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Filmmaker from Israeli Occupation receives death threats after criticizing apartheid: Israeli Occupation journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham has faced death threats and has altered his travel plans following his acceptance speech at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Filmmaker from Israeli Occupation receives death threats after criticizing apartheid
Filmmaker from Israeli Occupation receives death ....

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-israel-planning-ring-checkpoints-prevent-men-fleeing-rafah

Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah
Israel is setting up 'complex network' of checkpoints to prevent 'military age' men from fleeing Rafah assault, senior western official tells MEE

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

“‘I would absolutely not fly a Max airplane,’ said Ed Pierson, a former Boeing senior manager. ‘I’ve worked in the factory where they were built, and I saw the pressure employees were under to rush the planes out the door. I tried to get them to shut down before the first crash.’
‘I would tell my family to avoid the Max. I would tell everyone, really,’ said Joe Jacobsen, a former engineer at Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration.”

Boeing Max 9s start flying again after door panel blowout
The airlines and Boeing say they're committed to safety. Some analysts and aviation experts, however, still have concerns about the Max 9.

DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was "very, very worried" in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft Concern About Google’s Lead Drove Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft Corp.’s motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case against the search giant.

Trump spent more than $55 million in donor money on legal fees last year, filings show
Donald Trump may be cruising toward the Republican presidential nomination after victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, but he is diverting enormous sums of donor money to his mounting legal fees as he faces multiple lawsuits and 91 felony charges across four criminal cases.

The new figures for his legal spending were outlined in campaign disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission on…

Trump spent more than $55 million in donor money on legal fees last year, filings show
The latest filings with the Federal Election Commission show former president Donald Trump diverted enormous sums of donor money to cover his mounting legal fees, and how funding dried up for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s super PAC.

Bold Statement - Fette Aussage: Neue #Video #KI #Sora eröffnet weiteres Kapitel der Filmgeschichte - Obwohl noch nicht öffentlich zugänglich, sorgt die vor wenigen Tagen vorgestellte neue Videoanwendung „Sora“ vo…

Künstliche Intelligenz: Neue Video-KI Sora eröffnet weiteres Kapitel der Filmgeschichte
Obwohl noch nicht öffentlich zugänglich, sorgt die vor wenigen Tagen vorgestellte neue Videoanwendung „Sora“ von Open AI für Furore. Damit erstellt Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) echt wirkende Videos – in neuer, beeindruckender Qualität und mithilfe einfacher Textbefehle.

“Three independent scientific studies analyze how the human brain transforms notes into feelings, a mystery that has intrigued psychologists and musicologists for decades”
https://english.elpais.com/scien…

Music scientists find the connection between music and emotion: ‘Our neurons dance to the same rhythm’
Three independent scientific studies analyze how the human brain transforms notes into feelings, a mystery that has intrigued psychologists and musicologists for decades

Filing: Elon Musk says OpenAI is "not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft" and claims GPT-4 constitutes an AGI (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-court…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of non-profit AI mission | TechCrunch
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original Elon Musk sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities for allegedly breaching their original contractual agreements.

Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 (Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/2024/04/exclusive-pharmeasy-raises-216-m…

Exclusive: PharmEasy raises $216 Mn led by MEMG at $710 Mn valuation
PharmEasy has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) led by Ranjan Pai's Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) and existing investors.