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Much of humanity may face hot-dry extremes five times more often by end-century (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-8

From decades-long studies of humble grasses, new clues to climate resistance (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-8 Climate

GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-8

AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing (www.wired.com)
2026-4-8 Italy AI Spain

TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8

Ukrainian drone strike kills 12-year-old boy and parents in Russian region (www.rt.com)
2026-4-8 Russia Drone Ukraine

German ‘militaristic frenzy' could end in tragedy – Moscow (www.rt.com)
2026-4-8 Germany

Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 AI

An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-8 U.K. Bitcoin

RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-8 AI Layoffs

Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits “to celebrate 3M weekly codex users” and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (x.com)
2026-4-8

Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Alibaba AI Tencent

Iran: US adopts Israel's Gaza/Beirut Obliteration Doctrine (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-8 Israel Iran

TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Finland

Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Asia AI Robot

Simon Crean, Former Labor Leader, Dies Overseas On Trade Mission (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

Labor's Betrayal Of Sterling First Victims Underscored By Speedy Higgins' Payout (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

Absolutely Everybody (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

We Asked AI For An Opinion Piece On ScoMo Forcing A By-Election On Voters. Computer Says No. (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8 AI

All The Good They Failed To Do: Trump Dreams Of A Military Parade, As ScoMo Shuffles Off Into The April Sunset (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8 Trump

Comm Games Con: And Suddenly, Dan Andrews Doesn't Look Like The Smartest Man In The Room Anymore (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

Comm Games Con: And Suddenly, Dan Andrews Looks Like The Smartest Man In The Room (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

Why I'm An MP Who Can't Use The C-Words Often Enough (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

Albo's Easy Way Out West: Cherry-Picking Your Way ‘Round The Wildflower State (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8

‘Migrant Tsunami': We're Being Flooded By Foreigners Worries Yank From Daily Tele, Asian From Lib Think-Tank (newmatilda.com)
2026-4-8 Immigration

Russian Government Hackers Broke Into Thousands of Home Routers To Steal Passwords (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Russia

2028 Dems Distance from AIPAC but Still Back Israel (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-8 Israel

Hormuz Crisis Threatens Global Food Supply, Grocery Prices (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-8

Trump acknowledges Canadian annexation unlikely – author (www.rt.com)
2026-4-8 Trump Canada

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (entrackr.com)
2026-4-8

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