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How 2013 film The Congress predicted Hollywood’s current AI crisis
With US actors striking in part because of the threat of AI to their livelihoods, a 10-year-old, little-seen movie starring Robin Wright now seems eerily prescient, writes Caryn James. With Hollywood all but shut down indefinitely due to strikes by the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, and the Writers Guild of America, some powerful players have weighed…
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RFK Jr’s conspiracy theories and Republican supporters
Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News, Washington Robert F Kennedy Jr is running for US president as a Democrat, but the unusual backing he is receiving from right-wingers and his history of amplifying conspiracy theories has raised suspicions about his motivations. Over the weekend, Mr Kennedy doubled down on remarks suggesting Covid-19 may have…
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Iowa judge temporarily blocks six-week abortion ban
Getty Images By Chloe Kim BBC News An Iowa judge has moved to temporarily block a new state law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a six-week abortion ban, which included some exceptions, into law on Friday. The judge granted a temporary injunction, allowing abortion up to 20…
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Heatwave: BBC correspondents on how people are coping
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Millions of people in several parts of the world have been experiencing intense heat. Such periods occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global…
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Poland: Plane crash at Chrcynno hangar kills five and injures seven
EPA By Emily McGarvey BBC News A small plane has crashed into a hangar at an airfield near the Polish capital Warsaw, killing five people including its pilot, officials say. Eight people were also injured in the crash, police say. Thirteen people had reportedly been sheltering from bad weather in the hangar. The fire brigade…
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Gilgo Beach murders police search Amityville storage unit
Reuters By Holly Honderich BBC News Detectives investigating a series of cold-case murders in Long Island are searching a storage unit following the arrest of a suspect last week. Rex Heuermann, 59, pleaded not guilty after being charged with the killings of Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Melissa Barthelemy. The prosecutor in the case says…
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AI can threaten your personal identity – but it doesn’t have to
The rise of workplace artificial intelligence is shaking some workers’ confidence in who they are. But this worry isn’t insurmountable. When Jessica’s boss recently asked whether the company she works for should be using artificial intelligence tools, she quietly panicked. As a content marketer, her major responsibilities at the Connecticut, US-based software company are writing…
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Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Millions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error. Emails intended for the US military’s “.mil” domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the “.ml” suffix. Some of…
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‘Massive’ search on for children swept away by Pennsylvania floods
Courtesy Upper Makefield Township Police Pennsylvania rescue crews are searching for two missing children after flash flooding killed their mother and four others over the weekend. The race-against-time search continued on Monday in suburban Philadelphia for the nine-month-old Conrad Sheils and his two-year-old sister, Matilda. Their mother, 32-year-old Katie Seley, was killed in the flood,…
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Mallory Beach’s family wins $15m over Murdaugh boat crash
Mallory Beach/Facebook By Gareth Evans BBC News, Washington A multi-million dollar settlement has been reached in a fatal boat crash involving the family of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh. Relatives of Mallory Beach, 19, who died when the vessel hit a bridge support, will receive $15m (£11.4m) under the agreement. The boat belonged to…