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East Lansing, Michigan (AP) — Michigan State University has reached a settlement worth about $30 million with three surviving students Mass shooting In 2023, the lawyer said Tuesday.Three students were killed and five more injured when a man with no school connection fired a shot inside two buildings.Michigan has agreed to a $14.2 million settlement with Nathan Statley. Yukai “John” Hao and $13 million. $2.5 million with Troy Forbush, according to lawyers for Growal Law and Gruel Mills Nims & Pylman.”The university cannot comment on any particular settlement, but we really hope that reaching a solution will help provide some…
June 10, 2025Ravi LakshmananPhishing/Cybercrime It has been observed that a financially motivated threat actor known as FIN6 leverages fake resumes hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to provide a malware family called More_eggs. “By launching conversations through platforms such as LinkedIn, under the guise of job seekers, the group actually builds relationships with recruiters before delivering phishing messages that lead to malware,” the Domaintools Investigations (DTI) team said in a report shared with Hacker News. More_eggs is a work by another cybercrime group called Golden Chickens (aka Venom Spider), which has recently been attributed to a new family of…
Enterprise Search startup Glean has secured $150 million in new funding and increased its valuation to $7.2 billion. The round was led by Wellington Management, with new supporters including Khosla Ventures, bicycle capital, and geodesic capital, Archerman Capital. The long list of existing investors has also doubled, including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, Altimeter, Kleiner Perkins, Iconiq and General Catalyst. GLEANS reaches a $7 billion valuation with latest funding The Palo Alto-based startup says the money will promote product development, international expansion, sales and employment across R&D. “Since Series E in September, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue,” said CEO…
Joe Fuller founded Mary Menopause following her own journey with menopause. Today, Fuller helps individuals and organizations draw menopause from the shadows and lead them into everyday conversations through coaching, policy guidance and cultural changes. Conference News spoke to Fuller about her work and what the events industry needs to do to better support women. Long before her period stopped, when the perimenopause struck at 42, Joe Fuller found herself navigating a landscape of bewildering symptoms without guidance, support or basic awareness of what was happening in her body. This experience helped create Merry Menopause, an organization dedicated to changing…
Glaz, Austria (AP) – A shooter fires inside school The second largest city in Austria Killed on Tuesday 9 people, Authorities said.At least 12 people were injured in the attack, and the gunman later died of suicide in a school bathroom in Glaz, officials said.Details about the suspect’s motives and information about the victim were not immediately available.Here’s what we know:Nine people were killedThe shooter fired at a school in Glaz, killing nine people and wounding at least 12 before taking his own life, authorities said.The special forces were among those sent to Borgdreielschutzgas High School, about a kilometre (more…
At the end of Monday’s WWDC 2025 keynote, the company literally sang praise to app developers. Singer-songwriter Allen Stone has humorously transformed customer positive app store reviews into lyrics for a song titled “6 out of 5 stars.” “Sorry, the best app ever,” he cloned. “This is not an app. It’s a work of art.” But what Apple didn’t mention was related to the developer community, or more broadly, why developers should continue to focus their trust on companies fighting for all nickel and dimes while failing otherwise. In recent years, the Cupertino-based tech giant has fought strictly against regulations,…
While each hotel maintains its own vision for guest experiences, decision-making factors for hospitality technology partners continue to remain consistent in the UK and European markets. Cost-effective, responsive service, trustworthy and long-term value. Based on extensive feedback from hotel operators across the region, WorldVue has developed this technology and support framework, particularly addressing these core priorities. Price: Transparent, competitive, built to scale With increased operating costs and pressures installed to provide a seamless guest experience, technology investments must demonstrate concrete ROI. According to STR and Hotstats data, hoteliers in the UK and Europe face continued inflationary pressures in 2025, particularly…
The summer is here and the news at that meeting compiled a list of outdoor and summer party venues that could be the perfect location for this summer season. Why not check out these six venues? Leeds Castle Located near Maidstone in Kent, the historic Leeds Castle offers an idyllic countryside perfect for spring meetings, events and team buildings in the great outdoors. Set in Parkland and 500 acres of seasonal gardens and Parkland, with a backdrop of a medieval castle 900 years ago, Leeds Castle is an attractive setting for a variety of outdoor activities. Leeds Castle has introduced…
Enterprise Software Startup Linear raised a $82 million Series C funding round and valued the startup at $1.25 billion, the company said Tuesday. Venture Capital Fund Accel led the round, leading the participation from existing investors 01A and SECOIA, as well as new investors Seven Seven Six and Designer Fund. “Today, we are pleased to raise a $82 million Series C at a $12.5 billion valuation. The round includes both primary and secondary funding led by Accel, with continued support from Sequoia and 01A, with SALD ANS from new partners Seven Seven Fund, Indie.VC, TK Ventures, Soleio, Jeff & Vlad…
French AI Lab Mistral is caught up in reasoning in AI model games. On Tuesday morning, Mistral announced Magistral, the first family of the reasoning model. Like other inference models, such as Openai’s O3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro – work through problems step by step to improve consistency and reliability across topics such as mathematics and physics. Guctistral comes in two flavors. The size of Gustistral Small is 24 billion parameters and can be downloaded from the AI Dev platform under the Apache 2.0 license to hug Face. (Parameters are internal components of the model that guide its behavior.)…