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Top News Stories for Friday, April 10th 2026
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Democratic representative Yassamin Ansari says the war has only more deeply entrenched the Iranian regime Donald Trump is an "evil human being" who "wants to be an emperor" and should be removed from office over the war in Iran, Yassamin Ansari , an Iranian American member of the US Congress , has told the Guardian. Ansari, the daughter of Iranian immigrants who decades ago fled the regime, spoke out after the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Artificial intelligence is doing exactly what it promised. The technology is improving efficiency, sharpening forecasts, accelerating workflows and, in many cases, outperforming expectations across business functions. For corporate leaders who spent years waiting for the technology to mature, that moment has arrived. And yet, inside many large organizations, AI is going nowhere fast. Findings from the April edition ...
Source: pymnts.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
According to Sensor Tower's estimates, Meta AI reached an all-time high in daily web visitors in the US. Meta's iOS AI app saw roughly 46,000 downloads, an 87% day-over-day increase in downloads on the US Apple App Store. "The excitement surrounding Meta AI's new AI Model, Muse Spark, wasn't limited to the US as downloads of the app on iOS in Canada, the UK, France and Germany soared 51%, 32%, 27% and 25% ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Records were set. History was made. Now all that's left is to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe. NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are in the final run of a 600,000-mile trip that began on April 1 when they launched from Kennedy Space Center on the first crewed mission of the Artemis ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' belief that they pay too much in taxes remains elevated for the fourth consecutive year, with 59% saying this. Most others, 37%, say their taxes are "about right," while 3% think they are too low. Americans' displeasure with their tax burden has held near 60% since 2023. This is higher than the roughly 50% average recorded in the early 2000s after the 2001 tax cuts went through, ...
Source: news.gallup.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
April 10 (UPI) -- A federal judge has again ordered the Pentagon to restore access to credentialed journalists, ruling the Trump administration was attempting to flout his previous order by disguising it as an interim rule. "The Department cannot simply reinstate an unlawful policy under the guise of taking 'new' action and expect the court to look the other way," U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in his ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Intel® Xeon® processors to continue powering Google Cloud infrastructure across AI, inference and general-purpose workloads Expanded co-development of custom ASIC-based infrastructure processing units (IPUs) to improve efficiency, utilization and performance at scale Collaboration reinforces the central role of CPUs and IPUs in modern, heterogeneous AI systems and Google announced a multiyear collaboration ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Cheng Li-wun's visit to Beijing has sparked controversy in Taiwan, with critics accusing her of being too close to China In a rare meeting with Taiwan's opposition leader, China's president, Xi Jinping , declared that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were Chinese and wanted peace. The meeting in Beijing between Xi and Cheng Li-wun, the chair of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT), is the first such contact in a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they're reversed, lasting damage has already been done. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pursued an aggressive overhaul of federal vaccine guidance and infrastructure since he took office a little over a year ago. Now, his agenda is on hold after a federal judge blocked many of those ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles Amazon is to stop supporting older Kindle models leaving longtime ebook fans unable to access new content from the Kindle store. Devices released during or before 2012 will no longer receive updates from 20 May, affecting owners of older Kindles, including the earliest models such as the Touch and some Fire tablets. It is thought that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives have called on former Attorney General Pam Bondi to address a committee probing how the government handled files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Thursday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee accused Bondi of stonewalling Congress's oversight powers and defying a subpoena for her testimony. Their statement comes one day after the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes As a decades-long penguin lover, a (perhaps futile) comfort I took despite climate change was that penguins weren't outright endangered, save for a few species. But of course, with all things climate change, we can't have the good things. In a statement today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) officially reclassified emperor penguins as "endangered." The new ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Maine is poised to become the first state to pass a temporary ban on data center construction after a measure was approved by both chambers of the state legislature. Similar bills have been introduced in more than a dozen other states, as well numerous localities. Maine's bill could face a veto from the governor, who was unable to get exemptions added into the bill. Maine is poised to implement the first statewide ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Reading time 4 minutes For two decades, a community of chimpanzees in Uganda thrived together. Then the group turned into two, and one started massacring the other. The largest group of wild chimpanzees known to researchers, the Ngogo chimpanzees of Kibale National Park, has devolved into a shocking state of violence. Since they completely fissioned (i.e., broke apart) in 2018, members of the smaller of the two ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Britain said it detected and tracked a Russian attack submarine and other Russian undersea vessels near critical infrastructure in the High North, saying the operation failed after British and allied forces made clear the vessels had been spotted. The operation began several weeks ago, when British aircraft and warships detected an Akula-class submarine in international waters north of the UK, according to the UK ...
Source: bnonews.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 -
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Rory McIlroy began his title defense in the Masters with a tee shot that rolled next to a spectator's seat. Another one was in the trees. His tee shot on the seventh hole went into the 17th fairway. The prevailing thought was not concern, not the slightest bit of panic. He's the Masters champion. That brought a measure of patience and a load of freedom. "I just trusted that eventually I'll ...
Source: apnews.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
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
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Source: livescience.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
In 2003, a shipment of exotic African rodents to a pet store in Illinois sparked the United States' first mpox outbreak . Gambian giant rats and other rodents infected prairie dogs, which in turn infected nearly 100 people who handled the animals. Ebola outbreaks are often triggered after contact with bats, which are sometimes eaten or used for traditional medicine. And more famously, a string of scientific papers ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed lawsuits against Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois last week over the jurisdiction of prediction markets, which have gained popularity in the past year. The states say the markets are illegal gambling, but the CFTC says it has sole authority over regulating the companies. Prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi are financial exchanges that allow users ...
Source: complianceweek.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 -
The bestselling US novelist, who writes under a pseudonym and appears in public wearing a wig, said she's 'tired of this being secret' as she announced her real name is Sara Cohen The bestselling thriller writer known as Freida McFadden has revealed her real identity, ending years of speculation about the author behind a string of hugely popular novels. McFadden, whose books include bestseller The Housemaid, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Jasveen Sangha, the woman prosecutors refer to as the "Ketamine Queen," was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison during a hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to federal drug charges last year in connection with the 2023 death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry. The sentencing comes after Sangha, 42 of North Hollywood, pleaded guilty last September to three counts of ...
Source: cbsnews.com