The intelligence head will join the vice president and top officials from 15 executive departments US President Joe Biden has tapped CIA Director William Burns to become a member of his cabinet, underscoring the official’s significant influence in the White House and his key role in American foreign policy. The president announced the decision on Friday, saying Burns has given …
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The latest weapons test comes shortly after Pyongyang threatened Washington with nuclear retaliation North Korea has launched several cruise missiles, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, marking yet another show of force this week in response to the docking of a US ballistic missile submarine in South Korea for the fist time in decades. The launches were detected around 4am …
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The move comes weeks after the Netherlands crowned its first transgender winner of a similar competition A patron of the Miss Italy beauty pageant has ruled out the possibility of transgender entrants being permitted to compete, saying that competitors “must be a woman from birth.” The rule, which comes shortly after the Netherlands crowned its first-ever transgender winner of a …
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“The post-Cold War period is over, and we are moving towards a new global order and a multipolar world,” António Guterres said. He highlighted geopolitical tensions, grave human rights violations, distrust in public institutions, new conflicts, terrorism, and the weaponization of emerging technologies. Insecurity is being stoked by a rising threat of nuclear war and growing scepticism towards multilateralism, he …
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A 67-year-old man was issued with a S$4,800 (US$3,600) fine in Geylang, Singapore on Friday after he repeatedly ignored warnings prohibiting the feeding of pigeons in the area, according to local media. Singaporean national V. Rajandran was slapped with the penalty after he was found to have violated four laws under the country’s Wildlife Act. Local media outlet CNA reported …
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The World of Warcraft community is jubilant after brazenly tricking an AI-generated games news website into publishing an article covering a fictitious upcoming feature, known simply as ‘Glorbo’. The spread of AI-generated news has been a subject of controversy and debate in recent years, and has seen certain websites dispatch bots to scrape information from the underbelly of the internet …
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A Reddit user posted fake “World of Warcraft” news and was able to get an AI-driven website to publish it as fact. The Redditor’s deliberate attempt to get an AI-driven news site to read the post and publish its content succeeded when Z League’s zleague.gg, a site with AI-scribed content, reported on the fake news. It appears Z League caught …
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Researchers found that the marine predators could go “crazy” if they come into contact with the illegal white powder Sharks off the coast of Florida could be consuming cocaine dropped in the ocean by drug smugglers, US researchers have found. That’s as the US Coast Guard claims to have seized as much as 6,400 kilograms (14,109 pounds) of cocaine in …
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AI’s ability to (usually) produce grammatically correct syntax sure is impressive, but there is no actual intelligence behind the text, meaning that the way you and I would suss out the validity of some statements, or come up with original thoughts in response to some detail or event, isn’t present in AI-generated works. Right now, that’s being proven very deliberately …
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Kiev is notorious for its unpredictability and involvement in terrorist attacks, Dmitry Peskov has claimed Ukraine’s claim that it will consider all vessels sailing towards Russian Black Sea ports as potentially carrying military supplies is being treated seriously by Moscow, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. “The unpredictable actions and… the involvement of the Kiev regime in terrorist acts, …
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