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Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy strikes out 10

Excellent pitching was on tap Friday as Murphy led the charge with 10 strikeouts in 5.2 innings of work

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Apr 4 • 10:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The 76ers’ return to health could be in time to make a playoff run

It’s been a chaotic year for the 76ers, who entered the season as a dark horse competitor in the Eastern Conference.

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Apr 4 • 9:56 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
Nationals have hands full with menacing Dodgers lineup

After putting together their best offensive performance of the new season in the series opener, the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers will look to take the weekend set against the Washington Nationals on Saturday.

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Apr 4 • 9:49 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Trump administration proposes massive budget cuts to science

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

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Apr 4 • 9:30 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
Trump's go-it-alone certainty confronts the uncertainties of war

President Donald Trump claims that the United States has, in his words, “completely decimated” Iran

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Apr 4 • 9:06 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
‘Fire Country’: Max Thieriot Teases Someone From Bode’s Past Coming Up

'May not be the best thing, but ...'

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Apr 4 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
I thought I'd always use Chrome, until I tried this lightweight alternative

Everything feels faster on this minimal browser

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Apr 4 • 8:30 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com
Astros New Approach Is Sustainable

For the first couple of games, the Astros offense looked like it was trying to force everything. The swings came early, the contact was weak, and too many innings ended before the opposing starter ever felt uncomfortable. It had that familiar early-season look of a lineup still searching for rhythm. But the last few games […]

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Apr 4 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Why Spring Cleaning Is Good for Your Home AND Your Health

While spring cleaning might feel like just another thing on your to-do list, it can actually do more for your health than you might expect.

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Apr 4 • 8:24 AM EDT • Health • healthnewshub.org
23 Things That Used To Be "Good"...Until They Became Way, Way, Way, Wayyy Too Popular

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

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Apr 4 • 8:16 AM EDT • Technology • sg.style.yahoo.com
Album Review: 6WA by BigXthaPlug & 600 Entertainment

BigXthaPlug spent eight months in Nashville making a country-rap album that debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, put “All the Way” with Bailey Zimmerman at No. 4 on the Hot 100, got him a Rolling Stone cover, and filled arenas with Jelly Roll. And then he came back to Dallas, rounded up four of his signees, and made a gangsta-rap record with N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton on the cover. 6WA is the second group release from 600 Entertainment, named after the 600 block of Meadowridge Street in Ferris, Texas, where BigX and his people grew up. The whole thing is loaded with West Coast samples. From N.W.A.’s “8Ball,” Eazy-E’s “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” and “Boyz-N-The-Hood,” Ice-T’s “6 in the Mornin’,” Snoop Dogg’s “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” and more. BigX is staking his name on the lineup he built—Rosama, MurdaGang PB, Yung Hood, KevanGotBandz, KaineMusic—and claiming a lineage from 1,400 miles away while insisting Dallas is its own thing. A million dollars in cash, split and handed straight to his mother. That’s the first place BigX goes on “From the Bottom.” He’d probably still be in the streets if he didn’t have his son and daughter. He only started rapping to make life better for Carter. Couldn’t start his car back then, now people get starstruck at Starbucks, and he throws the whole field away in one sentence: “How you think we competin’? You on the same bag, I just made me some millions off country.” Goyard bags off a Nashville payday, and he wants you to know exactly how far he’s come from everybody else. “Safe to Say” does something similar but looser. It’s a straight Ice Cube “It Was a Good Day” flip, and BigX nails it. Wakes up, checks both phones, nobody’s locked up, kid accounts look good. Gets pulled over, only catches a warning. Pulls up on the squad to liquor, ladies, and haze. Rosama takes the second verse and matches him. Wakes up to his girl cleaning his cuticles, twins playing peekaboo, pays off his car, calls a cousin, sees the opps and they don’t trip. Lawyer calls, he beat his case. Rosama is the strongest voice in the 600 camp after BigX, and “Life of a Gangster” is why. Third person, riding low, blacked-out windows, snub-nose revolver. A character who chose sticking people up over selling dope. “Quick eraser like a number-two pencil.” He never breaks character, and his delivery drops lower and slower than anything he does on the group cuts, like he’s telling you something at a cookout that he probably shouldn’t. Then on “Long Live Fre$h” he’s a completely different rapper. “Short-bus diamonds, these bitches retarded,” wide-body Durango he can’t even park. That kind of range matters on a group record. MurdaGang PB’s best verse is on the title track. Feds at his door at 6 AM, cameras busted, flushing dope, ram truck putting everybody on the floor. Yung Hood on “The Hottest” just lays out four reasons to keep hustling. Who wants to be broke, women cost money, you need bail, and home has to be straight. It’s funnier and more honest than most rappers get when they’re trying to explain why they sell drugs. KevanGotBandz on “Ain’t Never Slowin’ Down” talks about his father getting caught on the dope while he’s sitting on $300K somewhere in the hills, which is a specific kind of guilt that doesn’t usually make it onto crew tapes. KaineMusic, the newest signee, takes the back half of “Who Dunnit” and introduces herself in third person—“Took flight just to show these hoes how to perform”—but it’s too short to know if she can hold a full song. The flex tracks fill the middle of the LP and mostly run together. “I Go” is Rosama and PB trading brands, guns, and food punchlines. Rosama’s “anemic, my iron tucked low in this shirt” is a slick gun bar, PB fires back with “.223 with a clip ‘bout as big as a toddler” and “I go Burger King, stay with that whopper.” Quick, funny sometimes, but it’s all shopping lists. “Dopeman” is a chant. “6ixer Party” brings Snoop Dogg, who does exactly what you’d expect Snoop Dogg to do. BigX contributes the night’s wildest overshare: “She say she brought a friend too, well, I’m tryna put sausage on her dental.” These songs move fast and don’t overstay, but three or four of them could trade verses and nobody would catch it. Midway through, The D.O.C. shows up for a spoken-word interlude. Tracy Curry. West Dallas native, former N.W.A affiliate, co-writer on a lot of the records getting sampled on this very album. He thanks BigX for the tribute and then gets direct: “This your time, this DFW time. You need to do it like we do it down here.” Leave bread crumbs so everybody behind you can eat. Keep God in your life. It’s fatherly and generous, and it does raise the question of whether 6WA follows that advice. The album borrows heavy. The cover art, the Eazy-E samples, “Amerikkka’s Most Wanted” opening with a direct “Boyz-N-The-Hood” lift, Yung Hood rapping “Flag on my left side, Crip until I die.” But the stuff that actually stays with you is Dallas. BigX talking about Pleasant Grove, Rosama calling himself a country boy, PB recounting a raid that could’ve been last Tuesday. The record smells most like itself when it smells like Ferris, Texas, and least like Compton. BigX on “The Hottest” says his father was the first person he knew who had chickens. Not the way rappers usually wave at the drug trade. He means his actual father, his actual family. On “600 Degrees,” Rosama compares his chopper’s stutter to a speech disorder, PB claims he still has the block on his back even after leaving the city. BigX closes that one saying he used to spin and smack, and now the plaques are platinum. Thirty-two minutes was right for this. Nobody overstays, Tony Coles and Rance and Charley Cooks keep the production punchy, and BigX gives his signees real room instead of crowding every song. 6WA doesn’t reinvent anything. Five rappers, good beats, short clock. Most of what they say you’ve heard before. Some of it—the million to his mother, the cuticles and peekaboo, the four reasons to hustle—you won’t forget. Solid (★★★½☆) Favorite Track(s): “Safe to Say,” “From the Bottom,” “The Hottest” Subscribe

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Apr 4 • 8:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • shatterthestandards.com
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A massive arctic thaw is unleashing carbon frozen for thousands of years

A sweeping new study reveals that as Arctic permafrost thaws, it is dramatically reshaping rivers and releasing vast amounts of ancient carbon that had been locked away for thousands of years. By analyzing decades of high-resolution data across northern Alaska, scientists found that runoff is increasing, rivers are carrying more dissolved carbon, and the thawing season is stretching further into the fall. This carbon eventually reaches the ocean, where some of it turns into carbon dioxide, intensifying global warming.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
We live in a time where we are constantly connected but rarely seen. Here's how to fix that.

Something quieter is happening underneath all the noise — people are wondering if they matter.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theadvocate.com
Can Kennedy lineage and hype over 'Love Story' help send JFK's grandson to Congress?

As a Kennedy scion, Jack Schlossberg had a lot of hype behind him when he launched his congressional campaign in New York City late last year

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Apr 4 • 7:32 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
This exploding star was spotted doing something weird. Now scientists think it might have solved a key cosmic theory | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

New evidence proves these magnetic monsters are the secret engines behind the Universe’s biggest explosions

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Apr 4 • 7:21 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
Cleveland High baseball team surging with nine-game winning streak

Joshua Pearlstein has been leading the way for the Cavaliers with his hitting and pitching.

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Apr 4 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
This $8 Harbor Freight Gadget Should Be The First Thing You Pack For Hotel Stays

There are certain things you shouldn't leave home without when going on a trip. For under $10, bringing this Harbor Freight gadget is a no-brainer.

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Apr 4 • 6:45 AM EDT • Technology • slashgear.com
How a Louisiana lawyer from the 1800s appeared in the legal fight over birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices are considering two cases that could change long-established constitutional interpretations concerning race — and Louisiana plays an integral role in both.

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Apr 4 • 6:15 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com
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The war’s economic impact could get worse for Americans

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is disrupting economic activity across Asia and Europe. The U.S. may escape the worst effects, but it will not emerge unscathed.

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Apr 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com
Recurring fevers, mental fog left this father ‘praying for death’

Doctors were stumped by an Oregon man’s deterioration. Then an infectious disease specialist had an aha moment.

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Apr 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Commanders' Leo Chenal describes where he fits best

Washington Commanders linebacker Leo Chenal opens up about what his role will look like with his new team.

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Apr 4 • 5:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Experts Weigh In

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.

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Apr 4 • 5:01 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
A month of war in Iran prompts clashing political views on Long Island

Polls show that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's launching of a military operation against Iran.

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Apr 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • newsday.com
France to Offer Loans to Small Businesses Hit by Fuel Costs

The French government will offer loans of as much as €50,000 ($57,600) to small businesses that are the most exposed to rising fuel costs in transportation, fishing and agriculture.

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Apr 4 • 3:08 AM EDT • Business • bloomberg.com
Why do politicians use football to further causes?

Politicians visiting stadiums and discussing football is nothing new, but what use does it have for them?

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Apr 4 • 1:35 AM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
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Pokemon Champions Pokemon list, everyone that's confirmed

Pokemon Champions Pokemon list released which covers all creatures that have currently been confirmed for the game.

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Apr 4 • 12:50 AM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
NBA approaching all-time levels of ugly after blowout-filled Friday
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Apr 4 • 12:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis

One month into the war in Iran, a growing shortage of crude oil is threatening to morph into something worse: a shortage of nearly everything.

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Apr 4 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com
Sixers' Joel Embiid explains missing Wizards game, pending B2B, health

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid opens up on missing the matchup with the Washington Wizards, the pending back-to-back, and his health.

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Apr 3 • 11:19 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
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NBA opens investigation into Bucks’, Giannis’ contradicting stories on health status

Things have gotten ugly, once again.

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Apr 3 • 10:49 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Arkansas baseball rallies to even series at Auburn

The Razorbacks got a great pitching performance from Hunter Dietz and Ethan McElvain, and two big swings from Ryder Helfrick.

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Apr 3 • 10:34 PM EDT • Sports • wholehogsports.com
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Thieves smash through 8-liner business wall to reach ATM after deputies' raid.

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

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Power 4 college sports conferences react to Trump's latest executive order

Leaders of the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 support Trump's executive order on college sports and are pushing Congress to pass the SCORE Act quickly.

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Apr 3 • 9:29 PM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com
Trump Contemplates Other Cabinet Changes as He Faces Political Clock

With the midterms approaching, the president may be running out of time to get new cabinet members confirmed without bipartisan support.

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Apr 3 • 9:03 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
MXene breakthrough boosts conductivity 160x with perfect atomic order

A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise. Researchers have developed a cleaner, more controlled way to build these materials using molten salts and iodine, eliminating the messy chemical processes that once left their surfaces disordered. The result is a perfectly arranged atomic structure that lets electrons flow with remarkable ease, boosting conductivity by up to 160 times.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Trump mulls more Cabinet changes — but wants to avoid ‘massive shake-up’

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer are vulnerable, officials said. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appears more secure.

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Apr 3 • 7:51 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

Karpathy proposes something simpler and more loosely, messily elegant than the typical enterprise solution of a vector database and RAG pipeline.

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Apr 3 • 7:30 PM EDT • Technology • venturebeat.com
Trump pushing to stabilize college sports and limit transfers

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at fixing college sports that would give federal agencies authority to cut funding at schools that don't comply.

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Apr 3 • 7:23 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Why 'Paradise' Is The Most Addictive Show On TV & Everything We Know About Season 3

From Xavier's heroics to Sinatra's sacrifice, Paradise Season 2 ended with a bang. Here’s everything we know about Season 3.

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Apr 3 • 6:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • refinery29.com
Scientists find evidence for theorized gargantuan star explosions

A supernova is always violent, but some supernovas may be so immensely powerful they leave absolutely nothing behind.

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Apr 3 • 6:33 PM EDT • Science • ksl.com
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Trump signs new executive order on college sports: Will it change anything, and how soon?

The order poses the possibility of federal funding being withheld from schools that do not comply with the rules.

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Central Oregon’s Mt. Bachelor resort gets into the hotel business

"Right place, right time" led the resort to jump on a long-term lease on the road to its lifts.

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Apr 3 • 5:22 PM EDT • Business • opb.org
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Struggling Heat eager to get right vs. woeful Wizards

Hoping to finish strong, the Miami Heat will play host to the Washington Wizards on Saturday afternoon.

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Apr 3 • 4:41 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Election 2026: Brown hopes for a political comeback; Challenger says Ohioans want something new

Sherrod Brown has not lost a primary election in his 50-year political career and he hopes to keep that streak alive next month when he faces Ronald Kincaid, a retired

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Apr 3 • 4:20 PM EDT • Politics • daytondailynews.com
Savannah Guthrie's Today Return: Highly Unusual, Business as Usual

The NBC morning show co-anchor since 2012 has been off-air since her mom Nancy was abducted on Feb. 1. The world will be watching her big return on Monday.

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Apr 3 • 4:13 PM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) Valuation After Recent Share Price Weakness

Context for Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) After Recent Price Moves Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) has seen its share price under pressure in recent weeks, with a one-month return of a 35.5% decline and a past three-month return of a 48.7% decline catching investor attention. Against that backdrop, investors are weighing how the company’s core China-focused music and audio platforms, alongside reported annual revenue of CN¥32,902 and net income of CN¥11,056, align with its...

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Apr 3 • 4:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
California cracks down on luxury car buyers evading taxes through 'Montana Loophole'

California targets wealthy luxury car owners and dealers using the Montana loophole to avoid sales tax, launching audits to recover millions in revenue.

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Apr 3 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
What time is UConn vs South Carolina in Final Four? Start time, location, TV Channel

Everything you need to know to tune into No. 1 UConn Huskies vs No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks including start time and streaming options for the Final Four

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Apr 3 • 3:30 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
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What time is UCLA vs Texas in Final Four today? Start time, location, TV Channel

Everything you need to know to tune into No. 1 UCLA Bruins vs 1 Texas Longhorns including start time and streaming options for the Final Four

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Shohei Ohtani Ends Home Run Drought

Shohei Ohtani hit his first home run of the season on Friday, a three-run blast off of Washington Nationals pitcher Miles Mikolas.

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Apr 3 • 3:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What's next for North Carolina coaching search after Tommy Lloyd inks new deal with Arizona?

Here are the top names to know for the Tar Heels after Tommy Lloyd's decision.

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For All the Talk About Crimson Desert, Nothing Beats MLB The Show on the US PS5 Chart

Home run

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Legislator calls for Albany County to drop sales tax on clothing, footwear

Republican Mark Grimm is introducing legislation to cut the county sales tax on purchases of clothing and shoes costing less than $110 per item.

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Apr 3 • 2:42 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
The Rise of Socialism: Washington business owners slam new ‘millionaires tax’

Washington shop owners, talk show radio host Arri Hoffman and a local democratic socialist, Rep. Shaun Scott, discuss the impact of the state’s new “millionaires tax” and how socialist economic policy is impacting local business.

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Apr 3 • 2:36 PM EDT • Business • foxnews.com
Tribal gas stations see surge in business as fuel prices hover significantly below WA state average

Tribal gas stations in Washington are experiencing a significant surge in business as drivers seek lower prices amid rising fuel costs.

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Democrats see Georgia's failure to curb data centers as an electoral gift

Georgia lawmakers have ended their legislative session without addressing concerns over data centers

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Apr 3 • 1:31 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
50-year-old expired salmon found: the shocking discovery that baffles scientists - Futura-Sciences

Unexpected Treasures in Forgotten Cans Decades-old cans tucked away on a shelf might sound like the start of a food safety nightmare, but recently, they’ve become a scientific goldmine instead. In April 2024, the journal Ecology and Evolution published a study that lifted the lid—literally—on an astonishing scientific resource: canned...

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Apr 3 • 1:30 PM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Here's how United's new 'basic business class' will work

United's new premium fare structure is meant to make business class cheaper by unbundling things you may not need, like lounge access or seat choice.

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Apr 3 • 1:21 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
As fuel prices soar, United is raising bag fees

The carrier says it will charge $10 more for the first and second bags checked by passengers on flights in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

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Politics Friday: 3 congressional candidates vying for their party's endorsement

Friday at noon, a check-in on the only Minnesota congressional race guaranteed to send a new person to Washington. MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst speaks with three candidates seeking to represent the 2nd Congressional District.

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Apr 3 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • mprnews.org
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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

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

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AI tax scams surge ahead of filing deadline, Better Business Bureau says

With the tax filing deadline fast approaching, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in San Antonio is warning taxpayers about a growing and increasingly sophisticated threat: scams powered by artificial intelligence.

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White House proposes 23% cut to NASA budget, slashing science funding and prioritizing moon missions

The White House is proposing $18.8 billion for NASA's fiscal year 2027 budget, reducing science funding while prioritizing moon missions.

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NHL Playoff Race: What the Penguins need to do

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‘The Madison’ Star Ben Schnetzer Reveals His Favorite Scene to Film

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Maternal health crisis: Why Massachusetts is losing its edge

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Nintendo has made some changes to Mario user icons in latest Switch 2 and Switch update

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Surprise! Zendaya wears something blue, after the old, new and borrowed

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Big Month for Small Business in Macon-Bibb

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Sharon Stone Reveals Surprising Actor as ‘Best Kisser in the Business’

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iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 12 New Features

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Ratatan's Nintendo Switch version officially cancelled, dev explains why

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Scientists Just Discovered There’s Actually Something Faster than the Speed of Light

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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers tells users not to rely on it for important advice

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Who did Commanders land in CBS Sports' latest 2026 NFL mock draft?

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That ACA subsidy isn’t free money. It could cost you at tax time.

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Editorial: Kaufman Astoria Studios foreclosure fight a warning sign for city’s entertainment industry

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Poll: Virginia voters narrowly support redistricting to favor Democrats

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Trump pushed the Iran war in prime time. The public wasn’t sold.

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Agency Brief—Terri & Sandy continues leadership revamp with Martin hire

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Commanders TE Chig Okonkwo 'total opposite' of Zach Ertz

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Celebrate Science Day Takes Off at New Location: Reading Regional Airport

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Did Commanders GM Adam Peters provide too much intel?

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Opinion: Science Communication Is Central to the Practice of Science

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GTA 6 Will Likely Borrow Ideas From Red Dead Redemption 2, Former Rockstar Dev Says

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PSL crackdown! Fakhar Zaman’s appeal dismissed, ban confirmed

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Guardianship is not a homelessness policy

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Nashville Predators Avoid Near Collapse In Shootout Win Over Kings

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New Mexico Wellness Wire: Health officials warn against baby birds as Easter gifts

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Ryan Gosling drops out of the Daniels' follow-up to Oscar-winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

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The politics of Judas

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High stakes, big budgets: How brands are navigating a massive sports year

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Lynx bring back Janel McCarville as assistant coach

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This tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin of spiders

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National Public Health Week is ready, set for action

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