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Columbia University expelled, halted or revoked the extent of students who occupied the campus hall in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in April 2024, the university said Thursday. Students were punished based on “the seriousness of their actions in these events” and past violations from the Colombian statement. The move is the university’s response to the crackdown on US student activists who led a pro-Palestinian demonstration last year amid Israel’s Gaza War and called on schools to cut economic ties with Israel. It also came after the government cut $400 million in federal funds in Colombia on March 7th. The university was…
March 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananMobile Security/Encryption The GSM Association (GSMA) has officially announced support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to protect messages sent via the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol, bringing the necessary security protections for cross-platform messaging shared between Android and IOS platforms. Therefore, RCS’s new GSMA specification includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol via what is called RCS Universal Profile 3.0. “The new specification defines how MLS can be applied within the context of RCS,” said Tom Van Pelt, technical director at GSMA. “These steps ensure that other content, such as messages and files, remains confidential…
The plan calls for a $54.5 billion fund for infrastructure spending.Germany’s next prime minister, Friedrich Merz, has announced a contract that dramatically overhauls the country’s debt rules to allow 500 billion euros ($545 billion) in infrastructure investments over the next 12 years. Mertz’s conservatives and their future Social Democrat coalition partners reached an agreement with the Greens party on Friday, waiving more than 1% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense and security, including domestic protection, intelligence reporting agency and “assistance to countries exposed to illegal attacks.” “Germany is back,” Merz said. The agreement added that Berlin has informed its…
Two months after discarding third-party fact checks on Facebook and Instagram, the company announced that its upcoming community notes feature will use open source technology from Elon Musk’s X. This decision is part of Meta’s new approach to tackling misinformation. Community Notes are the latest move in the meta: shifting content moderation into users’ hands. Modeled on X’s crowdsourcing system, contributors can add context to potentially misleading posts. Social Giant is scheduled to begin testing its features in the US next week In a blog post on Thursday, Meta explained that Community Notes are driven by the same open source…
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racism as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign End diversity, equity and inclusion programme His officials say they will rule out white and Asian American students.The Education Department announced a new survey a month later on Friday Issuing a memo It warns American schools and universities that they could lose federal money more than “racial-based preferences” in all aspects of admission, scholarship, or student life.”Students must be evaluated according to their merits and achievements, not biased towards their skin color,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.…
As the planet warms, the Antarctic ice sheets melt, contributing to rising sea levels around the world. The Antarctic holds enough frozen water to raise the world’s sea level by 190 feet, so accurate predictions on how the ice sheets will currently move and melt are essential to protecting coastal areas. However, most climate models struggle to accurately simulate Antarctic ice movements due to the sparse data and the complexity of interactions between oceans, air and frozen surfaces. In the new study, researchers at Stanford University used machine learning to analyze high-resolution remote sensing data of Antarctic ice movement for…
Laboratory astrophysics uses advanced techniques such as powerful lasers and plasma experiments to simulate and study extreme cosmic conditions, allowing researchers to explore phenomena such as star formation and other celestial dynamics that are otherwise out of reach. The universe is a large, complex system, with the most fascinating astrophysical events occurring in distant galaxies or hostile environments that are out of our physical reach. Stars form in a stellar nursery – in a few years there will be a huge molecular cloud, but black holes and neutron stars exist in areas of extreme gravity where traditional observation techniques are…
India International Aqua Patel is the last IPL 2025 captain to be appointed as a late announcement by the Delhi Capitals.Indian spin bowling all-rounder Aquapatel has been selected as Delhi Capital during the new Indian Premier League season, the team said. The 31-year-old is the longest player on the team he joined in 2019. He scored 967 runs and 62 wickets with an economic rate of 7.09 in 82 appearances for the Capitals. Axar, who was appointed to India’s Twenty20 International Vice-Captain in January, will take the Delhi captain from Rishabhupand after moving to the Super Giants in Lucknow. “It’s…
The Palestinian group agrees to resume ceasefire talks, and has pledged to release Edan Alexander and hand over the bodies of the other four prisoners of war.Palestinian group Hamas announced that it was ready to release Israeli prisoner Edan Alexander and hand over the bodies of the other four double citizens after indirect consultations with Israel. Hamas said in a statement Friday that the delegation received proposals from mediators to resume ceasefire negotiations on Thursday, and the group’s responses include “an agreement with Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, who holds US citizenship, to release the four sites of double citizenship.” Previously,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow was in favor of the principle of a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine, as proposed by the US Donald Trump administration, but raised a question that said the Kremlin needed answers before committing to an armistice. He said Russia needs to discuss these questions and the terms of the peace proposal with the United States. His initial comments on the proposed ceasefire drew criticism from Ukraine and sparked a calm response from Trump. If Trump disagrees with a ceasefire, he expressed confidence in Putin’s commitment to a peace deal, and vibrated…