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The American Civil Liberties Union sues the Department of Defense school system for children in military families, claiming that the removal of race and gender-related books and curricula violates First Amendment protections against student government censorship. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in US District Court in Northeast Virginia said the Department of Defense Educational Activities resolved educational materials in line with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in January. Trump’s orders prohibit “prefer, advance, advance, or otherwise promote, advance, or otherwise explain “non-American, divisive, discriminatory, radical, radical, and irrational theories” related to race and gender. Harper Lee’s ” To…
Israeli Defense Minister said Israeli troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely as the troops strengthen their grip in several occupied territories. “Unlike the past, [Israeli military] Israel Katz said in a statement Wednesday. The army “remains in the security zone as a buffer between enemies. [Israeli] “Communities in Gaza are in a temporary or permanent situation, like Lebanon and Syria,” the statement said. The military said it had transformed 30% of Gaza into a “security” buffer zone and since resuming the attack on March 18, it had hit around 1,200 “terrorist targets” since following a nearly two-month…
Openai announced the release of the O3 and O4-Mini on Wednesday. This is a new AI inference model designed to pause and work with questions before responding. The company calls O3 an unprecedented cutting edge inference model, surpassing the company’s previous models in tests that measure mathematics, coding, inference, science and visual understanding abilities. Meanwhile, the O4-MINI offers what Openai is a competitive trade-off between price, speed and performance. There are three factors that developers consider when choosing an AI model to enhance their applications: Unlike previous inference models, O3 and O4-MINI can generate responses using ChatGPT’s tools such as…
April 16, 2025Ravi LakshmananEndpoint security/vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers detail four different vulnerabilities in the core components of Windows task scheduling services. This could be exploited by local attackers to achieve privilege escalation, erasing logs and concealing evidence of malicious activity. This issue is revealed in a binary named “schtasks.exe”. This allows administrators to create, delete, query, modify, run, and terminate tasks that are scheduled on local or remote computers. “a [User Account Control] A bypass vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows, allowing attackers to bypass the User Account Control prompt and allow high-privilege (System) commands to be run without user approval.…
April 16, 2025, Raleigh, USA, Chain Wire North Carolina-based film finance innovator Film Finance Group International (FFGI) has officially announced its upcoming ERC-20 Utility Token: FFG Token ($FFG). FFG tokens are asset-backed tokens built to promote a transparent, milestone-based film funding ecosystem and are asset-backed tokens that bridge real-world production workflows with secure, blockchain-based infrastructure. FFG tokens are expected to be made public in the coming weeks due to a billion tokens and a cap on integrated governance mechanics. Backed by real-world film budgets and backed by its own on-chain accounting system, the token represents a new approach to funding…
Wellness Event Agency Be In Your Element has announced a free masterclass designed for event experts. The 30-minute masterclass, entitled “Pushback Guide to Happiness at Events,” is designed for event experts who want to bring happiness to an event but often encounter pushbacks. MasterClass guides event experts by asserting happiness at every stage of the event planning process. Lucy Eden, founder of Be In Your Element, said: “I know a lot of people believe in profits, but once time is tough or other priorities are taken over, it can be difficult to hold those key elements.” “This session will be…
With US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping facing a trade war that has made global markets and businesses large and small, the countless questions about the mind are who will blink first? Trump has hampered China with a 145% tariff. Beijing is retaliating with a 125% obligation. On Tuesday, Trump strengthened his trade salvo by ordering a national security review on the imports of key minerals. Most of them come from China. Previously, Bloomberg News reported that China had ordered airlines not to deliver Boeing Jets and not to halt aircraft-related equipment and parts from US companies,…
KIA debuted its 2026 EV4 sedan at the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday. It is the first global electric sedan and is designed for customers looking for affordable EVs. Whether US customers will be drawn to the sedan is an open question, and one KIA is not necessarily a bet. The company will begin selling the EV4 in Korea and plans to bring it to Europe by the end of the year. Sales in the US are expected to start in the last quarter of 2025 or the first quarter of 2026, a Kia spokesperson told TechCrunch. With…
According to the latest report from the Data Provider Pitchbook, Startups has won $91.5 billion in venture capital funding. This figure not only represents the second highest quarter investment in the last decade, but also represents the second-highest quarterly investment in the last decade. Despite this seemingly positive news, Pitchbook’s lead US venture capital analyst Kyle Stanford appears to be the most bearish about VC trading since he began covering the market 11 years ago. Stanford’s source of negativity? The shattering of 2025 as a key exit will create a cycle in which IPOs and large acquisitions generate large amounts…
Microsoft researchers claim they have developed the largest 1-bit AI model, also known as the “bitnet” to date. Called the Bitnet B1.58 2B4T, it is openly available under the MIT license and can run on CPUs including Apple’s M2. Bitnets are essentially a compression model designed to run on lightweight hardware. In standard models, weights, which are values that define the internal structure of a model, are often quantized, so the model works well on a wide range of machines. Quantizing weights reduces what is needed to represent these weights by the number of bits (the smallest unit a computer…