Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> NCAA Women's Elite Eight matchup between Iowa and LSU hauled in 12.3 million viewers, the most ever for a women's college basketball game and the biggest basketball audience for ESPN since 2012 (More) | LSU star Angel Reese declares for WNBA Draft (More) | Iowa's Caitlin Clark wins Naismith Player of the Year for second straight season (More)
> Buffalo Bills trade four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans for 2025 second-round draft pick (More)
> James Beard Foundation announces 2024 James Beard Award finalists for America's best restaurants and chefs (More)
Science & Technology
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> Pig kidney transplant recipient discharged from hospital two weeks after procedure; success is a key advance in the field of cross-species transplants (More) | New mRNA drug shows success in early clinical trials in treating propionic acidaemia, a rare genetic disease affecting metabolic function (More)
> AI researchers find method to trick leading chatbots into violating ethics guidelines by repeatedly asking slightly different forms of the same question (More) | Read overview of the "many-shot jailbreak" approach (More)
> Microsoft and startup Quantinuum devise method to reduce the error rate for quantum computers by a factor of 800; marks a key step toward widespread adoption of the technology (More) | Quantum computing 101 (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq +0.2%); US private payrolls rise more than expected in March, while the Federal Reserve signals timing of interest rate cuts is uncertain (More)
> The Walt Disney Co. and Bob Iger defeat challenge from activist investor Nelson Peltz and his hedge fund as shareholders vote to reelect full board (More) | Former President Donald Trump sues two cofounders of Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of Truth Social, for allegedly mismanaging the company (More) | Two men plead guilty to $22M insider-trading scheme tied to Trump Media (More)
> Private equity firm Silver Lake to take entertainment company Endeavor private for $27.50 per share, valuing the company at $13B (More) | Autism Impact Fund, a venture capital firm focused on autism, raises $60M (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Ukraine signs law lowering military draft age from 27 to 25 to replenish its depleted army amid war with Russia (More) | See war updates (More) | Uganda's constitutional court largely upholds the country's anti-LGBTQ law, which allows the death penalty for certain same-sex acts (More)
> Finnish police identify bullying as motive behind school shooting outside of Helsinki that killed one student and wounded two others (More) | See our previous write-up (More)
> Midwest, Northeast brace for snowstorm and blizzard conditions through today; parts of New England to see more than 2 feet of snow (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
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