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Newly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (Alison Durkee/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/

New Epstein Files Reveal Even More Powerful Connections: Musk, Trump, Gates, Lutnick, More
The Justice Department’s latest and largest release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein includes new revelations of the late disgraced financier’s ties with the world’s most powerful people, including new information about his relationship to Elon Musk, Richard Branson Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates and more.

„Who sets our defense policies? Our democratically elected leaders, or the CEOs of corporate defense contractors?“
Can we walk about DMA/DSA and other EU policies again, John?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/02/anthropic-and-alignment

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Alexandre Desplat & Alexandre Desplat:
🎵 Creature's Tale
#AlexandreDesplat
https://open.spotify.com/track/17fOaZCc7gwFoqpVoj7vE6

FDA-Approved Seizure Drug May Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts
https://scitechdaily.com/fda-approved-seizure-drug-may-stop-alzheimers-before-it-starts/

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/

Anthropic and Alignment
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company’s concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.

Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.

Citizen Scientist Spots Earth-like Planet: Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets

Ben Thompson in Stratechery, exactly a month ago. [https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alexander IV feat. Cézanne:
🎵 This Won't Do
#NowPlaying #AlexanderIV #Cézanne
https://feiertagsk.bandcamp.com/track/this-wont-do-feat-c-zanne
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WoKcfaslOE06IjpMVdVng

Sources: an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/world/middleeast/shelly-kittleson-kidnappin…

Iraqi Kidnappers of Journalist Shelly Kittleson Offer to Negotiate
The Iranian-aligned militia, Kataib Hezbollah, is pressing for the release of members detained by the Iraqi government in exchange for freeing the journalist, Shelly Kittleson.

Bristol Myers Squibb, an industry stalwart in need of a hit, is betting a pill called Cobenfy can become the first approved medicine for the millions of Americans diagnosed with psychosis related to Alzheimer’s disease.
That case rests almost entirely on a single clinical trial, conducted before the DVD was invented, in which its striking benefits were derailed by damning side effects.
Later this year, Bristol will get the results from three pivotal studies designed to make good …

Why Bristol Myers Squibb believes a decades-old drug can treat Alzheimer’s 
Why Bristol Myers Squibb is banking on a decades-old drug to help secure its future.