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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