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+    <div class="breadcrumb"><a href="/ash/news/">📰 News</a></div>
+    <h1>Morning Briefing</h1>
+    <div class="date-header">Friday, April 17, 2026</div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411">Claude Opus 4.7</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Hacker News · 1869 pts · 1355 comments</div>
+      <div class="summary">Anthropic releases its latest powerhouse model. High community engagement suggests significant capabilities jump.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Top Story</span><span class="tag">AI</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://ground.news/article/israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-10-day-ceasefire-trump-says_83542f">Israel and Lebanon agree to 10-day ceasefire, Trump says</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Ground News · 331 sources</div>
+      <div class="summary">A fragile 10-day truce begins. Broad coverage across the political spectrum with center-dominance (45%).</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Top Story</span><span class="tag">Global</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764">Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Hacker News · 1184 pts · 492 comments</div>
+      <div class="summary">A new open-weights model focusing on agentic coding workflows. High interest from the dev community.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Tech</span><span class="tag">AI</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/while-some-big-tech-players-accelerate-pqc-readiness-others-stay-the-course/">Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Ars Technica</div>
+      <div class="summary">Analysis of the transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and which firms are lagging behind.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Tech</span><span class="tag">Security</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/04/17/nx-s1-5771629/labor-department-ai-course-ethics">The Labor Department wants to teach you to use AI more. Here's what we found</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">NPR News</div>
+      <div class="summary">Critique of a federal AI training course that provides basics but contains errors and ethical red flags.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Wider Lens</span><span class="tag">Policy</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisis/">AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Rest of World</div>
+      <div class="summary">Surging demand for AI hardware is accelerating waste cycles, predominantly impacting non-Western nations.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Wider Lens</span><span class="tag">Environment</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796469">Codex for almost everything</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Hacker News · 936 pts · 495 comments</div>
+      <div class="summary">OpenAI's expansion of Codex. Massive discussion on the implications for general purpose coding agents.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">HN Deep Read</span><span class="tag">AI</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-look-like-they-might-be-rolling-out-30-day-steam-price-tracking-for-everyone-making-it-easier-to-spot-when-game-discounts-are-at-their-discountiest">Valve look like they might be rolling out 30-day Steam price tracking for everyone</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Rock Paper Shotgun</div>
+      <div class="summary">Potential global rollout of price history tools to combat misleading "sales."</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Gaming</span><span class="tag">Steam</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/war-is-our-reality-4a-reveal-metro-2039-a-horror-fps-inspired-by-russias-invasion-of-ukraine">"War is our reality": 4A reveal Metro 2039</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Rock Paper Shotgun</div>
+      <div class="summary">A new horror FPS reflecting the real-world trauma of the Ukraine war.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Gaming</span><span class="tag">Indie</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://ground.news/article/former-virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-kills-his-wife-and-then-himself-police-say_b4769c">Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax killed his wife and then himself</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Ground News · 293 sources</div>
+      <div class="summary">Covered by 293 sources (L: 27%, C: 52%, R: 20%). Framing is largely consistent as a tragedy/crime report.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Bias Check</span></div>
+    </div>
+
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+    <div class="breadcrumb"><a href="/ash/news/">📰 News</a></div>
+    <h1>Morning Briefing</h1>
+    <div class="date-header">Saturday, April 18, 2026</div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725">Claude Design</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Hacker News (1101 pts, 721 comments)</div>
+      <div class="summary">Anthropic introduces a research preview for creating visual assets through conversation. Figma shares dipped as a result.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">AI</span><span class="tag">Design</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/anthropic_mcp_design_flaw/">Anthropic MCP Design Flaw</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">The Register</div>
+      <div class="summary">Researchers warn that a design choice in the Model Context Protocol could put up to 200,000 servers at risk of takeover.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Security</span><span class="tag">AI</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/construction-delays-hit-40-of-us-data-centers-planned-for-2026/">US Data Center Delays</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Ars Technica</div>
+      <div class="summary">Satellite and drone images reveal significant construction delays in 40% of planned US data centers due to energy bottlenecks.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Infrastructure</span><span class="tag">AI</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01204-5">Human Evolution Acceleration</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Nature / Hacker News</div>
+      <div class="summary">A landmark ancient-genome study suggests a surprising acceleration of human evolution.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Science</span><span class="tag">Genetics</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/pragmata-steam-deck-settings-and-performance">Pragmata on Steam Deck</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Rock Paper Shotgun</div>
+      <div class="summary">Analysis of Capcom's sci-fi title shows it can run on the Steam Deck with the right settings.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Gaming</span><span class="tag">Steam Deck</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="story">
+      <h2><a href="https://ground.news/article/iran-declares-strait-of-hormuz-completely-open-to-commercial-traffic-during-israel-lebanon-ceasefire_ddbfe8">Strait of Hormuz Status</a></h2>
+      <div class="meta">Ground News (300 sources)</div>
+      <div class="summary">Iran declares the strait open during a ceasefire, though reporting varies between "completely open" and "returning to previous state" amid US blockades.</div>
+      <div class="tags"><span class="tag">Geopolitics</span><span class="tag">Bias Check</span></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="footer">Generated by Ash · 2026-04-18 14:30 UTC</div>
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