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Top News Stories for Friday, April 10th 2026
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
So much for Donald Trump's "Golden Age." It looks like America's economic growth is officially in free fall. Between October and December, America's real gross domestic product fell from 4.4 percent to just 0.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday. That figure is significantly less than the agency's second estimate of 0.7 percent growth, reported last month. The government reported that ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
How would you feel paying $85,000 a year to one of the world's most prestigious arts colleges, only to be taught how to eliminate your career? That's how some students at Berklee College of Music view the Boston school's growing efforts to educate them about using generative artificial intelligence . Like many young people, they are concerned about AI's impact on the environment , use of copyrighted material for ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry Amazon has told owners it will soon stop supporting older Kindle models - a move which has left some users outraged. In emails from the tech giant, affected users were thanked for being a "longtime Kindle customer" but told devices released during or before 2012 would no longer receive updates from 20 May. The move will mean owners of older Kindles, ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
On Wednesday (April 8), Meta released Muse Spark , the first artificial intelligence (AI) model out of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Built over the past nine months under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang , the new AI model is showing performance competitive with systems from OpenAI , Google and Anthropic , according to CNBC . The model now powers Meta's digital assistant in the standalone Meta AI app and desktop ...
Source: pymnts.com
Takeaways from the Gilgo Beach case as Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to 7 murders and admits to an 8th
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island man who carried out a series of murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings pleaded guilty to murder charges this week, bringing finality to the long-unsolved case more than 30 years after the first killing. Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life as a serial killer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Some Democratic voters may be down on their party, but they're still heavily engaged in the 2026 elections and are prioritizing electability when thinking about upcoming primaries, according to focus group conversations with Democrats in Maine and Michigan. Both states will be central in this year's battle for the Senate, and the Democratic primaries there have exposed ideological and generational divides within ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis has led the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to declare the species officially in danger of extinction. Emperor penguins rely on "fast" ice – sea ice that is firmly attached to the coast ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax refunds this season are up 24% compared with the four-year average of refunds before President Donald Trump took office, his administration said Thursday — a change credited to Republicans' tax legislation signed into law last year. As the tax season kicked off in January, the White House had boasted that average returns ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Appeals court denies Anthropic's emergency motion for a stay. A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration's efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company's emergency motion for a stay. But the court granted the US-based AI firm's request to expedite the case and will hold oral arguments on May 19. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Technology Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem What happens when AI can hack everything? Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic April 9, 2026, 1:22 PM ET Save For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The world's largest-known group of chimpanzees recently burst into a lethal conflict . Much like in a civil war, the group fractured into two. Then one faction began killing their former group mates on the other side, researchers write today in the journal Science . It's an exceedingly rare event: scientists estimate that chimpanzee communities split, on average, every 500 years. The paper is "a tour de force," ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A World War II-era policy is stopping old coal plants from closing. At one time, the US electricity grid ran mostly on coal. But coal-fired power plants have steadily been decommissioned. Power producers found the plants were too expensive to operate and carried risks tied to toxic air pollution, waste, and climate-warming emissions. Then President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year with a fresh ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
John Healey said warships and military aircraft forced Russia to halt activity in UK waters near vital undersea cables and pipelines 3-MIN READ Britain said on Thursday it had tracked and deterred three Russian submarines on an alleged month-long "covert operation" in UK waters in the North Atlantic near vital undersea cables and pipelines. Disclosing details of the joint mission with Norway and other unspecified ...
Source: scmp.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A woman with three different autoimmune conditions had all of them treated simultaneously by genetically modifying her immune cells to kill off the rogue ones causing problems A woman who had three different autoimmune conditions has not required treatments for almost a year after her immune cells were genetically modified and used to kill off the rogue cells attacking her body. "She was deathly sick and bedridden ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rose more than 5% today after Chief Executive Andy Jassy published his latest shareholder letter. The memo is the fifth that Jassy has penned since taking the top post in 2021. Amazon's first shareholder letter was written by founder Jeff Bezos in 1997, the year the company went public. One potential reason Wall Street responded positively to the letter is that it contains new data ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
'In a holding pattern' is how economists are describing the spring market moving into April, with more policy stability and conflict resolution needed to move buyers and sellers back from the sidelines. The average mortgage rate ticked down 9 basis points to 6.37% this week, down from 6.46% last week after several weeks of increases, according to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and DAVID BAUDER WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters, a setback in the administration's efforts to impede the work of journalists. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sided with The New York Times for the second ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
You've likely heard about K-beauty and its countless benefits for your skin. But take it from a beauty writer: Japanese skin care, aptly called J-beauty, should also be on your radar if it's not already. Unlike the more elaborate routines that Korean beauty is known for, Japanese skin care routines tend to be much more simplistic and focus on getting your best skin in the least amount of steps. I spoke to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the NFL is forcing football fans to pay too much in subscription fees, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. In years past, football fans watched NFL games over broadcast TV, delivered free into their homes. The 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act allowed for sports leagues to get around some antitrust concerns and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Many people think cancer happens only because of genes or bad luck. In reality, life is more complex. Daily habits, along with social support, can slowly affect health over time. A new study shows that even something like being married or not may be connected to cancer risk. This may sound surprising, but it offers a new way to understand health. Researchers from the Sylvester Comprehensive ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
By Jim Whittaker, the towering mountaineer who became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest and went on to shape the nation's outdoor culture for decades, died Tuesday, April 7, at his home in Port Townsend, Washington. He was 97. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Dianne Roberts ; sons Bob , Joss and Leif Whittaker ; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. "Whether at home, in the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
By Meta is not waiting for its own data centers to catch up with its AI ambitions. It is renting the capacity it needs right now. CoreWeave and Meta announced an expanded agreement on April 9 in which Meta will pay approximately $21 billion for dedicated AI cloud capacity through December 2032, CoreWeave confirmed this in a press release . The new deal layers on top of a prior $14.2 billion arrangement between the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii anesthesiologist who was accused of trying to murder his wife on a scenic cliffside hike with ocean views last year has ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling "Friends" star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023. "You're going to have to show some epic resilience," Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha, echoing the defendant's words earlier in the hearing about her self-improvement. The 42-year-old became ...
Source: pbs.org