Month: May 2024
ICC to arrest of Israel Leaders
On May 20th the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (icc), Karim Khan, announced that he was requesting arrest warrants for Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, along with the leaders of Hamas, the Islamist movement that launched the deadly attack on Israel on October 7th last year, on charges
Israel doom loop in Gaza
There was less drama around the Israeli campaign in Zeitoun, in northern Gaza, which began days after the fighting in Rafah. Instead there was a sense of déjà vu. Israel’s army fought there last year, at the start of this war, and returned for a two-week offensive in February. Now it is back for a
Japan intercepts Il-20M reconnaissance aircraft
Japan’s air force scrambled fighter aircraft over the weekend to intercept a Russian intelligence plane operating in its northwestern seas.The Japanese government’s geospatial data, roughly traces the flight path of the Russian air force Il-20M reconnaissance aircraft, which was detected in Japan’s air defense identification zone off the west coast of its Hokkaido and Honshu
The Death of president Ebrahim Raisi and World stability
A helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials crashed in the mountainous north-west reaches of Iran on Sunday 20 May, sparking a rescue operation in thick fog and driving rain. Raisi was a dedicated servant of Iran’s former supreme leader (the country’s highest authority), Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. If a
gpus control and Use in AI
The initials stand for “graphics processing unit”, because such chips were originally designed to process video-game graphics. It turned out that, fortunately for Nvidia, they could be repurposed for ai workloads. Nvidia’s dominance has driven its market value to more than $2trn, Access to gpus, and in particular those made by Nvidia, the leading supplier,
Mr Assange extradition
Through WikiLeaks, a whistleblowing site, Mr Assange released huge tranches of secret documents. In 2010 the site published footage of an American helicopter crew firing at civilians in Iraq, along with records suggesting that civilian casualties in Afghanistan were higher than previously reported. Rather than releasing information selectively Mr Assange published reams of classified documents
Reddit stock jumps
In a February filing, the company indicated its intentions to explore new monetization channels beyond advertising revenue, including offering creator tools and licensing its data to third parties. Reddit already has data licensing agreements with undisclosed firms that are projected to contribute at least $66.4 million in revenue this year. Shares of Reddit rose nearly
Investigations over generative AI disclosures
In March, the European Union approved what many called a landmark AI regulation, known simply as the AI Act, which establishes oversight and enforcement procedures for AI technology deemed “high risk.” The law additionally bans certain risky AI applications, including “emotion recognition, predictive policing, and AI that manipulates human behavior or exploits people’s vulnerabilities.” Microsoft
Microsoft wont face antitrust scrutiny in United Kingdom
There has been growing scrutiny of Big Tech’s latest tactic to dodge regulatory oversight by pursuing “quasi-mergers,” through which they seek to secure control over new technologies without buying startups outright. This might be through making investments, procuring seats on boards, hiring founding teams and so on. Microsoft won’t be facing antitrust scrutiny in the
Th board suspends case against SpaceX
The U.S. National Labor Relations Board told a federal judge in Texas that it will suspend an administrative case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing engineers critical of CEO Elon Musk while the rocket maker pursues a lawsuit challenging the agency’s structure. The board in a January complaint pending before an administrative judge in Los Angeles