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Masters 2026 odds, picks, predictions, props: Expert fading Tyrrell Hatton in best bets at Augusta National

SportsLine golf expert Brady Kannon just locked in his best bets for the 2026 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both not playing

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Apr 8 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Secretly Distribution acquires music data and analytics firms Entertainment Intelligence and Babel Ops

Babel Ops was founded in 2020 by Erik Gilbert and Greg Delaney, who previously co-founded Entertainment Intelligence in 2014.

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Apr 8 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • musicbusinessworldwide.com
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Two supermassive black holes are on a collision course

It's the first time astronomers have ever witnessed the stunning cosmic event.

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Apr 8 • 4:35 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Pistons' Cade Cunningham reportedly expected to return against the Bucks on Wednesday
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Apr 8 • 1:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Shropshire new children's mental health service to tackle delays

The three year programme hopes to provide easier access, earlier support and more joined-up care.

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Apr 8 • 1:07 PM EDT • Health • bbc.com
513 humpback whales gather at massive Caribbean breeding ground

A stunning video captures one of the largest humpback whale gatherings ever recorded.

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Apr 8 • 11:39 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
The results are in: New Edition tops Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote

They were followed by Phil Collins, P!NK, Shakira, Luther Vandross, INXS, SADE and others.

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Apr 8 • 10:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com
ASUS Resorts To Deceptive Practices, Raises The Prices Of Its Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops Shortly After Reviews Go Live

Almost immediately after views of ASUS’ Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops went live, the company raised prices

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Apr 8 • 8:04 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Robbinsville's Ella Nelms' perfect game tops Week 7 girls spring sports top performers

Ella Nelms threw a perfect game for Robbinsville softball, leading the list of Week 7 WNC high school spring sports girls top performers.

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Apr 8 • 6:07 AM EDT • Sports • citizen-times.com
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NFL analyst tells the truth about Commanders QB Jayden Daniels

Don't forget about Jayden Daniels.

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Apr 8 • 4:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Moment of Science: New research finds corona discharges glowing on treetops during storms

A missing piece of storm science has now been found! Dan Smith shows how the tops of trees can "glow with the show" as clouds rage overhead. 🌩️🌲

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Apr 7 • 8:27 PM EDT • Science • 13abc.com
Local thrift, pawn shops say rising costs are driving more business

Boston area thrift stores and pawn shops see an uptick in customers looking for quick cash or inexpensive items as they struggle with high inflation and rising costs.

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Apr 7 • 3:59 PM EDT • Business • wgbh.org
City’s BLM-era mental health push puts cops in danger after sword-wielding suspect stabs officer: police

Boston's mental health-first crisis response model faces scrutiny after police say a man emerged with a sword and stabbed an officer on Saturday.

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Apr 7 • 12:56 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Inside Iowa Politics: Candidate Jim Carlin doesn’t want American troops on the ground in Iran

Jim Carlin, a former state senator who is running for the U.S. Senate, said that he supports the U.S. strikes on Iran but doesn't want to see the country engaged in a long war.

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Apr 7 • 9:39 AM EDT • Politics • ktiv.com
Inside Iowa Politics: Candidate Jim Carlin doesn’t want American troops on the ground in Iran

Jim Carlin, a former state senator who is running for the U.S. Senate, said that he supports the U.S. strikes on Iran but doesn't want to see the country engaged in a long war.

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Apr 7 • 9:39 AM EDT • Politics • kttc.com
Inside Iowa Politics: Candidate Jim Carlin doesn’t want American troops on the ground in Iran

Jim Carlin, a former state senator who is running for the U.S. Senate, said that he supports the U.S. strikes on Iran but doesn't want to see the country engaged in a long war.

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Apr 7 • 9:39 AM EDT • Politics • wowt.com
Is ‘lab-grown’ meat actually safe?

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

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Apr 7 • 9:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Between A Star-Studded Crime Thriller And A Trippy Stoner Comedy, You Can’t Go Wrong With Streaming Movies This Week

From a "Harry Potter" documentary to a star-studded crime thriller, see what else is trending on streaming services this week.

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Apr 7 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
Scientists discover reversible male birth control that stops sperm production

Scientists at Cornell University may be closing in on the long-sought “holy grail” of male contraception: a safe, reversible, nonhormonal method that completely halts sperm production. In a breakthrough mouse study, researchers used a compound called JQ1 to temporarily shut down meiosis—the critical process that produces sperm—without causing lasting harm. After treatment stopped, sperm production bounced back, fertility returned, and the animals produced healthy offspring.

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Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles

This 'jiggle tech' is proprietary.

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Apr 7 • 6:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Three new local businesses to visit at The Winnifred

There are a few new reasons to visit the Shops at The Winnifred.

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Apr 7 • 5:59 AM EDT • Business • axios.com
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Kanye West Breaks Silence Amid U.K. Music Festival Backlash

The rapper said he hopes to "present a show of change, bringing unity, peace, and love through my music" when he performs in London this summer.

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Apr 7 • 4:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
PS5 Update for April 2026 Stealth Drops UI Redesign

Sony is quietly rolling out a new PS5 UI update for April 2026 featuring minor but welcome improvements. Check it out.

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Apr 7 • 12:02 AM EDT • Technology • playstationlifestyle.net
Trump administration stops enforcing protections for transgender students in several schools

The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students.

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Apr 6 • 5:01 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Florida's Walkable Outdoor Entertainment Oasis Is A Kissimmee Gem With Restaurants, Shops, And A Water Park

Promenade at Sunset Walk is a family-friendly hub for shopping, dining, and entertainment in Kissimmee, home to Island H2O Water Park, Escapology, and more.

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Apr 6 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • islands.com
Globe unveils new business newsletter

There’s no pair of journalists better suited to give you the scoops, inside gossip, and analysis on the local business scene.

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Apr 6 • 3:32 PM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com
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Michigan Sports Writers Division 4 all-state boys basketball teams

The Michigan Sports Writers have released its first all-state hoops teams of the 2025-26 season. First up is the boys Division 4 all-state lists.

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Apr 6 • 12:53 PM EDT • Sports • thetimesherald.com
Rome unleashed an ancient ‘machine gun’ on Pompeii

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

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Apr 6 • 12:47 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine

Iodine deficiency is on the rise among people in the UK, the US and Australia. A century ago this led to drops in IQ, height and thyroid health – and the modern fancy salt fad may be leading to a resurgence, says columnist Alice Klein

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Apr 6 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • newscientist.com
Porsche Teases New 911, Could Be A Drop-Top GT3

A new 911 is on the way, and early clues suggest it could pair GT3 hardware with a convertible twist

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Apr 6 • 11:40 AM EDT • Technology • carscoops.com
I’m an AI power user — this 7-line ‘critical thinking’ prompt finally stops chatbots from being a ‘Yes-Man’

Tired of ChatGPT or Gemini just nodding along? This 'critical thinking' prompt forces AI to challenge your assumptions and make your decisions sharper

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Apr 6 • 7:03 AM EDT • Technology • tomsguide.com
Stephen Curry drops 29 points in return from knee injury as Warriors fall to Rockets

Stephen Curry missed 27 games due to a lingering knee injury.

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Apr 6 • 12:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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On plant health and embracing new plant-breeding techniques in South Africa

The major challenge currently confronting South Africa’s agriculture is the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. For many farmers across the country, the most urgent tasks are both securing sufficient vaccines and rolling them out quickly in the coming months, particularly as the beef and dairy industries continue to suffer big losses. There is also pressure on sheep, goats, and other livestock to prevent the disease from spreading. As efforts to get the country through this monumental challenge continue, I believe it is important to sharpen our focus on the broader task at hand: strengthening biosecurity. This covers both animal and plant health. In recent years, we haven’t focused much on plant health, except a few times, such as when we had a goss’s wilt scare in the maize industry, a few cases of citrus black spot, or cases of sclerotinia in sunflower seeds. But the fact that South Africa managed to control the outbreaks of these particular diseases when they occurred a few years ago was due to organized agricultural and government scientific capabilities, and, most importantly, the availability of crop protection or agrochemicals necessary to address some of them. Therefore, as the animal health division in the Department of Agriculture focuses on the pressing challenge of the day, the foot-and-mouth disease, there is an opportunity for the plant health division to assess if they have all the requirements to tackle any outbreak that may occur on fruits, vegetables or crops in future. The challenge with crop diseases is that they can spread quickly and cause much more rapid damage in the field than we typically see with livestock. Therefore, speed is everything in ensuring the appropriate controls are available. I raise this as an important area, particularly given the drastic climate variation we observe across the country. The production conditions in some areas have changed noticeably over time, which may introduce new risks. The other essential part is ensuring that South Africa has access to the best crop protection technology available in the market. Many technology developers worldwide have operations in South Africa. Therefore, the Department of Agriculture, along with the Agricultural Research Council, must continuously interact with technology developers to assess the various crop protection technologies they are releasing globally and determine their suitability and need in South Africa. This will require a proactive approach from the government, unlike the current approach, in which technology developers typically approach regulators with new technologies. The government, recognising the food security risks, must take a proactive approach to ensure that South African farmers have access to the latest crop protection technologies, thereby safeguarding the country’s food security. Beyond crop protection, we must never forget that South Africa’s agriculture is key to ensuring that the country is the most food-secure country at the national level in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa is also the only African country in the top-40 global agricultural exporters, having more than doubled since 1994 on the back of the adoption of high-yielding seed cultivars. South Africa has been the only African country to adopt a bold approach to embracing science and adopting genetically engineered seeds for grains and oilseeds in the early 2000s. Since then, we have seen crop yields improve noticeably, contributing to the gains we mentioned above. But ensuring that South Africa improves further is not a given. The key lies in South African regulators’ attitudes towards new technologies. We have to maintain a progressive approach and not give in to the politics of non-food and non-scientific voices that shout on the sidelines. Food security is national security, and the government must ensure we progress, leaning on science. Therefore, the registration of high-yielding new genomic techniques is required. South Africa cannot afford to fall behind the EU, the USA, South America, and many of its competitors in global agriculture. The Department of Agriculture’s crop science division must adopt a progress-and-science-embracing approach for the good of the country. Thanks for reading AgriView! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe Share

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Apr 6 • 12:02 AM EDT • Health • wandile.substack.com
#New40k

An aerial elite swoops in to turn the tide of battle.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
Bruising Bruins dominate South Carolina, win an NCAA national title

UCLA coach Clori Close built on lessons learned from John Wooden and steered the Bruins to a lopsided win over South Carolina to clinch a national title.

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Apr 5 • 7:59 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Women’s basketball way-too-early 2026-27 power rankings, topped by USC

With JuJu Watkins back and set to team up with Jazzy Davidson and Saniyah Hall, USC tops the way-too-early women's college basketball power rankings.

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Apr 5 • 7:12 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
What did Pompeii smell like before it burned?

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

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Apr 5 • 2:10 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
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We stress tested 22 USB chargers to find the best for phones, laptops, travel and more

These are the best USB chargers in the US to keep devices juiced up quickly and safely for all your tech needs

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Apr 5 • 1:15 PM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
Is it okay to eat standing up? A doctor weighs in.

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

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Apr 5 • 8:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
4 Clever Uses For The Thunderbolt Port On Your PC

Many modern laptops and PCs now support Thunderbolt, which looks like a regular USB-C port but can support high-speed external drives, eGPUs, and more.

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Apr 5 • 6:17 AM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Can Hawaiʻi Deliver All Of America From Citizens United?

A state Senate bill proposes a novel approach that one legal expert says would make the controversial national campaign finance law irrelevant in the islands.

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Apr 5 • 6:01 AM EDT • Politics • civilbeat.org
Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey makes grand return to CT visiting two arenas with brand-new acts

The legendary circus continues its 21st century makeover featuring 65 performers, from aerialists to acrobats to trick cyclists to people who dive through hoops.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • courant.com
Business Bulletin: WalkerHughes acquires; Midas develops; jP supports; TWM partners

Catch up on local acquisitions, donations, partnerships and projects.

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Apr 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • stltoday.com
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Final Four scores, results: Michigan throttles Arizona in one-sided beatdown, UConn tops Illinois to set up NCAA tournament title game
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Apr 5 • 12:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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White House shuts down speculation about Trump’s absence over health: ‘literally never stops working’
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Guardant Health (GH) Valuation Check After Strong 1 Year Return And Recent 90 Day Pullback

Guardant Health (GH) has drawn fresh attention as investors look at its recent share performance alongside its growing precision oncology business, including liquid biopsy tests and data services for cancer detection and treatment decisions. See our latest analysis for Guardant Health. At a latest share price of US$93.83, Guardant Health has seen a sharp 10.9% 7 day share price return and a 1 year total shareholder return above 100%. However, the 90 day share price return of a 7.77% decline...

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Inside Valley Politics: Texas stops building border walls, a new generation of Lucios runs for office

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Texas announced it was getting out of the border wall business. After funding was allocated for more federal border wall construction, the state will no longer bu…

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Humans can still beat AI at video games

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

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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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Are allergies genetic?

Although babies born from parents with allergies are also more likely to have them, there are a number of outside factors that affect whether and how someone develops allergies.

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Apr 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré rips Hegseth’s rhetoric: could lead to ‘torture or death’ for U.S. troops
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Phillies 10, Rockies 1: Rox offense MIA on Opening Day

Lorenzen got rocked as Rockies hitters whiffed their way to lopsided loss in Home Opener

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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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Artemis II crew snaps stunning portrait of Earth on their way to the moon

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

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Big Month for Small Business in Macon-Bibb

Macon-Bibb County’s Office of Small Business Affairs (OSBA) hosted and co-hosted five workshops and panels throughout March, reaching nearly 800 participants across the community. “These workshops and panels are about making sure our small businesses have access to the information, connections, and opportunities they need to grow,” said OSBA Director Charise Stephens. “When we invest […]

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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress And Uncertainty About State Jobs

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Braves bats wallop Diamondbacks in 17-2 blowout victory

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Airbnb Externship Shows 3L Isabel Samayoa How Legal Strategy Drives Business Growth  - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

An externship at Airbnb provided 3L Isabel Samayoa exposure to areas such as contracts, licensing, risk management, and growth strategy, helping her develop the skills and experience to thrive in her future career as a corporate transactions attorney. 3L student Isabel Samayoa reflects on her work with Airbnb’s in-house legal team through UC Law SF’s Corporate Counsel Externship Program. Supported Airbnb’s legal team on commercial contracts, open-source licensing, external partnerships, product counseling, and legal research. Observed how legal advice aligns with business strategy and risk management. Gained exposure to strategic decision-making while preparing for a career in corporate transactions. Q: What did you do in this corporate externship? A: I supported the Airbnb legal team across several functions, including commercial contracts, open-source licensing matters, strategic external partnerships, legal research, real estate matters, internal AI integration, and product counseling. I also gained exposure to corporate structure counseling, litigation, patent counseling, and the company’s broader business strategy. Q: What did you take away from this experience? A: One of the most valuable parts of this experience was learning how a business actually operates. I had never worked on such a large team in the private sector, so I had little exposure to how companies run internally. I learned how lawyers can provide valuable advice to support business goals, seeing how leadership evaluates risk and develops growth strategies. Understanding those priorities allows me to calibrate my legal advice to clients, balancing the client’s goals against the level of risk they are willing to take. Q: How does this experience support your career goals? A: Exploring the anatomy of a successful company was incredibly valuable because I plan to pursue a career as a corporate transactions lawyer. Being in the room with the teams discussing important decisions allowed me to see firsthand the factors that contribute to that success and how lawyers help guide those decisions. Q: Would you recommend UC Law SF and this externship? Why? A: I would absolutely recommend this opportunity. While the team worked on high-stakes matters at a highly successful company, they still created an environment where I felt welcomed. They trusted me with meaningful work and supported me every step of the way. This helped me build confidence in my analytical abilities. Q: What’s your favorite UC Law SF memory so far? A: Some of my favorite UC Law SF memories, aside from my time at Airbnb, involve mentorship. I have benefited from mentorship and have also had the chance to mentor other law students. Watching the students I mentored go on to mentor others has been particularly rewarding. I think mentorship is integral to the legal profession, and it has been inspiring to see that culture thrive at UC Law SF and continue beyond the classroom. The Evidence of Success series highlights UC Law SF students as they share how the College’s opportunities equip them with the experience, skills, and confidence to excel in the legal profession.

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Blizzard Drops New Overwatch: Undivided WEBTOON With Major Story Lore Expansion

Blizzard has revealed Overwatch: Undivided, a new WEBTOON expanding the game’s story, with Episodes 1–3 available to read now for free.

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Hulu's April Lineup Brings Back 'Malcolm In The Middle' And Finally Continues 'The Handmaid's Tale'

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Florida Panthers hire Amazon robotaxi exec Michael White to lead business ops

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The brutal politics of property tax reform

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The surprising science behind squeaking sneakers

The squeaking of sneakers on a basketball court is one of sports’ most recognizable sounds. NBC News’ Steven Romo examines a recent study exploring the science behind this noisy phenomenon.

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Russell father-daughter team raises the family business to new heights

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Vance tops CPAC straw poll, but Rubio’s surge sets up a fight for the post-Trump MAGA mantle
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Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops

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A 2nd grader designed an adorable mascot for NASA’s Artemis II mission

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When ‘Star Trek’ put the first Black astronaut into space

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Decapodiform evolutionary tree

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Yankees’ Aaron Judge drops sobering take on winning MVPs

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Asian Shares Decline as Oil Prices Soar Amid the War in Iran, Echoing Last Week's Wall Street Drop

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