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White House pays tribute to Charlie Kirk on death anniversary

White House pays tribute to Charlie Kirk on death anniversary

The White House on Thursday released a video honoring Charlie Kirk on the first death anniversary of the Turning Point USA co-founder. Kirk, 31, was...

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Steam's age check locks out half of Australian adults

Steam's age check locks out half of Australian adults

If you're an Australian Steam user who tried to open Cyberpunk 2077's store page this week and hit a wall, you're not imagining things....

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Norway's King Harald laid to rest

Norway's King Harald laid to rest

Norway's King Harald V was being laid to rest on Wednesday, in a series of ‌ceremonies marking the culmination of 13 days of national mourning...

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Anthropic's AI expert spends half her time saying no: Here's why

Anthropic's AI expert spends half her time saying no: Here's why

Kristen Swanson's job is teaching people to use AI better. Most of that job, she says, involves telling them when to close the laptop and do the...

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People were too frightened to speak about Elon Musk, says documentary director

People were too frightened to speak about Elon Musk, says documentary director

Director Alex Gibney has revealed that many people were too frightened to speak publicly about Elon Musk, ​as he unveiled his marathon documentary...

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Israel's Netanyahu makes last-ditch efforts to avert election defeat

Israel's Netanyahu makes last-ditch efforts to avert election defeat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to consolidate Israel's fractious right-wing parties ahead of a Tuesday deadline in order to avoid...

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AI-designed drug also slowed biological aging, study finds

AI-designed drug also slowed biological aging, study finds

Six separate ageing clocks, run on the same 43 patients, all pointed in the same direction: younger predicted biological age after 12 weeks on an...

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Trump wants rates at 1% as AI boom adds to inflation pressure

Trump wants rates at 1% as AI boom adds to inflation pressure

President Trump has been blunt about what he wants from the Federal Reserve: the lowest interest rates anywhere in the world, ideally 1% or below....

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Hackers leak nearly 6TB of sensitive Berlin government data

Hackers leak nearly 6TB of sensitive Berlin government data

The ransomware group Rhysida has published nearly six terabytes of data stolen from Berlin's state administration on the dark web, spanning close...

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Nissan's factory robots got stuck in their own traffic jam

Nissan's factory robots got stuck in their own traffic jam

Nissan's newest factory workers move on wheels, not legs, and they've already caused at least one pileup. While rolling out autonomous...

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George Clooney rings alarm bells for film and journalism amid the rise of AI

George Clooney rings alarm bells for film and journalism amid the rise of AI

George Clooney warned on Wednesday that advances in artificial intelligence were making it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from fiction,...

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Scientists just discovered diamonds can generate electricity

Scientists just discovered diamonds can generate electricity

Bend a diamond membrane about 5 micrometres thick, and it generates roughly 70 millivolts at just 1.4% bending strain, a voltage coefficient of 82.2...

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US hits Iran, Tehran retaliates against bases in major escalation

US hits Iran, Tehran retaliates against bases in major escalation

Iranians and their Arab neighbours feared a return of war on Wednesday after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July,...

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Google Messages adds AI-detection to every chat photo

Google Messages adds AI-detection to every chat photo

That suspiciously perfect photo in your group chat might finally come with a paper trail. Google Messages has rolled out support for Content...

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2,000 staff strike as University of Sydney AI trust hits 0%

2,000 staff strike as University of Sydney AI trust hits 0%

Zero percent. That's how many staff in the University of Sydney's arts and social sciences faculty said they trust management to act in the...

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US launches new barrage of strikes on Iran

US launches new barrage of strikes on Iran

The United States on Tuesday launched new air strikes on Iranian targets, quashing hopes that an exchange of fire last weekend might not lead to a...

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New king takes oath in Norway

New king takes oath in Norway

King Haakon VIII of Norway took an oath before parliament on Tuesday following the death of ‌his father, pledging to uphold the Nordic...

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Messi announces his international retirement

Messi announces his international retirement

Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football with the Argentina national team. In a statement issued on social media on...

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12 jobs AI could wipe out fastest by 2035

12 jobs AI could wipe out fastest by 2035

Word processors and typists are projected to lose more than a third of their workforce by 2035, the steepest decline of any occupation the Bureau of...

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Russian drone attack kills 37 Ukrainians

At least 37 people were killed after a Russian drone attack ‌on a Kyiv-area ammunition depot sparked a detonation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy...

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AI found 175,000 hidden signals inside Earth

Roughly 2,900 kilometres beneath your feet, where Earth's solid mantle gives way to its molten outer core, scientists have just found nearly...

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AI 'loss of control' cases nearly double in a month

More than 300 cases of AI systems slipping their users' control were logged in July alone, almost double June's total, according to new data...

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Russia destroys 90% of Ukraine's retail food logistics

Recent Russian air attacks have destroyed around 90% of retailers' food logistics, Kyiv's agricultural minister said on Friday.  According...

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Nepal's 'Green House' survives devastating flood

A horrific video of Nepal's flash flood hitting a house  with people standing in the balcony waiting for a miracle to save their lives went...

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Canada could rename Trump Avenue to ‘Taco Avenue’ amid trade war with US

Ottawa City Council is considering renaming a street named after US President Donald Trump, with “Taco Avenue” and “Obama Avenue” among the...

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Donald Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

US President Donald Trump signed an ‌executive order on Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, a change he said would take effect...

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Bill Gates reveals tech industry’s chilling AI secret

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared alarming details about how Artificial Intelligence is going to change the world, for the worse for the...

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle media storm exposes power and risk of their brand

If Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were hoping the press would give them an easier time on their return to Britain, the frenzied reporting around her...

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Ukraine awards Elon Musk high state honour

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has bestowed one of Ukraine's top state honours on SpaceX owner Elon Musk as Kyiv seeks to expand use of the...

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Meta's secret plan to cut 60% of some teams with AI: Report

Mark Zuckerberg's January retreat in Hawaii produced more than a strategy memo. According to internal documents reviewed by Reuters, it produced...

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Electric passenger planes could take off by 2030

Nine seats, a 400-kilometre range, and no kerosene – those are the pitches aircraft makers are racing to deliver by the end of the decade. It...

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US Secret Service issues statement on 'threat' against Barron Trump

The US Secret Service has confirmed it is aware that Iranian state media has aired a video that appears to threaten the life of Barron Trump,...

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H-1B visa costs in US set to rise above $100,000 under Trump plan

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented fee of more than $100,000 on new H-1B...

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China abruptly postpones Chang’e-7 moon mission to search for water–Here’s why

China has abruptly delayed its Chang’e-7 lunar mission aimed at exploring the moon’s surface including a search for water ice remnants. The launch...

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80% of young adults already have heart risk factors: Study finds

Nearly 80% of young adults in a new study, averaging just 23 years old, already met criteria for a condition linking heart, kidney and metabolic...

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Iran condemns US plans to announce new sanctions

Iran on Saturday denounced U.S. plans to announce new sanctions that could put further strain on the Islamic Republic's economy and have an...

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UK government, Google team up to cut aircraft vapour trails

A new UK-backed trial will test whether artificial intelligence can steer aircraft away from forming the vapour trails responsible for a significant...

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Supreme Court lets Trump continue controversial White House ballroom project

The US Supreme Court has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom construction to continue, blocking a lower court ruling...

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NATO members discuss Strait of Hormuz options without alliance involvement

NATO's top commander convened a videoconference earlier this week to facilitate possible contributions to support freedom of navigation in the...

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Windows 11 update KB5121003 is crashing popular games

Microsoft has confirmed that its August Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 is causing games to crash on some PCs. The KB5121003 update, released...

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Apple Music will soon label songs made with AI

Apple Music is preparing to make AI involvement in songs visible to every listener, not just industry insiders. According to an email sent to content...

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12% of physicians report non-medical GLP-1 use in sport

Twelve per cent of sports medicine physicians surveyed say they're aware of athletes using GLP-1 weight-loss drugs without any medical need for...

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Mark Zuckerberg did not make child safety a priority at Meta, former engineer testifies

A former engineering director at Meta Platforms testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was responsible for a culture that may have led the...

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China's Unitree unveils 'Superman' robot

China's Unitree unveiled a new high-speed robot it dubbed "Superman" on Monday, days before becoming the first general-purpose robotics...

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AI errors found in report behind Australia's under-16 ban

A government-commissioned report on Australia's under-16 social media ban contained fabricated citations, an analysis finds. A $3.48m report that...

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Study of 12,000 adults finds AI chats feel good, backfire

More than 12,000 French adults spent four weeks testing whether AI chatbots could ease loneliness. The chatbot conversations felt more enjoyable than...

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Apple could soon take on Google and Amazon in smart home

After years of limiting its smart-home ambitions to the HomePod mini and Apple TV, Apple is reportedly preparing a much broader hardware...

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UK Epstein Survivors Campaign make public demand of new PM: Report

The Prime Minister of the UK, is currently seeing a demand being put forward by the UK Epstein Survivors Campaign, and its come as part of their...

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Scientists find fifth state of matter at material interface

Physicists at Rutgers University have identified a quantum state that fits into none of the four familiar categories of solid, liquid, gas, or plasma....

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Tech firms push back on Australia under-16 ban data

Australia's biggest social media platforms told lawmakers Thursday not to read too much into early figures showing most children are still...

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