US Carries Out Fifth Boat Strike in Under a Week, Bringing Death Toll to 177
Trump's "supposed armed conflict with ‘narco-terrorists’ appears to be entirely make-believe,” said one expert.
Todd Blanche Says Americans “Should Be Happy” With Trump’s Weaponization of DOJ
Directing the DOJ is "what being the commander in chief is about,” said interim Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Microsoft and Stellantis want to use AI to help car owners
Digital services for brands from Jeep to Peugeot will feel the presence of AI.
As Postal Service Faces Cash Crisis, FedEx and UPS Spend Millions on Lobbying
Lobbying from private carriers has helped limit USPS expansion into new services like postal banking.
How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)
‘The Ambivalent Internet’ and ‘The Shadow Gospel’ author Whitney Phillips on how online got so bad.
Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy its Gemini…
The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first?
US and Chinese landers could be operating in close proximity on the Moon later this year.
9 Times Trump Has Ridiculously Insulted Christians
Sharing an image depicting himself as Jesus is just one of many ways the US president has denigrated the people who put him in the White House.
IPv6 Usage Reaches Historic 50% Across Google Services
IPv6 usage briefly reached 50% across Google services for the first time, marking a major milestone for a protocol created in 1998 to solve IPv4's address shortage. Tom's Hardware…
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”
All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans
We’ve got a throwback administration that wants to bring us back to halcyon days of early 1950s America, that preceded Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation. If it could, I’m…
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Michigan’s Dem Senate Race Is Wide Open, AIPAC Is Toxic, Hasan Piker Is Not
The Michigan Senate primary is effectively a tie, and Democratic voters are more worried about AIPAC’s influence than Hasan Piker. Plus, a fifth accuser waves Eric Swalwell out of…
Major Update: Trump Attacks Epstein Survivors, Minnesota Arrests ICE Agent for Assault, Trump Investigates Missing Nuclear Scientists, and More
Good evening everyone.
Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred…
Why does the government keep showing up at the Supreme Court uninvited?
When the justices meet for their private conference on Friday, April 17, they will consider a petition for review filed by a Catholic preschool in Colorado, challenging its…
April 12, 2026
By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%.