a partial parking garage collapse, with demolition set to begin Friday morning.

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Apr 9 • 9:49 PM EDT • Business • fox29.com
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Is the Options Market Predicting a Spike in Tencent Music Entertainment Stock?

Investors need to pay close attention to TME stock based on the movements in the options market lately.

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Apr 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • zacks.com
TSMC Has Enabled Smartphone SoCs To Approach 5GHz Frequencies Thanks To Advanced Lithography; Huawei The Biggest Loser In All Of This

With the exception of Huawei, every smartphone chipset manufacturer who chose TSMC is now able to reach a clock speed of 5.00GHz

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Apr 9 • 7:40 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Candidate security costs up in era of political violence: Research

Federal campaigns and committees have spent more than $100 million on security measures over the past decade amid an uptick in threats of political violence, including bomb threats and doxxing, acc…

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Apr 9 • 7:36 PM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Judge blocks Pentagon’s latest bid to limit press access

A federal judge tore into the Department of Defense on Thursday for attempting an end-run around his decision voiding parts of a restrictive press policy rolled out by Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, saying the Pentagon had flouted his ruling when it quickly implemented a tighter policy.

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Apr 9 • 6:50 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Gmail finally offers end-to-end encryption for email on Android and iPhone

Your data will be more secure, provided you're with the right company.

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Apr 9 • 5:33 PM EDT • Technology • howtogeek.com
Sources: DOJ opens antitrust investigation of NFL over TV deals

The Justice Department has begun an investigation into whether the NFL has violated anticompetitive practices with their television contracts that require consumers to pay subscription costs to watch some games, sources confirmed to ABC News.

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Apr 9 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Peabody Awards announce nominees for the Arts, Children's/Youth, Entertainment and Ineractive & Immersive categories

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors today announced the nominees for the Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment, and Interactive & Immersive categories selected to represent the most captivating and impactful stories released […]

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Apr 9 • 1:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • grady.uga.edu
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Apple is Permanently Closing Three Stores in U.S. Today

Apple today announced that it is permanently closing three retail stores in the U.S., including Apple Trumbull in Trumbull, Connecticut, Apple Towson Town Center in Towson, Maryland, and Apple North County in Escondido, California. Apple issued the following statement to MacRumors: At Apple, we are constantly striving to deliver exceptional service and great experiences for our customers.

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Apr 9 • 12:30 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Avec's Tinder-styled email app allows you to swipe through your inbox

Users can use the in-built voice transcription tool to reply to emails

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Apr 9 • 11:58 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
A record-breaking field: What to expect from Peru’s presidential election?

Crime and corruption are top issues for voters as the country struggles to cope with persistent political instability.

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Apr 9 • 11:52 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
US software stocks fall as Anthropic's new AI model revives disruption fears

U.S. software shares tumbled on Thursday after Anthropic held back the wide release of a powerful AI model over concerns ​it could expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities, deepening investor fears about ‌the threat to traditional software firms.

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Apr 9 • 11:27 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Justice Department investigating the NFL over subscription fees, source says

The DOJ probe is focused on possible anti-competitive tactics, a person familiar with the investigation told NBC News.

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Apr 9 • 11:20 AM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Apple Apparently Still Undecided on iPhone 18 Pro Dynamic Island

Apple is weighing two options for the iPhone 18 Pro's Dynamic Island, and a final decision has yet to be made, according to the Weibo leaker known as Digital Chat Station.

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Apr 9 • 11:11 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Brand new musical 'Last Night on Rue Bayou' opens soon in New Orleans

Discover the vibrant music and captivating stories of "Last Night on Rue Bayou" and "Jagged Little Pill" in the upcoming productions in the area. Engaging performances and immersive experiences await!

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Apr 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
A deal or a mirage? Trump’s Iran ceasefire collides with chaos on the ground

Less than three hours before President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline for Iran to make a deal or face his apocalyptic warning of death and destruction, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, the country’s top two military officials, were summoned to the White House.

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Apr 9 • 10:31 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Is Up 7.2% After DOJ Antitrust Settlement Eases Breakup Fears – Has The Bull Case Changed?

In recent days, Live Nation Entertainment reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over an antitrust lawsuit, agreeing to divest 13 exclusive booking agreements and cap ticketing service fees at its owned amphitheaters. This resolution has eased concerns about a potential structural breakup, prompting analysts to highlight how reduced legal uncertainty may support the company’s operational plans and growth ambitions. We’ll now examine how the DOJ settlement, which removes...

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Apr 9 • 9:23 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
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A GOP-aligned group is using Klan imagery to target Black voters

Polling and early voting so far suggest a close contest - prompting both sides of the redistricting campaign to pour in tens of millions of dollars.

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