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On Thursday, Andrill and Meta announced news that felt like a fairy tale ending for Andrill’s co-founder, Palmer Lucky. The two companies are working together to build an augmented reality (XR) device for the US military, Andrill announced in a blog post. “I’m happy you’re working with Meta again,” Lucky is quoted as saying in the post. “My mission has been to turn warfighters into technomancers for a long time, and the products we build in meta do just that.” This partnership comes from the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) Next program, previously known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System…
Joseph Kabila visits the eastern Goma, which has been seized by the rebels after being stripped of his immunity.Former President Joseph Kabila has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to Reuters and AFP news agency. Kabila was on a trip to the eastern part of Goma on Thursday, which was seized by Rwandan-backed M23 militias and earlier this year by several other regions in the eastern region, which are rich in the country. A team of AFP journalists saw Kabila meet local religious figures in the presence of M23 spokesman Lawrence Kanyuka. Citing three unidentified sources close…
Deepseek’s updated R1 Reasoning AI model may be attracting attention from the AI community this week. However, the Chinese AI Lab has also released a “distilled” version of the new R1, the DeepSeek-R1-0528-QWEN3-8B. This argues that Deepseek breaks models of comparable sizes on certain benchmarks. The small updated R1, built using the QWEN3-8B model Alibaba, launched as a foundation in May, is better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash On Aieme 2025, which is better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash On Aieme 2025. The DeepSeek-R1-0528-QWEN3-8B is roughly in line with Microsoft’s recently released Phi 4 Reasoning Plus model, another mathematical skill…
New York (AP) – After 5 weeks of testimony Harvey Weinstein His accusers and other prosecutor witnesses Retrial of sexual crimeshis defense began to present its own witness. However, it is unclear whether the former studio boss himself will become one of them.He is scheduled to decide Thursday whether to testify by the end of the court. If so, it would be an astonishing twist and potentially dangerous legal move in the long-standing saga that turned into the former Hollywood Hongcho – #Metoo Outcast. Weinstein, 73, is being retried on rape and sexual assault charges as he is the highest…
The US government has imposed sanctions on Funnull, accused of providing infrastructure to cybercriminals carrying out “pig slaughter” fraud and Cybercriminals that caused $200 million to the losses of American casualties. On Thursday, the Ministry of Finance’s Foreign Assets Control Bureau announced sanctions, saying Funnull “links to most of the cryptocurrency investment scam websites reported to the FBI.” The press release said that while a $200 million loss would result in an average loss of $150,000 per victim, it is “highly likely to underestimate the total loss” as many victims of fraud do not report crimes. Pig slaughter fraud involves…
Tesla is partially built into government regulations and incentives, from the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee in 2009 to the regulatory unit that sells to other automakers that have driven a third of their $32 billion profit since 2012. Currently, the company’s energy business – a rare, bright spot amid growing demand for EVs – is under assault. House Republicans last week passed a settlement bill that revoked many of the inflation reduction laws, including tax credits for residential solar and clean energy projects. The bill is currently in front of the Senate. If the Senate passes it on with…
BOSTON (AP) – A federal judge on Thursday extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to ban Harvard University Foreign student registration.US District Judge Alison Burrows granted Harvard’s request for a temporary injunction and blocked government action until the case was decided. It had already been suspended since last week when Burrows issued a temporary restraining order.Harvard sued the Department of Homeland Security on Friday after revoking its ability to host international students on a campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a new initiative to revoke Harvard’s accreditation to enroll international students. In a letter sent…
Fake installers of popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as Openai ChatGpt and Invideo AI are used as lures to propagate a variety of threats, such as Cyberlock and Lucky_Gh0 $T ransomware family. “Cyberlock ransomware developed using Powershell primarily focuses on the encryption of specific files on the victim’s systems,” Cisco Talos researcher Chetan Raghuprasad said in a report released today. “Lucky_Gh0 $T ransomware is another variant of Yashma Ransomware, the sixth iteration of the Chaos Ransomware series, with only minor changes to the ransomware binary.” Numero, on the other hand, is a destructive malware that affects victims by manipulating…
First Conference News Creative Leader Summit With the summit coming quickly, Conference News spoke to some speakers and panelists about upcoming sessions, the importance of bringing together creative leaders, and the biggest challenges facing creative leaders today. The summit will be held at De Vere Horsley Estate on June 11th and 12th to bring together senior creative figures from the agency community, discuss challenges, share best practices and bring together senior creative figures from the agency community as they deliver creative vision for an immersive live and brand experience. For more information about the summit, click here. In this interview,…
Exchange, a startup using AI, streamlined how renewable energy and data center projects will acquire positions and raised $2.1 million. The platform helps developers and investors find the best site in seconds by grasping over 50 factors, including landowner data, grid proximity, hurdle permissions, and market conditions. This is a process that usually takes several months. The company’s latest round brings total funding to $2175 million with support from Gravity Environment, Techstars, Malbec Ventures, Adam/A, and several strategic angels in solar and data infrastructure. The pitch is simple. The deployment of clean energy is slowed down by the selection of…