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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and UK Tech Minister Michelle Donelan sign a memorandum of understanding on Monday. — courtesy UK government
AI safety: UK and US sign landmark agreement
LONDON — The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence (AI).The agreement signed on Monday said both countries will work together on developing robust” methods for evaluating the safety of AI tools and the systems that underpin them.It is the first bilateral agreement of its kind.UK Tech Minister Michelle Donelan said it is “the defining technology challenge of our generation”.“We have always been clear that ensuring the safe development of AI is a shared global issue,” she said.“Only by working together can we address the technology’s risks head on and harness its enormous potential to help us all live easier and healthier lives.”The secretary of state for science, innovation and technology added that the agreement...
April 02, 2024

AI safety: UK and US sign landmark agreement

The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his party would “always protect” freedom of speech
Sunak backs JK Rowling’s views on new hate crime law
LONDON — The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said people should not be criminalized “for stating simple facts on biology” in response to JK Rowling’s criticism of Scotland’s new hate crime law.The author took to social media to hit out at the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act which came into effect on Monday.The law creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to protected characteristics. Sunak said the UK had a proud tradition of free speech.In a series of social media posts, Rowling described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh but who is understood to currently be abroad, then invited police to arrest her if they believed she had...
April 02, 2024

Sunak backs JK Rowling’s views on new hate crime law

Police said they arrested a 13-year-old suspect after the shooting in Vantaa
Child, 13, wounds three in Finland school shooting
HELSINKI — Finnish police say they responded to the incident at Viertola school before 09:00 (06:00 GMT) on Tuesday and urged local residents to remain indoors.A suspect, who police say was also aged 13, has been arrested.The school has 800 students and 90 staff. Witnesses told public broadcaster YLE that two ambulances had left the scene.In common with other Finnish schools, children had just returned to classes in Vantaa, north of the capital Helsinki, after the long Easter weekend.The school has students aged seven to 15 of both primary and middle-school age on two separate sites.As news emerged of the shooting parents gathered at the Jokiranta site where the incident happened.Vantaa is Finland's fourth biggest city with some 240,000 residents.Finland saw two deadly school...
April 02, 2024

Child, 13, wounds three in Finland school shooting

Smoke billows after a Ukrainian drone strikes a refinery in Ryazan, Ryazan region, Russia, in this screen grab from a video obtained by Reuters, March 13, 2024
Ukraine’s AI-enabled drones trying to disrupt Russia’s energy industry
KYIV — There’s a loud buzzing sound as a small silhouette approaches in the air. The noise is eerily reminiscent of Russian drone strikes on Ukraine, but this episode was recorded closer to Moscow than to Kyiv.“They’re flying right towards us,” a woman is heard saying in Russian, in a video shared on social media and reviewed by CNN. As the object comes closer, it becomes clear: This is a Ukrainian drone, flying over Russian territory. “I’m f**king scared,” she lets out.Another video, recorded moments later, shows the same drone veering left as loud air raid sirens muffle the propeller’s noise. Seconds later, the drone dives from the sky, smashing into a pipe-covered tower at a Russian oil refinery, exploding on impact.CNN geolocated the videos to Rosneft’s Ryazan...
April 02, 2024

Ukraine’s AI-enabled drones trying to disrupt Russia’s energy industry

JK Rowling described several transgender women as men on the day of the new hate crime law. — courtesy Getty Images
JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over hate crime law
EDINBURGH — JK Rowling has challenged Scotland's new hate crime law in a series of social media posts — inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offense.The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.She said "freedom of speech and belief" was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.Earlier, Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a "rising tide of hatred".The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.The...
April 01, 2024

JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over hate crime law

An Adidas spokesman denied that the kit's resemblance to the Nazi SS rune was intentional. — courtesy Adidas
Germany fans banned from buying No. 44 kits over Nazi symbolism
BERLIN — Adidas has banned football fans from buying German football kits customized with the number 44, after media raised its resemblance to the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS units."We will block personalization of the jerseys," an Adidas spokesman said.SS units were the most responsible for crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis.The newly released kit has also caused controversy with its choice of pink for the away colors.The issue was first raised by historian Michael König, who said the design of the kits was "very questionable".The SS rune was designed for use by the Nazi units in 1929. Members of the SS ranged from Gestapo agents to concentration camp guards. SS duties included administering death camps where millions of Jews and others were...
April 01, 2024

Germany fans banned from buying No. 44 kits over Nazi symbolism

Rescuers were unable to establish any contact with the trapped miners
Russia ends efforts to rescue gold miners trapped for two weeks
MOSCOW — An operation to rescue 13 gold miners trapped by a landslide in the far east of Russia has ended with the miners presumed dead, Russian media report.Efforts at the Pioneer mine in the Amur region could not continue due to fears of further rock collapses.The landslide happened two weeks ago, trapping the miners more than 100m (328ft) underground. Possible shelter areas have been found to be flooded.The mine is one of the world's largest and one of Russia's most productive.Officials are investigating a possible breach of safety rules. The managing director of the facility was arrested last week."On 1 April, a decision was made to terminate the rescue operation at the Pioneer mine," Interfax news agency quoted the operator Pokrovsky Mine as saying.Officials said...
April 01, 2024

Russia ends efforts to rescue gold miners trapped for two weeks

Police officers walk along the road leading to a plant where an attack took place in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France, Friday, June 26, 2015
Authorities find remains of missing French toddler
PARIS — French authorities have confirmed the discovery of the remains of Emile Soleil, a toddler who went missing in July 2023.“This heartbreaking news was feared,” said his parents in a statement released by their lawyer, Jerome Triomphe.French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed on local media that bones, including a skull, were found by a hiker near Le Vernet in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region.Though the area was searched many times before, Saturday's discovery was aided by investigators, sniffer dogs and a helicopter.Gendarmerie representatives have not disclosed specific details as the investigation remains ongoing, with all possibilities still being considered.Initially opened as a missing persons case in Digne-les-Bains, the investigation was quickly handed...
April 01, 2024

Authorities find remains of missing French toddler

In this February 2020 photo, Alexey Navalny and his wife Yulia walk with demonstrators during a rally in Moscow, Russia
Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny
MOSCOW — Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge.Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison contractor’s website, according to interviews with the hackers, screenshots and data reviewed by CNN.“Long live Alexey Navalny!” read a message on the hacked website, accompanied by a photo of Navalny and his wife Yulia at a political rally.In a stunning breach of security, they also appear to have stolen a database containing information on hundreds of thousands of Russian prisoners and their relatives and contacts, including, the hackers claim, data held on prisoners in the Arctic...
April 01, 2024

Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny

Istanbul mayor and candidate Ekrem Imamoglu (2-L) of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) voted for the local elections at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday. — courtesy Tolga Bozoglu/EPA-EFE
Turkish elections: Opposition heads for victory in Istanbul and Ankara
ISTANBUL — Turkey's main opposition party is closing in on victory in the main cities of Istanbul and Ankara, in high-stakes local elections.Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the city in 2019, said that he was "very happy" so far.A year after Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured a third term as president, he had made it his goal to win back the city where he grew up and became mayor.But the night belonged to the opposition as it closed in on victory.With 80% the vote counted in Istanbul, Imamoglu was almost 10 points ahead of his rival from Erdogan's AK Party.In the capital Ankara, his colleague in the secular opposition CHP, Mansur Yavas, was so far ahead of his rival that he declared victory when less than half the votes were in.President Erdogan, 70,...
March 31, 2024

Turkish elections: Opposition heads for victory in Istanbul and Ankara

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