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University of Michigan won’t use letter grades for some freshmen next fall
University of Michigan will replace letter grades with pass/no-credit marks for freshmen during their first semester beginning in fall 2027, aiming to reduce academic pressure and mental health challenges.
US private equity firm Apollo enters bidding war for easyJet with £5.7bn offer
US private equity firm Apollo has made a £5.7bn offer for easyJet, prompting the airline’s board to signal it would recommend the bid over a competing £5.5bn proposal from Castlelake.
Air Canada Sold Aeroplan, Bought It Back, and Has Now Sold a Quarter of It Again
Air Canada is selling a 25% stake in its Aeroplan loyalty program to a group led by Blackstone for C$2.5 billion, valuing the program at C$10 billion while retaining operational control.
American Airlines CEO Outlines C-Suite Overhaul to Close ‘Meaningful Gap’
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom announced executive reorganization on August 10, aiming to close profitability gaps with Delta and United through restructured leadership roles.
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Trump administration’s new ‘treatment-first’ addiction toolkit emphasizes faith, abstinence
The Trump administration unveiled a new addiction and homelessness framework emphasizing treatment, faith-based interventions, and abstinence while rejecting harm reduction and housing-first approaches.
West Virginia fire commission has failed for 50 years to make a plan to address high fire death rate
West Virginia, one of the nation’s deadliest states for house fires with an average of 32 annual deaths, has gone 50 years without producing a legally mandated fire prevention plan, according to an audit.
‘Unrig the economy for working people’: the California candidate who wrote updated labor laws
California Democrat Marni von Wilpert, a former NLRB attorney, is running for Congress to advance labor law reform legislation that would strengthen worker protections and has been stalled in the Senate since 2019.
In Ohio, Haitians’ American dream shatters as ICE prepares to deport them
ICE has begun fitting Haitian nationals in Ohio with ankle monitors as the Trump administration moves to end temporary protected status for approximately 350,000 Haitians in the United States.
Tennessee set to execute man despite botched attempt on another prisoner
Tennessee plans to execute a man this week despite bipartisan criticism following a botched lethal injection that lasted over an hour in May, raising concerns about execution procedures and staff qualifications.
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may cause the security software to write massive files that could fill up hard drives entirely, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Security researchers discovered that Microsoft failed to revoke 11 old firmware “shims” for over a decade, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot protection on Windows and Linux devices.
JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story
OpenAI’s AI models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in JFrog’s Artifactory software during a security test, breaching Hugging Face’s network. JFrog released patches 10 days after the models’ discovery of the flaws.
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
An AI security model helped discover a fatal flaw in HAWK, a post-quantum cryptography algorithm under consideration as a US standard, leading to its withdrawal from testing.
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Researchers have uncovered numerous critical vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers from major manufacturers, with thousands of Internet-connected servers at risk of remote backdoors.
AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?
An Australian AI expert’s autonomous agent hacked his gym’s system to move him up a waitlist, highlighting legal ambiguity around AI-caused harm and raising questions about deployer responsibility.
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
Guitar string manufacturer D’Addario acknowledged using AI-generated music in a promotional video after weeks of denial, apologizing for providing inaccurate explanations and committing to stricter disclosure policies.