The world of Wuthering Waves is full of things to do and rewards exploration. If the stone pillars have you stumped, here’s how to solve Training Dummy puzzles in Wuthering Waves. How to use orange stone rectangles to open chests in Wuthering Waves You’ll often find locked Treasure Chests on your travels, but most can’t be opened until you complete a specific task. The stone rectangles you’ll encounter on your journey are Training Dummies. If you see one of these Dummies near a chest, you’ll have to hit each one nearby to open it.  In my experience, the Training Dummies are always visible from the Treasure Chest location, but this may not always be the case later in the game.  Screenshot: PC Invasion Sometimes, the Training Dummies must be hit in a specific order for the chest to unlock. You can usually solve the order through trial and error, but there’s a more foolproof method. If you disturb a flock of ...

Much like Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves provides you with a number of currencies to spend. But in order to partake in the main bulk of the content in WuWa, you’re gonna need some Waveplate. Similar to Resin in Genshin, this currency is going to be your main way to take on bosses and more. So let’s face our foes and figure out how to spend and restore Waveplate in Wuthering Waves. How to spend Waveplate in Wuthering Waves Screenshot: PC Invasion Waveplate is the currency you’ll spend to participate in events such as Simulation Training, rechallenging bosses, dungeons, and daily collections. Spending it is quite simple, as all you have to do is unlock the modes that require Waveplate to partake in. For the Simulation Training, all I had to do was progress through the story a bit, before the game told me to talk to an NPC on the north side of Jinzhou. Thankfully, you’re not just throwing away your precious Waveplate, as every event you complete reward...

The Levitator is one of the most important tools in Wuthering Waves, allowing you to grab and move objects around. This guide covers everything you need to know about the Levitator including how to get it and use it, as well as possible scenarios for when it’s needed. How to equip and use the Levitator in Wuthering Waves Players can equip the Levitator in Wuthering Waves by opening up the tools tab (Tab key on PC) and selecting it. The Levitator’s logo in the tools tab is a box icon and is hard to miss.  Now to actually use the Levitator, you must first find an object that the game allows you to move. You can tell when an object can be moved when the utility symbol at the bottom right corner of your screen changes to the logo of the Levitator and begins to glow. Once this happens, press the Levitator’s corresponding button to grab ahold of the object. After grabbing hold of the object, you can either throw it or place it in a different location. How...

A Missouri school district spent more than $61,000 on a new math curriculum that prioritizes “cultural, racial, and gender diversity.”  Webster Groves School District plans to roll out a new elementary math curriculum from Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics this fall. The school board approved spending $61,450 on the change at an April 25 meeting, according to a PowerPoint presentation posted on BoardDocs and reviewed by The Daily Signal.  The district chose the program for its “balance of images or information about people, representing various demographic and physical characteristics.” The district, in the wealthy suburbs west of St. Louis, has 10 schools and 4,409 students. The selection criteria for the kindergarten through fifth-grade curriculum included that the “materials prioritize cultural, racial, and gender diversity and supports the Webster Groves School District Equity Resolution.” The equity resolution, adopted in 2017, advertises Webster Grove’s commitment to “confront issues of bias and social injustice.” The district used EdReports’ research in making the choice, which helped Webster Groves determine the curriculum encourages teachers to “draw upon student cultural and social backgrounds to facilitate learning.” The curriculum “represent[s] different races and portray[s] people from many ethnicities in a positive, respectful manner, with no demographic bias for who achieves success in the context of problems,” according to Susan Bergman, the district’s math curriculum director, citing EdReports’ review.  “Characters in the program are illustrations of children or adults with representation of different races and populations of students,” the EdReport review continues. “Problem settings vary from rural to urban and international locations.” EdReports, a nonprofit that reviews instructional materials, is partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Illustrative Mathematics touts its commitment to “culturally responsive pedagogy” on its website, saying its materials encourage students to bring “their whole selves” to math class. “Materials are designed to affirm students as they build positive mathematical identities,” the website says.  The $61,000 cost includes teacher’s editions, online student licenses, professional learning for staff, and unit-planning guides for Webster Groves’ six elementary schools. The district will spend additional funds on the recurring student handbook cost.  Webster Groves has evaluated its math curriculum for the past year. Last April, Bergman announced the district’s plans to include the personal pronouns “they/them” in math problems and hire certified teachers as “math interventionists” to fight racism and gender bias in math classes.  “A persistent myth within math education is that since ‘numbers are universal,’ math classrooms are objective and free of bias,” Bergman said in her presentation.  “Research shows clearly that any space where learning occurs is neither free of bias, nor resistant to oppressive systems, such as racism, sexism, classism, or xenophobia,” she added.  The district did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by time of publication. The post School District Spends $61K on Curriculum to Boost ‘Cultural, Racial, Gender Diversity’ in Math appeared first on The Daily Signal.

China launched a series of military drills Thursday around Taiwan as “punishment” for the swearing-in of the island’s new president, Chinese state media reported. Lai Ching-te, inaugurated Monday, is a member of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party and won the island’s presidential election in January. China’s People’s Liberation Army initiated joint naval and air drills around the island in an act of intimidation and retaliation for Taiwan’s continued claim to independence.  The “Taiwan question” is one of Beijing’s most sensitive issues. China views Taiwan as a rogue territory that needs to be reunited with the mainland and demands other countries view the issue similarly. Some in the international community are concerned that China eventually will invade Taiwan and take the island by force if it doesn’t surrender peacefully. The CCP’s military exercises, which highlight its hegemony mindset, have undermined regional peace and stability. The ROC Armed Forces stand ready to defend our country. We seek no conflicts, but we will not shy away from one. pic.twitter.com/6F3imAsi3u— ??? Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. ?? (@MoNDefense) May 23, 2024 “Those like Lai Ching-te have betrayed their nation and ancestors. What they have done is simply disgraceful,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Webin told reporters during a press briefing Wednesday, warning that Taiwanese independent forces “will be left with their heads broken and blood flowing” if they challenge China, according to the Hindustan Times. “No matter what gimmicks they play, they will not stop China’s complete reunification and Taiwan’s return to the embrace of the motherland,” Wang said. “All ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists will see their names written on the wall of shame.” The PLA’s Eastern Theater Command began the drills early Thursday and was expected to continue the drills until Friday, PLA spokesman Li Xi told Chinese state media. The Chinese army also is conducting mock “precision strikes on key targets” as part of the operations to test the “real combat capabilities of the forces of the command.” Taiwanese security forces detected 42 Chinese fighter jets, 16 coast guard vessels, and 15 naval vessels around the island and smaller neighboring islands Thursday, according to The New York Times. None of the Chinese aircraft or vessels had entered Taiwanese territory or airspace. “The Armed Forces stand ready to defend our country. We seek no conflicts, but we will not shy away from one,” Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a tweet Thursday. The drills are some of the largest China has conducted since then-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., hosted then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Washington in April 2023, prompting anger from Beijing given its opposition to bilateral relations between Taiwan and other nations. Even larger drills were held when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a visit to Taiwan in August 2022. The ongoing tensions between China and Taiwan have raised international concern that China is preparing for a full-scale invasion that could prompt a war with the West. The U.S. maintains a “One China” policy and doesn’t recognize Taiwanese independence, but considers the island a strong ally and has defense agreements to provide military equipment. The U.S. also keeps a position of “strategic ambiguity” when it comes to Taiwan, not revealing whether it would defend the island militarily in the event of a Chinese incursion. The White House on several occasions has had to walk back President Joe Biden’s claims that the U.S. would involve itself in a conflict with China if it decided to invade Taiwan. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post China Launches ‘Punishment’ Drills Around Taiwan After President’s Inauguration appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. EU governments might soon endorse the highly controversial Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), known colloquially as “chat control,” based on a new proposal by Belgium’s Minister of the Interior. According to a leak obtained by Pirate Party MEP and shadow rapporteur Patrick Breyer, this could happen as early as June. The proposal mandates that users of communication apps must agree to have all images and videos they send automatically scanned and potentially reported to the EU and police. This agreement would be obtained through terms and conditions or pop-up messages. To facilitate this, secure end-to-end encrypted messenger services would need to implement monitoring backdoors, effectively causing a ban on private messaging. The Belgian proposal frames this as “upload moderation,” claiming it differs from “client-side scanning.” Users who refuse to consent would still be able to send text messages but would be barred from sharing images and videos. The scanning technology, employing artificial intelligence, is intended to detect known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and flag new images and videos deemed suspicious. The proposal excludes the previously suggested scanning of text messages for grooming signs and does not address audio communication scanning, which has never been implemented. The proposal first introduced on 8 May, has surprisingly gained support from several governments that were initially critical. It will be revisited on 24 May, and EU interior ministers are set to meet immediately following the European elections to potentially approve the legislation. Patrick Breyer, a staunch opponent of chat control, expressed serious concerns. “The leaked Belgian proposal means that the essence of the EU Commission’s extreme and unprecedented initial chat control proposal would be implemented unchanged,” he warns. “Using messenger services purely for texting is not an option in the 21st century. And removing excesses that aren’t being used in practice anyway is a sham.” Breyer emphasizes the threat to digital privacy, stating, “Millions of private chats and private photos of innocent citizens are to be searched using unreliable technology and then leaked without the affected chat users being even remotely connected to child sexual abuse – this would destroy our digital privacy of correspondence. Our nude photos and family photos would end up with strangers in whose hands they do not belong and with whom they are not safe.” He also points out the risk to encryption, noting that “client-side scanning would undermine previously secure end-to-end encryption to turn our smartphones into spies – this would destroy secure encryption.” Breyer is alarmed by the shifting stance of previously critical EU governments, which he fears could break the blocking minority and push the proposal forward. He criticizes the lack of a legal opinion from the Council on this fundamental rights issue. “If the EU governments really do go into the trilogue negotiations with this radical position of indiscriminate chat control scanning, experience shows that the Parliament risks gradually abandoning its initial position behind closed doors and agreeing to bad and dangerous compromises that put our online security at risk,” he asserts. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post “Upload Moderation” – The EU’s Latest Name For Messaging Surveillance appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The EU’s European Council has followed the European Parliament (EP) in approving the AI Act – which opponents say is a way for the bloc to legalize biometric mass surveillance. More than that, the EU is touting the legislation as first of its kind in the world, and seems hopeful it will serve as a standard for AI regulation elsewhere around the globe. The Council announced the law is “groundbreaking,” taking a “risk-based” approach, meaning that the EU authorities get to grade the level of risk from AI to society and then impose rules of various levels of severity and penalties, including money fines for companies deemed to be infringing the act. What this “granular” approach to “risk level” looks like is revealed in the fact that what the EU chooses to consider cognitive behavioral manipulation “unacceptable,” while AI use in education and facial recognition is “high risk. “Limited risk” applies to chatbots. And developers will be under obligation to register in order to have the “risk” assessed before their apps become available to users in the EU. The AI Act’s ambition, according to the EU, is to promote both the development and uptake, as well as investment in systems that it considers “safe and trustworthy,” targeting both private and public sectors for this type of regulation. A press release said that the law “provides exemptions such as for systems used exclusively for military and defense as well as for research purposes.” After the act is formally published, it will within three weeks come into effect across the 27-member countries. Back in March, when the European Parliament approved the act, one of its members, Patrick Breyer of the German Pirate Party, slammed the preceding trilogue negotiations as “intransparent.” But what was clear, according to this lawyer and privacy advocate, is that participants from the EP, initially saying they wanted to see a ban on real-time biometric mass surveillance in mass places, did a 180 and in the end agreed to “legitimize” it through AI Act’s provisions. Breyer said that identification relying on CCTV footage is prone to errors that can have serious consequences – but that “none of these dystopian technologies will be off limits for EU governments” (thanks to the new law). “As important as it is to regulate AI technology, defending our democracy against being turned into a high-tech surveillance state is not negotiable for us Pirates,” Breyer wrote at the time. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post European Council Approves the AI Act — a Law Accused of Legalizing Biometric Mass Surveillance appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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