Saturday, July 05, 2025

ARIZONA LIHTC is set to expire in December

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Arizona League on X: "Without an extension, Arizona's successful State LIHTC will sunset in December 2025. Affordable housing is a critical issue in our communities, and the extension of Arizona's State LIHTC

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New DeepSeek "Chimera" SHOCKED Experts 2X Faster and Smarter Than Origin...Jul 5, 2025 #deepseek #chimera #ai

 


DeepSeek Chimera is a groundbreaking AI model built by merging existing expert models without any retraining. 
It combines the reasoning power of DeepSeek R1 with the speed and efficiency of V3-0324, making it twice as fast while using fewer tokens. 
 
Using a method called Assembly of Experts, Chimera shows that powerful AI can be created without fine tuning or new data. 
 
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  • TNG’s Assembly of Experts method allows Chimera to achieve R1-level reasoning at twice the speed with shorter, more efficient outputs 
 
⚙ What You’ll See: How Chimera uses only routed expert tensors to deliver clean chain-of-thought reasoning with fewer tokens 
Why emergent behaviors appear at precise weight ratios during expert-layer merging 
What makes Chimera a scalable, open-source alternative to traditional fine-tuned models 
 
 🚨 Why It Matters: 
This represents a major leap in AI efficiency, showing that high-performance language models can be built without training, fine-tuning, or extra data—challenging how AI development is done globally 
 
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World Defence News International Global World Defence | army military security industry news

 
 

According to information published by FLY-R on July 1, 2025, a significant milestone in naval drone integration was achieved on June 17, 2025, when the French Navy successfully deployed a remotely operated aerial system from the surveillance frigate Floréal. 
Developed by the French company FLY-R, the fixed-wing drone was launched at sea and controlled in real-time by the crew onboard, executing a series of complex maneuvers around a simulated mobile maritime target during a live trial. 
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According to information published by Fincantieri on July 3, 2025, the Italian shipbuilder officially handed over the KRI Brawijaya-320 to the Indonesian Navy during a delivery ceremony held on July 2, 2025, at its Muggiano shipyard in La Spezia, Italy.
 

According to information published by the Royal Malaysian Navy on July 3, 2025, the second Maharaja Lela-class frigate, KD Raja Muda Nala (hull number 2502), was officially launched and named during a ceremonial event steeped in tradition at the Lumut Naval Shipyard (LUNAS), located at Lumut Naval Base. Read full Naval News at this link ...
 

According to information published by the Liberty Times Next on July 5, 2025, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has officially confirmed an extensive expansion of its artillery modernization program, approving the acquisition of 168 M109A7 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers from the United States. This new procurement replaces the original plan for 40 units and aims to completely phase out Taiwan’s aging fleet of legacy artillery platforms.



Germany Considers Largest Armored Vehicle Order with 600 Tanks and 1,000 Wheeled Combat Vehicles

According to information published by the German newspaper Handelsblatt on June 30, 2025, Germany is undertaking a massive transformation of its armed forces, driven by the ongoing security crisis in Eastern Europe and the war in Ukraine.  
At the center of this strategic pivot is a multibillion-euro procurement program involving the acquisition of up to 1,000 Boxer wheeled armored vehicles, 600 Leopard 2A8 main battle tanks, and a significant number of Puma infantry fighting vehicles. 
This initiative, revealed by Alexander Sagel, CEO of German defense manufacturer Renk, represents one of the most significant rearmament efforts in the country’s post-Cold War history and reflects a fundamental reassessment of Germany’s defense posture. 

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Germany could order up to 600 Leopard 2A8 tanks and Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicles and up to 1,000 Boxer 8x8 armored vehicles as part of its largest planned armored fleet expansion since the Cold War. (Picture source: Editing Army Recognition Group)

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The Raven air defense missile system is a British-developed short-range air defense (SHORAD) solution designed specifically to meet Ukraine’s urgent need for countering aerial threats in the ongoing conflict with Russia. Developed through a rapid collaboration between MBDA UK, Supacat, and the Royal Air Force’s Air and Space Warfare Centre, the Raven system was conceptualized, integrated, and deployed within a remarkably short span of three to four months in 2022.
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The United Kingdom has officially confirmed its full support for the export of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Türkiye following Germany’s decision to approve the long-delayed deal. During a diplomatic visit to Ankara on June 30, 2025, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy emphasized that all four Eurofighter partner nations, including the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain, are now aligned in backing the sale.
 

According to information published by Bloomberg on July 4, 2025, Germany has entered intensive negotiations to secure additional Patriot air defense missile systems for Ukraine, responding to an urgent operational gap following the United States’ recent decision to pause deliveries of critical weapon systems. The initiative comes as Ukraine faces an intensification of Russian drone and missile strikes, including the largest aerial assault on Kyiv since the conflict began.
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According to information published by the French Ministry of Armed Forces on July 4, 2025, the French Navy has officially inducted the Suffren-class or Barracuda-class nuclear-powered attack submarine Tourville into active service. This marks the third unit of the Barracuda-class submarines, also known as the Suffren-class, to enter service.
 

According to information published by the Swiss Government on July 3, 2025, Switzerland has officially taken a decisive step in bolstering its national air defense capabilities by signing a programme agreement with Germany for the cooperative procurement of IRIS-T SLM medium-range ground-based air defense (GBAD MR) systems.

U.S. To Invest 3.5 B in New F-47 Fighter Jets to Defeat Chinese Air Dominance Plan

According to information published by the U.S. Department of Defense at the end of June 2025, the United States reaffirmed its strategic commitment to air superiority with a $3.5 billion allocation in the defense budget 2026 for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform, the F-47 fighter jet. 
  • This substantial investment includes $2.6 billion in discretionary funding and an additional $900 million pending approval through a reconciliation bill. 

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Conceptual rendering of the future US Air Force F-47 sixth-generation fighter jet under the NGAD program, which will be developed to ensure air superiority against emerging threats, including China’s J-36 and J-50 aircraft. (Picture source: U.S. Air Force with editing Army Recognition Group)

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On July 2, 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Defense held the naming and launching ceremony for the eleventh unit of the Mogami-class frigate series at Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding’s Tamano Shipyard in Okayama Prefecture. The new ship was officially named JS Tatsuta, continuing the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)’s tradition of naming ships after rivers. Following the launch, JS Tatsuta will proceed to fitting out and sea trials before commissioning into the JMSDF.
 

On June 27, 2025, the Californian company MightyFly announced that they had performed a live autonomous cargo flight demonstration for the US Air Force at New Jerusalem Airport in California. This demonstration, held on May 8, 2025, was part of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract under the Department of the Air Force’s AFWERX program, which aims to accelerate innovative capabilities from private companies. Read full defense news at this link...

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Western SPIES Accuse Russia Of Using Chemical Weapons In Ukraine

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Another huge prominence in the sun’s northwest

 Sun news: Another huge prominence in the sun’s northwest

Posted by C. Alex Young and Raúl Cortés and Armando Caussade
July 5, 2025
July 5, 2025 A beautiful prominence on the solar northwest horizon occurred this morning July 5, starting at around 7 UTC to peak at around 9 UTC. The blast formed a closed loop the broke at the time it hurled into space chunks of plasma and magnetic field. Primarly analysis show it is too far north to come our way at Earth. GOES-19 SUVI 304 angstrom. Image via NOAA.

Sun news July 5: Another huge prominence in the sun’s northwest

(11 UTC to 11 UTC)

Today’s top story:  A huge, gorgeous prominence exploded off the sun’s northwestern horizon this morning, peaking at 8:55 UTC on July 5. It seems to have originated in the long filament in the sun’s northern hemisphere that we’ve seen for several days. That same region produced a powerful prominence a couple of days ago, too. This time, the blast started as an arch of solar plasma and magnetic fields. One of the side of the arch was close to the the sun’s northwestern limb, and the other side of the arch was on the sun’s far side, beyond the solar horizon. It was a beautiful and eye-catching event. Plasma hurled into space initially seemed to be too far north to be coming our way at Earth. But we will await on result from modeling and analysis by specialists. Stay with us for updates.

  • Flare activity has been low over the past day. In the past 24 hours, the sun produced only one flare, a C1.0 flare, blasted at 11:33 UTC on July 4, from active region AR4129.
  • The sun currently has five sunspot regions on the side we see from Earth. All numbered sunspot regions on the solar disk show either alpha or beta magnetic configuration. All of them appear stable or in decay.
  • Blasts from the sun? No Earth-bound coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed in available coronagraph imagery over the past day. The huge prominence we are reporting today on the northwest limb is too far north for coming our way at Earth; nevertheless, we will wait for modeling and analysis from specialists.
  • Solar wind: Solar wind speeds slowly but steadly increased from 330 km/s (738,188 mph) to a peak of 478 Km/s (1,069,000 mph) at 7:20 UTC on July 5. The speed is 440 km/s (984,251 mph) at the time of this writing. The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is at a low level. The north-south component (Bz) mostly south – oriented over of the period and remains so at the time of this writing. A southward Bz is more favorable for auroras.
  • Earth’s magnetic field was quiet to unsettled (Kp 1 – 3 ) over the past day with one 3-hour synoptic period at Kp = 4. The Kp = 4 threshold was reached at 22:48 UTC on July 4
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