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AP News
Iran calls for human chains to protect power plants as Trump's deadline nears
2 US lawmakers visiting Cuba denounce island's 'economic bombing' under energy blockade
A 12-hour drive through Iran offers glimpses of destruction, defiance and daily life
West Virginia governor vetoes help for neglected and foster kids after approving tax cuts
DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters
US soldier trying to halt wife's deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base
Steve Bannon wins Supreme Court order likely to lead to dismissal of contempt of Congress conviction
Risky rescue of US crew downed in Iran relied on dozens of aircraft and subterfuge, Trump says
Tiger Woods is not at the Masters. Jason Day wonders why he was behind the wheel in DUI arrest
Another sloppy women's Final Four feels like a missed opportunity for the sport
The Guardian
People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military ruler
Uganda receives first US deportation flight under third-country agreement
News outlets falsely report Somaliland called for extradition of Ilhan Omar
Interpol arrest warrant requested in Congo-Brazzaville for Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas
Weather tracker: Thunderstorms drench UAE and Saudi Arabia
US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says
House Democrats demand end to ‘cruel’ US energy blockade after visit to Cuba
Mexican art world protests over plan to send Frida Kahlo masterpieces to Spain
Cubans study oil tanker diplomacy for signs of progress in secret talks with US
One dead and dozens injured at Peru football stadium during pre-match event
Hacker News
Are We Idiocracy Yet?
LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think
We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it
Blackholing My Email
Every GPU That Mattered
My Experience as a Rice Farmer
Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security
Running Out of Disk Space in Production
Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode
Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it
Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
Ars Technica
NASA’s Moon ship and rocket seem to be working well, so what about the landers?
Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging
Astronauts set distance record, revealing the Moon as a place to be explored
After court loss, RFK Jr. gives himself more power over CDC vaccine panel
From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability
Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be “swaps,” exempt from state laws
Trump’s next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science
“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO
Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren’t a thing
Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices
The Decoder
China actively targeting Taiwan's chip talent and technology, security report says
Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder from OpenAI
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google team up against unauthorized Chinese model copying
Meta plans to open-source parts of its new AI models
Meta employees compete for token consumption on an internal AI leaderboard
Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom
OpenAI's safety brain drain finally gets an explanation and it's just Sam Altman's vibes
Less work, equal pay: OpenAI lays out its vision for a world reshaped by superintelligence
Sycophantic AI chatbots can break even ideal rational thinkers, researchers formally prove
Telehealth startup Medvi generated billions in revenue with AI-powered fake advertising
ProPublica
“Economic Civil War”: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability
The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales.
RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.
Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border
The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write an Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Zaydee Sanchez Joins ProPublica as New Photojournalism Fellow
ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Names Five New Partners
Este sheriff afirma que su departamento eliminó el sesgo racial. Los datos demuestran lo contrario.
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
Quanta Magazine
An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital Underground Networks into View
New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever
A Through-The-Lens Look at the World’s Particle Physics Labs
In Expanding de Sitter Space, Quantum Mechanics Gets Even More Elusive
When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen
AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.
The Evolving Foundations of Math
In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?
How Writing Changes Mathematical Thought
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
Inside Climate News
Behind the Scenes: How Climate Change Is Reshaping Forests
Corpus Christi Water Crisis Spurs Stampede on South Texas Aquifers
Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs
How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time
A Church’s Geothermal Experiment Could Pave the Way for Projects Across New York
Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands
As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due
Paramedics for Ecosystems
Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters
Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It
Open Secrets
Influencing the Easter basket: Holiday-related groups spend millions in Washington
Quiz: How much do you know about the billions spent on elections?
FanDuel and DraftKings shift focus to D.C. amid federal efforts to legislate sports betting
The State of Disclosure: A conversation with Maryland’s campaign finance director
Some major Trump donors are now reaping billions in ICE contracts
March Money Madness: UCLA cuts down the nets on K Street
Bringing sunshine to an era of dark money and corporate influence
How following the money led me to OpenSecrets
Trump administration profile: Markwayne Mullin
Newsreel and OpenSecrets Partner to Bring Money-in-Politics Reporting to Gen Z