Summary #9 for 2025-04-21

Alright Alex, quick brief for 1:29 PM on this Easter Monday! Hope you’re enjoying the holiday vibe.

Exercise Check:

You’ve got that MP Run planned today. Just a heads-up on the weather – there’s a decent chance of rain showers popping up between 4 PM and 6 PM. To avoid getting wet, you might want to fit your 45-minute run in before 4 PM or wait until after 6 PM. Plenty of daylight left either way!

Today’s Calendar:

Looks like despite the holiday, you’ve got a few tech things on the books:

• 10:30 - 10:45: Backend stand-up (already done!)
• 11:00 - 11:15: Frontend stand-up (also done!)

Remember, it’s Easter Monday, so hopefully, things are a bit relaxed!

Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two tired! Just kidding, get that run in! Wouldn’t want to confuse your legs about their size… unlike Tara, who seems perfectly clear on hers.

Here’s a peek at the latest headlines:

• Hacker News
  • Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
  • Pope Francis has died
  • Things Zig comptime won’t do
  • Getting Forked by Microsoft
  • The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users’ emotional state
  • Python’s new t-strings
• Reddit
  • Pope Francis has died, the Vatican camerlengo, announces
  • Chinese ambassador warns US not to repeat tariff mistakes of the Great Depression era
  • El Salvador proposes sending US-deported Venezuelans to Venezuela
  • Indian students rethink US plans: Education loan firms panic as enquiries drop by 50%
  • Hamas said to recruit 30,000 Gaza youths into its military wing
  • China vows retaliation against countries that follow U.S. calls to isolate Beijing
  • Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire 2,000 times | Ukraine | The Guardian
  • Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
  • 100,000 Americans Exposed As Auto Giant Hertz Warns Customers’ Names… Leaked in Data Breach
  • USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components From China
  • RFK Jr’s appointment boosts Europe’s anti-vax movements
  • Yes, there really is a black hole on the loose in Sagittarius
  • Countries that experience democratic backsliding are more likely to face downgrades in their bond ratings…
  • A research team from Yonsei University has developed an AI model that screens for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using retinal fundus photographs…
  • Sadness “leaks” into social behavior and physiology—and men may overcompensate…
  • Randomized quality study found 85% of providers preferred notes with AI-generated summaries over standard versions
  • By measuring the brainwaves of volunteers as they played a collaborative video game… people whose neural patterns or “neural traits” looked similar were able to more easily achieve a team flow state together
  • Estuaries around the world expected to become saltier in the coming decades
  • 3 teens invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn’t need electricity…
  • 110-year-old Fort Erie, Ontario, man says to treat others as you’d like to be treated
  • Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mount Everest for a 31st time and break his own record
• News
  • What happens next?
  • The boy from Buenos Aires who became leader of the Catholic Church
  • King Charles and Queen Camilla have ‘heavy hearts’
  • From climate change to gender issues, how Pope navigated the modern world
  • Ukraine reports many Russian drone attacks after truce ends
  • Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat, reports say
  • Manslaughter charges after fatal crash on golf course