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#BCCIsACSU #issues #showcause #notice #manager #Romi #Bhinder #dugout #phone">BCCI’s ACSU issues show-cause notice to RR manager Romi Bhinder over dugout phone use On expected lines, the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACSU) has issued a show-cause notice to Romi Bhinder, team manager of Rajasthan Royals, for using a mobile handset during the side’s Indian Premier League fixture against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Guwahati last week.
According to the notice, Bhinder and the franchise have been asked to respond within 48 hours.
The charge pertains to the use of a mobile phone in the dugout. As per tournament guidelines, players and team officials are barred from using mobile phones in Players and Match Officials Areas (PMOA) to prevent any potentially corrupt transfer of information. Teams are, however, permitted to use walkie-talkies for communication between the dressing room and the dugout in specific situations.
While PMOA protocols allow a team manager to use a mobile phone inside the dressing room, its use in the dugout is prohibited.
Sources indicated that Bhinder had sought prior permission from the ACU before the tournament to use a mobile phone due to a medical condition that had led to his hospitalisation for three weeks ahead of the IPL. However, BCCI officials clarified that mobile phones cannot be used to make or receive calls in the dugout, which is accessible to the squad and coaching staff during matches.
On Sunday, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia said the “veracity of the incident” would be established before any conclusions are drawn.
“Managers using a mobile phone is permissible, but we need to find out whether there was any violation of rules. That fact-finding exercise is now on. Once it is complete, we will take necessary steps depending on the outcome,” Saikia told Sportstar.
Footage of the incident, showing Bhinder on his phone with Vaibhav Suryavanshi seated beside him, quickly went viral on social media, prompting the ACU to take cognisance.
Rajasthan Royals will face Sunrisers Hyderabad in Hyderabad on Monday.
Published on Apr 13, 2026
On expected lines, the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACSU)…
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#Deadspin #Bruins #defeat #Blue #Jackets #James #Hagens #debut">Deadspin | Bruins defeat Blue Jackets in James Hagens’ debut
Apr 12, 2026; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets center Adam Fantilli (19) takes the puck away from Boston Bruins center Mark Kastelic (47) during the first period at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images Sean Kuraly scored and set up two others, leading the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the host Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night.
Boston (44-27-10, 98 points) clinched an Eastern Conference wild-card berth on Saturday. The first wild-card seed is still within reach with the Bruins battling the Senators for seeding.
Henri Jokiharju and Mark Kastelic added a goal and a helper each for Boston, which swept the three-game season series against Columbus and snapped a five-game skid overall (0-3-2).
Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves in the win.
Mason Marchment and Adam Fantilli responded for the Blue Jackets (40-29-12, 92 points). With the loss, Columbus’ chances at the third seed in the Metropolitan Division took a substantial blow.
Jet Greaves stopped 19 shots.
Kastelic scored the eventual game-winner at 10:22 of the third, putting his shot from a bad angle far-side past Greaves for his 10th of the season.
Fantilli tied it 2-2, on a breakaway, snapping a shot glove side past Korpisalo for his 24th at 1:27 of the third.
Boston took a 2-1 lead with just 19 seconds remaining in the middle frame as Jokiharju snapped a Kuraly feed short-side past a screened Greaves for his second of the season.
With the secondary assist, James Hagens (19 years, 160 days) scored a point in his NHL debut.
Marchment opened the scoring at 3:59, redirecting a Dante Fabbro point shot at the side of the net past Korpisalo for his 19th of the season.
Boston responded at 10:31 on their first shot of the game as Kastelic’s tip of Jokiharju’s point shot went off the skate of Kuraly and in for his sixth of the season.
Sunday was the third and final meeting of the season between the Blue Jackets and Bruins.
Boston doubled up Columbus 4-2 on Feb. 26 before squeezing out a 4-3 shootout victory on March 29.
–Field Level Media
Apr 12, 2026; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets center Adam Fantilli (19) takes the puck away from Boston Bruins center Mark Kastelic (47) during the first period at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images Sean Kuraly scored and set up two others, leading the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the host Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night.
Boston (44-27-10, 98 points) clinched an Eastern Conference wild-card berth on Saturday. The first wild-card seed is still within reach with the Bruins battling the Senators for seeding.
Henri Jokiharju and Mark Kastelic added a goal and a helper each for Boston, which swept the three-game season series against Columbus and snapped a five-game skid overall (0-3-2).
Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves in the win.
Mason Marchment and Adam Fantilli responded for the Blue Jackets (40-29-12, 92 points). With the loss, Columbus’ chances at the third seed in the Metropolitan Division took a substantial blow.
Jet Greaves stopped 19 shots.
Kastelic scored the eventual game-winner at 10:22 of the third, putting his shot from a bad angle far-side past Greaves for his 10th of the season.
Fantilli tied it 2-2, on a breakaway, snapping a shot glove side past Korpisalo for his 24th at 1:27 of the third.
Boston took a 2-1 lead with just 19 seconds remaining in the middle frame as Jokiharju snapped a Kuraly feed short-side past a screened Greaves for his second of the season.
With the secondary assist, James Hagens (19 years, 160 days) scored a point in his NHL debut.
Marchment opened the scoring at 3:59, redirecting a Dante Fabbro point shot at the side of the net past Korpisalo for his 19th of the season.
Boston responded at 10:31 on their first shot of the game as Kastelic’s tip of Jokiharju’s point shot went off the skate of Kuraly and in for his sixth of the season.
Sunday was the third and final meeting of the season between the Blue Jackets and Bruins.
Boston doubled up Columbus 4-2 on Feb. 26 before squeezing out a 4-3 shootout victory on March 29.
–Field Level Media
Apr 12, 2026; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets center Adam Fantilli (19) takes the puck away from Boston Bruins center Mark Kastelic (47) during the first period at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images Sean Kuraly scored and set up two others, leading the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the host Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night.
Boston (44-27-10, 98 points) clinched an Eastern Conference wild-card berth on Saturday. The first wild-card seed is still within reach with the Bruins battling the Senators for seeding.
Henri Jokiharju and Mark Kastelic added a goal and a helper each for Boston, which swept the three-game season series against Columbus and snapped a five-game skid overall (0-3-2).
Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves in the win.
Mason Marchment and Adam Fantilli responded for the Blue Jackets (40-29-12, 92 points). With the loss, Columbus’ chances at the third seed in the Metropolitan Division took a substantial blow.
Jet Greaves stopped 19 shots.
Kastelic scored the eventual game-winner at 10:22 of the third, putting his shot from a bad angle far-side past Greaves for his 10th of the season.
Fantilli tied it 2-2, on a breakaway, snapping a shot glove side past Korpisalo for his 24th at 1:27 of the third.
Boston took a 2-1 lead with just 19 seconds remaining in the middle frame as Jokiharju snapped a Kuraly feed short-side past a screened Greaves for his second of the season.
With the secondary assist, James Hagens (19 years, 160 days) scored a point in his NHL debut.
Marchment opened the scoring at 3:59, redirecting a Dante Fabbro point shot at the side of the net past Korpisalo for his 19th of the season.
Boston responded at 10:31 on their first shot of the game as Kastelic’s tip of Jokiharju’s point shot went off the skate of Kuraly and in for his sixth of the season.
Sunday was the third and final meeting of the season between the Blue Jackets and Bruins.
Boston doubled up Columbus 4-2 on Feb. 26 before squeezing out a 4-3 shootout victory on March 29.
–Field Level Media
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#Agents #Coming #Dating #Lifeartificial intelligence,agentic ai,startups,dating">AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating LifeOn a Monday afternoon in March, I watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of a virtual office campus looking for a buddy. With dark brown hair and stubbled chin, the sprite was a representation of me—an AI agent instructed to converse with other people’s agents to see if we might vibe in real life. It jumped into its first interaction: “I’m Joel, by the way.”
Running the simulation were three London-based developers: Tomáš Hrdlička and siblings Joon Sang and Uri Lee. The thesis behind their project, Pixel Societies, is that personalized AI agents could help to match real people with highly compatible colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.
Each agent runs atop a customized version of a large language model, fed with a mixture of publicly available data about a person and any additional information they supply. The agents are supposed to function as high-fidelity digital twins, faithfully replicating a person’s manner, speech, interests, and so on.
Let loose in simulation, my agent was more like a Hyde to my Jekyll. “I’m always looking for the less-glamorous side of the story,” it said to one agent, one of several journalistic clichés it spouted. “Hype is my daily bread,” it told another. It hallucinated a reporting trip to Sweden and, later, a nonexistent story it said I had been cooking up. It cut short multiple conversations with the phrase, “Let’s skip the pleasantries.”
Pixel Societies remains a bare-bones proof-of-concept, and because I offered up little personal data—the responses to a brief personality quiz and links to my public-facing social media—my agent was doomed to life as a walking, talking LinkedIn post. But the developers theorize that deeply trained agents could cycle through interactions at warp speed, gathering intel that their owners could use to find real-world companionship.
“As humans, we only live one life. But what if we could live a million?” says Joon Sang Lee. “It would give us more breadth to experiment.”
“A Spicy Personality”
Pixel Societies was born in early March at a hackathon at University College London hosted by Nvidia, HPE, and Anthropic. Hrdlička and Joon Sang Lee are both members of Unicorn Mafia, an invitation-only group of developers who regularly compete in these kinds of engineering contests. In this case, contestants were told simply to build something simulation-related.
Over two days, along with Uri Lee, they developed Pixel Societies, using an image model to generate the sprites and coding automation tools to flesh out the codebase. Then they simulated a mini-hackathon within the virtual world they had created, populated with agents representing the other contestants. Anthropic awarded the team a prize for the best use of its agent tools.
I ran into Hrdlička a couple of weeks later at a workshop about OpenClaw, an agentic personal assistant software that blew up in January and whose creator was later hired by OpenAI. (In its simulation, Joelbot interacted with agents belonging to other people at the OpenClaw workshop.) Pixel Societies draws heavy inspiration from OpenClaw, which broke ground with the invention of a “soul file” that informed each agent’s unique identity. “It’s like giving an agent an actually spicy personality. That’s what we used to make the characters feel alive,” says Hrdlička.
Encouraged by the reception at the hackathon and among fellow Unicorn Mafia members, the trio intends to turn Pixel Societies into something that looks less like a closed-loop simulator and more like a social platform where agents interact freely and continuously, with the aim of stoking fruitful real-world relationships. They have not yet landed on a business model, but options include selling virtual items for avatar customization and credits for additional simulations.
On a Monday afternoon in March, I watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of a virtual office campus looking for a buddy. With dark brown hair and stubbled chin, the sprite was a representation of me—an AI agent instructed to converse with other people’s agents to see if we might vibe in real life. It jumped into its first interaction: “I’m Joel, by the way.”
Running the simulation were three London-based developers: Tomáš Hrdlička and siblings Joon Sang and Uri Lee. The thesis behind their project, Pixel Societies, is that personalized AI agents could help to match real people with highly compatible colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.
Each agent runs atop a customized version of a large language model, fed with a mixture of publicly available data about a person and any additional information they supply. The agents are supposed to function as high-fidelity digital twins, faithfully replicating a person’s manner, speech, interests, and so on.
Let loose in simulation, my agent was more like a Hyde to my Jekyll. “I’m always looking for the less-glamorous side of the story,” it said to one agent, one of several journalistic clichés it spouted. “Hype is my daily bread,” it told another. It hallucinated a reporting trip to Sweden and, later, a nonexistent story it said I had been cooking up. It cut short multiple conversations with the phrase, “Let’s skip the pleasantries.”
Pixel Societies remains a bare-bones proof-of-concept, and because I offered up little personal data—the responses to a brief personality quiz and links to my public-facing social media—my agent was doomed to life as a walking, talking LinkedIn post. But the developers theorize that deeply trained agents could cycle through interactions at warp speed, gathering intel that their owners could use to find real-world companionship.
“As humans, we only live one life. But what if we could live a million?” says Joon Sang Lee. “It would give us more breadth to experiment.”
“A Spicy Personality”
Pixel Societies was born in early March at a hackathon at University College London hosted by Nvidia, HPE, and Anthropic. Hrdlička and Joon Sang Lee are both members of Unicorn Mafia, an invitation-only group of developers who regularly compete in these kinds of engineering contests. In this case, contestants were told simply to build something simulation-related.
Over two days, along with Uri Lee, they developed Pixel Societies, using an image model to generate the sprites and coding automation tools to flesh out the codebase. Then they simulated a mini-hackathon within the virtual world they had created, populated with agents representing the other contestants. Anthropic awarded the team a prize for the best use of its agent tools.
I ran into Hrdlička a couple of weeks later at a workshop about OpenClaw, an agentic personal assistant software that blew up in January and whose creator was later hired by OpenAI. (In its simulation, Joelbot interacted with agents belonging to other people at the OpenClaw workshop.) Pixel Societies draws heavy inspiration from OpenClaw, which broke ground with the invention of a “soul file” that informed each agent’s unique identity. “It’s like giving an agent an actually spicy personality. That’s what we used to make the characters feel alive,” says Hrdlička.
Encouraged by the reception at the hackathon and among fellow Unicorn Mafia members, the trio intends to turn Pixel Societies into something that looks less like a closed-loop simulator and more like a social platform where agents interact freely and continuously, with the aim of stoking fruitful real-world relationships. They have not yet landed on a business model, but options include selling virtual items for avatar customization and credits for additional simulations.
On a Monday afternoon in March, I watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of…
