https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-fuel-excise-tax-affordability-9.7162911

More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature — reportedly known inside the company as “Name Tag” — would hand stalkers, abusers, and federal agents the ability to silently identify strangers in public. The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Fight for the Future, Access Now, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is demanding Meta kill the feature before launch, after internal documents surfaced showing the company hoped to use the current “dynamic political environment” as cover for the rollout, betting that civil society groups would have their resources “focused on other concerns.”

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/13/1930253/meta-is-warned-that-facial-recognition-glasses-will-arm-sexual-predators

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/middle-east-crisis-has-given-iran-new-way-to-resist-nuclear-limits-say-former-us-iran-envoys

A modern cemetery is the negation of this. The embalming fluids — formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, the whole preservative chemistry — are specifically designed to prevent the transaction. To hold the body outside the cycle. To say: this particular matter is not available for reincorporation, not yet, perhaps not ever. The pesticides and herbicides on the managed grounds ensure that the surrounding soil is equally unavailable — sterilised, simplified, reduced to the monoculture grass that requires chemical intervention to maintain because nothing about it is actually in equilibrium with anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/08/uk-new-oil-gas-fields-north-sea-global-climate-goals

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0346127

Respondents to ISE’s annual Student Recruitment Survey reported that they had received more than 1.2 million applications to just under 17,000 graduate vacancies.

This is the highest number of applications per job recorded in more than three decades – since the ISE began collecting the data in 1991.

The most sought-after roles tend to be higher paid and in growth sectors with 205 application per vacancy in digital and IT and 188 applications per job in financial and professional services. Charity and public sector, and the built environment are the least competitive with 74 and 85 applications per role respectively.

https://ise.org.uk/knowledge/insights/410/record_graduate_job_applications/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/brutal-reality-of-life-as-a-foreign-student-in-the-uk

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/new-rowhammer-attacks-give-complete-control-of-machines-running-nvidia-gpus/

She surmounted the challenges to make two trips to outer space and rose to the high office. A new book looks at why it all ended so badly

John Fraser, Special to National Post

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Almost exactly one year after her unceremonious departure from Rideau Hall, on January 27, 2023, we literally bumped into each other in the main hallway of Massey College in the University of Toronto. It was following the college’s annual dinner honouring Adrienne Clarkson and the Clarkson Laureates in Public Service. In the good-natured melee in the hallway after the dinner, Payette and I were suddenly face to face. It was the first time we had met since her ouster. We had been good friends for quite a while before. She was, after all, a distinguished alumna of my college, having made her mark at Massey during the years that my predecessor, Professor Ann Saddlemyer, was master of the college, and she maintained the relationship after I was elected master of the college. She came several times to stay, and the Junior Fellow scholars — and everyone else — were very happy to see her around the place. But the relationship had soured as she started digging her viceregal grave deeper and deeper at Rideau Hall and declined all help, even from those who admired her.

“Hi Julie. It’s nice to see you here.” A brief interlude of embarrassed silence ensued. We had stopped communicating as she careened off into her own limbo land of inexplicable rebellion against what was considered appropriate behaviour of a governor general, and she had clearly resented my point of view. “Are we talking to each other now?”

“Why would I talk to you? You were part of the lynch mob that hounded me out of office.”

“Julie, you can’t use the word ‘lynch’ around Massey College. It will just lead to trouble and …”

She didn’t linger. Abruptly turning her back on me, she returned to the nearby Upper Library. I wasn’t surprised or particularly hurt by the snub, because things had been bad between us for some time. But it deeply saddened me because I could see so clearly the wreckage that her life had become, despite her best intentions. It was also sobering to see how little she understood her own complicity in her troubles.

I am still gob-smacked that it took the Toronto Star about ten nano-seconds (that’s journalistic exaggeration for an easy search) to discover Payette had accidentally killed a (pedestrian) by running them over in her car, and also that she had spent time at a police station for allegedly going after her estranged husband with a dangerous weapon. That Star story ran three months before Payette was sworn into office. Due diligence takes on a special negative meaning in the PMO, as this sad but easily researched history demonstrates. I do not believe for a moment that if anyone in the PMO had known of these unfortunate incidents she would have ever been asked to take on the job of governor general.

Nevertheless, she did get the viceregal gig, which turned out to be a disaster on most fronts, and now the wreckage was before the entire nation’s eyes. And my own eyes because here she was at a place we both loved and I was deeply recalling all this when she returned a few minutes later, this time with eyes brimming with tears: “I came back to apologize. I shouldn’t have just said that to you, but you do know I was lynched.”

“I do know what happened to you, Julie, and no one should have to go through what you went through. But you mustn’t use the word ‘lynch’ around here. Not since my successor screwed up everything at the college by mishandling a racial incident …”

I was cut off mid-sentence, trying to explain how an ill-timed, ill-spoken barb was directed at a Black student at Massey College. The incident, wildly taken out of proportion, made front-page news and was then allowed to fester and poison the whole place for months to come. It’s still a blot on the college’s reputation.

“But I was lynched. How else do you explain what I was supposed to do when the prime minister comes and tells me I have to go? I wasn’t given a chance to have my own lawyer present. I tried phoning the chief justice for advice, and he didn’t return my calls. There was no one to come to my help and now I am a pariah. People at the CBC or the Globe and Mail aren’t interested in any viewpoint I might have. They were all part of the lynch mob, too. You didn’t help me. No journalists would help me. No one in the Privy Council would help me. I was completely alone.”

Want to know what our reviewers have actually tested and picked as the best TVs, headphones, and laptops? Ask ChatGPT, and it’ll give you the wrong answers.

https://www.wired.com/story/i-asked-chatgpt-what-wired-reviewers-recommend-its-answers-were-all-wrong/

OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don’t have to pay any financial penalty.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/