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April 30, 2026
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☰ slashdot
- OpenAI Codex System Prompt Includes Explicit Directive To 'Never Talk About Goblins'
- DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From Tech Jobs
- First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line
- Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney
- New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says
☰ cbc sports
- Passing the baton: World Relays offer big opportunity for the future of Canadian track
- England's Championship weekend could prove a springboard for key members of Canada's World Cup squad
- PWHL playoff preview: Who will capture the Walter Cup?
- PWHL experiences record attendance growth in third regular season
- 'Will not remember this game because of basketball': Tempo soak in pre-season opener
☰ espn
- Reid's early NFL mock draft for next year: Which 2...
- Wall becomes Howard's prez of basketball ops
- LIV establishes new board in attempt to survive
- Source: Amid LIV unrest, players exploring return
- Rioux, college hoops' tallest player, to UC Irvine...
☰ global
- Young Canadians want AI companies to make chatbots less addictive: report
- Toronto priest wins top literary prize for book on the homelessness crisis
- McGill researchers develop ‘life-saving’ way to stop bleeding fast
- ‘Days of Our Lives’ actor Patrick Muldoon’s cause of death revealed: report
- RCMP ask for ‘specific’ tips to help find missing Nova Scotia kids
☰ Ars Technica
- Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
- More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off
- Florida Republicans reject plan to weaken childhood vaccine requirements
- The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
- ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight
☰ nyt world
- Iranians Live With Pain and Powerlessness, Beneath a Smooth Veneer
- Attacks on Jewish Targets in Europe Suggest Hybrid Warfare
- Mother Runs for Office in India After Daughter Was Raped and Killed
- Iceland’s Pools and Hot Tubs Are Now UNESCO-Recognized. Some Locals Aren’t Thrilled.
- What to Know About the Stabbing Attack Against 2 Jewish Men in London
☰ cbc
- Prices at the pump in Canada are expected to rise again as U.S.-Iran stalemate shows few signs of breaking
- Montreal father faces deportation as immigration advocates decry more family separations
- U.K. suspect accused of stabbing 2 Jewish men was previously flagged by counterterrorism program
- Search site dismantled at Winnipeg-area landfill, where remains of First Nations women killed by serial killer were recovered
- Will the visit by King Charles help mend fences between the U.K. and the U.S.?
☰ space
- European rocket puts Amazon internet satellites in orbit
- Trump says US has 'a shot' at crewed Moon landing before presidency ends
- NASA's Artemis II moonship returns home to its launch site after historic voyage
- NASA fires up powerful lithium-fed thruster for trips to Mars
- An interplanetary shortcut can speed up trips to Mars
☰ science daily
- Scientists reveal the best exercise for knee arthritis pain relief
- Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say
- Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer’s protein
- This AI knew the answers but didn’t understand the questions
- A photon was teleported across 270 meters in stunning quantum breakthrough
☰ new scientist
- Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
- The best new science fiction books of May 2026
- The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
- We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
- Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
☰ science alert
- We Outlasted Neanderthals Thanks to One Key Difference, Study Suggests
- Scorpions Reinforce Their Deadly Claws And Stingers With Heavy Metals
- Scientists Reveal Why Breast Cancer Risk Rises With Age
- Exercise Alone May Not Offset Damage From Sitting All Day, Expert Warns
☰ Weather Forecast
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high: 17°C
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high: 17°C
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high: 12°C
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high: 10°C
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high: 10°C
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high: 12°C
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high: 15°C
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high: 17°C
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high: 20°C
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IBM 229.33 +2.26   +1.00%
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☰ Word of the Day
interlocutor

noun (in-ter-LAH-kyuh-ter)

Interlocutor is a formal word that means “one who takes part in dialogue or conversation.”

☰ Thought of the Day
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb
☰ Born on this day
- Philip III "the Bold", King of France (1270-85), born in Poissy, France (d. 1285)
- Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer and politician (Minister of Finance), born in Middelburg, Netherlands (d. 1828)
- Rudolf Wittelsbach, Swiss pianist and composer, born in Constantinople, Turkey (d. 1972)
- F. E. McWilliam [Frederick Edward], Northern-Irish surrealist sculptor (Four Seasons Group), born in Banbridge, County Down (d. 1992)
- Al Lewis [Alexander Meister], American actor (Car 54, Where Are You?; The Munsters; Used Cars), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2006)
- Lars Hall, Swedish pentathlete (Olympic gold 1952), born in Karlskrona, Sweden (d. 1991)
- Robert Scott, American politician, Rep-D-Virginia (1993-), born in Washington D.C.
- Phil Garner, American baseball infielder (World Series 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates; 3 x MLB All-Star; Oakland A's, Houston Astros) and manager (Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros), born in Jefferson City, Tennessee (d. 2026)
☰ Weather News
- Environmental Literacy Program awards portfolio
- Dolphin or porpoise? How to tell the difference
- Artemis II returns: How NOAA helped protect astronauts during the 10-day NASA mission
☰ Today in History
- Spain announces it will expel all Jews
- Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
- Revival of musical revue "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green" closes at Little Theatre, NYC after 92 performances
- Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
- Manchester City defeats Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in English Premier League history
- Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and naturalist (Ornithologie), born in Fontenay-le-Comte (d. 1806)
- Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948-80), born in Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2004)
- Bernard Sendall, British deputy director general of the Independent Television Authority and author (Independent Television in Britain), born in Malvern, England (d. 1996)
- Bernie Clifton [Quinn], British comedian (Oswald the Ostrich), born in St Helens, Lancashire, England
- Kirsten Dunst, American actress (Interview with the Vampire, Spider-Man), born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey

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