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Though ceasefire negotiations between Russia and Ukraine could go on soon, Ukraine’s economic recovery will be interrupted unless the European Union quickly tracks membership in war-torn countries and offers hundreds of billions of euros of insurance and investment, experts tell Al Jazeera. “I think what Ukraine needs is a kind of future that builds stable and defensible borders. I think it will only come with EU membership,” historian Phillips O’Brien told Al Jazeera. Last month, President Donald Trump’s US administration handed Ukraine and Russia a ceasefire proposal to exclude Ukraine’s future NATO membership, meet the key demands of the Kremlin…
The CEO is currently very immersed in AI, sending out avatars to deal with quarterly revenue calls, at least in part, rather than himself. After Klarna’s CEO AI Avatar appeared on investors’ phones earlier this week, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan followed suit and used the avatar for his first comment. Yuan has deployed custom avatars via Zoom Clips, the company’s asynchronous video creation tool. “I’m proud to be one of the first CEOs to use avatars in a revenue call,” he, or rather, his avatar, said. “This is just an example of how Zoom pushes the boundaries of communication and…
May 23, 2025Ravi LakshmananCloud Security/VulnerabilityThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Thursday that Commvault is monitoring cyber threat activity targeting applications hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud environments. “The threat actor may have accessed the client secret for the Commvault (Metallic) Microsoft 365 (M365) Backup Software (SaaS) solution. “This has led to a threat to unauthorized access to the M365 environment of Commvault customers, which has the secrets of the applications they store.” CISA further noted that this activity could be part of a broader campaign targeting cloud infrastructures from various software (SAAS) providers with default configurations and high…
With a fresh $3.5 million in funding, Bay Area startups are not part of the world’s most demanding industry, building photorealistic synthetic data pipelines in hours rather than months. The startup, set up in Hungary, is tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI: data shortages in defense, aerospace and robotics. When I ask the AI engineer what’s going to be slow, I hear the same answer. High quality training data. It’s not the performance of the model. Does not calculate. It’s not funding. Just data – specifically, the lack of high quality, diverse optical aeristic data sets that don’t…
The US will cut exports to Sudan and cut government credit lines after determining weapons banned in the conflict between government forces and the RSF.The US will impose sanctions on Sudan last year after determining that the country’s military used chemical weapons while fighting paramilitaries. “The United States is urging the Sudan government to halt all chemical weapons and support its obligation,” U.S. State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said in a statement Thursday under the Chemical Weapons Treaty. Bruce said the US Congress has been notified of the State Department’s decision and that sanctions will be imposed around June 6th.…
NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won the Oklahoma City Thunder the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Finals.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 38 points, while Jalen Williams added 26 points to bring the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Minnesota Timberwolves 118-103 in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals. The Thunder leads seven series 2-0 in Minneapolis to enter Game 3 on Saturday. Gilgeous-Alexander, who was named the NBA’s most valuable player on Wednesday and featured the trophy before Thursday’s game, scored over 30 points in five consecutive games. 38 points tied the career playoff high, with him adding eight assists and three steels…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an indirect rapid injection flaw from Gitlab’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant duo that may have allowed attackers to steal source code and inject unreliable HTML into their responses. GitLab Duo is an AI-powered coding assistant that allows users to write, review and edit code. Built using Anthropic’s Claude model, the service was first launched in June 2023. But just as legal security was found, Gitlab Duo chat has become susceptible to indirect rapid injection flaws that allow attackers to “steal source code from private projects, manipulate code suggestions presented to other users, and even remove confidential,…
For a country whose government is not recognized by any country, Afghanistan’s proxy Amir Khan Muttaki has had an unusually busy calendar in recent weeks. He hosted a counterpart from Pakistan, spoke on the phone with the Indian Foreign Minister, and set up a pier on Iran and China. In Beijing, he also met Pakistan’s Foreign Minister again. On Wednesday, he participated in a trilateral meeting with Pakistan and China’s delegation. This is currently tense with Pakistan, despite the dominant Taliban historically having tense relations with most of these countries. Neither the United Nations nor its member states officially recognize…
These are important events on the 1,184th day of the Russian Ukrainian War.It’s where things stand on Friday, May 23rd. Fineting According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian drones destroyed air traffic around Moscow and grounded planes at several major airports on Thursday. A total of 46 Ukrainian drones have targeted the Russian capital, with 70 more being launched against other targets across the country, according to the offices of the province and the mayor of Moscow. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired 128 drones in Ukraine in one night, 112 of which were shot down, clogged…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a standoff with Harvard University on Thursday, revoking school capabilities Register for international students. The government has told thousands of current foreign students at Harvard University that they will be told they must transfer to other schools and will lose their legal permission to be in the US.The move could have a major impact on universities that have registered nearly 6,800 international students, most of which are in graduate programs. These students may have to scramble to grasp the next step. The Department of Homeland Security has taken this latest step as…