• ☝️ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently took this image of the ice giant Uranus, making it the third instrument in human history to capture the planet’s faint dusty rings on the outer edge of its orbit.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 💰 US markets closed mixed yesterday (S&P: +0.1%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: -0.03%).
• 🏦 FTX collapsed because of “hubris, incompetence, and greed,” per the first report released by the defunct crypto exchange’s debtors since it collapsed in November.
• 💻📉 Apple's shipment of Macs fell ~40% year over year in Q1 2023, per a new report from research firm IDC.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 💫🌌 Lucasfilm announced three new live-action Star Wars films on Friday.
• 🧮 The New York Times launched a new math-based puzzle game called Digits yesterday; the game is currently in a public beta here.
• ⛳️ Jon Rahm won the 2023 Masters Tournament.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🤖🤭 Samsung employees reportedly leaked confidential company information by feeding it into ChatGPT on at least three separate occasions.
• 👶 Embryos made from stem cells – instead of a sperm and egg – were implanted in monkey wombs for the first time, per a new peer-reviewed study; though scientists also found the embryos all broke down within 20 days.
• 🐘🍌 An Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo can use her trunk to peel bananas before eating them, marking the first-ever documented instance of such behavior, a new study found.

EVERYTHING ELSE

• ✌️👩‍🏫 The Rutgers University faculty began a strike yesterday; 9,000 people walked off the job following a year of unsuccessful contract negotiations.
• 🙏 At least five people were killed and eight others were injured in a mass shooting yesterday morning at a bank in Louisville, KY; police said the suspected shooter, who was livestreaming the attack on Instagram, was killed by authorities who arrived at the scene.
• 🗳️👨‍⚖️ Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D), who last week was removed from office by GOP state lawmakers for participating in an anti-gun protest on the House floor, was unanimously voted back into office yesterday by Nashville’s Metropolitan Council. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right) | Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly failed to disclose expensive trips and gifts provided by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow over the past decade, per a new ProPublica report; in response, Justice Thomas called the trips personal hospitality that federal judges in the past haven’t been required to report. (The report | From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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