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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday attempted to block Texas laws that have given college students for decades without legally resident Americans access to reduced state tuition fees and the latest efforts by the Trump administration. Pollution on immigration To the country.Texas was the first state to pass a law in 2001 that allowed young people who were eligible for tuition in the state or without legal status if they met certain residency standards. And 20 states have similar laws, but the Trump administration filed a lawsuit in conservative Texas. Republican Governor Greg Abbott And state lawmakers…
Winder, Ga. (AP) – Georgia School District officials killed four people in a shooting in September Appalachie High School We are considering raising property taxes to pay school-based police officers.Barrow County Principal Dallas Redoff told school board members Tuesday that tax increases were necessary as the county government informed the district that it would no longer pay sheriff’s deputies, local news agency reported.The school district and the Barrow County Commission have split the prices of agents assigned to school resource officers since 2017. The number was originally 12 years old, and rose to 16 in 2024, and to 24 after…
Building sophisticated robotic projects at home is becoming a little easier. Earlier this week, AI Dev Platform Hugging Face released an open AI model of robotics called Smolvla. Trained with a “compatible license” community sharing dataset, Smolvla outperforms much larger models of robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, embracing facial claims. “Smolvla aims to democratize access to vision language actions [VLA] It models and accelerates the general’s research into robotic agents,” wrote the embracing face in the blog post. [technologies]. ” Smolvla embraces the rapidly expanding efforts of the face to establish an ecosystem of low-cost robotics hardware and…
Louisville, Ky. (AP) – Democrat Kentucky Governor Andy Beshire He strengthened his efforts On Wednesday, he will ensure preschool access for every four-year-old in the state, ensuring his plans will enjoy widespread benefits, improving student performance while strengthening employment and family income.In recent years, Besher, who was hampered by the state’s GOP-Supermajority council when he pitched the universal Pre-K program, launched a campaign in the hopes of building grassroots support. He will come about seven months before lawmakers convened in January for the 2026 session. The 2026 session will be highlighted by the work of passing the state’s next two…
The ransomware gang argued for responsibility for the Hacks of Kettering Health, a network of Ohio hospitals, clinics and medical centers. Healthcare systems are still recovering two weeks after a ransomware attack forced them to shut down all their computer systems. Interlock, a relatively new ransomware group that has targeted US healthcare institutions since September 2024, has published a post on its official dark website, claiming it had stolen more than 940 gigabytes of data from Kettering Health. CNN first reported on May 20 that interlocks were behind a violation of Kettering Health. However, at the time, Interlock had no…
According to a complaint filed Wednesday in a Northern California court, Reddit accused of the humanity that it allegedly used to train AI models using data from the site without a proper licensing agreement. Reddit claims in a complaint that it is illegal for humanity to not allow data on the site for commercial purposes, and that the AI startup violated Reddit’s user agreement. The Reddit lawsuit has joined a string of publishers who have legally challenged AI model providers over training data practices and sued high-tech companies for similar reasons. The New York Times sued Openai and Microsoft for…
“My wife taught me something,” Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the London SXSW crowd. He was working on headlines about a company trying to hire human workers after Klarna said she used artificial intelligence to do the equivalent of 700 workers. “Two things can be the case at the same time,” he said. Siemiatkowski said the company was trying to stop hiring human workers a few years ago, and deployed AI agents that helped reduce customer support costs and increase the company’s revenue per employee. The company had 5,500 workers two years ago, and the number is now around 3,000,…
Steve Collins, CTO of Game Engine Developer Unity, has resigned from Stepping Down, a company representative confirmed by TechCrunch. He joined Unity just six months ago after serving as CTO for King, the mobile gaming company behind Candy Crush. According to Unity, Collins has decided to leave the company from his own consent. “We can confirm that Steve Collins has decided to leave unity for personal reasons,” said a company representative. “We are grateful for his contributions. We are confident that as we continue to change, our world-class technical teams will continue to move forward with our strategy.” Unity has…
ThreatSpike, a quietly built cybersecurity startup for over a decade, has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Expedition Growth Capital and marks the company’s first institutional investment after 14 years of personal funding. The UK-based company offers an all-in-one cybersecurity platform designed to replace the patchwork of expensive, difficult-to-manage tools that many companies rely on today. As part of the agreement, Expedition partner Will Sheldon and Darktrace co-founder Emily Orton are on the ThreatSpike board of directors. ThreatSpike, a cybersecurity startup founded by Handwife Duo’s Kate and Adam Blake, raises $14 million after 14…
President Donald Trump proposed novel ideas during his campaign to attract the brightest minds of America. If elected, he will grant a green card to all foreign students who graduate from a US university.”It’s so sad to lose Harvard people from MIT’s greatest school,” Trump said in a podcast interview last June. “It’ll end on the first day.”That promise never passed. Trump’s attitude towards welcoming foreign students has changed dramatically. International students found themselves at the heart of an escalating campaign I’ll kick them out Or prevent them from coming as his administration is blending efforts with immigration crackdowns Reform…