North Carolina warns mobile petting zoo visitors of rabies exposure after baby goats test positive
North Carolina health officials are urging people who touched baby goats at a mobile petting zoo to contact their local health department after several goats tested positive for rabies.The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) said the infected goats were from Farm Adventures, a mobile petting zoo based in Harmony, North Carolina, that attended off-site events across multiple counties.Anyone who had contact with baby goats from Farm Adventures, either at its Harmony loc...
South Carolina police officer killed, another wounded in gunfight with suspect who had extensive record
A gunfight between a man with an extensive arrest record and two police officers in Columbia, South Carolina, left one officer dead and another wounded on Saturday morning.The two officers responded to a domestic dispute call just after 9:30 a.m. at a residence where a woman said a man she had a restraining order against was in her home destroying property.By the time the officers arrived, he had left the scene, but they found him about an hour later and a "gunfight" ensued.MARINE VETERAN LAS VE...
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Emotional Federer inducted into tennis hall of fame
The star on his 'incredible journey' as he entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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'Chexit': Global Asset Managers Are Fleeing China
'Chexit': Global Asset Managers Are Fleeing China Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, Fidelity International (FIL) is reportedly the latest fund manager to plan a pullout from its China fund. FIL launched a wholly-owned subsidiary in Shanghai three years ago, but a lack of demand from retail investors led to disappointing growth. Reuters first reported the story. According to its sources, "A combination of fierce local competition, frequent leadership turnover and chron...
Jet-Flow Study Finds AI Model Choice Matters by Task
A computational study found that model performance depended on whether it predicted scalar outputs or time-dependent flow fields.
A neutrino model links CP violation to strong-CP constraints
A theoretical left–right model with Dirac neutrinos produces branch-dependent links between leptonic CP violation, the lightest neutrino mass and the strong-CP phase. Its numerical benchmarks allow si
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Lily Hooper death: Mother reveals hiker died the day she went missing, was found ‘lying peacefully’
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Retired Port Authority officers tell Mamdani, Hochul to stay away from Ground Zero on 9/11
Retired Port Authority police officers are demanding that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul skip Ground Zero’s 25th anniversary 9/11 commemoration, saying their attendance would inflict "deep pain" on victims’ families, survivors and first responders.In separate letters dated Aug. 14, John McDevitt, president of the Port Authority Retired Police Association, urged the two Democrats not to attend the Sept. 11 ceremony at the site of the deadliest terror attack in U.S. histo...
PGA Tour taps Donald Trump to reprise honorary chairman role for Presidents Cup, White House confirms
President Donald Trump will return to a familiar role next month when the 2026 Presidents Cup tees off. Trump was named an honorary chairman for the tournament, the PGA Tour announced Saturday.This year’s event is scheduled for Sept. 22-27 at Medinah Country Club near Chicago. Trump previously served as honorary chairman of the 2017 Presidents Cup, held at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey. He participated in the trophy presentation after the U.S. Team defeated the International Team, 19-...
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AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US
AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US Despite the tech industry’s conviction that the rise of AI is an inflection point that will change the course of humanity, many humans remain skeptical whether the new direction we’re headed in is the right one. As Statista's Felix Richter reports below, the pace at which AI seems to be taking over parts of our lives, whether we like it or not, is especially worrisome to many. In a recent Statista Consumer Insights survey, 31 percent o...
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Dolly Parton's former Solvang retreat is on the market
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died at 80 this week, used to spend some of her weekends in Solvang.
AI Finds Civil Plan Pages, But Rules Remain Hard
A visual-first AI system retrieved civil standard-plan pages accurately across agencies, but a small real-plan test exposed a sharp drop when it had to find the governing numerical rules itself.
AI method posts higher accuracy while learning new visual tasks
The benchmark result combines stronger new-task learning with less reported forgetting, but it remains a computational point estimate rather than evidence from real-world deployment.
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The Arday Tragedy: A Story Of Institutional Failure, Not A Witch Hunt
The Arday Tragedy: A Story Of Institutional Failure, Not A Witch Hunt Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute, The recent death of Jason Arday has been met with widespread grief, but also with a disturbing rush to assign blame. Much of the media narrative has positioned Nathan Cofnas as the villain, the man who exposed plagiarism and, in doing so, supposedly hounded a vulnerable academic to his death. This is a convenient story, but it is not the truth. Let us be c...
New AI dataset pairs fitness video with muscle signals and errors
Researchers describe a multimodal benchmark for judging weight-loaded fitness actions, tracing specific errors and predicting muscle activity from video. The work is a dataset and modeling study, not
Former California councilman's corruption unmasked after FBI finds cash buried in backyard
A former California councilman who admitted burying nearly $63,000 in cash in his backyard was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison for taking bribes tied to a police-union contract and commercial marijuana permits, prosecutors said.Ricardo Pacheco, 63, spent more than two decades on the Baldwin Park City Council before resigning in 2020 as part of his plea deal. Federal prosecutors said he used his elected office to collect cash and funnel other payments through his church and politi...
New six-million-pair dataset targets reference-based video editing
A computer-vision preprint introduces six million editing pairs and six million visual references, reporting strong model scores while relying heavily on automated and LLM-based evaluation.
Footage of two planes stunning a rugby stadium with one of the wildest flyovers ever goes viral
Is there anything better than a flyover?Just last weekend, fans at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C., were treated to seven of them in the lead-up to the race.However, none of them buzzed the tower quite like a couple of passenger jets did to a rugby stadium in South Africa.EXCLUSIVE: AIR FORCE DEBUTS HISTORIC 8-SHIP BOMBER-FIGHTER FORMATION OVER MIAMI BEACHNew Zealand traveled to South Africa as part of a tour called "Rugby's Greatest Rivalry," pitting the All Blacks against the Sp...
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Estonia’s spy chief: Russia in ‘a very bad place’ and Putin faces power risks
If the Russians were to strike across the border into Estonia, Nato would be drawn in.
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Estonia’s spy chief: Russia’s ‘in a bad place’ and Putin faces power risks
If the Russians were to strike across the border into Estonia, Nato would be drawn in.
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Meta Tests Robots That Can Swap Cables And Reset Servers At Its Data Centers
Meta Tests Robots That Can Swap Cables And Reset Servers At Its Data Centers Kiss those data center technician jobs goodbye... Meta is testing robots that can swap network cables, restart servers, reseat components, and perform other physical tasks traditionally handled by data center technicians. The experiments come as the company rapidly expands its AI infrastructure and seeks to operate facilities more efficiently, according to Wired. Some employees worry about job security. O...
Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI 'Responsibly'
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? "Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools" in its projects, documentation, and packaging... Generative AI "is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors." "The responsibility for every contribution rests with the contributor who submits it, who remains accountable for its technical quality, legal acceptability, ...
Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music As AI infiltrates
Canadian women's volleyball team qualifies for Olympics for 1st time since 1996
The Canadian women's vollleyball team punched its ticket to the Olympics for the first time since 1996 on Saturday with a 3-1 win (25-15, 20-25, 25-23, 25-14) over the host Dominican Republic in the final of the NORCECA Continental Qualifier in Santo Domingo.
Mixed training scores higher than next-chunk reasoning in AI tests
A controlled comparison using one base model found Mixed SFT ahead of NTR and NSR after a common RLVR stage, with a much lower GPU-hour cost.
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US Steps Up Africa Push As China Expands Economic, Security Footprint
US Steps Up Africa Push As China Expands Economic, Security Footprint Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration says it has helped close 37 commercial deals worth $25.67 billion in Africa as Washington moves to compete with a much larger Chinese economic footprint across the continent. "China continues to flood Africa with exports," Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Frank Garcia told Fox News in an interview published Aug. 27. Garcia sa...
Country duo Dan + Shay nearly broke up at height of success when their communication faltered
Country music duo Dan + Shay revealed they almost went their separate ways at the height of their success.The duo, composed of Dan Smyers, 39, and Shay Mooney, 34, admitted while on the "Artist Friendly" podcast recently that, at the pinnacle of their success, "there was unhealthy dynamics between both of us 'cause we process things a lot differently."Mooney explained that their biggest issue was that there "was just a communication stop," and they eventually "got to this point" where it was "ju...
Country duo Dan + Shay nearly broke up at height of success when their 'communication' faltered
Country music duo Dan + Shay revealed they almost went their separate ways at the height of their success.The duo, composed of Dan Smyers, 39, and Shay Mooney, 34, admitted while on the "Artist Friendly" podcast recently that at the pinnacle of their success "there was unhealthy dynamics between both of us cuz we process things a lot differently."Mooney explained that their biggest issue was that there "was just a communication stop" and they eventually "got to this point" where it was "just get...
Division-II running back pronounced dead after medical emergency in team's season opener
A college in Liberty, Missouri, is in mourning after one of the school's running backs was pronounced dead following a medical emergency on the sideline during the team's season-opening game.William Jewell College running back MicahJo Barnett was the player involved in the incident during the game against D-II rival Fort Lewis College.The game, which was being played at William Jewell College's Greene Stadium, was suspended, with a vigil in memory of the late junior running back scheduled for Sa...
PARTAB reports benchmark gains with less table context
A preprint reports that PARTAB scored 79.31 exact match on WikiTableQuestions and 90.48 accuracy on TabFact, with a smaller selected context relative to candidate partitions.
Mississippi mayor argues against lowering flag for Dolly Parton after her death
The mayor of a small city in Mississippi is arguing against lowering the flag to honor Dolly Parton, worrying that it would "lessen the meaning of the gesture" in the future."I believe lowering the American flag to half-staff should mean something very significant," Olive Branch, Mississippi, Mayor Ken Adams wrote on the city’s Facebook page Friday. "In my opinion, it should be reserved for our military heroes, fallen first responders, presidents and other major national leaders, or events that ...
Mississippi mayor argues aginst lowering flag for Dolly Parton after her death
A mayor of a small city in Mississippi is arguing against lowering the flag to honor Dolly Parton, worrying that it would "lessen the meaning of the gesture" in the future."I believe lowering the American flag to half-staff should mean something very significant," Olive Branch, Mississippi, Mayor Ken Adams wrote on the city’s Facebook page on Friday. "In my opinion, it should be reserved for our military heroes, fallen first responders, presidents and other major national leaders, or events that...
AI model rebuilds resting-state brain scans across datasets
A model trained on resting-state fMRI reconstructed held-out signals across UK Biobank and HCP and produced strong benchmark scores on demographic, trait, diagnostic and amyloid tasks.
AI System Turns One Image Into Relightable 3D Assets
Luce combines geometry and PBR materials in one compressed representation, then offers Gaussian or textured-mesh output; its Gaussian version led several reported benchmark measures.
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US Government Sold $797 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 4.73%, 30-Year Yield 5.22%
Warsh moved the needle on Friday, while Bessent’s Hocus-Pocus Shows 1-3 fizzled.
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Millions of pounds of rotting food have finally been removed from burned warehouse in Boyle Heights
The air quality regulator sent an enforcement team to inspect the site Saturday and confirmed food removal had been completed.
Three Coding-Agent Systems Converge, but a Trust Gap Remains
A qualitative study of three open-source coding-agent harnesses finds a recurring five-part architecture, while external verifiability remains absent across the cases.
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What Happened To The So-Called AI Job Apocalypse?
What Happened To The So-Called AI Job Apocalypse? Authored by Joe Bertolami via RealClearMarkets, A recent report from Stanford reviewed the latest employment data and found that, so far, AI has not resulted in large scale job destruction. Meanwhile, new hiring data from the Economic Times reveals that AI is actively fueling unprecedented job creation, with AI skills now powering nearly two-thirds of new Global Capability Center hiring. Together, these recent dispatches from the fr...
Natasha Cloud refuses to address Enes Kanter Freedom by name in first comments on ejection incident
Natasha Cloud called Enes Kanter Freedom an "irrelevant person" Saturday in her first public comments since their courtside confrontation last Sunday led to his ejection and ban from Chicago Sky home games."I won't be talking about anything that happened with an irrelevant person," Cloud told reporters Saturday. "What I will focus on is what actually affects women and children.""I will talk about real issues that face women, and it's not our trans human beings," she continued. "It's not our drag...
California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope
Luke James / Tom's Hardware: California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope AB 1856 e
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CDC Reports COVID-19 Activity Is Increasing Across US
CDC Reports COVID-19 Activity Is Increasing Across US The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said COVID-19 activity is "increasing" across the United States although its levels are still considered "very low" overall. "As of August 26, 2026, we estimate that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 48 states, declining or likely declining in zero states, and not changing in two states," the CDC said on Friday. Overall community viral activity levels...
AI screens 46,061 rejected galaxies for paired nuclei
An AI detector revisited galaxies rejected by GOTHIC and produced 29,605 possible paired-nucleus candidates, but their true status remains unconfirmed.
Social media rips dude who snatched Liverpool star's match-worn jersey from two kids … or did he?
You’d think by now most people would know that snatching a game-used ball or jersey from a kid at a sporting event is always a bad move, but it appears at least one person didn’t get the message … or did he?English Premier League club Liverpool had just played Nottingham Forest to a 2-2 draw, and while he was walking off the pitch, Liverpool's Alexander Isak decided to make a young fan's day.He spotted the kid, popped off his jersey, and went to hand it to him, only for it to be intercepted by s...
Staged AI Agent Tops Multi-Turn Tool Tests Across Model Sizes
A four-stage tool-using agent led the main benchmark at every tested model size, but parallel calls remained difficult and the Specialized version had higher latency.
Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works
Axios reports: Some of the world's largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." The suit is the opening salvo in what is now likely to be a yearslong fight over music, AI, and how intellectual property is protected in a new era of technology... The Sony/Warner lawsuit is notable because it's broad. It alleges Anthropic unlawfully trained its models ...
How to save money on your phone bill with an MVNO
There are wireless providers offering plans at a fraction of the cost you'll find at major carriers like ATandT, T-Mobile and Verizon.
Maths preprint finds endpoint regularity failure on one domain
A mathematical preprint constructs a bounded planar Lipschitz domain where the endpoint Dirichlet Laplace range is not closed, while solution Sobolev norms diverge under bounded forcing.
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The Monumental Mistake Of Raising Rates In September
The Monumental Mistake Of Raising Rates In September Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Three members of the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise rates in July. However, the Committee held the federal funds target at 3.5%-3.75% by a 9-3 vote. Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and J.P. Morgan all expect a September hike. Across the Atlantic, the European Central Bank raised rates by 25 basis points in June and is expected to raise them again in September. It would be a monumental ...
USC football ripped for pathetic crowd at home opener: 'Absolutely embarrassing'
College football is BACK. Can you feel it? It's in the air!We've waited months for today. We put our heads down all winter and spring. We suffered through the insufferable summer weather. We made it through the awful WNBA drama.We waited for today for this moment. Week Zero. The unofficial start of the college football season. It's the best Saturday of the year ...ONE OF THESE EIGHT COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS WILL BE HOISTING THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY IN 2026Unless you're in Los Angeles.USC, ...
The wildest video game budgets can't hold a candle to GTA 6
GTA 6 is thought to be the most expensive entertainment product ever made, eclipsing Hollywood movies and other video games by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Drug institute warns that Trump-shaped ecstasy pills contain potentially fatal ingredient
A respected drug treatment and mental health center in the Netherlands issued a warning against taking ecstasy pills that are shaped like President Donald Trump’s head, saying they could be fatal.The Trimbos Institute warned in a "red alert" that the pills contain a high concentration of PMMA, also known as para-methoxymethamfetamine, which is similar to ecstasy’s active ingredient MDMA, but is slower acting.The slow onset could encourage users to take more and potentially overdose.The institute...
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NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to demonstrate key capabilities for the future of space exploration.
Royce White became a fan-favorite guest at Fever game amid Simone Biles' appearance
On a night when Simone Biles was in the building, Indiana Fever fans flocked to Royce White.White, a former NBA player who became a viral sensation after declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, showed up at Friday night’s Fever game in what he says was an unannounced appearance.White told OutKick that he didn't give the Fever any notice that he would be coming, and the ticket wasn't even purchased under his name. The Fever have not responded to requests for comment.FORMER NBA PLAYER ROYCE WHITE OFFIC...
Sony and Warner Music Sue Anthropic, Alleging Theft of Intellectual Property
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Targeted Checks Cut AI Errors From Outdated Memory
Language models often followed inherited constraints after those rules had been superseded, but a targeted verification policy sharply improved decisions in the study’s controlled episodes.
Dems face uphill battle in challenge to Georgia congressional map under new SCOTUS rules
President Joe Biden put Georgia at the center of the national voting rights fight in 2021 when he branded the state’s Republican-backed election overhaul "Jim Crow in the 21st century."Now, five years later, a separate Georgia voting rights battle involving allegations of racial discrimination is garnering national attention as it plays out in federal court. This time, the dispute centers on the state’s redrawn congressional and state maps redrawn in 2021, with challengers facing a significantly...
Dems face uphill battle in challenge to Georgia Congressional map under new SCOTUS rules
Then-President Joe Biden put Georgia at the center of the national voting-rights fight in 2021 when he branded the state’s Republican-backed election overhaul "Jim Crow in the 21st century."Now, five years later, a separate Georgia voting-rights battle involving allegations of racial discrimination is garnering national attention as it plays out in federal court. This time, the dispute centers on the state’s redrawn Congressional and state maps redrawn in 2021, with challengers facing a signific...
Correlated uncertainty model tops held-out likelihood scores
A machine-learning methods study reports that a joint low-rank representation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty produced the best test likelihood across four computer-vision tasks, while remainin
AI image system scores higher on unseen imaging combinations
X-MULTI scored higher than MULTI on novel combinations of imaging factors in DF-RICO tests, but the vision-language supervision used in training was unreliable for some categories.
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Barclays Warns Next Commodity Shock Is Taking Shape: What You Need To Know
Barclays Warns Next Commodity Shock Is Taking Shape: What You Need To Know Wall Street coverage of a record-breaking Super El Niño is only growing as agricultural commodities break out. Yet the rally extends well beyond the agricultural complex, with industrial metals and other critical materials showing signs of tightness in physical markets. Whether it is veteran commodities strategist Jeff Currie turning bullish or UBS urging clients this week to "position for a commodity upcycl...
Bill Maher ridicules liberals’ 'Lake America' outrage with jab at left-wing language police
Comedian Bill Maher mocked liberals for crying foul over President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario, suggesting they know a thing or two about changing things to fit a political agenda.In Friday’s opening monologue of HBO’s "Real Time," host Maher poked fun at Trump’s renaming of one of the Great Lakes to "Lake America" during an ongoing trade war with Canada."Trump is so mad at Canada he renamed Lake Ontario Lake America," Maher said. "Now I gotta buy a new globe again."TRUMP TAUN...
What's 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?
The Los Angeles Times first calls Ridley Scott's newest movie "a postapocalyptic thriller that trades zombies for pandemics and asks whether hope can outlast catastrophe." But besides The Dog Stars, Scott is also working on an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" starring Hugh Jackman, and is thinking about turning one of his past films into a musical. ("I can't tell you which one because they're being difficult.") The common theme, they suggest, is a director who allows his...
Why does your Kindle even have Bluetooth?
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Police fatally shoot sword-wielding man after woman found trapped in car, officials say
A sword-wielding man was fatally shot by police outside a Nashville sedan where a woman was reportedly being held against her will Saturday, authorities said.The fatal officer-involved shooting unfolded on Cheshire Drive, where officers encountered a 54-year-old man outside his Hyundai sedan while he was armed with a sword, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.Police said a woman was inside the vehicle and was reportedly being held against her will. Authorities have not released he...
Abdul El-Sayed peppered with questions on Hasan Piker link, fracture with Jewish Dems at Michigan convention
LANSING, Mich. Socialist-adjacent Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed addressed the media during Saturday's state Democratic Party Nominating Convention, where he was dogged by many of the same questions that have plagued his campaign for months.Surrounded by media in a hallway at the Lansing Center, where the convention took place, El-Sayed was peppered with questions from the press about his relationship with far-left online personality Hasan Piker, along with his stance on Israel an...
James Carville predicts a 2028 'reckoning' as socialist candidates eye the Democratic ticket
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said the Democratic Party faces an ideological "reckoning" in 2028 but rejected the idea that primary voters will choose a Democratic socialist presidential nominee.Speaking on "Saturday in America," Carville offered his prediction for how Democratic voters will approach the party's 2028 presidential primary."The reckoning will be in a nominating process for the nominee of the Democratic Party in 2028. This has to be taken to Democratic voters," Carvi...
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Who Is Legally Liable When An AI Agent Goes Rogue?
Who Is Legally Liable When An AI Agent Goes Rogue? Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, If your personal AI agent goes rogue and causes harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable? Autonomous AI agents can behave in highly unpredictable ways. Give an AI Agent a goal such as passing a test of its capabilities, and it might just decide the best way to score highly is to break containment and hack into a competing company in search of the answer s...
Trump's Venezuelan oil deal: What we know and how it could impact Canada's oil industry
Several questions about the U.S. deal to develop vast Venezuelan oil reserves remain unanswered, and a rapid and large-scale increase in production is unlikely. But experts say increased exports from Venezuela "would compete directly with Canadian crude in the U.S. Gulf Coast market."
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California lawmakers reach deal in high-stakes fight over regulating data centers
After weeks of intense negotiation, state lawmakers on Friday reached a compromise on legislation to regulate energy use by California's growing data center industry, action triggered by community anger over the facilities and fears of high utility bills in some communities.
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Former Trump supporter turned critic Milo Yiannopoulos deported from US
The right-wing commentator was arrested on Thursday in regard to immigration issues.
NYC parolee accused of killing 2 during 48-hour robbery spree hauled in after manhunt, cops say
A parolee accused of killing two New Yorkers during a 48-hour robbery spree was taken into custody Friday after an FBI-backed manhunt, police said.Jesus Acosta, 31, was arrested Friday morning after the FBI offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to his location and apprehension."Thank you to our cops, detectives, and New Yorkers for their work on locating him," the NYPD wrote in a social media post announcing the arrest.VENEZUELAN GANG MEMBERS WHO ENTERED US ILLEGALLY PLEAD GU...
NYC parolee accused of killing 2 in 48-hour robbery spree hauled in after manhunt, cops say
A parolee accused of leaving two New Yorkers dead in a 48-hour robbery spree was taken into custody Friday after an FBI-backed manhunt, police said.Jesus Acosta, 31, was arrested Friday morning after the FBI offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to his location and apprehension."Thank you to our cops, detectives, and New Yorkers for their work on locating him," the NYPD wrote in a social media post announcing the arrest.VENEZUELAN GANG MEMBERS WHO ENTERED US ILLEGALLY PLEAD G...
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Lopez: Gov. Newsom backs off from shameful gambit, and it's a victory for California coast
As legislative session closed, Newsom pushed environmental break for donor.
Packers' Jordan Love calls offensive plays in the second half of preseason game, sparks late comeback
Green Bay Packers play-caller Jordan Love? That was the star quarterback’s role in the team's final preseason game, and he excelled at it.Love called the offensive plays in the second half of the Packers’ 42-38 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Friday night. Head coach Matt LaFleur said he approached Love about it on the field before the game."I just went up to him. It’s not like he had time to prep. I was just like, ‘Hey, you want to call the second half?’" LaFleur said. "He said, ‘Sure. Yeah, ...
How guaranteed income advocates strive to turn cash assistance into policy after COVID relief funds dried up
Guaranteed income advocates hope to transform pandemic-era cash assistance programs into permanent government policy now that federal COVID-19 relief funds are expiring.In a report published Aug. 12 and titled "Right on Time: How Cash Helps Families Move Through Life’s Transitions," Economic Security Project (ESP) researchers Shafeka Hashash, Maya Tellman and Rayan Semery-Palumbo made the case for institutionalizing "no-strings-attached" cash assistance.The push comes as city leaders across the ...
With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life
CNN reports that "A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported." The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the highest dose of the experimental treatment during a pilot study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November 2025. That study was extremely small only 15 patients with dangerously high cholesterol that did not respond to medication. Th...
How guaranteed income advocates strive to turn cash assistance into policy after COVID-relief funds dried up
Guaranteed income advocates hope to transform pandemic-era cash assistance programs into permanent government policy now that federal COVID-19 relief funds are expiring.In a report published Aug. 12 titled "Right on Time: How Cash Helps Families Move Through Life’s Transitions," Economic Security Project (ESP) researchers Shafeka Hashash, Maya Tellman, and Rayan Semery-Palumbo made the case for institutionalizing "no-strings-attached" cash assistance.The push comes as city leaders across the nat...
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X Busts Suspected Chinese Bot Farm That Could 'Manipulate Legitimate Debate' Over America's AI Boom
X Busts Suspected Chinese Bot Farm That Could 'Manipulate Legitimate Debate' Over America's AI Boom Social media giant X said on Thursday that it identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese accounts – 200 of which were "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." In short: the bots were amplifying pitchfork grievances Americans already hold against data centers. Dec. 1, 2025: Rural Michigan residents rally agains...
Report claims MLB suspended prospect over fake identity plot that even included a phony death
A wild new report claims that Major League Baseball has slapped a prospect out of the Dominican Republic with a suspension.And why would that be?Because of an alleged plot involving faking his identity and age, along with a death certificate complete with a faux tombstone.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!According to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez, the Cleveland Guardians agreed to a pre-deal with David Severino, a player they believed was just 13 or 14 years ol...
Seneca Nation leader calls Trump's Lake America renaming 'unpresidential,' demands reversal
A day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" amid a trade war with Canada, the leader of Seneca Nation of Indians asked him to reverse it.Calling his order "unpresidential," president J. Conrad Seneca on Friday wrote: "The President cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through irresponsible political action. His order should be rescinded, and the name Lake Ontario should be left as it is, reflective of the Seneca people, other ...
Comedian Leanne Morgan calls out Hollywood for living in a 'bubble' and misjudging what audiences want to see
Comedian Leanne Morgan is calling out Hollywood for living in a "bubble."During a recent appearance on "The Women of Joy Show" podcast, the 60-year-old actress discussed the idea that Christian women don't consume media, with host, Maegan Waldrep Schwindling, saying they want "quality" content, but without "women in their panties shooting bows and arrows and all the things like it.""Honest to goodness, I think in the secular world, I think people, no, I think a lot of people don't want to see al...
Buck Martinez inducted into Blue Jays' new Hall of Excellence at Rogers Centre
John Albert (Buck) Martinez, a cancer survivor, catcher, manager and broadcaster for parts of five decades with the Toronto Blue Jays, was inducted into the club's new Hall of Excellence on Saturday.
Sydney Sweeney turns up the heat ahead of 29th birthday in new lingerie campaign
Sydney Sweeney is starting her birthday celebration early.The "Euphoria" star posed in a new retro-inspired campaign for her lingerie brand, SYRN, weeks before she turns 29 on Sept. 12.In the newly released photos, Sweeney models a powder-blue floral lingerie set inside a vintage-style kitchen. One image shows the actress posing beside a refrigerator, while another captures her crouched in front of the open appliance holding a glass bottle of milk.SYDNEY SWEENEY SHARES BIKINI AND UNDERWEAR PHOTO...
Blue Jays unveil Hall of Excellence at Rogers Centre ahead of Buck Martinez's induction
The Toronto Blue Jays opened their new Hall of Excellence on Saturday ahead of an afternoon ceremony for 2026 inductee Buck Martinez at Rogers Centre.
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You Should Feel Good About The Flock Debate
You Should Feel Good About The Flock Debate Authored by Connor O'Keeffe In a year as chaotic, violent, and economically destructive as this one has been, it is interesting that, to many Americans, the great villain of 2026 is turning out to be a traffic camera. But, indeed, we are seeing visceral, cross-partisan opposition to so-called Flock cameras—named after the leading manufacturer of these automated license plate readers—take hold in communities across the country. And that o...
Dinner party has guests bringing tables, dressing in white and learning location at last minute
Revelers in Detroit will gather tonight for Dîner en Blanc, an international dining phenomenon in which guests dress entirely in white and gather for an elaborate picnic at a location that remains secret until shortly before the event.Detroit’s first official Dîner en Blanc, held outside Michigan Central Station on July 26, 2025, drew close to 1,000 guests.The city’s inaugural event "quickly became one of the city’s most talked-about social gatherings," Michigan.org reported, with local celebrit...
Dinner party has guests bringing tables, dressing in white and learning location last-minute
Revelers in Detroit will gather tonight for Dîner en Blanc, an international dining phenomenon in which guests dress entirely in white and gather for an elaborate picnic at a location that remains secret until shortly before the event.Detroit’s first official Dîner en Blanc, held outside Michigan Central Station on July 26, 2025, drew close to 1,000 guests.GLP-1 BOOM COULD RESHAPE RESTAURANT BARS AS DINERS CUT BACK ON ALCOHOLThe city’s inaugural event "quickly became one of the city’s most talke...
Netflix Is Letting ‘Manifest’ Take Flight Again With New Spinoff
It hasn't been that long since 'Manifest' wrapped, but now it's returned with new arrivals and a new mystery.
Bill Belichick finally provides UNC with a pulse, but now he has to earn that $10 million paycheck
The return of Bill Belichick to the North Carolina sidelines in 2026 has clearly not drummed up the type of national attention that folks in Chapel Hill were anticipating when he was hired almost two years ago.When the Tar Heels took to the field in Ireland on Saturday afternoon against TCU to kick off the college football season, the focus was more on the offseason turmoil than on Belichick roaming the sidelines.That turmoil remains a problem and is not going away anytime soon.COLLEGE FOOTBALL ...
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Israeli settler attack on West Bank village draws rare rebuke from Netanyahu
Dozens of settlers threw stones at residents after weeks of tension in the area.
Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch Clues
Nova Scotia father and son haul hooked bald eagle out of lake, safely free it on shore
Bryan Esbaugh and his 15-year-old son, Wyatt, were fishing on Ponhook Lake in Queens County, N.S., when they accidentally hooked a bald eagle. After safely untangling the bird on shore, they set it free and playfully dubbed it the "Canadian White-Headed Lake Raptor."
Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They're Not EVs.
The Washington Post shares this tip for car buyers. Electric vehicles "are not driving the recent growth in recalls warning that vehicles could erupt into flames at any time, even when parked and turned off." A Washington Post analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recall notices found that conventional gas and diesel vehicles made up the vast majority of vehicles covered by the "park outside" label since 2021. Last week, The Post wrote about an alarming surge ...
How to watch the 2026 US Open Tennis Championships
An ESPN Unlimited subscription seems like the easiest way to get into all the US Open action.
Beer bandits swipe PBR truck hauling 50,000 cans in California, leaving brand pleading for help
A truck packed with 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer vanished in California and police claim the missing haul could be part of a brazen cargo-theft operation that made off with roughly $70,000 in booze in a single morning.Pabst Blue Ribbon said its truck and beer shipment were stolen, telling the person behind the disappearance that it understood the temptation to brag about having that much PBR, but wished they had gotten it "the honorable way."The company put the alleged thief on the cl...
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Facing protests, Newsom drops most of plan limiting utility wildfire liabilities
In a late-night deal with lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to drop his push for legislation that would have shifted more of the cost of utility-sparked wildfires to property insurers, which could have sharply raised premiums across the state.
As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens
Consumers evidently don't need "stars" to get them to gorge on AI content.
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Perhaps man with username "MrChildPorn" wanted to be caught
A man from Morgantown, West Virginia with the username "MrChildPorn" was arrested by Virginia State Police after no less than 48 reports of him "boasting of his large cache of 'child porn'," reports WBOY. Garrett Highlander, 20, posted about CSAM on Discord under a variety of monikers such as the above, according to a criminal complaint. Read the rest The post Perhaps man with username "MrChildPorn" wanted to be caught appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Rescuers battle to free trapped victims days after Nepal flash floods
Survivors face an agonising wait to learn the fate of missing friends and relatives.
Yahoo! runs embarrassing error in headline, proving even media outlets need time to round into midseason form
College football may indeed be back in our lives, but after more than eight months of inactivity, it's normal to experience some rust.The first game of the FBS season between TCU and North Carolina certainly featured its fair share of penalties and sloppy play, which is to be expected in a season opener, especially one that's being played an entire ocean away.But that sloppiness and rust doesn't just apply to the players, either.ESPN PERSONALITY BUSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INACCURATELY TRYING TO ...
