Harvard is trying to enroll international students
Harvard University has said the US government’s decision to revoke the Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) is a threat to students, scholars and the economy. “We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action,” said the Ivy League university in a statement. The US government said it is revoking the SEVIS certificate due to Harvard’s failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitism.
What are Jony Ive’s and Sam Altman’s building?
Google’s design chief Jonathan Ive, during an ‘I/O’ speech, said he expects to announce a voice-first device later next year. He added, “I expect to unveil a voice-first device later next year with the help of Ive and Altman…I expect to announce a voice-First device later this year with the help of Ive and Altman.”
The Frog will speak at the University of Maryland graduation
University of Maryland’s Class of 2025 received advice from ‘The Frog’ after receiving their diplomas on Thursday evening. Rather than jumping over someone who they don’t like, consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side by side, he said. The frog has been a student at the school and was announced as the graduation speaker in March.
A judge says the Trump administration violated a court order
A US judge has ruled that the Trump administration was violating an injunction that prevents deportation to countries other than their own without a chance to challenge their deportation order. This comes after eight immigrants who were detained in Djibouti were flown to South Sudan. Judge Murphy said the government failed to give the immigrants proper notice about their deportation before it took place.
Two Israeli Embassy staff were killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, officials say
Israel’s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said that Shoval Ronen, a 24-year-old diplomat at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, and Yaron Lischinsky, a 60-year-old staff member, were shot and killed by an anti-semitic attacker. Leiter added that they were about to get married. The attacker shouted “Free Palestine” and was later arrested after being held by security officers.
Walmart’s plans were accidentally revealed by Microsoft’s security chief
Two former Microsoft employees interrupted a session at the company’s Build developer conference to protest the company’s cloud contracts with the Israeli military. The disruption comes days after Microsoft announced it had conducted an internal review of how its technology is used in the war in Gaza. Microsoft said its relationship with Israel’s Ministry of Defense is “structured as…standard commercial relationship”.
The evolution of the teeth and sensory systems of animals
A comparative study of Coeval Aglaspididids of Aglaspis franconensis shows that innervation associated with odontodes remains in extant forms. Three-dimensional segmentation of confocal stacks shows innervation associated with odontodes in all taxa sampled, with nerves surrounding the base of odontodes in chondrichthyans and invading the pulp cavity in the pectoral fin in juvenile bristlenose catfish. The scans of Coeval Aglaspididids were compared to the ones of Anatolepis.
The gas flow was driven by a bar in the Universe
Galaxy interactions trigger rapid black hole growth, an unprecedented view from the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey. Extreme value statistics of the halo and stellar mass distributions at High Redshift: are JWST results in tension with CDM? It was J Lett, C Secular evolution and the formation of pseudobulges in disk galaxies. The relation between non-Axisymmetric structures and neutral gas distribution in disk galaxies was studied.
The South African president is in the U.S
South African newspaper The Sunday Times ran a headline on its front page reading “Into the Mouth of Trump Hell”. This comes ahead of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the US for talks with President Donald Trump. The US has cut aid and expelled South Africa’s ambassador, over the latter’s treatment of white Afrikaner farmers.
Future access to COVID vaccines could be restricted due to the FDA policy
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has said it will require more data from further clinical trials before the approval of coronavirus vaccines for people not considered to be at heightened risk from severe sickness. It’s a departure from the one-size-fits-all approach that’s largely defined the vaccination policy until now. However, the government said that 100-200 million people will have annual access.