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Some off beat reads for the long weekend: Israel’s plans to attack Iran leaked (JPost) AfD is destined for the German Government (RT) Israel-Saudi Normalization won’t happen (TOI) Iran-Armenia Joint Drills (Cradle) China’s Military is gaining control of the Pacific (Newsweek) Baloch insurgency echoes in Iran (TFT) The AIADMK-BJP alliance in Tamil Nadu (GC) The Bengal teacher Fraud (Scroll) When free trade falters (Engelsberg) Thread: The Goa Inquisition (Manisha Singh) How Chritianity evolved from Judaism (Dan Burmawi) Thread: Subedei, the greatest Commander (MindVoyager) Sweet: Knafeh (Smithsonian) Thread: Rich Dad, Poor Dad was a fraud (Wealth Hatch) Sindhu Ghat in Ladakh…

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will lock horns with Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Match 34 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, with both sides riding high on confidence after a strong start to the season. Scheduled to take place at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, the match promises to be a high-voltage encounter between two well-balanced teams.RCB and PBKS have each registered four wins from their six matches so far, making them early contenders in the race for the playoffs. With momentum on their side, both camps will be aiming to notch up a fifth win and strengthen their position on…

Barcelona and PSG marched into the semifinal stage of the UEFA Champions League despite losing their second-leg matches. In the next round, both teams will be facing tougher challenges as Inter Milan, along with Arsenal, awaits. Barca to Face Tough Inter Challenge Blaugrana made their way into the semi-final thanks to their 4-0 first-leg win over Borussia Dortmund at Camp Nou. That big win was enough to secure Hansi Flick’s side’s place in the next stage despite losing their second game 3-1 in Germany. That second-leg defeat will be a positive learning curve for Barca ahead of their semifinal battle…

The Vancouver Canucks have made Rick Tocchet a contract offer Sportsnet 650: Jason Halford on the what he’s been hearing about the Vancouver Canucks and the Rick Tocchet situation. The Canucks have made Tocchet an offer and they hope to have an answer one way or another real soon. ** NHLRumors.com transcription “I wanna quickly talk about Rick Tocchet, because I think things are happening behind the scenes right now. I’ve heard that the Canucks have given Rick Tocchet an offer that there are pretty hopeful about. And you know, if you, if you hear Rick Dhaliwal, he’ll be like,…

A US judge has ruled tech giant Google has a monopoly in online advertising technology.The US Department of Justice, along with 17 US states, sued Google, arguing the tech giant was illegally dominating the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. This is the second antitrust case Google has lost in a year, after it was ruled the company also had a monopoly on online search.Google said it would appeal against the decision.”Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple, affordable and effective,” the firm’s head of regulatory affairs…

Recently, Project Eleven (a quantum computing research group) announced a 1 bitcoin reward for the first team able to complete a challenge to demonstrate breaking a ECC (elliptic curve cryptograph) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer.  The deadline for this challenge is April 5th, 2026, meaning in order to qualify for the prize a team must demonstrate breaking a key pair it must be done before that deadline.  This is frankly a completely absurd and meaningless prize for a number of reasons, the first of which is the deadline of just under a year from today. Even highly…

Warning: This story contains spoilers about the Apprentice winnerLord Sugar has hired his newest business partner in the final of the 19th series of The Apprentice.He had a choice between Anisa Khan, who sells Indian food-flavoured pizzas, and Dean Franklin, who runs an air conditioning company, in a battle he billed as “chilli versus the chiller”.The final signalled the end of a bruising 12-week process that started with 18 budding entrepreneurs vying to become Lord Sugar’s latest protégé.In the end, Lord Sugar chose to give his £250,000 investment to Dean, from Essex, despite noting there had been “a few rocky…

By Terry Ashton, updated April 17, 2025 Paris, April 2025 — The Carrousel du Louvre was lit—not just with spotlights and LED panels, but with brainpower. PBW 2025 brought together crypto’s brightest, weirdest, and most relentlessly curious minds. AI agents, tokenized property, CBDCs, and legal frameworks were all on the table. But right there in the middle of it all, quietly drawing people in? Deffio—the noncustodial wallet that’s fixing what so many others have fumbled. Photo credit: Deffio PBW Isn’t Just Another Crypto Conference—And That’s the Point Let’s not sugarcoat it. The crypto industry has seen its fair share of…

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians’ captain Hardik Pandya and Will Jacks celebrate the dismissal of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma during the IPL T20 match between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium, in Mumbai. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil) Riding on Will Jacks’ all-round performance, Mumbai Indians defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by four wickets with 11 balls remaining in Match No. 33 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.Jacks provided Mumbai Indians with crucial breakthroughs by removing the dangerous Travis Head and Ishan Kishan with his off-spin.”Pretty happy. Three lefties in the top, so knew I…

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a stark warning to Harvard University: provide detailed records on certain international students or forfeit the right to enroll them altogether. The directive, announced by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, marks a sharp escalation in the federal government’s confrontation with the Ivy League institution.Noem demanded that Harvard submit information by April 30 regarding what she described as “illegal and violent activities” by some foreign student visa holders. Failure to comply, she said as reported by Reuters, would result in Harvard losing its authority to admit international students under the federal visa programme.Millions in grants…