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NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts deeper into space than any human beings have gone before. It revealed what’s still possible, in every sense. | |
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A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI | |
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The proprietors of a now-shuttered Southwest Missouri boarding school are facing a new lawsuit by a former student alleging trafficking across several states, coerced labor, isolation and sexualized punishment while she was underage.
The lawsuit was filed last week in the Western District of Missouri Southern Division court by Javairia Yankowy, who says she spent four years at Wings of Faith Academy after being placed in the custody of the school’s owners, Debbie and Percy “Bud” Martin. The lawsuit alleges the couple trafficked Yankowy while running Wings of Faith, which operated alongside Agape Boarding School, another Southwest Missouri Christian boarding school that has faced extensive abuse allegations. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:46 PM by sleeppoor | |
President Trump's budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists.
The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September.
Though public opposition to ICE succeeded at forcing the administration to back down in Minnesota — even firing both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino — the FBI is doubling down its domestic terrorism obsession.
Now, Trump’s budget request reveals, the FBI runs a dedicated “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center”; with personnel from 10 federal agencies, it is busy “proactively” identifying domestic terrorists motivated by any of the following beliefs:
“anti-Americanism,”
“anti-capitalism,”
“anti-Christianity,”
“support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government,”
“extremism on migration,”
extremism on “race,”
extremism on “gender,”
“Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,”
Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on “religion,” and
Hostility towards those who hold traditional views on “morality.” | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:38 PM by sleeppoor | |
Frantic diplomacy collides with 'genocidal' threats in lead-up to announcement of two-week ceasefire between US, Iran. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:06 PM by sleeppoor | |
Sensitive LAPD records, including officer personnel files and documents from Internal Affairs investigations, are among the materials believed to have been seized in a breach last month involving the L.A. city attorney’s office. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 02:47 AM by sleeppoor | |
We’ve learned that an armed man who authorities say created a tense situation for high school students protesting ICE in Chandler is a Phoenix police sergeant. The incident he’s involved in is now under review by the Professional Standards Bureau.
These student walkouts happened a week after federal agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti on January 24. Pretti was armed with a handgun he legally owned. As for this protest against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Chandler, the armed counter-protester is Dusten Mullen, a Phoenix PD community action sergeant with the Sound Mountain Precinct who was off-duty. According to this Chandler report, his goal was to get juvenile protesters to assault him. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 02:23 AM by sleeppoor | |
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:49 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:26 AM by sleeppoor | |
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had asked Trump for a two-week delay of his Iran deadline, and for the Strait of Hormuz to open for the same period. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 11:12 PM by Grief Bacon | |
The vice president is in Europe to show support for a far-right leader. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 06:03 PM by sleeppoor | |
China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington's ambassador to the world body called on "responsible nations" to join the U.S. in securing the waterway. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 07:01 PM by sleeppoor | |
Australia's most decorated soldier was arrested on Tuesday and charged with five counts of war crimes relating to the killing of unarmed civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 03:40 PM by sleeppoor | |
India's most advanced reactor has set the country on a path towards potentially cutting its dependence on uranium. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 03:37 PM by sleeppoor | |
The reason for the change? Fish are showing lower levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, which is shorthand for polychlorinated biphenyls. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 05:04 AM by sleeppoor | |
Danhao Wang's March 20 death remains under investigation by the U-M Police. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 06:57 AM by sleeppoor | |
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the Double Dragon and River City (Kuno-kun) franchises, has died at the age of 64. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 02:24 AM by sleeppoor | |
Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signaling. Despite possessing vividly colored head and neck skin, casque keratin appears dull, which has abated the casque’s proposed role as a visual indicator. Given that cassowaries, like many other birds, can perceive color in the ultraviolet (UV) range, we exposed heads of living and museum-preserved cassowaries to UV wavelengths (365; 385–395 nm) and discovered that casque keratin possesses biofluorescent patterns that differ significantly between species (Casuarius bennetti, C. casuarius, C. unappendiculatus). To assess whether casque surfaces reflect these patterns, we tested for the presence of UV reflectivity using a UV-sensitive camera. We found that casque keratin reflects 365 nm UV light, a wavelength within the range of cassowary eye sensitivity. However, our observations cannot confirm whether species-specific patterns can be detected by cassowaries in natural light conditions. | |
Submitted at 04-07-2026, 02:13 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 04-06-2026, 05:46 PM by NickNoheart | |
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
Yet most of the people we spoke to shared the judgment of Sutskever and Amodei: Altman has a relentless will to power that, even among industrialists who put their names on spaceships, sets him apart. “He’s unconstrained by truth,” the board member told us. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”
The board member was not the only person who, unprompted, used the word “sociopathic.” One of Altman’s batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.” Multiple senior executives at Microsoft said that, despite Nadella’s long-standing loyalty, the company’s relationship with Altman has become fraught. “He has misrepresented, distorted, renegotiated, reneged on agreements,” one said. Earlier this year, OpenAI reaffirmed Microsoft as the exclusive cloud provider for its “stateless”—or memoryless—models. That day, it announced a fifty-billion-dollar deal making Amazon the exclusive reseller of its enterprise platform for A.I. agents. While reselling is permitted, Microsoft executives argue OpenAI’s plan could collide with Microsoft’s exclusivity. (OpenAI maintains that the Amazon deal will not violate the earlier contract; a Microsoft representative said the company is “confident that OpenAI understands and respects” its legal obligations.) The senior executive at Microsoft said, of Altman, “I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.” | |
Submitted at 04-06-2026, 04:35 PM by sleeppoor | |

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts deeper into space than any human beings have gone before. It revealed what’s still possible, in every sense.
A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI
The proprietors of a now-shuttered Southwest Missouri boarding school are facing a new lawsuit by a former student alleging trafficking across several states, coerced labor, isolation and sexualized punishment while she was underage.
The lawsuit was filed last week in the Western District of Missouri Southern Division court by Javairia Yankowy, who says she spent four years at Wings of Faith Academy after being placed in the custody of the school’s owners, Debbie and Percy “Bud” Martin. The lawsuit alleges the couple trafficked Yankowy while running Wings of Faith, which operated alongside Agape Boarding School, another Southwest Missouri Christian boarding school that has faced extensive abuse allegations.
President Trump's budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists.
The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September.
Though public opposition to ICE succeeded at forcing the administration to back down in Minnesota — even firing both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino — the FBI is doubling down its domestic terrorism obsession.
Now, Trump’s budget request reveals, the FBI runs a dedicated “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center”; with personnel from 10 federal agencies, it is busy “proactively” identifying domestic terrorists motivated by any of the following beliefs:
“anti-Americanism,”
“anti-capitalism,”
“anti-Christianity,”
“support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government,”
“extremism on migration,”
extremism on “race,”
extremism on “gender,”
“Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,”
Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on “religion,” and
Hostility towards those who hold traditional views on “morality.”
Frantic diplomacy collides with 'genocidal' threats in lead-up to announcement of two-week ceasefire between US, Iran.
Sensitive LAPD records, including officer personnel files and documents from Internal Affairs investigations, are among the materials believed to have been seized in a breach last month involving the L.A. city attorney’s office.
We’ve learned that an armed man who authorities say created a tense situation for high school students protesting ICE in Chandler is a Phoenix police sergeant. The incident he’s involved in is now under review by the Professional Standards Bureau.
These student walkouts happened a week after federal agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti on January 24. Pretti was armed with a handgun he legally owned. As for this protest against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Chandler, the armed counter-protester is Dusten Mullen, a Phoenix PD community action sergeant with the Sound Mountain Precinct who was off-duty. According to this Chandler report, his goal was to get juvenile protesters to assault him.
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had asked Trump for a two-week delay of his Iran deadline, and for the Strait of Hormuz to open for the same period.
The vice president is in Europe to show support for a far-right leader.
China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington's ambassador to the world body called on "responsible nations" to join the U.S. in securing the waterway.
Australia's most decorated soldier was arrested on Tuesday and charged with five counts of war crimes relating to the killing of unarmed civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan.
India's most advanced reactor has set the country on a path towards potentially cutting its dependence on uranium.
The reason for the change? Fish are showing lower levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, which is shorthand for polychlorinated biphenyls.
Danhao Wang's March 20 death remains under investigation by the U-M Police.
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the Double Dragon and River City (Kuno-kun) franchises, has died at the age of 64.
Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signaling. Despite possessing vividly colored head and neck skin, casque keratin appears dull, which has abated the casque’s proposed role as a visual indicator. Given that cassowaries, like many other birds, can perceive color in the ultraviolet (UV) range, we exposed heads of living and museum-preserved cassowaries to UV wavelengths (365; 385–395 nm) and discovered that casque keratin possesses biofluorescent patterns that differ significantly between species (Casuarius bennetti, C. casuarius, C. unappendiculatus). To assess whether casque surfaces reflect these patterns, we tested for the presence of UV reflectivity using a UV-sensitive camera. We found that casque keratin reflects 365 nm UV light, a wavelength within the range of cassowary eye sensitivity. However, our observations cannot confirm whether species-specific patterns can be detected by cassowaries in natural light conditions.
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
Yet most of the people we spoke to shared the judgment of Sutskever and Amodei: Altman has a relentless will to power that, even among industrialists who put their names on spaceships, sets him apart. “He’s unconstrained by truth,” the board member told us. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”
The board member was not the only person who, unprompted, used the word “sociopathic.” One of Altman’s batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.” Multiple senior executives at Microsoft said that, despite Nadella’s long-standing loyalty, the company’s relationship with Altman has become fraught. “He has misrepresented, distorted, renegotiated, reneged on agreements,” one said. Earlier this year, OpenAI reaffirmed Microsoft as the exclusive cloud provider for its “stateless”—or memoryless—models. That day, it announced a fifty-billion-dollar deal making Amazon the exclusive reseller of its enterprise platform for A.I. agents. While reselling is permitted, Microsoft executives argue OpenAI’s plan could collide with Microsoft’s exclusivity. (OpenAI maintains that the Amazon deal will not violate the earlier contract; a Microsoft representative said the company is “confident that OpenAI understands and respects” its legal obligations.) The senior executive at Microsoft said, of Altman, “I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”