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Jakucionis scores 21, Ivisic has double-double as Illinois beats Little Rock 92-34Drew McIntyre reacted to not being in the WWE Raw on Netflix trailer in his latest social media video. The WWE star posted the video to Twitter in which he live reacted to the trailer and then, after realizing he wasn’t in it, talked about why and how he planned to “step up” in 2025. “We’re less than two weeks away from WWE’s debut on Netflix,” McIntyre began. “I’m in the office, I’m about to watch the official trailer for the very first time. And I figured, hey? Why don’t we watch it together? Shall way? To the future.” He proceeded to watch the trailer and once it ended, he said of his not being on it. “Not you too, Netflix. All right, it’s cool. It’s all good now. Maybe — maybe I don’t look enough like a Superstar. Maybe my 2024 just wasn’t successful enough.” At this point, the screen shows his many accolades in 2024 including “Final Four in Royal Rumble,” “Injured CM Punk,” “World Heavyweight Champion,” “Match of the Year (a bunch of marks)” and more. He continued, “It’s all good. You don’t have to hand me anything. What I want? I’ll take. I’ll shred everybody on social and they’ll cry about it. They’ll whine on the mic and I’ll crush them there. And then inevitably, they’ll try and fight me. But I’m 6’5′′, 280. I’ll crush them there too. So I guess we’ll have to step up in 2025. And that’s exactly what we’ll do. Until then? Happy New Year, everybody.” If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Drew McIntyre with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription. . @netflix ? pic.twitter.com/uF1bP4Xq3q — Drew (@DMcIntyreWWE) December 28, 2024

One of the most alarming aspects of this vulnerability is the ease with which it can be exploited. With minimal effort, attackers could leverage this weakness to infiltrate an organization's network infrastructure and execute a wide range of cyberattacks. From deploying ransomware to conducting reconnaissance for future attacks, the potential ramifications of this security flaw are immense.DALLAS (AP) — More than 60 years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated , conspiracy theories still swirl and any new glimpse into the fateful day of Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas continues to fascinate . President-elect Donald Trump promised during his reelection campaign that he would declassify all of the remaining government records surrounding the assassination if he returned to office. He made a similar pledge during his first term, but ultimately bended to appeals from the CIA and FBI to keep some documents withheld. At this point, only a few thousand of the millions of governmental records related to the assassination have yet to be fully released, and those who have studied the records released so far say that even if the remaining files are declassified, the public shouldn't anticipate any earth-shattering revelations. “Anybody waiting for a smoking gun that’s going to turn this case upside down will be sorely disappointed,” said Gerald Posner, author of “Case Closed,” which concludes that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Friday's 61st anniversary is expected to be marked with a moment of silence at 12:30 p.m. in Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy's motorcade was passing through when he was fatally shot. And throughout this week there have been events marking the anniversary. When Air Force One carrying Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy touched down in Dallas , they were greeted by a clear sky and enthusiastic crowds. With a reelection campaign on the horizon the next year, they had gone to Texas on political fence-mending trip. But as the motorcade was finishing its parade route downtown, shots rang out from the Texas School Book Depository building. Police arrested 24-year-old Oswald and, two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer. A year after the assassination, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson established to investigate the assassination, concluded that Oswald acted alone and there was no evidence of a conspiracy. But that hasn't quelled a web of alternative theories over the decades. In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all assassination-related documents be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration. The collection of over 5 million records was required to be opened by 2017, barring any exemptions designated by the president. Trump, who took office for his first term in 2017, had boasted that he'd allow the release of all of the remaining records but ended up holding some back because of what he called the potential harm to national security. And while files have continued to be released during President Joe Biden's administration, some still remain unseen. The documents released over the last few years offer details on the way intelligence services operated at the time, and include CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet and Cuban embassies during a trip to Mexico City just weeks before the assassination. The former Marine had previously defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas. Mark S. Zaid, a national security attorney in Washington, said what's been released so far has contributed to the understanding of the time period, giving “a great picture” of what was happening during the Cold War and the activities of the CIA. Posner estimates that there are still about 3,000 to 4,000 documents in the collection that haven’t yet been fully released. Of those documents, some are still completely redacted while others just have small redactions, like someone's Social Security number. There are about 500 documents where all the information is redacted, Posner said, and those include Oswald's and Ruby’s tax returns. “If you have been following it, as I have and others have, you sort of are zeroed in on the pages you think might provide some additional information for history,” Posner said. Trump's transition team hasn’t responded to questions this week about his plans when he takes office. From the start, there were those who believed there had to be more to the story than just Oswald acting alone, said Stephen Fagin, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which tells the story of the assassination from the building where Oswald made his sniper's perch. “People want to make sense of this and they want to find the solution that fits the crime," said Fagin, who said that while there are lingering questions, law enforcement made “a pretty compelling case” against Oswald. Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said his interest in the assassination dates back to the event itself, when he was a child. “It just seemed so fantastical that one very disturbed individual could end up pulling off the crime of the century," Sabato said. “But the more I studied it, the more I realized that is a very possible, maybe even probable in my view, hypothesis.”

From cleared forests to polluted rivers and streams, investors and companies worldwide are recognizing the economic cost of nature and biodiversity loss and acting to protect the global economy that depends on thriving ecosystems. The private sector’s growing momentum on nature action was evident throughout many of this year’s events, from the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, called COP16, which wrapped up earlier this month in Cali, Colombia, to COP29, which concluded last week. Business leaders made up a sizable number of the event’s 23,000 attendees, including – for the first time – representatives from some of the world’s largest banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Here are three key factors propelling investor and corporate action on protecting and restoring natural environments, alongside efforts to limit global temperature rise from reaching catastrophic levels. The Business Case For Action Like climate change, escalating rates of nature and biodiversity loss and water scarcity pose financial risks to investment portfolios, business operations, and the long-term stability of economies. More than half of global GDP – equal to about $58 trillion – depends heavily on nature, and global GDP is set to plummet $2.7 trillion annually by 2030 because of nature's decline, according to World Bank estimates. Companies around the world are facing severe risks and financial repercussions for their contributions to nature loss. These include reputational risks if companies are linked with activities that negatively harm nature, such as oil spills and forest fires, operational risks, including declining pollinator populations can disrupt crop yields, and regulatory risks from a number of new and developing laws being adopted globally that would require businesses to assess and disclose their nature impacts. Critical Mass On Nature As nature-related risks continue to stack up, more and more investors and companies are ramping up their efforts to confront these material threats. At the same time, consumers, regulators, and shareholders are expecting companies to accelerate how they are transitioning their business models toward ones that support nature’s conservation and restoration. During COP15 in December 2022, Nature Action 100 launched as the first global investor-led engagement effort to support greater corporate action and ambition on nature and biodiversity loss, and the initiative now has over 230 investor participants representing more than $30 trillion in assets under management or advice. Since then, several other investor nature initiatives have sprouted up, including PRI’s Spring initiative and World Benchmarking Alliance’s Nature Collective Impact Coalition. At COP16, the Taskforce on Nature-related Related Financial Disclosures – a leading initiative helping companies and financial institutions better understand and report their impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities – made a powerful statement, unveiling that more than 500 organizations have now signed as early adopters to its disclosure recommendations. Together, these organizations represent $6.5 trillion in market capitalization among publicly listed companies and over $17.7 trillion in assets under management among asset owners and managers. And the first companies – Holcim, GSK, and Kering – to publicly adopt science–based targets for nature were also revealed during the conference. These milestones represent real progress in how the private sector is committed to take crucial action on nature and biodiversity loss. New Guidance And Resources The momentum behind action is also being spurred by a wave of new resources and tools designed to guide the private sector on its nature journey. Nature Action 100 last month announced the results of its first benchmark of corporate progress toward key investor expectations on nature. The results showed most of the 100 assessed companies are still in the early stages of nature action. However, the benchmark offers a robust roadmap of the critical steps companies can take to protect and restore nature and ecosystems in line with global biodiversity goals, as well as shifting financial flows away from economic activities that harm nature. Meanwhile, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and the TNFD launched two resources to guide financial institutions in weaving nature into their transition planning for cutting emissions and to help companies and investors overall in using disclosure to develop plans to act on their nature-related risks and opportunities. This growing movement by the private sector sends a strong signal that investors and companies are up to the challenge of tackling nature loss and water pollution and scarcity. And we can expect more action in the coming year to combat these looming threats to our financial system, our economy, and our planet.Police said on Tuesday that identification of the victim was still ‘pending at this time’. A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames has made an initial court appearance and will remain in custody. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, who federal immigration officials said is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the US illegally, was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court. He appeared briefly before a judge and wore a white jumpsuit over a weathered black hooded sweatshirt. He did not speak. He will remain jailed ahead of his next court date on Friday. The apparently random attack occurred on Sunday morning on a stationary F train at the Coney Island station in Brooklyn. Police said on Tuesday that identification of the victim was still “pending at this time”. Authorities say Zapeta approached the woman, who was sitting motionless in the train car and may have been sleeping, and used a lighter to set her clothing on fire. The woman quickly became engulfed in flames, while the suspect then sat at a bench on the subway platform and watched, according to police. Video posted to social media appeared to show the woman standing inside the train ablaze as some people look on from the platform, and at least one officer walks by. NYPD chief of transit Joseph Gulotta said that several officers had responded to the fire and one stayed to keep the crime scene “the way it’s supposed to be” while the others went to get fire extinguishers and transit workers. They were eventually able to douse the fire, but “unfortunately, it was too late”, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said — the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. During Zapeta’s court hearing on Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Ari Rottenberg said Zapeta at one point fanned the flames on the woman using his shirt. He said a 911 call from a subway rider helped identify Zapeta. Mr Rottenberg added that under interrogation Zapeta claimed he did not know what happened, noting that he consumes alcohol. But he alleged that Zapeta identified himself to interrogators in images related to the attack. Zapeta was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon while riding a train on the same subway line after police got a tip from some teenagers who recognised him from images circulated by the police. A Brooklyn address for Zapeta released by police matches a shelter that provides housing and substance abuse support. The shelter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Federal immigration officials said Zapeta had been previously deported in 2018 but at some point reentered the US illegally. The crime — and the graphic video of it that ricocheted across social media — deepened a growing sense of unease among some New Yorkers about the safety of the subway system in a city where many residents take the subway multiple times each day.

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Microsoft has entered into an agreement with HarperCollins that will give the software giant access to content from the publisher to train its AI models. As per the terms of the agreement, the Redmond-based company will only have access to non-fiction titles. HarperCollins further said it is up to the authors to decide whether to participate in the program. Microsoft stated the content will be used to make its AI model more accurate and intelligent. The company, however, hasn’t divulged any details of the new model, so we don’t know what its capabilities will be like or what function it will serve. However, it did clarify the AI model won’t be trained to generate an entire book using AI. That rules out the creation of new books without human authors. “Part of our role is to present authors with opportunities for their consideration while simultaneously protecting the underlying value of their works and our shared revenue and royalty streams,” HarperCollins said. “This agreement, with its limited scope and clear guardrails around model output that respects author’s rights, does that.” HarperCollins further clarified that ‘select backlist non-fiction titles’ would be made available for the training of an AI model. Authors reported having received contract offers from publishers for a deal spanning three years. Author Daniel Kibblesmith shared on social media the AI licensing contract he received from HarperCollins, in which he was offered 2,500 per book for three years. “I would probably accept a billion dollars. I would accept an amount that would not require me to work anymore because that is the ultimate goal of this technology,” said Daniel Kibblesmith when asked if he was open to accepting the offer. Microsoft also has an arrangement with Reuters, Hearst, and Axel Springer for content that powers several of its AI ventures. News Corp, the parent company of HarperCollins, is also committed to sharing data with OpenAI. As per the deal signed in May, OpenAI will have access to several HarperCollins publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Daily Telegraph, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and others. With a keen interest in tech, I make it a point to keep myself updated on the latest developments in technology and gadgets. That includes smartphones or tablet devices but stretches to even AI and self-driven automobiles, the latter being my latest fad. Besides writing, I like watching videos, reading, listening to music, or experimenting with different recipes. The motion picture is another aspect that interests me a lot, and I'll likely make a film sometime in the future.

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