US and Ukraine sign minerals and natural resources deal
It will give the US access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals while providing Kyiv a measure of assurance about continued American support.
Day: May 1, 2025
SonicWall Confirms Active Exploitation of Flaws Affecting Multiple Appliance Models
SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild.
The vulnerabilities in question are listed below –
CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) – Improper neutr…
US and Ukraine ink minerals deal
The United States and Ukraine have signed an “economic partnership agreement” that will give Washington access to Kyiv’s rare earth minerals in exchange for establishing an investment fund in the European state.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops — Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba…
Why the trees behind ‘women’s gold’ beauty creams are under threat
One man’s struggle to save Uganda’s once-profitable trees that produce shea butter.
Japanese owner Kasuga Kaiun orders ultramax bulkers at New Dayang Shipbuilding
Ehime-based shipowner grows orderbook to five ultramax newbuildings at Chinese yard
Iran Executes “High-Ranking Spy” Of Israel’s Mossad
Iran has executed a “high-ranking spy” of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the media reported.
JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license — JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app dev…
Rubio calls India and Pakistan in effort to defuse crisis over Kashmir attack
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said.