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What happened in Palestine in 1948? Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakbah, or catastrophe, mentioning the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. As they secured the support of the British government for the creation of the Palestinian Jewish state on May 14, 1948, as soon as the British order expired, Zionist forces declared the establishment of an Israeli state, triggering the first Arab-Israel war. Zionist troops expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, capturing 78% of historic Palestine. The remaining 22% were divided into the currently occupied West Bank and the…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Network Security Fortinet patched a critical security flaw that it said was exploited as zero-day in an attack targeting Fortivoice’s enterprise phone system. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-32756 has a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10.0. “Stack-based overflow vulnerability [CWE-121] “Fortivoice, Fortimail, Fortindr, Fortirecorder, and Forticamera could allow remote, uncertified attackers to execute arbitrary code or commands via created HTTP requests,” the company said in its advisory. The company said that while defects being exploited in the wild in the Fortivoice system were observed, it did not disclose the scale of the attack and the threat…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Endpoint Security Ivanti has released a security update to address two security flaws in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) software that was taken to an attack to gain remote code execution. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-4427 (CVSS score: 5.3) – Authentication bypass attackers can access protected resources without proper credentials on IVANTI Endpoint Manager mobile CVE-2025-4428 (CVSS score: 7.2) Defects affect the next version of the product – 11.12.0.4 and previous (fixed to 11.12.0.5) 12.3.0.1 and Prior (fixed to 12.3.0.2) 12.4.0.1 and Front (fixed to 12.4.0.2) 12.5.0.0 and Front (fixed to 12.5.0.1) Ivanti praised…
President Donald Trump has cut another $450 million in grants from Harvard University amid a continuing feud over anti-Semitism, presidential rule and academic freedom limitations. On Tuesday, the joint task force framed under Trump accused Harvard University, the country’s oldest university, of committing “many years of policy and discrimination practices based on race.” “A formerly symbolized scholars’ fame, Harvard’s campus has become a breeding ground for virtue signals and discrimination. It is not leadership. It is not coronavirus. It is not academic freedom. It is not institutional disenfranchisement,” the task force said in a statement. “By prioritizing settlements against accountability,…
Jose “Pepe” Musica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, passed away at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media post on Tuesday. Musica was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2024. “It is a deep sadness that we announce the death of our comrade Pepe Musica,” Orsi wrote. “I am grateful for all that you have given us and for the deep love for your people.” Musica became an icon even across Uruguay’s boundaries, and he pursued environmental reform, led the country to legalize same-sex marriage and…
Dallas Mavericks’ Clay Thompson #31 will handle the ball during the match against the Memphis Grizzlies at the 2025 Sophie Play-In Tournament, which took place at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee on April 18, 2025.Joe Murphy | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesChime Financial paid the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks about $33 million over three years to wear the logo as a patch on the player’s jersey. The Mavericks finalized the Jersey deal in 2020 along with “specific other sponsorships and publicity rights,” but no terms were announced. CNBC then cited NBA officials and reported that the league’s patch sponsorship…
President Donald Trump announced that US sanctions on Syria will be lifted, with a major boost to the Tehran government, which came to power after the overthrow of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad in December. “On the first Tuesday of a three-day visit to the Middle East, including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, Trump said in Saudi Arabia “There is a new government that will succeed in stabilizing the country and maintaining peace.” “I order the suspension of sanctions against Syria in order to give them the opportunity to greatness.” Trump is also expected to meet Syrian…
WASHINGTON, DC — US President Donald Trump says building formal relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel will be a “dream,” but he wants the kingdom to do it “on his own time.” On Tuesday, the White House released a fuss about its economic and defense agreements with Saudi Arabia, including hundreds of millions of dollars, but Israel’s mentions were not notable from the announcement. The so-called “normalization” drive between Saudi Arabia and Israel dominated his predecessor, Joe Biden’s approach to the region, but the current US president has shifted his focus elsewhere, analysts say. “The Trump administration has made it…
It was May 13, 2025 and we are back to a daily snapshot of the biggest fundraising moves shaping the global startup scene. From next-generation solid rocket motors to AI finance copilot and EV battery intelligence, today’s funding slate shows the range of innovation investors are betting on. The chart’s topping is X-Bow Systems, which secures a $105 million Series B backed by aerospace heavyweights such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, expanding rocket motor production. Meanwhile, Breathe Battery Technologies has landed $21 million to push the boundaries of optimizing battery performance since electric vehicles. But it wasn’t all defence and…
Finally, Digital Consumer Bank Chime moved forward with the IPO by submitting S-1 documents on Tuesday. Chime reportedly submitted paperwork for the Confidential S-1 in December. S-1 filings usually reveal all types of information covering financial, legal, and other risk factors. However, there are still many blank spaces in Chime’s S-1 documentation. I don’t know how many shares I want to sell, or what price I have. Chime may be aiming to raise $1 billion, IPO expert Renaissance Capital believes. We also don’t know how many shares the Insider will sell as part of the IPO. These include billionaire Yuri…