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The Dallas Mavericks have the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft on June 25. In preparation, they’ve scheduled a private workout with Duke freshman Cooper Flagg for June 17, per ESPN.The 6-foot-9 Flagg is expected to go first-overall in this month’s draft, but this move would only make the likelihood of that occurring increase. Per the report, the Mavericks have no other plans to work out any other players in private like they will Flagg. The implication there is not just that the Mavericks expect to take Flagg at No. 1, but also that, were they to trade their 1:1…

On Wednesday, acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems, which still rely on floppy disks and Windows 95 computers, Tom’s Hardware reports. The agency has issued a Request For Information to gather proposals from companies willing to tackle the massive infrastructure overhaul. “The whole idea is to replace the system. No more floppy disks or paper strips,” Rocheleau said during the committee hearing. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the project “the most important infrastructure project that we’ve had in this country for decades,” describing it as…

[LOS ANGELES] Los Angeles is heading into a fourth day of unrest with California Governor Gavin Newsom vowing to sue to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in the city, escalating a standoff over immigration raids that sparked protests over the weekend.Overnight, looting broke out in several areas of LA, including downtown, after demonstrators shut down a major freeway. Authorities made dozens of arrests including for assault with a deadly weapon and arson, according to local news station KTLA. Crowds clashed with law enforcement and at least five self-driving Waymo cars were set on fire. Newsom and Los…

WWDC 2025 will be held at Apple Park — images credit: Apple Claims that WWDC will crash and burn because it won’t launch a device like Apple Vision Pro annually, or refresh all the hardware Apple has are evergreen — but that is entirely missing the point of the conference. Along with its iPhone launches, WWDC is one of the two times every year when the spotlight is on Apple. The company knows this full well and is very good at exploiting that attention by including what message, what service or what device it wants to push out. Business Insider thinks no…

LONDON :Getty Images’ landmark copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI began at London’s High Court on Monday, with Getty rejecting Stability AI’s contention the case posed a threat to the generative AI industry.Seattle-based Getty, which produces editorial content and creative stock images and video, accuses Stability AI of using its images to “train” its Stable Diffusion system, which can generate images from text inputs.Getty, which is bringing a parallel lawsuit against Stability AI in the United States, says Stability AI unlawfully scraped millions of images from its websites and used them to train and develop Stable Diffusion.Stability AI…

[KUALA LUMPUR] Investor confidence in the Genting Group has come under pressure in recent months, as weak earnings, surprise leadership changes, corporate governance woes and mounting capital commitments triggered sharp sell-offs across its listed entities. As at Jun 9, shares across Genting’s four listed arms had declined by between 8.4 and 18.2 per cent in the year to date. Genting Singapore posted the smallest drop at 8.4 per cent, and Genting Berhad (Genting), the group’s holding company, led the losses with an 18.2 per cent fall, followed by Genting Plantations (15.4 per cent) and Genting Malaysia (11.1 per cent).Among the…

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amazon said Monday that it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over an arrangement to essentially plug right into the power plant.Kevin Miller, vice president of global data centers at Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, told The Associated Press that the company will build another data center complex just north of Philadelphia.One data center is being built next to northeastern Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant. The other will be in Fairless Hills at a logistics…

The 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup gets underway this week with matches set to run from June 14 to July 6. Sixteen national teams will compete in the biennial tournament, which crowns the best men’s team in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Below is the full list of stadiums selected to host matches, listed by city, along with previous Gold Cup appearances:Gold Cup Power Rankings: Where does USMNT stand? | SOTU Where is the 2025 Gold Cup? Who is the host?The 2025 Gold Cup will be staged across 14 stadiums in 11 metropolitan areas in the United States and…

[SINGAPORE] Independent directors of Great Eastern Holdings (GEH) are recommending for shareholders to accept OCBC’s conditional exit offer that will ultimately lead to the insurer’s delisting.This is based on advice from EY, the independent financial adviser (IFA) involved in the deal, GEH said in a circular issued after the market closed on Monday (Jun 9).It noted the IFA is of the opinion that the financial terms of the exit offer are “on balance, fair and reasonable”.OCBC had on Friday made an offer of S$30.15 per share for the 6.28 per cent stake in GEH it does not own.Shareholders will be…

All eyes will be on Apple this week as it kicks off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company could announce updates to its artificial intelligence technology.Held annually at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, the conference is an opportunity for Apple to unveil its latest products and services as well as tout new advances. This year’s event, which starts Monday with a keynote address from CEO Tim Cook and runs through to June 13, is expected to attract thousands of developers and virtual attendees, all eager to see what the tech giant has on tap for the coming year. Apple…