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As the back-to-school season approaches — or, in some states, has already begun — students, teachers, and parents are preparing for another year of hard work and focus on school.But the extent to which children care about learning varies across US states, according to a 2023-2024 study by the National…
New Western training for Ukrainian troops on NATO soil isn’t taking in large numbers of soldiers, but is instead focusing on leaders and specialists who can spread what they learn throughout Ukraine’s military.The Norway-led Operation Legio trains Ukrainian soldiers with help from allies at a purpose-built camp in eastern Poland, called…
Union security workers for the California offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other tech companies announced on Wednesday that they had authorized a strike.The security personnel, who are seeking better pay, are employed by staffing agencies that provide building security for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Salesforce, the SEIU-United Service Workers…
When Jeremy Spiegel was looking for work in 2009, it was clear why finding a job might be difficult: it was the depths of the Great Recession.But when he lost his director role at a publishing company in 2024, there was no recession to blame. Spiegel, who’s in his 40s…
Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Monday that over 430 firms have applied for access to its new catalog of seized Russian weapons and equipment, about two months after its launch announcement.The online repository, called TrophyLab, contains data “for engineers, scientists, and defense technology manufacturers” on weapons such as the Russian…
Burning Man is transforming Nevada’s Black Rock Desert into a temporary metropolis once again.Thousands of participants began entering the gates at midnight on August 30, hauling the food, water, shelter, and supplies needed to survive a week in the remote playa about 80 miles north of Reno.Roughly 70,000 people are…
Back in 2018, I was finishing my final year of college.It had been far from the best chapter of my life, so I did everything I could to graduate a semester early. I abandoned my plans to apply for a Fulbright scholarship and moved in with my parents temporarily.Now that…
The US Navy’s top admiral sees laser weapons as a strategic answer to the cost challenge of combating cheap drones.The Navy has been looking to laser and directed-energy weapons as a potentially cheaper means of neutralizing uncrewed systems, preserving limited and much more expensive interceptor missiles for higher-end threats. Laser…
Google escapes again.A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Google doesn’t have to break up its adtech business — which was the nuclear option sought by the Justice Department after the tech company was found to have operated an illegal monopoly in certain online advertising markets.It’s the second time in recent…
Los Angeles County and Sheridan County, Wyoming, don’t share many similarities, except for one main area: a high volume of business applications.That’s one of several findings from the US Census Bureau’s most recent business application data release in June. The data track applications for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) submitted to…
