Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes on Houthi targets in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida and a nearby island on Friday, after the Iran-backed group announced a maritime blockade and attacked Saudi ships. Saudi authorities later issued emergency alerts for the province of Jizan as the Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile attack on the city […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump has ordered signs to be placed outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, to caution visitors about exhibits his administration views as “inaccurate”. The order directs the department of interior to issue the warnings, and also to direct people about where they can find “accurate information regarding America’s history”. The Trump […]
Continue ReadingWARNING: Readers may find details in this article distressing. Texts between singer D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old he is accused of murdering, reveal she had been pregnant and had had an abortion before her death. The messages were shown during a hearing for a judge to determine if the singer, whose legal name […]
Continue ReadingThis event is the latest in a string of worrying and weird examples of AI agents going rogue. In recent research, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) found frontier AI models are so fixated on completing tasks they “cheated” in tests to achieve their goals. The research from AISI came with this worrying warning: “A […]
Continue ReadingThat explains why Muna’s music always feels propulsive. “If you’re not sweating after the first song, come on,” laughs McPherson. With an ever-growing fanbase, they’ll play their biggest ever tour this autumn, titled the Gets So Hot Tour after the album’s opening track – although the band previously joked it would be called “The Midwest […]
Continue ReadingOne opposition MP, who asked not to be identified, put it more bluntly. “Ninety-nine per cent of these young people on the street have no clue how the ministry of defence is operating, how the general staff is operating,” he said. “They think Fedorov is good because he wants to fight with drones and Syrskyi […]
Continue ReadingA wildfire near Madrid is “beyond the capacity” of firefighters to contain, Spanish officials have warned, after three fires west of the capital merged into a single blaze. Spain’s government has declared a national emergency after blazes spun out of control in several areas close to Madrid, prompting the evacuation of at least 30,000 people. […]
Continue ReadingMembers of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have voted to dismiss Karim Khan as chief prosecutor for alleged sexual misconduct. Elected the ICC’s third prosecutor in 2021, Khan was suspended last month. The decision to remove him was passed with 82 votes in favour. The court’s oversight body found in June he had committed a […]
Continue ReadingA PlayStation Network outage which left some gamers unable to play digital games for hours has been resolved. According to Down Detector, which tracks outages, tens of thousands of people reported problems globally, external with the service on Friday. The outage, which affected gamers’ ability to launch games, apps or network features on their PlayStation, […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump says the US will launch an investigation into the European Union and threatened a fresh tariff over fines handed to some of the biggest American tech companies. It comes days after the European Commission fined Google €890m ($1bn) for operating in a way that squeezed out competitors to its services. In a post […]
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