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Earlier on Monday, Ahmed al-Amouri, 56, saw three Israeli tanks roll into his occupied West Bank homeland. The last time he saw the tank was over 20 years ago, when Israel tried to crush the second Intifada in 2002. This time the scene seemed to cause more humor than the alarm. He joined bystanders who took selfies in front of armored vehicles and fired rocks as they entered Jenin. “There’s no point in bringing these tanks all the way here. The city is sky!” said the father of five. “Me and thousands of other people have already been kicked out…
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US and Ukraine had agreed to a key mineral trade draft that, according to the president, could be worth around $1 trillion. The proposed contract is seen as an attempt by Kiev to win support for the new US administration amid tensions over Washington’s outreach to Moscow to end the Ukrainian war. The obvious deal comes a week after Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky rejected an earlier draft. Ukrainian leaders were airing his complaints about being excluded from US-Russia talks in order to end the Ukrainian war. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy described the…
Over a year of internal chat logs from ransomware gangs known as Black Busta are published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into tactics and internal conflicts between members. Russian chat on the matrix messaging platform on September 18, 2023 and September 28, 2024 was first leaked on February 11, 2025 by individuals using the handle. The group was targeting Russian banks. Leaked identity remains a mystery. The Black Basta first hit the spotlight in April 2022 and used the now surprisingly deprecated Qakbot (aka Qbot) as its delivery vehicle. According to a recommendation issued by the US…
The government’s Ministry of Efficiency (DOGE) has revealed a staggering waste of taxpayer money. An audit focused on the Department of Labor (DOL) and other agencies exposed shocking contradictions ranging from thousands of idol Microsoft 365 accounts to $20,000 spent on Winzip licenses. Less than two weeks after Elon Musk’s Doge team discovered the $100 billion Medicare and Medicaid scam, the discovery surfaced, calling it the “epicenter of fraud.” Too many software licenses, too few users The audit was conducted again at the Ministry of Labor, with the initial findings drawing a troubling picture of wasteful spending. The numbers didn’t…
The massive arrests occur as an army evacuation order to families at Nur Shams camp, giving them on a three-hour departure.Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians as part of expanding military operations across the occupied West Bank. At least 50 people were arrested in the overnight attack, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Association (PPS) and the committee on detainees and former appellants’ issues. According to a report by the WAFA, the military rounded up people for questioning at governors of Hebron, Talcarem, Qalqilya, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho and Tubas. As part of the campaign, Israeli forces attacked Majed Abu Shalar…
Rebecca Tadesse and Gabriele Grassi of the Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning Department of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency discuss the importance of international cooperation for effective radioactive waste management. Increasing countries are considering building nuclear facilities to ensure energy supply and reduce carbon emissions. As a result, the effective management of radioactive waste generated by these facilities has attracted new attention. The number of countries expressing interest in nuclear energy programs increased in the 2020s, with 30 countries declaring three times the nuclear energy capacity in 2023 by 2050 as part of their zero commitment. Meanwhile, the development of…
Openai has begun rolling out GPT-4.5, the latest AI model with advanced visual and agent capabilities. For now, only ChATGPT Pro users were able to access it in the research preview, causing user discussion. Some are excited about the upgrade, others feel they are being ruled out, others are asking for a massive cancellation if Openai is not available to anyone. Leaked screenshots from the ChatGpt Android app confirmed the rollout, with Openai’s official Subreddit R/ChatGpt doubled with a post that read “GPT 4.5 is here.” The app notification states: “Try the GPT-4.5 research preview. Pro users now have access…
According to a report from the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, 99 non-citizens on the “terrorist watchlist” have been released domestically. Is this true? US Rep. Claudia Tenney recently claimed that watchlists have been “freed” in the United States. The allegations came as part of her debate over New York laws that grant driver’s licenses to New York laws, regardless of immigration circumstances. “New York is one of the worst,” a Republican representative told Fox News. “We’ve had almost 99 or 100 people unleashed on the terrorist watchlist. That’s what we know.” Along the coast of Lake Ontario, which shares its…
First Nations University in Canada leads education and research focused on Indigenous peoples, focusing on preserving and moving forward the knowledge systems of Indigenous, Métis and Inuit. First Nations University (FNUNIV) in Canada is a unique institution of higher education dedicated to providing Indigenous-led research and education. Founded in 1976 by First Nations in Saskatchewan, Canada, and as the Federal University of the Saskatchewan Indians (SIFC), renamed in 2003 when the institution moved to the new Regina Campus Building, FNUNIV is now operating as the University of Regina Union University. The university’s mission is to enhance the quality of life…
Due diligence is a costly business and is not just in the area of investment. Even companies seeking to launch new products or investigate partnerships find and investigate appropriate data, finding and investigating appropriate data, especially when third-party institutions and consultants are involved, to make educated decisions. It takes a few weeks and can be very expensive. A new AI startup called Bridgetown Research says it can speed up the process with an AI agent that can create dents on its cost-based basis and do most of the data collection and research work that leads to due diligence. And as…