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T-Mobile Arena turns 10 years old

Las Vegas' sports and entertainment hub prepares to host the NCAA Men's Frozen Four this week

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Apr 6 • 9:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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These countries have the world's longest military service requirements

Dozens of countries have military conscription in 2026. See which nations have mandatory service that can reach two years or more.

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Apr 6 • 9:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years

We sit down with Ajit Varma, the head of Firefox at Mozilla, to learn more about the Project Nova redesign, how Firefox will integrate AI, and the challenges and opportunities as a smaller browser maker.

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Apr 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • pcworld.com
Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once believed. Dating back over 540 million years, the fossils reveal a surprisingly diverse and advanced ecosystem from the late Ediacaran period—before the famous Cambrian explosion. Among the finds are early relatives of starfish, worm-like creatures, and even ancestors of animals with backbones, suggesting that the roots of modern life were already taking shape.

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Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
“Why water is special” mystery finally solved.

POSTECH and Stockholm University observe water’s liquid-liquid critical point, published in Science, following the team’s 2017 and 2020 papers in the same journal. Ten years of persistent research leads to a discovery that could rewrite textbooks

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Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
What a Decades-long Study of Arsenic Poisoning Can Tell Us About Human Health

Columbia researchers have spent over twenty-five years promoting access to clean water in Bangladesh — and investigating the impacts of contaminated aquifers.

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Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • magazine.columbia.edu
Facing Michigan’s ‘Monstars,’ UConn finds itself in the unlikely position of underdog

UConn is one of the most storied programs in college basketball. They’re facing a test in Michigan unlike anything they’ve seen in years.

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Apr 6 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • cnn.com
Upstate flower business celebrates 70 years

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Apr 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Business • foxcarolina.com
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Long Awaited Xbox Game Will Finally Be Playable For Free Next Month

Six years after announcement, it's almost here!

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Apr 6 • 6:42 AM EDT • Technology • gamingbible.com
How the Voyager missions rewrote planetary science, tested the limits of 1970s engineering, and became humanity's longest-running experiment in institutional patience

In November 2026, Voyager 1 will become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth. Nearly 49 years after launch, the twin Voyager missions remain the most productive space exploration program ever flown, and a case study in what happens when engineering resilience meets institutional patience.

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Apr 6 • 6:08 AM EDT • Science • spacedaily.com
Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe is ready to turn his activism into a political career

Chris Kluwe never imagined a life in politics, but after years of speaking out, he's now running for a California Assembly seat.

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Apr 6 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
I'm still betting on AI after it shrank my business and staff

A marketing CEO of 17 years says AI boosted productivity but cut demand, forced layoffs, and changed pricing.

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Apr 6 • 5:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Ten To Leave SM Entertainment But Remain With NCT And WayV

After 10 years since his debut with NCT, Thai artist Ten exits exclusive contract with SM Entertainment, but will remain part of NCT and WayV.

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Apr 6 • 3:38 AM EDT • Entertainment • forbes.com
‘Stop Texting’—Apple Changes iPhone After 15 Years

The FBI warned smartphone users to stop sending texts — here's what happens now.

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Apr 6 • 3:10 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
After Gaza devastation, Israeli attacks on Lebanon's health care system feel familiar for many

SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Two years ago, Dr. Mohammed Ziara watched Israel ravage Gaza's health care system, shelling hospitals, striking ambulances and forcing patients to evacuate.

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Apr 6 • 12:08 AM EDT • Health • wral.com
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
Politics and vulgarity are not a good mix

If you have sensed that our politicians are using more vulgarity in public discourse in the last 10 years, you are right. In the past, politicians have only occasionally used

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Apr 5 • 11:00 PM EDT • Politics • chronicleonline.com
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AI That Forecasts Hurricanes Years Ahead: Inside BU Research

At Boston University, research is the driving force behind innovation that spans industries and shapes the future. BU empowers faculty and students to tackle complex global challenges, producing thousands of publications each year and fueling breakthroughs that extend far beyond campus. Learn more about the innovators whose work powers discoveries on and off campus. Boston […]

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Apr 5 • 9:41 PM EDT • Science • bu.edu
Teresa Guidice's Full Face Transformation Is Wild To See

"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice has undergone a significant face transformation over the years, and it's a little jarring to see.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • glam.com
Train transfer hub linked to reduced healthcare spending

Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University and Japan System Techniques Co., Ltd. evaluated the 2019 Osaka-Higashi Line station openings using a natural experiment and health insurance claims. While the overall rail-line effect was not significant, Shigino Station, a well-connected transfer hub, showed an estimated cumulative reduction of about JPY 62,500 per medically treated person over four years, highlighting that station connectivity and local context may determinewhether new stations deliver healthcare cost benefits.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • eurekalert.org
The NASA Artemis 2.0 Smartwatch Runs Python And Lets Kids Code Their Own Wearable

NASA's Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, carrying four astronauts on humanity's first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canada's Jeremy Hansen are currently aboard the Orion spacecraft, preparing for a lunar flyby that will take them farther from Earth than

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Apr 5 • 4:45 PM EDT • Technology • yankodesign.com
Deadly disease is coming back — doctors say they haven't seen it for ‘years and years’
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Apr 5 • 3:05 PM EDT • Health • nypost.com
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‘Time for the next chapter’: Lehigh County sports bar bids farewell after 18 years

A longstanding spot for beers, burgers, sandwiches and sports viewing has ended operations in the Lehigh Valley.

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Apr 5 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • wfmz.com
The revolution in dinosaur science started 50 years ago—here's what we have learned

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

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Apr 5 • 12:30 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Mulligan's restaurant in Jensen Beach is closing after 23 years in business due to high rent costs

Mulligan's in Jensen Beach is closing on Easter Sunday after 23 years. The owner cited exorbitant rent costs as the reason for the closure.

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Apr 5 • 12:29 PM EDT • Business • wflx.com
Mulligan's restaurant in Jensen Beach is closing after 23 years in business due to high rent costs

Mulligan's in Jensen Beach is closing on Easter Sunday after 23 years. The owner cited exorbitant rent costs as the reason for the closure.

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Apr 5 • 12:29 PM EDT • Business • wptv.com
Suspected measles outbreak kills nearly 100 children in Bangladesh

Health ministry data show children aged six months to five years with suspected measles symptoms soared to 6,476.

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Apr 5 • 10:52 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com
Family returns to NYC 10 years after leaving to discover roots

Ten years after leaving, I took my kids back to where they were born, New York City, to remind them of their roots.

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Apr 5 • 10:08 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Orlando Sentinel 150: Entertainment wasn’t always equal for all

As the Orlando Sentinel looks back at 150 years of entertainment in Central Florida, there are reminders of the days of racial segregation.

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Apr 5 • 6:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • orlandosentinel.com
The founder of a $2.5 million AI-powered legal business started work at her DA’s office at just 12 years old

Logan Brown, the founder of AI-powered law firm Soxton, lived out her “Legally Blonde” dreams through hometown court hearings as a preteen and attending Harvard Law School.

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Apr 5 • 4:02 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com
Google Changes Gmail After 22 Years—Why You Need A New Email Address

Google's upgrade means 2 billion Gmail users must now decide what to do next.

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Apr 5 • 3:53 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Google Changes Gmail After 22 Years—Why You Need A New Email Address

Google's upgrade means 2 billion Gmail users must now decide what to do next.

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Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs

Walker Smith, 54, who worked for retailer for 17 years, says he grabbed bag from thief before they escaped

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Apr 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
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COMMENTARY: Politics and vulgarity are not a good mix

If you have sensed that our politicians are using more vulgarity in public discourse in the last 10 years, you are right. In the past, politicians have only occasionally used slang or made a quick ...

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Apr 5 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • reviewjournal.com
New Mexico's court-mandated pathways to mental health care

Lawmakers have made changes in recent years to bolster the treatment system, but advocates say wide gaps render them insufficient.

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Apr 5 • 12:00 AM EDT • Health • santafenewmexican.com
Nearly launched LG Rollable smartphone reveals its innovative internals in teardown video

Even Samsung’s 2026 foldables pale in comparison. If LG had not decided to exit the smartphone business, we could have seen a first rollable smartphone as early as 2021, one that was already more innovative five years ago than anything the foldable phone segment has produced recently, as a teardown shows.

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Apr 4 • 11:06 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
San Francisco's Caffe Trieste celebrates 70 years in business

Caffe Trieste, a landmark in San Francisco’s North Beach, celebrating 70 years in business Saturday.

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Apr 4 • 10:14 PM EDT • Business • nbcbayarea.com
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San Francisco's Caffe Trieste celebrates 70 years in business

Caffe Trieste, a landmark in San Francisco’s North Beach, celebrating 70 years in business Saturday.

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Apr 4 • 10:00 PM EDT • Business • nbcbayarea.com
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Manuel's El Burrito in Clearfield marks 50 years in business; operators hope for 50 more

Manuel's El Burrito in Clearfield held a small celebration on Tuesday to mark 50 years in business, making it among Utah's longest-lasting Mexican restaurants.

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Apr 4 • 9:03 PM EDT • Business • ksl.com
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Microsoft spent years pushing Copilot, but now it says don’t rely on it

Microsoft says Copilot is for “entertainment purposes only,” despite deep integration into Office and Windows, sparking criticism over mixed messaging.

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Apr 4 • 6:22 PM EDT • Technology • digitaltrends.com
Sabres, Bills make Buffalo sports history not done in 26 years

What a time to be alive in Western New York.

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Apr 4 • 6:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
I watched The Godfather again at 64 and cried — not because the movie changed, but because I finally understood that the films we watched in our twenties weren’t just entertainment, they were instruction manuals for masculinity, family, and honor that shaped every major decision I ever made

Last week, I found myself alone in my living room, remote in hand, scrolling through streaming options when The Godfather appeared on screen. It had been years since I’d watched it. Decades, really. Something made me click play, and three hours later, I was sitting there with tears streaming down my face. Not because Sonny […]

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Apr 4 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • vegoutmag.com
'Diff'rent Strokes' star Todd Bridges files for divorce from wife after 3 years of marriage

'Diff'rent Strokes' star Todd Bridges has filed for divorce from his wife, Bettijo B. Hirschi, after three years of marriage.

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Apr 4 • 3:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Hawaii’s best places to work to be recognized by Hawaii Business Magazine

Over the past 22 years, the Best Places to Work Program recognizes the best employers in the entire state.

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Apr 4 • 2:53 PM EDT • Business • hawaiinewsnow.com
Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandworm

A site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years.

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Apr 4 • 2:10 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Bill Sniffin: Crazy Politics In Wyoming? Yes, I Have Had A Little Experience

Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, "I’ve watched statewide campaigns here for 56 years as a journalist and participated in two: my own run in 2002 and another…

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Apr 4 • 2:01 PM EDT • Politics • cowboystatedaily.com
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The Band Really is Back Together

It’s been a loooong hiatus, but the prolonged pause is over: the original lineup of Triumph, has reunited for its first tour in 30 years.

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Apr 4 • 1:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • coastalbreezenews.com
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YouTube’s Gaming Historian Steps Back After 15 Years

Saying he's lost the spark, the popular gaming chronicler has a parting gift of Kong

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Apr 4 • 11:52 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
A massive arctic thaw is unleashing carbon frozen for thousands of years

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

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Sussex Academy shows up strong at Science Olympiad

Building upon their successes last year, Sussex Academy students shined at the Delaware Science Olympiad held March 7 at the John Dickinson School. After a years-long hiatus, students relaunched a Science Olympiad team for last year's event, where...

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The Sector That’s Hiring, 50 Years of Apple Products, Saying ‘No’ to an Inherited IRA | WSJ Weekend Reads for April 4

Plus, 50 years of Apple products, a scan for statin use and saying no to an inheritance

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Apr 4 • 7:50 AM EDT • Technology • wsj.com
Fossils from China show complex life evolved millions of years earlier than once thought

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them possibly our vertebrate ancestors.

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Apr 4 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • cnn.com
Woman saves money living in a 50-foot narrowboat she bought for $40K

Dottie Turnbull left her one-bedroom cottage and bought a narrowboat for about $40,000. Five years later, she says it saves her money every month.

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Apr 4 • 6:34 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Ye attempts a comeback with sold-out LA-area concert, support from Lauryn Hill

The artist formerly and possibly again known as Kanye West reveled in support from one of his musical idols, Lauryn Hill, as he staged a sold-out Southern California concert meant to mark a comeback from years of controversy.

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Apr 4 • 3:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • click2houston.com
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Roma tracking Alajbegovic and Arribas ahead of summer

Roma are also looking to the future, with just eight games remaining before the end of the season. If, as seems likely, Paulo Dybala will say goodbye after four years, the Giallorossi have already ide...

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Apr 4 • 3:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Meteor impacts may have sparked life on Earth, scientists say

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands of years—long enough for life’s building blocks to form. Scientists now think these environments may have been common on early Earth, making them a strong candidate for where life began. The idea could also guide the search for life on other worlds.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Genius RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Player Makes Longest Rollercoaster Ever Built, Manipulates Guests Into Staying Just Happy Enough to Ride It for 1.947 x 10²²⁷ Years

A RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 superfan has created what is believed to be the longest rollercoaster ever built in the game — and it’s so long that even a googol can’t be used to describe how many years it takes to ride it.

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Apr 3 • 7:13 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Business Email Compromises: Current Legal Trends and Key Strategies

Businesses have for years suffered from a sophisticated, targeted cybercrime that exploits trust, human relationships, and our reliance on digital communication: the business email compromise (BEC).

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Apr 3 • 6:56 PM EDT • Business • foleyhoag.com
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Executive order aims to limit NCAA athletes to 5 years, 1 transfer

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump Friday limits NCAA athletes to a five year playing window and how often they can transfer between schools.

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Apr 3 • 5:17 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Dead by Daylight Devs Celebrate 10 Years of Eldritch Evil and Hope for Many, Many More

At the Game Developers Conference last month, I sat down with Behaviour's head of partnerships Mathieu Cote, and creative director Dave Richard, to talk to them about Dead by Daylight's tenth anniversary.

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Apr 3 • 5:11 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
DI Sports picks | No. 3 Illinois’ Final Four matchup with No. 2 UConn

The waiting game is coming to an end for No. 3 Illinois as it prepares for its first Final Four appearance in 21 years on Saturday in a revenge game against No. 2 UConn. After two physical, hard-fought wins last week over the No. 2 Houston Cougars and the No. 9 Iowa Hawkeyes, the expectations...

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Manchester’s SEE Science Center celebrates 40 years of education, outreach and fun

Since its inception in 1986, Manchester’s SEE Science Center has been about the community it calls home.

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Apr 3 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • unionleader.com
West's best winning streaks collide as Spurs visit Nuggets

San Antonio's first dynasty ended when Tim Duncan retired with five NBA titles over 19 seasons. Ten years later, the Spurs are hoping to build another one behind Victor Wembanyama.

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Apr 3 • 3:05 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
OpenAI isn’t just buying a podcast

OpenAI’s out-of-the-blue acquisition of TBPN, the buzzy online talk show, stunned the worlds of media and technology. But it’s a continuation of a pattern that dates back a hundred years, to 1926, when RCA created NBC in part to sell radios.

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Manchester’s SEE Science Center celebrates 40 years of education, outreach and fun

Adam Irvjo of Westerly, Rhode Island, and his son Grayson, 3, check out an interactive exhibit on pulleys at the SEE Science Center in Manchester on Tuesday.

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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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