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Cate Blanchett, Bryan Cranston and Paddington Bear are up for prizes at London's Olivier Awards

Cate Blanchett, Bryan Cranston and Paddington Bear are among the stars up for prizes at London’s Olivier Awards on Sunday.

Apr 12 • 1:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • wsls.com

Legendary basketball coach, broadcaster Dick Vitale reveals health status

The basketball world has come together to support one of its most legendary figures. Former NCAA and NBA coach and current broadcaster Dick Vitale has faced challenges larger than basketball. Recent reports revealed that Vitale has been dealing with numerous…

Apr 11 • 8:05 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com

Seniors: John Lemp, 70

Has been working for more than 50 years in the business — M. Lemp Jewelers in Syracuse — that his great-grandfather started in 1890 By Mary Beth Roach Don Lemp owns and represents the fourth-generation of the family business, M. Lemp Jewelers, but he still calls himself “a counter guy.” “I love interacting with couples. It’s a wonderful business. You’re celebrating marriages, engagements, births, anniversaries — all these different significant moments that people invite you into their lives for whatever brief period of time it might be to help them celebrate whatever their important occasion is,” he said. This is one of several reasons why Lemp, at 70, has been working for more than 50 years in the business that his great-grandfather started in 1890. Always located in the downtown Syracuse area, the store has been situated in the building that the family owns on East Fayette and Warren streets since 1971. He jokes that he’s been in the business so long he is now selling engagement rings to the second generation in some families. He also loves the opportunity to learn about the ever-changing industry and gemstones. “You have to know not only diamonds, but all the colored stones, from A to Z, from andalusite to zircons,” he said. Lemp said he had originally thought he wanted to become an attorney, but while working part-time in the store while attending college at Syracuse University, he decided to follow in the family business. His father, Walter D. Lemp Sr., and his mother tried to discourage their son from pursuing retail, reminding him of the hectic hours and lifestyle intrinsic in this business. But the younger Lemp [whose full name is Walter D. Lemp Jr.] prevailed. So, over the years, father and son got to work together in the family business for 35 years. And while many other jewelers retreated from downtown to suburban malls in the 1970s, the Lemps decided to stay downtown. And it’s a decision that Lemp Jr. feels it has worked out well. As he explained, downtown Syracuse is seeing a rebirth. One website, Point2Home.com, has noted that more than 6,000 people live there and the median income is about $62,000. In addition, according to the website that Lemp built years ago, the store can cater to customers throughout the country. His customers, whether from across the country or across Onondaga County, are just one reason that Lemp stays engaged in the business. His employees, the opportunity to continue to learn in an industry, and the challenge to continue to improve business are all other reasons, he noted. He’s also been able to travel to India to buy diamonds and he enjoys buying and selling estates. “I’d rather gallop in the corral than ride into the sunset,” Lemp said.

Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

Seniors: Carol Watson, 72

Owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping in LaFayette enjoys her growing business — still puts in six-, seven-day weeks By Mary Beth Roach Carol Watson, the owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping, has been in gardens since she could walk. Literally. She said she learned to walk in her grandfather’s garden, which was next door to her current home and business in LaFayette. Today, at 72, she is running the business that her mother, Claire, opened in 1981 as Watson Greenhouse. Watson worked part-time for her mom until 1990, when she joined her full time. While she may not have had any formal horticultural experience, she said she learned so much about growing and raising plants from her mom, who had an abundance of energy and talent. Now, after 35 years in the business full time, Watson has no plans to retire, although she joked that she’d like a couple of days off a week. On her seven-acre site, complete with four greenhouses, Watson said her favorite parts of the job are working with and educating her customers; helping some of her young customers build terrariums; conducting occasional class field trips; and supporting local art by decorating the shop with an eclectic mix of pottery from at least four area craftspeople. A one-time employee of the former Dey Bros. department store in Syracuse, Watson said she loves merchandising and enjoys displaying unique pieces of art on shelves and even suspending from ceilings. “We’re creative. We also had top quality plants. We got a reputation of quality plants and unusual products,” she said. It’s tending to her customers and her plants, showcasing the unusual products, and hosting special events to benefit the community that keep her motivated to work six to seven days a week. “I just love it. I love taking care of the plants. I’m one of the few people that really enjoys watering,” she said. And while she has cultivated a solid customer base over the years, she remains savvy in her marketing efforts to draw in new customers. For example, she does a gardening segment on CNY Central television; her active Facebook page has thousands of followers; and she hosts a number of unique events and classes that not only introduce her shop to potential new clients, but some benefit nonprofits as well. About 13 years ago, when the local symphony orchestra was struggling, she said she wanted to help. So, partnering with the group, she began offering concerts, called Soirees, featuring the Syracuse Orchestra’s string quartet. Following up on a suggestion from a customer whose brother is a deejay in retirement, specializing in sock hops, she hosted the greenhouse’s first sock hop. Plants got moved back toward the walls to make room for dancing; a caterer was brought in, offering diner-like food; guests came in period outfits; and proceeds went to the Food Bank of CNY. She is excited about doing it again in October. Via her website, she promotes the greenhouse as an “oasis in the snow,” offering visitors the opportunity to pick up some decorating and gift ideas while taking in the floral and citrus scents. And she also caters to her four-legged friends. Over this past winter, she said, she came up with a “brilliant idea,” although at the time she didn’t appreciate just how brilliant it would become. Feeling it too cold outside to take her dog for a walk, she opted to bring it into the greenhouse. And before long, she was inviting people to bring their dogs into the big greenhouse as well. She looks forward to extending that invitation again this upcoming winter season. For Watson and her customers, the greenhouse is always in season.

Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

Hornets aim to bounce back in season finale vs. Knicks

After clinching the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference, the New York Knicks are expected to sit a number of key players in their regular-season finale against the visiting Charlotte Hornets on Sunday.

Apr 11 • 3:41 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Entertainment venues keep packing Fresno-area calendar. 10 (more) shows to watch

Among a slew of announcements, Broadway in Fresno put out its next lineup: We’re getting the Neil Diamond musical and a return of “Jersey Boys.”

Apr 11 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Entertainment venues keep packing Fresno-area calendar. 10 (more) shows to watch

Among a slew of announcements, Broadway in Fresno put out its next lineup: We’re getting the Neil Diamond musical and a return of “Jersey Boys.”

Apr 11 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • fresnobee.com

Asha Bhosle health update: Granddaughter Zanai Bhosle confirms singer being treated for ‘extreme exhaustion, infection’

Asha Bhosle's granddaughter Zanai Bhosle confirmed on Saturday night that the legendary singer is hospitalised and is being treated at the Breach Candy Hospital

Apr 11 • 12:57 PM EDT • Health • hindustantimes.com

New to The Street to Broadcast on Fox Business on Monday, April 13, Featuring Virtuix Holdings...

The show will air as sponsored programming nationwide at 10:30 PM PST on Fox Business Network

Apr 11 • 12:35 PM EDT • Business • theolympian.com

New to The Street to Broadcast on Fox Business on Monday, April 13, Featuring Virtuix Holdings...

The show will air as sponsored programming nationwide at 10:30 PM PST on Fox Business Network

Apr 11 • 12:35 PM EDT • Business • sacbee.com

New to The Street to Broadcast on Fox Business on Monday, April 13, Featuring Virtuix Holdings...

The show will air as sponsored programming nationwide at 10:30 PM PST on Fox Business Network

Apr 11 • 12:35 PM EDT • Business • heraldonline.com

Who were Montgomery area high school sports top performers for April 6-10

A list of this week's top performers in high school sports in the Montgomery area from games played Monday through Friday, April 6-10.

Apr 11 • 12:22 PM EDT • Sports • montgomeryadvertiser.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.

Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net

Hungary’s Viktor Orban struggling for political survival ahead of vote

Hungarian prime minister and his Fidesz party ‌face first closely contested polls in Sunday's parliamentary election.

Apr 11 • 8:04 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com

See 16 Actors You Forgot Guest Starred on 'Twin Peaks'

'Twin Peaks' premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990. From David Duchovny to Amanda Seyfried, find out the actors who appeared on the genre-bending TV series before (or even after!) they were famous.

Apr 11 • 7:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • people.com

Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise face a long, difficult to-do list as Congress returns

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise return to Capitol Hill Monday afternoon after a two-week Easter break with a long list of “must

Apr 11 • 7:01 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com

Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Events coming up in the Greenville area offer music, arts, theater and family fun. Here is a sampling.

Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • reflector.com

New metal with triple copper’s heat conduction challenges fundamental physics

With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve heat management of electronics, data centers and energy systems

Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com

Colorado Politics calendar Apr. 13-19

CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber, […]

Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

The California governor’s race was already a mess for Dems. Now what?

Democrats have struggled for months over how to handle the governor’s race. Will the Eric Swalwell scandal be a unifying moment?

Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • sfchronicle.com

Celtic must sort scouting and recruitment shambles this summer

Scouting and recruitment should be the top of Celtic’s agenda when it comes to the much needed reshuffle of club affairs this summer…Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay at TannadiceDundee Utd v Celt...

Apr 11 • 5:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Final Carnegie Science Lecture Explores the Hidden Hearts of Distant Worlds

Ever wonder what's inside a planet? Carnegie Science tackles the topic for the fourth and final of its free lectures: "How to Look Inside an Exoplanet" on Monda

Apr 11 • 3:08 AM EDT • Science • coloradoboulevard.net

Insights from CLI: Tracking AI's Impact on Offices and Business Parks in APAC

April 11, 2026 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) will be one of the most consequential technological shifts of the current era. It will fundamenta...

Apr 11 • 2:08 AM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com

People in Business for April 11, 2026

People in Business for April 11, 2026

Apr 11 • 2:00 AM EDT • Business • bozemandailychronicle.com

NBA Awards eligibility tracker: Nikola Jokić needs to play Sunday to pass 65-game rule

Apr 10 • 11:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

$600K grant expands school-based mental health support across Wisconsin

The funding, from the Roots & Wings Foundation, will support a school-based mental health initiative led by the WEA Member Benefits Foundation.

Apr 10 • 10:30 PM EDT • Health • wmtv15news.com

Council to seek clarity on authority to hold public vote on Rock Creek Entertainment District TIF districts

Norman City Council will consider an agenda item Tuesday that could help determine if the city has authority to hold a public vote on the Rock Creek Entertainment District tax

Apr 10 • 9:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • oudaily.com

The Rogue Prince Of Persia Physical Release Now Available On Switch 1 & 2

Including standard and Immortal Editions

Apr 10 • 8:05 PM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com

Memorial Health Foundation fashion show raises over $142K

The Memorial Health Foundation 21st annual Fashion Show, this year with a Masquerade Ball theme, drew a large crowd and raised more than $142,000, with proceeds supporting local cancer patients and related health initiatives. The annual fundraiser supports the foundation’s cancer patient emergency fund and breast health initiatives, helping individuals undergoing treatment with expenses such […]

Apr 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • mariettatimes.com

Will Gibbs Be Injured in the ‘NCIS: Origins’ Season 2 Finale?

Plus, trouble's coming for NIS.

Apr 10 • 7:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Dick Vitale releases update on latest health battle: 'Hope & pray for good results'

Legendary college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale shared an update on his latest health battle. Here's what he said.

Apr 10 • 6:51 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com

XChat, X's standalone messaging app, launching on iPhone and iPad next week

XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, now has a release date. XChat will arrive on iPhone and iPad in...

Apr 10 • 4:31 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

Alamo Drafthouse showing 'The Pitt' finale free for health care workers

Ten Alamo Drafthouse locations are hosting free screenings of "The Pitt" Season 2 finale on Monday, April 13. Limited tickets are available online.

Apr 10 • 4:30 PM EDT • Health • usatoday.com

Science of seismic proportions

Arizona’s deserts might not be situated on a tectonic plate boundary where geographical activity can cause earthquakes, but that doesn’t make the state immune from the disturbance of tremors.It has been 139 years since Arizona’s strongest recorded earthquake on the Pitaycachi fault struck in 1887. The 7.5 magnitude event, known as the Sonoran Earthquake, took place near the southeastern Arizona-Mexico border.

Apr 10 • 4:22 PM EDT • Science • news.asu.edu

BAFTA apologizes again for racial slur scandal amid review results

BAFTA Board of Trustees says it is 'determined to learn from what happened' in the racial slur scandal that overshadowed its annual awards celebration in February.

Apr 10 • 3:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Your Next Breach Will Look Like Business as Usual

These are the fundamental detection model shifts cybersecurity teams need to make to keep up with the rising number of credential-based attacks.

Apr 10 • 3:21 PM EDT • Business • darkreading.com

A New Case Exposed the Clever Workaround the FBI Uses to Read 'Secure' Messages on iPhones

Law enforcement used Apple's push notifications database to gather messages sent through Signal, and convict defendants for terrorism activities.

Apr 10 • 2:58 PM EDT • Technology • inc.com

Chief Executive Officer at Stellar Development Foundation to speak at Loebl Women Business Leaders Series, April 16

The series enables the Marquette University community to interact and engage with renowned women business leaders.

Apr 10 • 2:44 PM EDT • Business • today.marquette.edu

Towanda farm market named national rural small business of the year

The SBA named the family-owned Shores Sisters Farm Market on Golden Mile Road in Towanda as its national rural small business of the year.

Apr 10 • 2:42 PM EDT • Business • stargazette.com

Amanda Bynes Makes Unexpected Return to Public Eye With Music

See what's going on!

Apr 10 • 1:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • sheknows.com

Looking for weekend plans? Book fair, Open Streets: West Walnut offer entertainment for all

There are two fun events happening this weekend that we want to tell you about! First, Books and Brews Philly and South Philly bookstore A Novel idea are teaming up for a “Grown-Up Book Fair and Swap” on Sunday afternoon. Then, also on Sunday, we have “Open Streets: West Walnut” which just opened for the spring season. NBC10’s Sheila Watko tells us more about the upcoming events!

Apr 10 • 1:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • nbcphiladelphia.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.

Apr 10 • 1:13 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Gov. Laura Kelly signs bills altering defendant competency process, child health care program

Gov. Laura Kelly announces the signing of more than 50 bills approved by the 2026 Kansas Legislature.

Apr 10 • 12:31 PM EDT • Health • kansasreflector.com

Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose Sunday’s Hungarian Election

The Hungarian leader faces an energized opposition—and questions about whether he would accept defeat.

Apr 10 • 12:15 PM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com

Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band will present ‘Salute to Entertainment’

The April 13 concert will feature music from Broadway shows, with three guest vocalists.

Apr 10 • 11:31 AM EDT • Entertainment • dailybulletin.com

'Euphoria,' returning for a third season, launched a generation of new stars

“Euphoria” returns Sunday with its starry cast for a third season on HBO Max | Talk 1370

Apr 10 • 10:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

'Euphoria,' returning for a third season, launched a generation of new stars

“Euphoria” returns Sunday with its starry cast for a third season on HBO Max | KNSS Radio

Apr 10 • 10:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Neuroscientist To Lead Engineering-Driven Brain Health Research

Dr. Matthew Walker joined UT Dallas in January to build the future of sleep science. His research spans fundamental neuroscience and the development of innovative engineering tools to improve the quality of life. Dr. Matthew Walker is helping to transform sleep research from an observational field into one in which engineered solutions can measure and […]

Apr 10 • 10:26 AM EDT • Science • news.utdallas.edu

Neuroscientist To Lead Engineering-Driven Brain Health Research

Dr. Matthew Walker joined UT Dallas in January to build the future of sleep science. His research spans fundamental neuroscience and the development of innovative engineering tools to improve the quality of life. Dr. Matthew Walker is helping to transform sleep research from an observational field into one in which engineered solutions can measure and […]

Apr 10 • 10:26 AM EDT • Health • news.utdallas.edu

Interview: Rob McClure on the Unsettling Reality of SPARE PARTS – “This Isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Just Science.”

“Experimenting on yourself is insane. An experiment on a single person, with no controls, tells you nothing. It is incapable of predicting anything.” Or… is it? Such is the premise of Spare Parts, the darkly comedic and deeply twisted new drama currently shaking up Theatre Row through April 30th — and subverting our standards of what …Read more

Apr 10 • 10:15 AM EDT • Science • stagebuddy.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.

Apr 10 • 9:23 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com

Idaho National Laboratory nuclear science trailer delivers hands-on nuclear science experience to Wyoming

The Idaho National Laboratory is bringing its nuclear science trailer on a two-day tour through Wyoming, kicking off in Laramie on Monday, April 13.

Apr 10 • 8:56 AM EDT • Science • inl.gov

YouTube Premium is getting pricier

The standard plan is going up by $2 a month in the US.

Apr 10 • 7:23 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Trump is bullying NATO again. But Americans like the alliance

For the second time in the still-quite-young 2026 calendar year, President Donald Trump is threatening to blow up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which Americans decidedly like, over a foreign policy adventure they decidedly do not.

Apr 10 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Japanese prime minister Takaichi thrilled by Deep Purple's visit to her office

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took a short and happy break Friday as she hosted legendary British rock band Deep Purple in Tokyo as a longtime admirer | K-DAWN

Apr 10 • 6:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Japanese prime minister Takaichi thrilled by Deep Purple's visit to her office

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took a short and happy break Friday as she hosted legendary British rock band Deep Purple in Tokyo as a longtime admirer | KMBZ

Apr 10 • 6:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Confessions from a laid-off sports columnist: Candace Buckner is done being sidelined

Sipping lattes and watering my garden of grievances didn't fill the stadium-sized hole in my heart. Thanks, sports, for letting me back in.

Apr 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com

Slate of new Virginia laws address health care and housing affordability

Addressing health care and housing affordability were prominent pillars of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s successful campaign and Virginia Democrats’ legislative agenda this year. Cost-conscious proposals saturated the 2026 legislative session and many have become law.

Apr 10 • 5:26 AM EDT • Health • virginiamercury.com

Southampton's Eckert wins manager of the month award

Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert is named the Championship's manager of the month for March.

Apr 10 • 3:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Sports Playbook for Business: Leading with Speed, Clarity, and Purpose

Novo Nordisks Aleksandar Ciric writes that leaders can apply sports principles such as speed of action, clarity, and responsiveness to be successful in life sciences.

Apr 10 • 1:49 AM EDT • Business • lifescienceleader.com

RFK Jr.’s HHS rewrites rules governing key CDC vaccine committee

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved changes to rules that govern an expert group that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations.

Apr 9 • 8:25 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com

Penn researchers use AI to surface unreported GLP-1 side effects in Reddit posts

Could mining Reddit with AI help spot drug side effects earlier? A new Penn study suggests it might. Using large language models to map patient posts to standardized medical terms, researchers analyzed more than 400,000 Reddit posts about GLP-1s and found both known side effects and possibly underrecognized symptoms, like menstrual changes. The team says the approach could eventually help generate early safety signals for other drugs and wellness trends discussed online.

Apr 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org

When and why political leaders polarise rhetoric: Evidence from Twitter/X

Standard theories of electoral competition predict that politicians should converge toward the centre as elections approach. This column challenges this prediction, using 3.4 million tweets from 367 political leaders across 21 Western democracies. Rhetorical polarisation between populist and non-populist leaders rises sharply in the two quarters before an election and reverts to average levels once it is over. Both groups adopt a more emotionally direct communication style as elections near, but they increasingly talk about different topics. The findings suggest that social media turns electoral campaigns into an engine of political polarisation.

Apr 9 • 7:39 PM EDT • Politics • cepr.org

Mamdani balances governing with delivering on affordability agenda

“I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during his inauguration.

Apr 9 • 6:57 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com

Fitch cuts FS KKR Capital rating to junk territory as asset quality weakens

Fitch Ratings on Thursday downgraded its rating on a private credit fund jointly run by Future Standard and KKR ​to junk territory, citing continued deterioration in its asset quality.

Apr 9 • 6:37 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Former Erie County DA John Flynn eyeing town of Tonawanda supervisor job

Longtime Supervisor Joe Emminger announced he would be stepping down in May.

Apr 9 • 4:35 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Indiana Fever Unveil First Look Inside $78M Populous-Designed Sports Performance Center

The 108,000 sq. ft. facility will be the largest in the WNBA and represents a new standard for holistic player experience, performance and investment in women’s sports.——–These renderings bring our vision into focus. Every element of this facility has been intentionally designed around our players including how they train, recover, connect and live day to […]

Apr 9 • 4:30 PM EDT • Sports • populous.com

Judge rules youth organization can keep Waukee sports complex

A judge ruled in favor of the Iowa Youth Athletic Foundation, allowing the organization to retain ownership of the Kettlestone Sports Complex in Waukee after a property tax dispute.

Apr 9 • 3:05 PM EDT • Sports • kcci.com

How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages From a Defendant's iPhone

The FBI was able to pull Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone—even though that user had deleted the app. Here's how they did it.

Apr 9 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • lifehacker.com

NBC Sports Broadcaster Mike Tirico ’88 to Speak at Commencement

The ‘Sunday Night Football’ play-by-play voice and NBC Olympics primetime host, who began his broadcasting career at Syracuse University's own WAER-FM, will address graduates May 10.

Apr 9 • 2:03 PM EDT • Sports • news.syr.edu

Chimpanzees in Uganda are locked in a deadly 'civil war' after their group split apart — and scientists don't know why

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, igniting deadly conflict between former friends.

Apr 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com

The IX Sports Podcast: Aerin Frankel vs Ann-Reneé Desbiens

Host Maya Smith and guest Geremy discuss the record-breaking attendance at MSG and the battle for Goaltender of the Year.

Apr 9 • 1:16 PM EDT • Sports • theixsports.com

Arts and Entertainment Agenda, April 10-16

Aspen 2026 Shortsfest final days, April 10-11 Aspen’s 2026 Shortsfest, recognized as one of North America’s premier short-film festivals and the only Academy Award-qualifying festival dedicated solely to shorts, wraps this week. The “In Conversation...

Apr 9 • 12:47 PM EDT • Entertainment • aspentimes.com

April Arts and Entertainment Calendar

Poetry with Garrett Ashley & Zoë Fay‑Stindt – 3 p.m. April 4 City Lights Bookstore hosts a poetry reading featuring Garrett Ashley (debut collection “Habitats”) and Zoë Fay‑Stindt. More information at: https://citylightsnc.com/event/2026-04-04/poetry-garrett-ashley-zoe-fay-stindt Piano Duo Recital: Dr. Leonidas Lagrimas and Dr. Michael Langer – 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 7 Pianists Leonidas […]

Apr 9 • 12:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • westerncarolinian.com

3L Rachel Sadler Charts Path in Brain Health, Technology, and Policy Through UC Law SF’s Health Law Concentration   - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

3L Rachel Sadler studies health law and policy at UC Law SF while researching the legal implications of neurotechnology and other emerging tools that may affect human cognition. 3L student Rachel Sadler shares how UC Law SF’s Health Law Concentration prepared her for a career focused on the intersection of brain health, government policy, and technology. Gained a detailed understanding of how U.S. health care is regulated and where policy reform is needed through coursework and research. Interned with state and federal agencies that regulate health care services and worked with a major health care provider’s bioethics department. Plans to pursue a career focused on protecting cognitive liberty and mental privacy as new technologies reshape healthcare. 3L Rachel Sadler: The Health Law Concentration has given me fluency in one of the most complex regulated industries and the tools to become an effective advocate for better health policy. Before coming to law school, I spent a decade teaching and working with teachers and administrators on high school programming for multilingual learners. Healthcare kept emerging as the most powerful driver of student outcomes. I wanted to understand how to make effective policy change in this area and how to use existing law to defend people’s health rights in California. Through the concentration’s coursework, I gained a sophisticated understanding of how U.S. healthcare is regulated. I also learned where the pressure points for reform exist. The courses gave me space to develop what became my central research interest: how law and policy can be built to protect human cognition and healthy brain development, particularly regarding new technologies such as generative AI and neurotechnology. The health law faculty were instrumental in that process, genuinely invested in helping me and other students define and pursue our own intellectual vision. During law school, I interned at the General Counsel’s Office for Region IX of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I also externed at the California Department of Justice’s Health, Education and Welfare Division. Additionally, I externed at Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Bioethics Department. Alongside those placements, I conducted extensive independent research on mental privacy and emerging neurotechnology, working closely with Professors Emily Murphy and George Horvath. That research became the throughline of my law school experience and the foundation of my current policy focus. I must also credit Nicole Ozer of the Center for Constitutional Democracy (CCD), whose deep knowledge of California privacy law and the public-interest privacy landscape deeply informed my work. I currently serve a research assistant with the CCD, where I spearhead the development of K-12 educational resources in partnership with law faculty and students. I’ve found UC Law SF to be an ideal place for second-career, nontraditional students. There is a tremendous diversity of life and career experience here, and I felt fully welcomed into the community, despite returning as a student at a different stage of life. I came to law school wanting to promote equity in California’s healthcare system. I am leaving with a sharper and more specific ambition: to build a policy career focused on protecting cognitive liberty and mental privacy from technological intrusion. This is both an urgent and underserved area of law, and I want to be part of defining this landscape going forward. Whether as a practicing attorney or a policy advisor, I plan to work on these issues after law school. I strongly recommend UC Law SF and the Health Law Concentration. When I arrived in law school, I worried the concentration would be narrow and that my non-clinical background would be a disadvantage. The opposite was true. The health law faculty thinks about health expansively, encompassing social determinants of health, structural inequity, and emerging technologies alongside the regulatory mechanics of the industry. The faculty are accessible, intellectually generous, and genuinely invested in students’ development. I found my research vision here, and I deeply appreciate the concentration’s role in this. 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.

Apr 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • uclawsf.edu

‘New standard for women’s sports’: Indiana Fever give sneak peek of $78M practice facility

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Fever revealed a first look at their innovative new practice facility. New renderings of the $78 million Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center showcase a 108,000-square…

Apr 9 • 10:44 AM EDT • Sports • fox59.com

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Apr 9 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mankatofreepress.com

What will bring visitors back to the Science Museum of Minnesota?

The Science Museum of Minnesota is drawing half the number of visitors it did compared to before the COVID 19 pandemic. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks about how the museum is responding to the plunge in attendance and revenue.

Apr 9 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • mprnews.org

ACM Awards 2026 Nominations: Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert & More Nominees

Find out which country stars are up for awards at the May 17 show.

Apr 9 • 9:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com

Wasabi Technologies to Acquire Seagate’s Lyve Cloud Business

Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced it will acquire the Lyve Cloud business from Seagate Technology LLC (NASDAQ: STX), a lead...

Apr 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • businesswire.com

Guitar & Pen: 575 Brewery and Alamogordo's growing entertainment scene

I always applaud when a local business does something outside their normal cup of tea. Local watering hole, 575 Brewery has stepped up and is now offering a worship service at 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings, three hours before they open for business. Everyone who knows the owners of this establishment – Bill and Vicky Arnold – know how visionary the couple is. Regardless of your views on the Lord, this is the non-denominational place to be. The five disciples of the square table at the 99th Church of Christ applaud the innovation of these two great Alamogordians.

Apr 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • alamogordonews.com

C-section rate in 2025 highest in a decade

Why people overeat, how public health survives in war, and more health news from Morning Rounds

Apr 9 • 8:47 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert and Ella Langley lead 2026 ACM Awards nominations dominated by women

Megan Moroney leads the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards with nine nominations | Talk 1370

Apr 9 • 8:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert and Ella Langley lead 2026 ACM Awards nominations dominated by women

Megan Moroney leads the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards with nine nominations | 1010 WINS

Apr 9 • 8:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com