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Canberra’s alter-ego | Canberra Daily
Whoever said Canberra was dull must have missed the evil empire of the Carillon, the killer koala straddling Telstra Tower and the vampire of Canberra’s bus/bomb shelters.

“President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the ‘Dark Triad’ of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy … Rather than constituting a clinical diagnosis, this trait-based assessment is grounded in behavioral observation and is particularly useful for assessing the level of danger an individual poses in a political leadership position. We do not offer this as a clinical verdict. We offer i…

‘A Constitutional Emergency’: Psychiatric Experts Say Congress Must Confront Mentally Unstable Trump | Common Dreams
“We recognize the gravity of what we are asking. We ask it because the gravity of the situation demands it."

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (Cory Schouten/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2026/k…

Kraken has filed confidentially for IPO, co-CEO of crypto exchange confirms
At Semafor World Economy, Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed that the cryptocurrency exchange has filed confidentially to go public.

CS researchers: NSDI 2027 explicitly declines to include work in some topics that are technically in scope (search for "Moreover, NSDI does not include work in…"). Are there other elite conferences that are also doing this? Pointers welcome, thanks!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi27/c

NSDI '27 Call for Papers
The 24th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26) will take place May 11–13, 2027, at the Omni Providence Hotel in Providence, RI, USA. NSDI focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems.

Exclusive: Russia-linked hackers compromised scores of Ukrainian prosecutors’ email accounts, data shows
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-linked-hackers-compromised-scores-ukrainian-prosecutors-email-accounts-2026-04-…

Five biggest NFL draft takeaways from Daniel Jeremiah's conference call previewing 2026 event https://www.nfl.com/news/five-biggest-nfl-draft-takeaways-from-daniel-jeremiah-s-conference-call-previewing-2026-event…

The people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…

Forget the "MAGA split" on Iran. It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.
Plus, most "moderates" favor left-wing economic policies. Your weekly political data roundup for March 15, 2026.

A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/nvidia-gtc-ai-jensen-huang-cpu-gpu.html
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Nvidia's GTC will mark an AI chip pivot. Here's why the CPU is taking center stage
Nvidia and AMD are seeing huge demand for CPUs and Jensen Huang is poised to unveil details for processors specialized for agentic AI at the GTC conference.

Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's "starting to worry" that prediction markets "seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/3…

Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/15/data-centers-poll-virginia/…

In this U.S. hot spot for data centers, voters have turned against them
Virginians previously embraced the facilities, but a Post-Schar School poll finds they are now almost as undesirable as nuclear power plants.