The NSPCC is warning an AI company that allowed users to create chatbots imitating murdered teenager Brianna Ghey and her mother pursued “growth and profit at the expense of safety and decency”. Character.AI, which last week was accused of “manipulating” a teenage boy into taking his own life, also allowed users to create chatbots imitating teenager Molly Russell. Molly took ...
Another violent flood, another day we can hardly believe how climate change is, well, changing our lives. At least 72 people killed. Crops ruined, flights diverted, a high-speed train derailed. The footage is jaw-dropping: torrents of water collapsing a bridge, vehicles swept away and dumped on top of each other by powerful floodwater as if they were just a handful ...
The extreme conditions in eastern Spain which saw Valencia get a year’s worth of rain in just eight hours can be blamed on an event locally known as Depresion Aislada en Niveles Altos (DANA). This weather situation occurs when the jet stream high up in the atmosphere meanders like a river and creates a cut off area of low pressure. ...
A new, more infectious strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time. The single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b was detected in a patient who is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The UKHSA has said the risk to the population ...
Elon Musk has been summoned to an emergency court hearing on Thursday over the $1m prizes he has been awarding registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Tesla and X chief executive has been ordered by a judge in Philadelphia to address a civil case by the city’s top prosecutor to stop Mr Musk and his political action ...
Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles – two followed by 36 zeros – after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the International ...
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its global workforce, the equivalent of 528 roles, CEO Drew Houston announced Wednesday in a note to staff. The company is in a “transitional period” as its file sync and share business and its Dash artificial-intelligence search feature mature, Houston wrote. “Navigating this transition while maintaining our current structure and investment levels is no longer sustainable,” ...
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday it had taken the Ukrainian town of Selydove, southeast of the key city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Russian forces have been advancing on Selydove in the last several weeks, according to frontline reports. It’s part of Russia’s ongoing assault and incremental territorial gains in eastern Ukraine. Selydove was an important staging area ...
The teenager charged with the murder of three young girls in a July stabbing attack at a dance class in northwest England will face a terrorism charge, British prosecutors announced Tuesday. The suspect Axel Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack but is now 18, will be charged with the production of the biological toxin ricin, and ...
Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian men to take off their clothes as they evacuated war-torn Jabalya
The photo shows a large crowd of more than 200 people, crouching low amid the rubble of Jabalya in northern Gaza. Mostly men, many are almost naked, some are elderly, some visibly wounded. There’s at least one child among them. Their tired faces give a glimpse into their misery. The men at the front are anxiously staring straight ahead, while those toward ...