When Sakura Meets the Seine

On the profound, unlikely, and deeply personal bond between France and Japan — in culture, diplomacy, cuisine, cinema, technology, and the eternal courage of those who refuse to give up [Zack Technology LLC]

Les startups françaises ont levé 107 millions d'euros cette semaine [Maddyness]

Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data [DevOps.com]

Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth [Slashdot.org]

House Democrat moves to impeach Hegseth over Iran war [AXIOS]

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute [Anthropic]

5 of the top reads of 2026, according to Reader’s Digest [Quartz]

Vox Launches America, Actually, a New Video-First Podcast Hosted by Astead W. Herndon [Vox]

Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise [TheNextWeb]

Let Gimbap Reintroduce Itself [EATER]

What No One Tells You About Life After Work (and Why Your Old Playbook Won’t Save You) Your post-employment days are likely to be much longer than you might think. [Inc.]

NASA to Artemis II: ‘Use a T-shirt to block the sunlight’ in our $24 billion spaceship [Fast Company]

Why the Best Way to Get Business Is to Give Business [Entrepreneur]

THE WAR MACHINE [WIRED]

This Week in Tech 1078 [TWIT]

Create, edit and share videos at no cost in Google Vids [Google Blog]

Evaluating alignment of behavioral dispositions in LLMs [Google Research]

Moving Heaven and Earth [Lapham’s Quarterly]

Artemis 2 crew shares emotional moment as they name crater after commander’s late wife [Astronomy Magazine]

Today’s Lesson Plan: How Students — And Teachers — Are Becoming AI Literate [Salesforce, The 360 Blog]

Cloud Logistics for Agile Operations with SAP Logistics Management | Expert Talk [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everybody! It’s Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Shout-out to Geeks/Nerds/Otakus/Intellos/Strebers. I’m doing my best to film a new “Coffee With Zaki” VLOG in French today. I am a bit behind. As you may know, without funding, it has been very difficult. Haven’t had $800/month since October 2024. In the red, and it’s hard to stay sustainable. I know my work is important, therefore, I look forward to my fans/supporters/followers who are willing to make small and modest donations to my venmo.com/iamzaki . Thank you for your help.

Until Next Time!