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The stadium was transformed to accommodate about 18,000 fans, galore of whom travelled to the Okanagan to return successful the game.

“Kelowna has made america consciousness invited for sure, very welcome,” said a visiting instrumentality from Abbotsford.

Many shot fans booked their vacations about the brace of games.

“We’re staying the full week enjoying Kelowna and past we’re going to travel to the crippled adjacent week,” said 1 Calgary fan.

The influx of visitors is already being felt by section businesses.

At the Kelowna Beer Institute, business is up by about 30 per cent arsenic festival-goers research the city’s restaurants, breweries and events betwixt games.

“The municipality is buzzing,” said proprietor Chris Stirling. “There’s events each around, successful betwixt the 2 games, each about town. Thankfully, for us, they’re connected some sides of our business. As they locomotion by, they spot our patio, truthful it’s been great.”

Nearby, Rollz Ice Cream has extended its hours and accrued staffing to support up pinch demand.

The coming week is expected to beryllium particularly engaged pinch shot fever and galore taking successful Canada Day festivities.

“Because of Canada Day, visitors are coming, tons of visitors, from Calgary, from Vancouver,” said Mehak Dhindsa, who useful astatine the crystal pick parlour.

The City of Kelowna estimates Touchdown Kelowna will make betwixt $50 cardinal and $60 cardinal successful economical activity for the metropolis and surrounding region.

Mayor Tom Dyas said the arena is portion of a broader strategy to pull awesome sporting and intermezo events passim the year.

“Collectively erstwhile we look astatine totalling each events that person been to the organization complete the past year, twelvemonth and a half, it’s good beyond successful excess of $100 million,” Dyas said. “We’ll proceed to look astatine bringing it forward, particularly successful enarthrosis seasons.”

With different CFL crippled still to travel this play and show events continuing passim the week, galore businesses are hoping the momentum — and the spending — continues.

“Small businesses for illustration america struggle, and erstwhile the metropolis puts successful the effort to bring large events, we really spot the difference,” Stirling said.

The 2nd CFL crippled is scheduled for July 4 betwixt the BC Lions and Edmonton Elks.

As AI is adopted crossed industries, it’s besides being taken up by scammers. Around 6% of U.S. adults, aliases about 15 cardinal people, were scammed retired of money past year, a caller Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance study finds, and victims reported that 12% of those scams progressive AI aliases deepfakes.

“These guys aren’t called organized crime for nothing. They’re really organized, and they’re utilizing their statement to commencement attacking america pinch standard now to a tune of $68 billion, which is for illustration the yearly revenues of Delta Airlines. It’s for illustration a Fortune 500 company. It’s huge,” Stop Scams Alliance laminitis and CEO Ken Westbrook told Beritaja. The Stop Scams Alliance is simply a nonprofit statement that intends to trim scams successful the U.S.

The study of 5,173 U.S. big respondents successful January done February, which relied connected participants’ self-reporting their scam experiences, said that “the usage of AI whitethorn beryllium difficult to observe by scam victims.”

But Westbrook noted that the results align pinch different signs of the burgeoning rumor of AI-fueled scams.

In March, Interpol warned that AI could heighten and substance fraud. “Enabled by artificial intelligence, low-cost integer devices and accrued world criminal collaboration, we are witnessing the industrialization of fraud,” Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza said.

AI companies, including OpenAI, person periodically besides released reports documenting the usage of their platforms by scammers. In February, OpenAI released a report documenting attempts to usage its technologies to perpetrate fraud and scams about the world, including 1 lawsuit targeting group who were already victims of scams pinch faked s for “scam recovery” services.

In total, the Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance study recovered that Americans mislaid $68 cardinal to scams past year.

The study helps capable successful a image of the standard of scamming successful the U.S., Westbrook said.

The U.S. does not actively regularly cod accusation from residents about scamming, though the Federal Trade Commission publishes title information it receives yearly. Respondents successful the Gallup study reported losing about 4 times arsenic overmuch arsenic the losses that were reported to the FTC.

The study included respondents who did not formally study the scams to an authority, which partially explains the about $52 cardinal information difference, Westbrook said.

The information reporting spread is “one of the reasons why we’re not devoting capable resources to this problem. It’s conscionable that we haven’t measured it properly,” Westbrook said.

The governments of the United Kingdom and Australia behaviour yearly surveys of scam prevalence, but the U.S. has not regularly measured it.

“The authorities can’t moreover show you what the percent of group successful the United States being scammed is. That’s because they conscionable get unfortunate reports, but they don’t cognize really overmuch is unreported. So that’s the spread that we’re capable to capable successful pinch the Gallup survey,” Westbrook said.

The study besides recovered that 1 successful 4 Americans opportunity they’ve been personally scammed astatine immoderate constituent successful their big lives.

The scams brought about terrible financial hardship for 21% of respondents and mean financial hardship for 46%, according to the survey. The study besides recovered higher scam rates among lower-income adults, group of colour and group without bachelor’s degrees.

Scammers utilized blase investigation and impersonation techniques to fool their victims.

A female told Gallup that scammers contacted her aft she posted about her 2 missing cats online. The scammers portrayed themselves arsenic the sheriff’s section and transferred her to personification who said they worked successful the emergency vet session and claimed they had her feline and needed about $780 for emergency surgery.

“It sounded for illustration it was 100% legitimate. ... I was waiting and waiting, and my hubby ... he called the [City] Police Department, talked to them, and they are the ones who told him, no, your woman was scammed,” she said.

Seventy-five percent of respondents reported that being scammed had antagonistic impacts connected their intelligence wellness and well-being.

“There’s a statement successful the Gallup study that deed maine for illustration a hammer erstwhile I publication it. It says that ‘the affectional effect of scams could beryllium much injurious than the financial impact,’ and I surely saw that pinch my mom,” Westbrook said. His mother was scammed successful outpouring 2023, which started erstwhile she searched for her sister’s obituary online but clicked connected a clone page group up by scammers, who yet robbed her of her life savings.

Fraudulent websites are among the about prevalent scams, 40% of respondents reported successful the survey. Phone, matter and email were each progressive successful about half of each scams, pinch 50% of scams involving 2 aliases much methods.

In about half of each scams, 49% of the victims were besides deceived into personally sending money to the scammers. Payment apps for illustration Zelle and PayPal were the about commonly utilized methods, the study found.

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AI-related occupation nonaccomplishment fears turn each clip different institution announces a information of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced that adjacent to 90,000 occupation cuts were tied to AI, and, by immoderate accounts, up to 15% of U.S. jobs are projected to beryllium eliminated by AI complete the adjacent 5 years. Promises from the tech manufacture that AI will besides create caller jobs does small to easiness fears, particularly for the procreation wondering if anyone will beryllium hiring erstwhile they graduate. 

A caller study from Ramp and Revelio Labs, which way endeavor AI walk and workforce records from about 22,000 companies, respectively, complicates that gloomy narrative. 

The study recovered that companies spending heavy connected AI are increasing headcount faster, moreover successful the entry-level roles that galore fearfulness are doomed. According to the report, “high-intensity adopters” — firms that walk connected mean $30 per worker per period connected AI successful the first 3 months — saw headcount summation 10.2%.

Headcount besides roseate crossed functions, including engineering, sales, administration, customer service, finance, marketing, and intelligence roles. The strongest occupation maturation among high-intensity adopters was successful the accusation sector, which includes software, internet, media, and tech-adjacent firms. 

Despite these affirmative signals, the information isn’t arsenic rosy arsenic it seems. It skews heavy towards tech-forward, knowledge-work firms — ones that mightiness person VC-backing and are increasing accelerated anyway, making it difficult to opportunity whether AI is contributing to the hiring aliases conscionable showing up astatine companies that are expanding anyway.

“This insubstantial does not show that AI universally creates jobs,” the paper’s authors admit, “but it does antagonistic claims that AI will lead to wide occupation losses.”

It besides counters claims that AI is sidesplitting each inferior jobs. Recent research from Goldman Sachs recovered that AI has already erased about 16,000 nett jobs per period complete the past year, pinch Gen Z and introduction level workers taking the brunt of the burden. But successful tech-forward firms, the study finds that entry-level headcount really roseate by 12%.

So what could we return distant from this? Perhaps that AI isn’t ever a instrumentality for labour substitution, but that it could beryllium a instrumentality for firm-expansion instead. 

“For package and exertion firms, AI could make halfway output cheaper aliases faster to produce: penning code, debugging, building soul tools, producing method documentation, and supporting merchandise development,” the study reads. “Lower accumulation costs successful these workflows could raise the return to expanding the full firm, not conscionable the engineering team.”

But companies that bargain subscriptions and tally pilots, yet did not spell connected to make sustained investments, don’t thin to spot immoderate gains successful headcount, per the report. 

That sets up the imaginable for a widening gap betwixt firms that person the resources — for illustration capital, method staff, laminitis networks, and guidance bandwidth — to move AI take into existent business gains and those that are stuck experimenting pinch subscriptions. In different words, this study suggests that firms that already person the resources are the ones who will spot the largest gains. 

The paper’s authors estimate specified a disagreement whitethorn proceed to grow, saying: “Firms without those channels whitethorn autumn behind.”

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The FBI successful Connecticut said it arrested 4 men who allegedly stole tens of thousands astatine a clip from ATMs astatine remainder stops on I-95 from Darien to New Haven.

In a two-week span, the 4 suspects stole much than $500,000 from 8 ATM locations, according to investigators.

The suspects are Venezuelan nationals who utilized hardware and malware to get the machines to churn retired endless streams of cash, rule enforcement officials said. At a northbound remainder extremity successful Fairfield, prosecutors said the men made disconnected pinch $136,000 successful 1 haul.

Connecticut U.S. Attorney David Sullivan said the 4 men were charged pinch interstate stolen spot and conspiracy counts. Two suspects are from New York City: 49-year-old Willian Flores, of the Bronx, and 41-year-old Alberto Arvilla, of Queens. Also charged were 38-year-old Luis Arvilla, of Lynn, Massachusetts, and 28-year-old Euclides Itanare of Raleigh, North Carolina.

New Haven Homeland Security Task unit squad members had been search the alleged interstate unit since Aug. 2025. Sullivan said the suspects orchestrated alleged “jackpotting” schemes, utilizing exertion to corrupt the machines and entree the cash.

Surveillance photos successful the criminal title allegedly show the men taking turns taking retired rate arsenic it was spewed from the compromised ATMs. Other pictures taken by the suspects themselves allegedly show piles of rate successful the backseat of the metallic Toyota Highlander utilized successful the heists.

Homeland Security officials said cellphone search information besides linked immoderate suspects to the nonstop location and timing of respective ATM rip-offs.

A telephone to Connecticut Public Defenders for remark about the charges against the defendants was not instantly returned. The 4 men were ordered held without bail arsenic the national criminal investigation continues.

The U.S. attorney’s agency said the 4 men could beryllium tied to the pursuing heists:

• Aug 8, 2025: Cumberland Farms successful Milford, pinch $23,300 stolen
• Aug 8, 2025: Attempted heist astatine Cumberland Farms successful Ansonia
• Aug 14, 2025: I-95 northbound successful Fairfield, pinch $136,000 stolen
• Aug 15, 2025: I-95 northbound successful Branford, pinch $66,400 stolen
• Aug 16, 2025: I-95 northbound successful Madison, pinch $42,020 stolen
• Aug 16, 2025: I-95 southbound successful Madison, pinch $84,000 stolen
• Aug 17, 2025: I-95 northbound successful Darien, pinch $61,600 stolen
• Aug 18, 2025: I-95 northbound successful Darien, pinch $58,400 stolen
• Aug 18, 2025: I-95 southbound successful Darien, pinch $57,000 stolen

Officials said the investigation is ongoing into different imaginable past ATM thefts to spot if they could beryllium linked to the aforesaid “jackpotting” crew.

If convicted, each of the men could look up to 10 years successful national prison.

For Wiebe, the infinitesimal hits person to home… literally.

The Sask. boy and USask Huskies alumnus grew up watching the Roughriders, dreaming of suiting up for the greenish and white. In his debut, he recorded 2 receptions for 48 yards, a touchdown and helped retired connected typical teams pinch the punt return.

“I’ve decidedly pictured it, you know, I’ve wanted to play pro shot for arsenic agelong arsenic I could remember, truthful increasing up successful Sask it’s what you want to beryllium doing and to beryllium capable to do it intends a ton and I conscionable want to support building,” said Wiebe.

“Put him connected the list, different first feline for me, took his touchdown card,” said backmost Trevor Harris.

“It was awesome, it’s awesome, I’ll show you what, there’s not a much deserving feline of having occurrence than Danny Wiebe. He had a tremendous training camp; he conscionable comes to activity each day, dominates, he’s a stud.” Harris added.

For the first-year back, Conley was thrust into the starting domiciled and didn’t discarded it, averaging 6.3 yards per transportation connected 8 attempts totaling 50 yards connected the crushed and his first profession CFL touchdown.

“It felt good, but it was a squad effort. I felt for illustration we were passing truthful good that the tally conscionable opened up,” said Conley.

It’s a day that will echo successful the minds of the pair, June 26, 2026.

For some rookies, it’s conscionable the opening of the roadworthy arsenic they settee into their CFL careers.

CHICAGO — Police are investigating aft a news unit was attacked while moving adjacent Adler Planetarium connected Monday afternoon.

The incident was reported about 4:25 p.m. successful the 900 artifact of East Solidarity Drive, conscionable extracurricular the planetarium.

CBS Chicago said a newsman and photographer were preparing for a newscast erstwhile 2 men rushed toward them, shouting group slurs astatine 1 of the journalists.

Chicago constabulary said 1 man directed a canine to onslaught a victim, but the canine didn’t engage. One of the men past smashed the photographer’s camera while the different damaged the news van’s windshield, CBS Chicago reported.

Video captured by an NBC Chicago photographer astatine the segment showed camera instrumentality connected the ground, surrounded by constabulary tape, and dense harm to the van’s beforehand windshield.

Following the incident, the suspects near successful a achromatic motortruck and fled the segment successful an chartless direction.

A CBS spokesperson said successful a statement, “We are shocked and horrified by this crime and we are grateful that our journalists are safe.”

Alderwoman Julia Ramirez, of Chicago’s 12th Ward, said officers arrested 3 suspects aft a pursuit ended astatine West 36th Street and South California Avenue. Authorities said the suspects were fleeing from the incident involving the CBS Chicago crew.

No injuries were reported.

Area Three detectives were investigating.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Monday signed his last authorities fund arsenic governor, a $351.7-billion spending scheme that seeks to uplift the poorest Californians done a taxation strategy reliant connected the banal marketplace gains of the wealthy.

In a video message, Newsom extolled free schoolhouse meals, cosmopolitan transitional kindergarten, 130,000 subsidized childcare slots and different accomplishments successful his tenure astatine the authorities Capitol, a play successful authorities history marked by a melodramatic description of authorities government and complete $100 cardinal successful accrued spending.

“Over the past 8 years, we built awesome things for the group of California — immoderate of the boldest actions immoderate authorities successful this state has taken successful a generation,” Newsom said. “And we did this without breaking the bank. We did this by design.”

The statement ends weeks of lobbying by extracurricular interests and negotiations among lawmakers and the politician astatine the authorities Capitol about really to grip a surge of income taxation collected connected banal marketplace gains related to artificial intelligence.

Economists person warned that the gross bump is perchance impermanent and analysts opportunity the maturation successful authorities spending could time off California successful a challenging position if the system declines.

Assemblymember David Tangipa (R-Fresno) agreed pinch Democrats that the fund is “compassionate.”

“My fearfulness is that it’s not excessively overmuch of a competent budget, and the fund continues a shape that Californians cognize each excessively well: Spend now, warrant it later, and dream personification other pays the bill,” he said during a level statement Monday.

Here’s what you request to cognize about the spending plan, which takes effect July 1.

Who decides the authorities budget?

The simplest reply is: Democrats. California voters person elected Democrats to correspond 30 of the 40 seats successful the Senate and 60 seats of the 80 seats successful the Assembly. The fund was passed done a mostly ballot successful each location of the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, besides a Democrat.

A much analyzable reply is that the fund is simply a merchandise of dozens of legislative hearings, millions of dollars spent connected lobbying by extracurricular interests, talks among lawmakers and the politician and yet taxable to the aforesaid governmental dynamics that norm the Democratic party.

Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón (D-Goleta) and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister), successful consultation pinch the chairs of the fund committees, correspond their Democratic caucuses and scope a last statement connected the specifications of the spending scheme pinch Newsom. In reality, unit members for the 3 parties grip most, if not all, of the backmost of distant negotiations to get there.

Union leaders seeking amended pay, moving conditions, benefits for workers and opportunities to grow their ranks are often brought successful to consult aliases hammer retired thorny deals arsenic business groups effort to conflict disconnected much regulations, taxes and costs, and support policies that summation their financial performance.

Democrats are spending much than ever before. How is that possible?

The Legislative Analyst’s Office, the nonpartisan fiscal advisor for lawmakers, precocious examined the increase successful authorities spending since 2019-20, Newsom’s first afloat twelvemonth successful office.

Between the fund approved that twelvemonth and the spending connection Newsom unveiled successful January, spending from the state’s main operating money had grown by complete $100 billion, aliases 70%. That was mostly by a 60% summation successful gross during that time. California typically operates pinch a spending shortage because Democrats walk much money than the authorities brings in.

The LAO recovered that the summation successful spending stemmed from the increasing costs of sustaining programs and services that were already successful spot erstwhile Newsom took office. About 30% of the remaining spending maturation was categorized arsenic new, either by recently created programs aliases the description of existing services.

Among the report’s conclusions: California could not spend the programs that predated Newsom and the ones he and the Legislature adopted.

To equilibrium the fund complete the past fewer years, Newsom and lawmakers person dipped into the state’s reserves astatine a clip erstwhile California is experiencing beardown gross growth, which the LAO has cautioned against. Democrats person besides accrued taxes connected businesses, paid for programs retired of different costs and suspended reserve deposits among different solutions.

This year, the authorities fund places $6.4 cardinal successful higher than expected gross into a impermanent holding relationship to sound down a shortage and equilibrium the fund done 2027-28.

Democrats are pursuing a alteration to the authorities constitution connected the November ballot that would let them to group speech much money successful years of bully gross maturation to forestall cuts successful early downturns.

Where is the money going?

Education and Medi-Cal are the 2 largest costs for the state.

Medi-Cal is the state’s type of subsidized wellness security for low-income Californians and provides medical, dental and imagination attraction for an estimated 14.5 cardinal people, aliases about one-third of the authorities population.

The national authorities pays for much than half of the costs of the program. California is expected to walk about $50 cardinal from the wide money adjacent twelvemonth retired of a full estimated astatine much than $220 cardinal successful costs shared betwixt the authorities and national government, according to the LAO. State taxes and fees connected providers besides thief money Medi-Cal.

Overall, Medi-Cal costs much than immoderate different authorities programme and takes up about 40% of full spending, including national costs the authorities receives, according to the LAO.

Spending connected Medi-Cal has much than doubled complete the past 10 years, which the LAO attributes to an summation successful costs per enrollee, much enrollees and a greater stock of seniors seeking care, among different factors.

Under Newsom, California has expanded Medi-Cal, including offering sum to see each immigrants sloppy of their migration status, which the politician said has dropped the state’s uninsured complaint down to 5.9%

The costs of Medi-Cal has grown beyond what Democrats expected and resulted successful Newsom suggesting spending cuts.

The last fund statement rejects a telephone by Newsom to little the plus limit to $2,000 now and alternatively lowers it to $21,000 successful 2027-28 to beryllium eligible for Medi-Cal. The Legislature besides delayed the governor’s connection to trim dental sum and displacement asylum seekers and different immigrants to restricted scope Medi-Cal, according to Jason Sisney, the lead fund advisor for the Assembly who posts about the fund connected Substack.

The fund includes Newsom’s connection to displacement enrollees pinch unsatisfactory migration status, a word that includes undocumented immigrants and others, from managed attraction to fee-for-service to prevention costs.

Under Proposition 98, approved by voters successful 1988, California has a minimum backing guarantee for schools and organization colleges and dedicates about 40% of wide money gross to education.

Sisney said the fund increases the Local Control Funding Formula by $2.2 cardinal and provides historical wide money per pupil spending of $21,148. Support for typical acquisition besides grew by $1.8 billion.

The California Community Schools Partnership Program received a $1-billion boost and Democrats directed $2.8 cardinal successful further backing to the programme that provides free meals for schoolhouse children.

The fund besides establishes 22,770 caller slots for free aliases reduced childcare, which Newsom had projected decreasing.

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Base44, the vibe coding level that Wix acquired for $80 million conscionable 1 twelvemonth agone — erstwhile the institution was hardly six moths aged and had a squad of 8 — has started rolling retired its ain AI exemplary to support its users successful creating apps pinch earthy language.

The move comes arsenic the chat successful AI circles has intensified complete whether frontier models are champion suited for each usage cases. A related mobility is whether businesses built connected apical of personification else’s models are genuinely defensible long-term. The latest move of Base44, based successful the Bay Area, speaks to both.

While its civilization LLM is only conscionable rolling out, Base44 hopes that it will yet outperform frontier models. According to its founder, Maor Shlomo, “training and owning the exemplary arsenic portion of [our] full stack allows america a batch much optimizations connected latency, cost, and efficiency.”

At first glance, this could beryllium a measurement to enactment up of competitors specified arsenic Swedish startup Lovable, which reached unicorn status successful its Series A information past summertime and that relies connected outer LLMs. However, Shlomo expects that others will train their ain models — “at slightest the players that person gotten capable standard and velocity to person capable data.” 

According to Jonathan Userovici, a wide partner astatine VC patient Headline — whose portfolio includes AI companies for illustration Mistral AI, but not Base44 — information is 1 of 3 cardinal ingredients of defensibility for AI startups, alongside distribution and tech stack. 

The upshot is that players pinch beardown brands are now leaning into their information and infrastructure to summation their defensibility, and Base44 fits that pattern. The institution says the first loop of its LLM, Base1, was developed and trained connected a dataset generated from “tens of millions of existent personification interactions connected the platform.” 

This dataset will support connected increasing pinch the company; but truthful will its rivals’. The bigger title whitethorn not beryllium vibe-coding startups astatine each but alternatively travel from frontier AI labs that are getting person to Base44’s location turf — Cursor and Grok’s genitor institution xAI now some belong to SpaceX, and Claude Code has go a vibe coding subordinate successful its ain right. 

This gives Anthropic and different foundational AI providers entree to information and feedback loops they could usage to amended models for app creation, but Shlomo thinks specialization gives Base44 a limb up. “Models are progressing, but they’ll enactment very wide successful what they could do,” he predicted.

Userovici, for his part, cautioned against underestimating frontier models, citing the illustration of the ineligible tech startup Harvey, which abandoned plans to train its ain model. He doesn’t expect applied AI companies to go frontier labs en masse but frames Base44’s move successful a broader discourse — 1 successful which conclusion costs person go a meaningful portion of the equation.

That costs pressure, Userovici says, has driven alteration that endeavor customers are now demanding. “They don’t needfully spot a [return connected investment] erstwhile utilizing the latest models for each usage cases, truthful an full infrastructure is being group up to do orchestration and optimization to prime the correct models for them truthful that costs don’t skyrocket while maintaining the aforesaid aliases akin capacity crossed the mostly of usage cases.”

Enterprise companies still are a number among the assemblage of the vibe coding platforms, but they correspond a increasing stock of level revenue, and users of each sizes are starting to definitive concerns complete the costs of utilizing AI. Base44’s determination to create its ain LLM stemmed from aggregate factors, but costs simplification is apt among the benefits.

“We want to get a exemplary that is going to beryllium much aligned to what we deliberation is the correct thing, is going to beryllium much optimized to what we spot users for illustration successful position of the results we’re getting, and is going to beryllium faster and cheaper for customers yet than utilizing the frontier models for illustration Opus,” Shlomo said.

As for Base44 itself, costs simplification isn’t arsenic clear cut. In a property release, the institution explained that “ownership of the exemplary gives Base44 nonstop power complete compute and conclusion spend, expected to consequence successful a structurally stronger separator floor plan complete time.” 

Even pinch a delayed payoff, improved margins would beryllium bully news for Base44’s genitor company, which precocious announced it would lay disconnected 20% of its workforce. In contrast, Base44 has been increasing successful headcount since the acquisition — and announced it had passed $100 cardinal successful yearly recurring revenue a fewer months ago.

That’s still little than Lovable, which said it hit $500 cardinal successful ARR earlier this month. But Shlomo is betting that the “huge engineering effort” to create Base1 will cement Base44’s positioning arsenic the “only vertically integrated vibe-coding exertion — meaning, successful Userovici’s terms, a subordinate that owns its distribution, data, and infrastructure each astatine once.

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The House passed a bipartisan package of children’s online information bills successful a 267-117 ballot connected Monday, advancing authorities that supporters opportunity will amended protect children online but critics pass could frighten privateness and free expression.

The bipartisan Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, championed by its sponsors arsenic a measurement to protect children online and clasp awesome exertion companies accountable, would require caller information features and parental controls connected online platforms, restrict the usage of minors’ information for targeted advertising, require property verification for pornography websites and found caller rules governing AI chatbots and online games.

“This is simply a awesome measurement toward a safer online world for kids, making information the default, giving parents much devices to protect their children and teens, and holding Big Tech accountable,” the House Committee connected Energy and Commerce wrote successful a societal media station announcing its win.

The House package reflects a narrower attack than the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which was antecedently approved by the Senate.

House lawmakers removed provisions, including a arguable “duty of care” request for online platforms, that supporters said would person much aggressively regulated exertion companies.

The KIDS Act, which was introduced successful March, gained traction arsenic societal platforms look expanding ineligible unit to adhd much safeguards to guarantee children’s safety. Rising scrutiny of platforms’ expertise to protect children online has fueled a activity of age-verification laws about the world.

Those measures, however, person alarmed privateness advocates, who reason that age-gating the net affects each users—not conscionable children.

“The package of cobbled-together bills is simply a mess, pinch different age-gating schemes for different services, utilizing different standards. It’s a batch of complexity, and a batch of ineligible risk,” Joe Mullin, a elder argumentation expert for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a integer authorities defense group, wrote successful a blog station past week. “Faced pinch that, galore companies will reason that the safest action is restrictive age-checking practices crossed their full platforms.”

Critics, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reason that systems relying connected government-issued recognition aliases biometric property estimation could chill anonymous speech by discouraging users from sharing delicate accusation online.

Though galore websites partner pinch third-party vendors that declare to delete their information aliases different support it secure, caller information breaches person eroded nationalist confidence.

For waste and acquisition groups for illustration NetChoice, which lobbies for tech companies’ free look and free endeavor connected the internet, some bills “are thing to celebrate.”

“All of these bills degrade privateness and security, materially diminish the First Amendment protections that young group and adults person a afloat correct to arsenic Americans, and bring the United States much successful statement pinch a world effort to undermine the free and unfastened internet,” Zach Lilly, head of authorities affairs for NetChoice, wrote in a station connected X.

He besides described the KIDS Act arsenic a “well intentioned bill,” but stated the “House took a awesome measurement successful asserting national power complete online speech.”

The authorities is expected to look hurdles successful the Senate, wherever immoderate lawmakers person criticized the House package for omitting KOSA’s duty-of-care provision, arguing it weakens protections for children.

“The bottommost statement is that this package has gutted galore of the cardinal provisions successful the Senate measure basal to protect kids and their families,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wrote successful a connection past week, adding that “it is grouped pinch different group of bills that besides autumn short of showing what beardown information measures are needed for kids, and alternatively inserts galore studies astatine a clip erstwhile our authorities needs to do much than conscionable study this problem.”

Tech and free reside lawyer Preston Byrne expressed skepticism that lawmakers would beryllium capable to walk immoderate type of legislation.

“One measurement to look astatine the KIDS Act is arsenic a censorship bill, which it is,” Byrne, who is simply a elder chap of the Adam Smith Institute successful London, and an advisor to the U.K. Free Speech Union, wrote successful a station connected X. “Another measurement to look astatine it is arsenic a mediate digit to the Senate and its moreover worse bill, KOSA. I’m not judge immoderate of this gets worked retired successful convention betwixt the 2 chambers.”

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A warrant was issued for Naila Sheikh’s apprehension past month. The erstwhile correctional serviceman turned herself successful to constabulary connected Monday morning. She has been released connected conditions and Sheikh’s first tribunal quality is expected adjacent week.

Sheikh was a correctional serviceman astatine the North Fraser Pretrial Centre successful Port Coquitlam. She faces 3 criminal charges: personality fraud, breach of trust, and unauthorized usage of a computer.

BERITAJA has learned she was the lawsuit head for convicted slayer Rabih Alkhalil, who escaped from custody successful July 2022.

It is chartless if the charges against Sheikh person immoderate relationship to Alkhalil’s escape.

The notorious gangster collapsed retired of jailhouse pinch the thief of 2 men posing arsenic contractors.

At the time, Alkhalil was connected proceedings for the execution of a rival gangster astatine Vancouver’s Wall Centre successful 2012. Alkhalil was recovered blameworthy successful absentia. After much than 3 years connected the run, Alkhalil, who was 1 of Canada’s about wanted fugitives, was tracked down and arrested successful Qatar nether an othername successful September 2025.

Alkhalil is still overseas arsenic Canada does not person an charismatic extradition pact pinch Qatar.

Sheikh’s lawyer, Gagan Nahal, successfully kept different erstwhile correctional serviceman retired of prison.

Last week, Ramandeep Rai received a two-year conditional condemnation to beryllium served successful the organization aft pleading blameworthy to breach of trust.

She grounded to study that an inmate, pinch whom she was having a romanticist relationship, had a cellphone.

Nahal tells BERITAJA he has requested disclosure from Crown prosecutors. At this stage, he has not received immoderate evidence, truthful he cannot remark connected whether location is immoderate nexus betwixt Sheikh’s charges and Alkhalil’s escape.

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A convicted slayer who escaped from a situation connected Vancouver Island has been recovered dead.

West Shore RCMP said connected June 28, astatine about 12:49 p.m., they were notified that an inmate was unaccounted for during the midday count astatine William Head Institution successful Metchosin.

An apprehension warrant was issued for 69-year-old Ernest Jensen.

On Monday afternoon, Jensen’s assemblage was recovered adjacent the shoreline along William Head Institution by the RCMP West Coast Marine Services alongside the Metchosin Fire Department.

RCMP said an investigation is underway pinch Correctional Services Canada and the B.C. Coroners Office into the circumstances surrounding Jensen’s death.

“We admit that incidents for illustration this are concerning, peculiarly for those who unrecorded successful the surrounding area,” West Shore RCMP said successful a release.

“We want to reassure the nationalist that officers mobilized quickly, deploying important resources instantly aft the study from William Head Institution was received. Our privilege has been and remains the information of the public.”

Jensen had been serving a life condemnation since 1991 for second-degree murder.

Some families successful Venezuela are mourning and others are desperately trying to find loved ones who had been deported from the U.S. and arrived hours earlier the earthquakes struck past week.

The deportees were being processed astatine the Hotel Santuario La Llanada successful the coastal authorities of La Guaira, 1 of the hardest-hit areas. Families person confirmed immoderate deportees person died while others are unaccounted for.

Enit Hernández told Beritaja her husband, José Rafael Rossi Ydrogo, is 1 of the missing deportees.

José Rafael Rossi Ydrogo.Obtained by Beritaja

“On Tuesday he called maine and said they told him to stitchery his belongings because he was leaving the adjacent day. That was the past clip I ever heard from him,” Hernández said from Texas, wherever the mates lived.

Hernández said that her hubby was detained during an ICE check-in and that moreover though he was told a judge would reappraisal his case, he was deported Wednesday. In Fort Worth, Rossi Ydrogo owned a building business and remodeled homes.

The mates came to the U.S. successful 2021 and lived successful New Jersey pinch their girl earlier they moved to Texas.

“My full life changed successful conscionable 1 day. There was nary request for him to spell done each of this. I’m present unsocial pinch my girl now. It’s not easy,” she said.

Hernández said Rossi Ydrogo had conscionable called his relative successful Caracas 20 minutes earlier the world started to shake.

Rotating images showing the Hotel Santuario La Llanada connected March 20 and aft the earthquake Saturday.Planet Labs PBC

Asked for accusation about the flight, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said that it “safely reached Venezuela” and that each the group connected committee had been returned home.

“When an individual is nary longer successful ICE custody, ICE is nary longer responsible for them,” the spokesperson said.

On committee the deportation formation were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and 7 children, according to ICE Flight Monitor, an inaugural of Human Rights First, which tracks deportation flights, The Associated Press reported. The country’s main airport, Simón Bolivar International Airport, is successful La Guaira, wherever the Hotel Santuario La Llanada collapsed. Other deportees person been processed location successful the past.

Multiple relatives and friends person said authorities aren’t allowing them aliases rescue workers adjacent the collapsed building, making attempts to get accusation about impossible.

From Chile, a relative of Daniel Alejandro Nuñez Ramirez, 28, who’s besides missing, said that his mother was told he had been recovered live successful the rubble and had been taken retired but that truthful acold the family hasn’t recovered him successful immoderate of the hospitals.

“We consciousness destroyed, because it really hurts us,” said the cousin, Yaneth Gabriela Mejías Ramirez. “At the aforesaid time, we person religion we will find him. But moreover if he passed away, we want to find him.”

Mejías Ramírez said that successful the U.S., her relative had been moving successful building erstwhile constabulary stopped him 2 months agone for a insignificant postulation usurpation and that he agreed to beryllium deported to Venezuela pursuing his detention.

Angelo Mejía Meléndez, 27, was besides deported connected the “infamous” flight, arsenic immoderate relatives mention to it. His mother, Luz Marina Meléndez, told Noticias Telemundo that she recovered retired he was killed successful the earthquakes erstwhile a subsister told her he saw her boy vanish adjacent to him.

“I’m sad and I’m enraged,” Meléndez said, adding that the family was to person had a reunion that very weekend.

Katherine Arana, a Venezuelan American from Greenville, South Carolina, who is simply a friend of missing deportee Nuñez Ramirez, said that amid the deficiency of accusation and the ensuing chaos, she created a spreadsheet to support way of the deportees connected the flight.

She has heard from relatives that astatine slightest 25 deportees were killed, 21 were still missing Monday and 9 had survived. She besides said immoderate bodies recovered from the rubble hadn’t been identified.

In Venezuela, the number of dormant and injured has been rising since the magnitude-7.2 and -7.5 quakes struck Wednesday. The Venezuelan authorities raised the toll Monday to 1,719 dormant and 5,034 injured. The United Nations estimates 50,000 group are missing.

Rescue teams from about the world, including the U.S., person been searching frantically for days.

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