Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its [...]
Read the full briefSpeaking after BlackRock's Q3 earnings, Fink said AI infrastructure spending has become so central to growth that a construction halt would be dangerous, calling the backlash "misinformation" as data centers become a midterm flashpoint.
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Authorities have indicated that the shooter was killed by gunfire, though details remain scant about the attack.
Read the full briefPentagon spokesperson says pair spoke before announcement canceling plan to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood Q&A: Our reporters answered your questions about the US economy and the midterm elections Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US government could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a media campaign in South Africa to figure out why more white Afrikaners ar
Read the full briefThe halt to commercial shipments, including fruit and winter clothing, cuts off a key source of critical supplies.
Read the full briefRussians have until July 1, 2027 to buy and sell crypto directly with each other. After that, every trade runs through a broker or exchange approved by the Bank of Russia.
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Two people were airlifted to hospital but no-one's life appeared to be in danger, officials said.
Read the full briefKatie Zacharia tells Guardian her first, widely panned, press briefing followed six-day sprint to appoint her to key role Donald Trump's new White House press secretary says it is "unknown" how much she will engage with the press, or hold briefings with reporters, as she faces mounting questions over her legal credentials.
Read the full briefSuspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters.
Read the full briefIntero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Read the full briefChip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as potential interest rate hikes spook markets Business news , live updates Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming An accelerating sell-off of AI-linked shares has hit global markets, as fears over rising inflation and future interest rate hikes spooked traders already wary of the heavily indebted sector.
Read the full briefIn a note to investors, Matt Hougan used a "Choose Your Own Adventure" framework to argue that superabundance, an AI bust or a muddle-through economy all ultimately funnel to the same place: Bitcoin higher.
Read the full briefLisandro Martinez meets Manchester United manager Michael Carrick before apologising for his criticism of the club.
Read the full briefPolice say suspect dead and at least two people hospitalized after shooting at Silver Rail elementary school in Bend Multiple people, including children, were injured in a Thursday shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon , police confirmed during a press conference. At least two have been hospitalized and the suspected gunman is dead, according to Bend police spokesperson Sheila Miller.
Read the full briefUkraine's president says a pause on striking energy sites is over following fresh Russian attacks.
Read the full briefOpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video [...]
Read the full briefFrom the International Space Station's unique position 250 miles above Earth, the Sun is a vital source of energy. Solar power supports the station's life support systems, daily activities, and hundreds of research investigations that improve life on Earth and prepare humans for deep space exploration. Over the past five years, NASA augmented the station's [...]
Read the full briefMove comes as Senator Elizabeth Warren condemns Barclays response to questions over ex-boss's ties to sex offender US lawmakers have unveiled a new bill to hold Wall Street's "Epstein-connected" bosses to account for helping finance the late sex offender's crimes.
Read the full briefThe departure of President Donald Trump's crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, leaves the digital assets office vacant and its policy aims uncertain.
Read the full briefThree people have died and several are reported missing after torrential rain triggered severe flooding across Istanbul
Read the full briefLawsuit comes weeks before midterm elections and follows debunked claims of noncitizens voting in various states.
Read the full briefSK Hynix's Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.
Read the full briefResearchers added hidden text to contact AI agents probing Alibaba's map service, getting replies about their tasks as investigators traced activity to Tencent Cloud infrastructure.
Read the full briefInternational delegates agree leap second no longer tenable, but first leap hour not likely to happen for thousands of years After decades of discussion, quibbling and worrying about clocks in computer systems, the world's official timekeepers have voted to replace what many viewed as a tiresome correction: the leap second. It's time, they say, for the leap hour.
Read the full briefDiscovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
Read the full briefAs Americans use apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats more habitually, they confront the guilt of paying extra fees for convenience Tell us: what is your personal 'recession indicator'? When it comes to food, Caroline Bauldree does not like to "deprive" herself of anything. She does not like to cook either, so that means a lot of food deliveries.
Read the full briefThe first major integration since Mastercard's $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition lets banks, fintechs and enterprises hold, convert, and spend fiat and stablecoins through a single API, with agentic commerce support planned.
Read the full briefHumanoid robots were seen performing the "Macarena" at the annual CEATEC technology exhibition in Chiba, Japan.
Read the full briefPresident Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or [...]
Read the full briefRewritten indictment accuses ex-Venezuela president and wife Cilia Flores of leading campaign of torture Nicolás Maduro insisted on Thursday during an appearance in a New York court that torture allegations in a rewritten drug trafficking indictment against the deposed Venezuelan president and his wife were "false accusations".
Read the full briefGoogle's Willow chip cut errors 40x on the scarce "magic states" quantum computers burn through, a step toward smaller, useful machines, and toward ones that could threaten today's encryption.
Read the full briefAdult excavated in an Iraqi Kurdistan cave died more than 70,000 years ago and bears 'kill shot' shoulder wound A smooth round hole in the shoulder blade of a Neanderthal who died more than 70,000 years ago may be the oldest evidence so far of a human ancestor being killed by a wooden spear.
Read the full briefValve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. "In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual," Valve says. "But when you browse what you have unlocked afterward, Steam will [...]
Read the full briefAnother commodity shock from the Iran war
Read the full briefHot inflation data revived Fed rate-hike bets, and leveraged bulls paid the bill as nearly $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated.
Read the full briefEmergency teams are searching for 7 missing crew after two chemical tankers were attacked in the Black Sea.
Read the full briefPolls have found that Trump's hardline immigration enforcement effort has divided voters before the 2026 midterm race.
Read the full briefSantiago Caputo cites election of Sagal Abdi-Wali as MP and calls UK a threat to the west in post shared by Argentina's president The chief adviser to Argentina's president, Javier Milei, has cited the election of Sagal Abdi-Wali to the UK parliament as evidence of the Islamisation of Britain and further reason for Argentina to take sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
Read the full briefThough movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can [...]
Read the full briefNASA's Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon's surface. Additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacecraft's heat shield confirmed initial data showing the heat shield performed as expected. In particular, NASA measured whether the thermal protection [...]
Read the full briefCongress approves constitutional amendment that bans six-day workweeks, which could affect up to 30 million Brazil's congress has approved a constitutional amendment to shorten the working week to a maximum of 40 hours, a move that could affect 30 million workers and that will hand a political victory to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of the presidential runoff in under two weeks.
Read the full briefFinal inflation report before voters go to polls comes amid widespread anger over cost of living under Trump Send us your questions on how the US economy is shaping the midterm elections Republicans are entering the midterm elections with the highest rate of inflation since the spring, according to a government report released on Wednesday.
Read the full briefMarket analysts say that macro factors are pushing altcoin prices down, after ETH, XRP, and SOL all dropped on the day.
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Al Jazeera's Al Anoud Al Aqeedi explains why migrants are risking their lives to make the journey to Yemen.
Read the full briefWarnings come as Californians have already in autumn felt brutal heatwave and storm surge that battered coast Communities across California are bracing for more dangerous weather this week, with strong winds and high temperatures that could set the stage for rapid wildfire growth over the next several days.
Read the full briefPrivatBank is a case study in adaptation
Read the full briefMedical experts explicitly recommend against blanket screenings.
Read the full briefA formation of radio waves looks remarkably like a treble clef in this Oct. 14, 2026, image from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Researchers used Chandra to find that the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst from a supermassive black hole, followed by a collision of two galaxy clusters.
Read the full briefRun in brutal heat, the race featured a runner who hitched a car ride, another dosed with rat poison and brandy to keep moving, and a winner who could barely stand at the finish.
Read the full briefThird-largest fine in US treasury's history, due to failure to report suspicious activity, may affect third-quarter earnings Bank of America (BAC.N), has been fined $1.21bn by US regulators for widespread failures to detect potential money laundering and other illicit activity, a penalty the bank said will hurt third-quarter earnings.
Read the full briefLedger says the Android-based Atom will carry anti-tamper protections and be sold only on its site, as it probes tampered resold wallets.
Read the full brief"I reject this document entirely," Maduro said in court, responding to newly added torture-related charges.
Read the full briefEl Niño will likely shift weather patterns to bring more rain, but much snow still isn't forecast for the northern sates Winter in the United States looks like it will generally be wetter and warmer, but not necessarily snowier, according to the federal government's seasonal outlook and other meteorologists' forecasts. You can thank or blame El Niño.
Read the full briefAt least 320 people detained for 'acts against nature' after law criminalising homosexuality toughened, HRW reports Mass arrests, forced HIV testing and barriers to legal representation are part of an escalating crackdown against LGBTQ+ people in Senegal, according to a new report .
Read the full briefPanay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
Read the full briefGovernment physicist whose radar research paved the way for flat-panel TV and computer screens based on liquid crystals Cyril Hilsum's research into stable liquid crystals and the devices in which they could be used paved the way for the flat-panel television and computer screens that are now ubiquitous in homes, offices and public spaces.
Read the full briefDistrict court judge Timothy Kelly was ruling after Trump administration blocked access to three outlets last month A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to continue allowing journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico to access the building as the media coalition's lawsuit against the Trump administration plays out.
Read the full briefThe scheme allegedly stole tens of millions through Russian-language Facebook ads and fake advisers, then went after victims again with fake recovery offers.
Read the full briefProtests have taken place over the rules which have seen pupils wearing hijabs turned away from schools.
Read the full briefElection officers in Louisiana and Oklahoma receive a powdery substance, prompting evacuations The FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service are investigating letters sent to state officials and election offices across the country containing an "unknown substance".
Read the full briefA crackdown on aggressive debt collectors is good news and bad news
Read the full briefThe incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.
Read the full briefFour hippos from Pablo Escobar's private zoo were left behind after his death. Decades later their descendants number in the dozens, roaming the Magdalena River and posing a real ecological puzzle.
Read the full briefIn a sovereign-debt crisis, even understanding politics may not be enough
Read the full briefLedger's Atom will run apps like WhatsApp and Instragram and let users switch between smartphone functions and a protected mode for managing digital assets.
Read the full briefTama, a calico, was named honorary stationmaster of Kishi Station in 2007 and is widely credited with saving the struggling rail line, drawing tourists from around the world until her death in 2015.
Read the full briefDoJ had demanded that LA county confirm citizenship of people on list in thumb drive, but officials refused US politics live , latest updates Send us your questions about immigration and the midterms The US Department of Justice sued California on Thursday, seeking a court order to prevent the state from tabulating certain ballots cast in the midterm elections .
Read the full briefCanada-born singer-songwriter, 82, posts footage of citizenship ceremony to Instagram Joni Mitchell has become a US citizen, after first moving to the country in the mid-1960s.
Read the full briefPorsche's turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.
Read the full briefAfter a botched 1945 slaughter left his brainstem intact, Mike the chicken survived more than a year, was fed with an eyedropper, and toured the country as a sideshow act.
Read the full briefMartin Shkreli's 2022 release conditions bar him from participating in the pharmaceutical industry, including ownership stakes or business decisions The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and seven US states have alleged that pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli repeatedly violated a lifetime ban on participating in the pharmaceutical industry, and they are asking a judge to hold him in contempt.
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Read the full briefChildren were buried under the debris after the roof crashed through three classrooms, police say.
Read the full brief8 in 10 Americans opposed the Pentagon's plans, a Thursday poll showed.
Read the full briefBoardwalk destroyed in Long Beach and homes damaged, while Baja California in Mexico and Las Vegas also affected Southern California coastal communities are picking up the pieces after a weekend of extreme weather brought flooding that overtook city streets and intense waves battered beachside homes.
Read the full briefArticle URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 168 # Comments: 88
Read the full briefA 2016 UK poll to name a polar research vessel was won overwhelmingly by Boaty McBoatface. Officials overruled it for the ship but gave the name to its submarine instead.
Read the full briefIt is easy to exaggerate their economic woes
Read the full briefBitcoin fell to just above $80,000 as South Korea's Kospi plunged 8%, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 2.2% and all but six CoinDesk 100 members declined.
Read the full briefA 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.
Read the full briefVoting registration organizations accuse Texas officials of failing to ensure eligible voters can register properly Texas election officials are struggling to process a massive backlog of nearly 600,000 voter registration applications after a major state computer system failure, just days before early voting is set to open on Monday and amid concerns about widespread voter suppression.
Read the full briefMeta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Read the full briefAPOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 15 , The... Today's APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The Milky [...]
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Read the full briefStocks also turned positive after big early losses, helped by sharply lower bond yields.
Read the full briefA search and rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea after the latest attack in the area.
Read the full briefTrump said some would "rather not watch" the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.
Read the full briefBluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said [...]
Read the full briefDuring El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and eastern Amazon.
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Read the full briefJeff Yan told Bloomberg that U.S. regulatory oversight should apply to the firms using the blockchain, not to the underlying network itself.
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In 1932 the Australian military deployed soldiers with machine guns against tens of thousands of crop-raiding emus. The birds scattered, regrouped, and outlasted the campaign, which was quietly called off.
Read the full briefYemen's information minister says the prime minister and other ministers were unhurt when ballistic missiles hit al-Maashiq Palace.
Read the full briefArticle URL: https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accounts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109375 Points: 120 # Comments: 107
Read the full briefThe Pitch Drop Experiment, started in 1927, lets a blob of pitch fall one drop at a time to prove it is a fluid. Roughly nine drops have fallen, and almost no one has ever seen one happen live.
Read the full briefHousehold wealth is flowing from property to stocks
Read the full briefThe country's regulator, ASIC, has proposed tougher rules to protect users' digital assets, crypto trading and to safeguard the country's financial stability.
Read the full briefKatie Zacharia does not appear to be registered to the legal bar in any state where she has lived.
Read the full briefProsecutors say Adan Manzano was victim of Danette Colbert's operation targeting New Orleans tourists A woman involved in a New Orleans criminal enterprise that targeted tourists and led to the death of a reporter has been resentenced to life. On Wednesday, a Jefferson Parish judge resentenced 49-year old Danette Colbert to life in prison plus 75 years under Louisiana's habitual offender law.
Read the full briefIf you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, [...]
Read the full briefHealth minister says government 'did not authorize' Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK Jr Guinea-Bissau has not approved the controversial hepatitis B study in newborns that would be funded by the US government and private partners, the African country's minister of health said on Tuesday.
Read the full briefThe taxman is losing patience with Americans' shrewd use of tax losses
Read the full briefPolice reportedly seized $4 million in cash and 64 luxury watches during a raid on the crypto founder's Istanbul residence.
Read the full briefWojtek, a brown bear adopted by Polish troops in WWII, was officially enlisted as a private so he could travel with the unit, and was seen helping move artillery shells at the Battle of Monte Cassino.
Read the full briefSoldier who killed 13 people in 2009 will still be executed, but president said 'people would rather not watch him die' Donald Trump has shelved a widely condemned plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009.
Read the full briefThe executives argued that advertising isn't the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
Read the full briefResearch shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don't start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests.
Read the full briefStubbs, a cat in Talkeetna, Alaska, held the role of honorary mayor for two decades, becoming a beloved fixture and a steady draw for curious visitors.
Read the full briefFTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.
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Read the full briefCambridge University study suggests stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment Women with autoimmune conditions are up to 74% more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological or psychosomatic, and face much longer waits for a diagnosis and treatment, a study suggests.
Read the full briefMETR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic's risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
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In 1919 a giant storage tank burst, sending a 25-foot wall of molasses through the North End at an estimated 35 miles per hour. Locals said the area smelled sweet for years.
Read the full briefNearly 61% believe country is in recession and 65% of independents say economy is worse, according to new Harris poll Tell us: what is your personal 'recession indicator'?
Read the full briefTwo "New Keynesians", Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, win the highest honour in economics
Read the full briefResearchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
Read the full briefExclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality Magnus Maximus, the Roman emperor who ruled Britain in the fourth century, led his troops against the Picts and Scots, but a theory that he also established a military camp near Frenni Fawr hill in Wales has so far been based on folklore.
Read the full briefBluesky is bringing "social vibe coding" to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
Read the full briefRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers A controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given approval to move forward this week. It is a central part of the vaccine vision for Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a longtime vaccine opponent.
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Read the full briefCommittee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza .
Read the full briefMeta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework." Meta and Apple, [...]
Read the full briefResearchers found five events, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK Brexit, Liz Truss's mini-budget and other "shocks" over the last 10 years have led to a serious and lasting deterioration in the UK population's mental health, research has found .
Read the full briefSony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell. All [...]
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Read the full briefGoogle DeepMind's first internal audit of AI-driven research finds no measurable speedup in AI progress.
Read the full briefVolvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.
Read the full briefVolvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can [...]
Read the full briefRocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.
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Read the full briefArticle URL: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematicians-navigate-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104654 Points: 218 # Comments: 176
Read the full briefWorkers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled 'bossware'. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of data to provide minute-by-minute accounts of activity, and productivity. To find out more, Ian Sample hears from UK technology editor Robert Booth.
Read the full briefArticle in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated.
Read the full briefExperts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK's intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to "change the stakes" on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain.
Read the full briefHigh valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks IMF warns global economy 'could soon test the limits of resilience' The threat of an AI share price crash rippling out across global markets is putting world financial stability at risk, the International Monetary fund has warned.
Read the full briefWhen populations fall, fledglings can struggle to learn the right notes to attract mates. But research on how birds communicate offers hope for species' survival Listening to birdsong is one of life's great joys, but when researchers heard a particular tune emerging from a tree in a Buenos Aires park, they were especially jubilant.
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