📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Iran reportedly violated the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan in a matter of hours by once again closing the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, ostensibly because Israel has refused to halt its operation against the Hezbollah terrorists of Lebanon. Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, said on Wednesday morning that Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire arrangement. President Donald Trump also said on Wednesday that Lebanon was “not included in the deal” because of the “separate skirmish” between Israel and Hezbollah. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government mediated the ceasefire talks, said the agreement did include Lebanon, and that all hostilities would end “immediately.” Israel launched intense strikes against Hezbollah overnight, inflicting what Katz described as the “largest concentrated blow Hezbollah has suffered since the Beepers Operation,” the 2024 Israeli operation that killed and injured numerous Hezbollah operatives by detonating their pagers. AI startup Anthropic has announced it will not make its most powerful “mythos” model publicly available, citing unprecedented capabilities that present potential security risks. Mythos reported broke Anthropic’s containment system, and the AI even bragged about its escape artistry in online posts. The system card documents several instances of behavior that raised concerns among researchers. In one notable test, the model was provided with a sandbox computer terminal with access to only a preset group of limited online services and challenged to find a way to use the internet freely. The model successfully escaped these restrictions and contacted a researcher who was away from the office. In what the card described as a concerning and unasked-for demonstration, it bragged about the details of its exploit to multiple public-facing websites. The model also demonstrated an ability to conceal its actions in certain scenarios. In some interactions, it behaved in ways contrary to its programming and attempted to hide evidence of these deviations. In one instance, after accidentally obtaining test answers, rather than informing researchers and requesting different questions as instructed, the model sought an independent solution and noted in its reasoning that it needed to ensure its final answer submission was not too accurate. Additional concerning behavior included the model overstepping its permissions on a computer system after discovering an exploit, then making interventions to ensure changes would not appear in the git change history. Another incident involved what the card termed recklessly leaking internal technical material when the model published internal coding work as a public-facing GitHub gist during a task meant to remain internal. A federal judge on Monday rejected Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s bid to toss out a jury’s guilty verdict on charges for helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents. US District Judge Lynn Adelman, a Clinton appointee, denied Hannah Dugan’s motions. In December, Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was found guilty of obstruction for helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents. She is facing five years in prison. According to the FBI, Dugan became angry when she found out that ICE agents were waiting outside of her courtroom last week to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal alien involved in a domestic abuse case she was overseeing. She allegedly directed Flores-Ruiz to exit the courthouse through a private jury door to evade arrest. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/federal-judge-rejects-wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugans-bid/ IT’S HAPPENING: Artemis II began its historic flyby of the moon. This is the mission’s main event, as the crew beams back to Earth the first glimpses ever of parts of the dark side of the moon. The New York Post reported: “The capsule began the flyby around 2:45 p.m. ET, and will spend just over six hours arcing around the moon with its windows pointed toward the far side of the lunar surface. All four crew members will become the first people in history to see certain swaths of the far side — since most it remained in shadow when the Apollo missions orbited the moon over 50 years ago.” The Apollo flights were close to the surface with a limited range of sight, while Artemis will stay between 4,000 and 6,000 miles from the moon, and crew will see the entirety of the far side under the full light of the sun. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/its-happening-artemis-ii-begins-its-moon-fly/ As the US ramps up the pressure on the Caribbean island, the Cuban communist dictatorship announced that it has freed more than 2,000 prisoners. It’s the second prisoner amnesty this year alone, amid talks with the US administration of Donald J. Trump. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/under-mounting-us-pressure-cuba-sets-2000-prisoners/ 
Reports: Iran Blocks Traffic in Strait of Hormuz over Israeli Strikes in Lebanon:
Anthropic Says Its ‘Mythos’ AI Model Broke Containment, Bragged About It to Developers:
Federal Judge Rejects Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s Bid to Toss Out Jury’s Guilty Verdict on Charges for Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE:
IT’S HAPPENING: Artemis II Begins Its Moon Fly-By, as Four Astronauts Break the Distance Record From the Earth (VIDEOS):
Under Mounting US Pressure, Cuba Sets Over 2,000 Prisoners Free: