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Top News Stories for Friday, April 10th 2026
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
An attempt by House Democrats to pass a long-shot resolution on Thursday curtailing Donald Trump's war powers over Iran failed after the Republican pro forma speaker, Chris Smith, did not recognize lawmakers from the opposite party on the floor. The vote, scheduled for Thursday morning, used a procedure called unanimous consent, which is a shortcut that allows legislation to pass the chamber instantly, without ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
the leader in data-centric security and AI-ready data management, announced it has officially changed its corporate name to Fasoo AI, marking a strategic transition to support enterprise AI transformation (AX). "AI is fundamentally reshaping how organizations operate, and building business-ready AI is becoming critical to stay competitive," said Kyugon Cho, CEO of Fasoo AI. "Fasoo AI builds on our foundation ...
Source: aithority.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 -
Muse Spark was competitive with models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in language, but lagged in coding Meta on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the AI race. US tech companies are under pressure to prove their huge AI outlays will pay off. The stakes are especially high for Meta after it hired Alex Wang, ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
CEGLÉD, Hungary (AP) — István Vároczi, a 63-year-old entrepreneur from the small Hungarian city of Cegléd, says he doesn't believe the polls that show Prime Minister After 16 years in power and four straight election victories, Orbán is facing an — Péter Magyar of the Tisza party — who has sought to whittle away at Orbán's rural support base with ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica's most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change Two of Antarctica's most iconic species, the emperor penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) and the Antarctic fur seal ( Arctocephalus gazella ), have declined so dramatically and rapidly that they have been classified as ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! has been a Maine editor, columnist and reporter for 40 years. He welcomes comment at of a mini revolution by affixing a 2% "millionaire's tax" surcharge onto the ...
Source: pressherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Ruling Keeps Claude Models Out of Defense Systems During Separate Legal Challenges A federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday refused to pause the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic, setting up a split legal landscape that leaves the artificial intelligence company locked out of Department of Defense work - even as parts of the policy face challenges elsewhere in other courthouses. The D.C. Circuit ...
Source: bankinfosecurity.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 -
For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda's Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community. Then suddenly, one set charged the other, touching off yearslong bloodshed that researchers are comparing to a human civil war. "It was just chaos," said John Mitani, a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Michigan who had been ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
The United Kingdom has issued a strong warning to Russia after detecting what it described as a covert submarine operation targeting vital undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic. Defence Secretary John Healey said British forces had successfully tracked multiple Russian vessels operating near sensitive infrastructure, stressing that any attempt to cause damage would trigger serious consequences. Watch ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system. The 47-year-old had had nine different treatments, none of which had a lasting impact, before receiving the therapy last ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Amazon will continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a 2025 Letter to Shareholders posted Thursday (April 9). Jassy said that while investment spikes invite scrutiny, AI is a game-changer that will reinvent every customer experience. "I've followed the public debate on whether this technology is over-hyped, whether we're in 'a ...
Source: pymnts.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 -
Average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.37%, Freddie Mac says Mortgage rates fell this week after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage declined to 6.37% from last week's ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled the Defense Department violated a court order requiring it to ease stringent restrictions imposed on reporters who cover the Pentagon and blocked a new press policy issued by the department last month. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman again sided with the New York Times and its reporter Julian Barnes, who filed a lawsuit last year that argued the new Pentagon policy violated the First ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
These solutions really do work. 14 min read Death. Taxes. Aging. These are three things that are totally unavoidable. And when it comes to skin aging in particular, it's no secret that exactly when and how it presents itself can vary greatly. One person might notice stubborn dark spots crop up on their face after years of unprotected sun exposure, for instance. On someone else, the passage of time could come in the ...
Source: womenshealthmag.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games simultaneously to multiple platforms — paid streaming platforms, paid cable networks, and others, sources told CBS News. A government official familiar with the matter said the probe is about affordability for consumers and creating an "even playing field for providers." ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
Washington — 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 Niño will reach superstrength. Not only was it the hottest March on record for the ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
Meta expanded its agreement with CoreWeave to $21 billion for AI compute capacity, according to a Thursday (April 9) report from Bloomberg . The deal runs through 2032 and builds on a prior multibillion-dollar contract between the companies. The agreement gives Meta access to large-scale GPU clusters used to train and run artificial intelligence models. CoreWeave builds its infrastructure around chips from Nvidia. ...
Source: pymnts.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 -
Jasveen Sangha allegedly ran an elaborate operation catering to high-end clients like the 54-year-old Friends star 3-MIN READ A US federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling actor 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 ...
Source: scmp.com