-- "The ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI system which can operate alone after human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, was able to escape the test limits. The AI agent created its own cyber-attack against the sandbox itself, finding a vulnerability which allowed it to escape the restrictions." --NOTA BENE... 'Hasta la vista, baby'...
-- “Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical.” --
-- "Peel Regional Police say 23-year-old Jaikaran Singh is wanted following a stabbing at Malton GO Station at Derry and Airport Roads that injured another man on Friday morning." --No gun... no problem.
-- "The KAIST humanoid is not just about speed or flashy moves. It reflects a bigger change in how robots are built and trained. By combining custom hardware with smarter AI, researchers are pushing machines closer to human-like capability." --
-- "Police officers stopped a vehicle believed to have been involved in the incident shortly after it happened. The driver, a man in his 30s, was arrested and is in police custody. The incident involving a black Suzuki Swift happened at around 9.30pm on Saturday in the Friar Gate area of Derby." --Ask a Derbyshire cop... and get platitudes...
-- "Although we know this will be alarming, we would like to reassure people that we do not believe there is an ongoing risk to the public." --UPDATE: Those darned 'Derby' men...
-- "Police described the suspect as a Derby man who is originally from India but has lived in the UK for a number of years. The incident is not currently being treated as terrorism." --
-- "Heritage Minister Marc Miller’s department in a briefing note said it is worried some Canadians appear disengaged from government messaging. Federal managers are relying on the CBC to promote 'social cohesion,' it said: 'Certain segments of the population remain disengaged.'". --
-- "A crowd surge at Swamy Venkateswara Temple in southern India where devotees had gathered to mark one of Hinduism’s sacred days, left at least nine people dead and dozens injured, local authorities said Saturday. Of the deceased, eight are women and one is a child." --
-- "As part of this breakthrough, by late 2026 or early 2027, the company expects to perform the world’s first implantation of a personalized, engineered human spinal cord in a paralyzed patient, with the aim of enabling them to rise from a wheelchair and walk again." --
-- "The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local time at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant at the Hickman-Humphreys County line, west of Nashville. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis confirmed to reporters there were 'some' fatalities and that there are people still missing, but did not provide numbers." --Local news now says 19 missing.
-- "The full death toll is still unknown, but hundreds of worshippers were inside the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the shooting, and horrifying pictures showed the entire structure engulfed in a raging inferno." --President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he has been briefed on the 'horrendous' shooting that appeared to target Christians.
-- "More people are believed to have been trapped inside the burning Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel and may have perished in the flames, said Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye." --BREAKING... Shooter/bomber id'd...
-- "Officials have identified Thomas "Jake" Sanford, 40, as the suspect in Sunday morning’s mass shooting at Michigan church. Sanford is reportedly a US Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq from 2004 to 2008." --UPDATE2: Bodycount is now four...
-- "Authorities in Grand Blanc Township saidtwo additional bodies were recovered from the burned out church." --
-- "Looks like its taking too much force to rotate the gear blank causing the hobber to eat the sides of the tread instead of the root. Your attempts were going great until the cutting forces went up and stalled the gear blank on the mandril. Maybe add a needle bearing in the center of the gear blank to let it rotate freely on the mandril instead of relying on the dividing head to do the rotating?" --
-- "Elon Musk may have launched rockets and revolutionized electric vehicles, but what he just unveiled might eclipse everything he’s done so far. It’s called Colossus 2—and it’s not just another AI model or flashy announcement. This is a powerful step toward artificial general intelligence, designed to think, learn, and act in ways that feel eerily close to human." --
-- "Robert Francis Prevost, of the United States has been elected the first American Pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, is a Chicago-born cardinal who previously served in Peru for two decades." --
-- "While Hinton believes artificial intelligence will transform education and medicine and potentially solve climate change, he's increasingly concerned about its rapid development. ‘The best way to understand it emotionally is we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub. Unless you can be very sure that it's not gonna want to kill you when it's grown up, you should worry.’" --Not a new idea, I'm afraid...
-- "The progressive brainiacs of Silicon Valley have created a metric called 'p(doom)' to define the chance AI destroys humanity." --
-- "Iran’s President visited the scene of a massive port blast that killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000, as a fire still blazed on Sunday more than 24 hours after the explosion." --
-- "Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger founded ARCH Motorcycle to reimagine what a motorcycle could be. To them, ARCH is a mindset, a lens through which to see the world. ‘Visionaries’ is a journey of curiosity, to understand where human creativity comes from and to shine a light on the visionaries who are pushing the bounds of innovation and changing our world." --
-- "How European mummy, the famed Tollund Man bog body, might have looked when he was alive. Bog bodies are natural mummies that became preserved in peat bogs. The Tollund Man is from the 4th century BC and was found in Denmark." --
-- "At least 30 people were killed and another 60 injured in a stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering early Wednesday, police said, as millions of pilgrims rushed to dip in sacred waters during the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India. Deadly stampedes are relatively common around Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas." --
-- "Taiwan’s Air Force said the officer was ‘inhaled by the engine for unknown reasons.’ She later was pronounced dead after life-saving efforts were unsuccessful." --
Oh, man... that plane just gobbled her up for no reason at all!
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