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Over the two and a half years
following the 2022 rollout of the 988 national suicide prevention hotline,
the rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent below projections,
decreasing most sharply in states with a higher volume of answered 988 calls, a new study has found.

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

Q: How does the filling level of Dutch gas storages compare to that of previous years?
A: Not good.

Really, the arrogant chucklefuck who was ready to deploy shitty LLM spew as “production-grade code” has been hacked by cavalier use of an LLM? Who would have thought?
“Vercel says some of its customers’ data was stolen prior to its recent hack”
https://tec…

Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch
The app and website hosting company has found evidence of a second compromise of customer accounts after expanding its initial investigation following a breach in early April.

Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backstop-300-million-…

AMD to Backstop $300 Million Crusoe Loan, Following Nvidia Playbook
Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and ...

Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...

The 2026 Bulgarian parliamentary elections were held on April 19, 2026, following the resignation of the previous government due to protests.
The elections were marked by significant public discontent over issues like corruption and the cost of living,
with the Progressive Bulgaria coalition emerging as the victor

Von der Leyen congratulates Radev on victory in Bulgarian election
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has congratulated former president Rumen Radev on his victory in Bulgaria's parliamentary election...

H H forgot the most important point to managing stress, "Try guillotining the Epstein class."

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has reported that a projectile hit the grounds of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, following what it described as continued hostile actions by US and Israeli forces.
The incident, which took place on Tuesday night, caused “no financial or technical damage, and no casualties”, and “no part of the facility” was affected, it said.
The AEOI said the same nuclear power plant was hit on 17 March.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/24/iran-war-live-updates-trump-ursula-von-der-leyen-oil-prices-energy-crisis-israel-strikes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/21/china-ai-competition-manus-meta/

Beijing tightens its grip on AI firms that try to shed their Chinese ties
A Chinese government probe of a Meta-acquired company, Manus AI, reveals a new red line.

One of the main areas of pushback that Republican leadership in Congress has faced in trying to pass an extension of "section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Fisa) is push to keep the bill “clean”,
-- despite GOP hardliners insisting that reforms and additions are needed.
Some members of the conference, like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, have said that
if Donald Trump’s sweeping voter ID bill ends up falling off th…