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Chatbots: Why does White House want hackers to trick AI?
Getty Images By Philippa Wain Technology reporter What happens when thousands of hackers gather in one city with the sole aim of trying to trick and find flaws in artificial intelligence (AI) models? That is what the White House wants to know. This week at the world’s largest annual hacker convention – Def Con 31…
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Ahead of Ohio abortion vote, Republicans try to change the rules
Jake Olson/BBC By Holly Honderich in Washington A pro-abortion referendum looked poised to win in the conservative state of Ohio this November. Now, Republican state legislators are accused of moving the goalposts. Last summer, just like every summer for the past 22 years, Michael Curtin spent his days on the assorted baseball fields of central…
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MrBeast: How the world’s biggest YouTuber made his millions
Getty Images By Tom Gerken Technology reporter Jimmy Donaldson, the person the online world knows as MrBeast, is the biggest YouTuber on the planet – and with that popularity comes large sums of money. The 25-year-old has branched out from video-making and now has his own fast-food chain, MrBeast Burger. It hit headlines this week…
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Elephant corridors: The busy trunk routes where locals take care to cross
Getty Images By John Murphy BBC News With their large, padded feet, elephants can be remarkably quiet. It’s our third evening of waiting to see these giants cross a dust road. Our guide, Mojita, assures us they’re very close. “They’re collecting just there, in the bush,” he whispers. We’ve been told: “It’s elephant central up…
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The remarkable recovery of Syria’s earthquake baby
By Fethi Benaissa BBC News Arabic When Afraa was found in the rubble of a collapsed building in Syria, her umbilical cord was still attached to her mother, who had died just after giving birth. The video of the baby’s rescue from the earthquake in February captivated the world. Since then she has made a…
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Typhoon Doksuri: Alarming pictures show floods in China, Philippines
Getty Images Storms bearing unusually torrential rain and ferocious winds this early in the north Pacific typhoon season have flooded large swathes of East Asia, with China among the countries worst hit. In the capital of Beijing alone, the amount of rain over the past week has broken a 140-year-old record. People in Beijing and…
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Ukraine war: The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol
By Adam Robinson, Erwan Rivault and Olga Robinson BBC Verify It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured. It is now being transformed and presented as a showcase for rule from Moscow – and some Russians are even hoping to buy homes there. Russia claimed…
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Prison living costs rule scrapped for wrongly convicted
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sean Seddon BBC News A controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly jailed people has been scrapped. The government rethink follows the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail…
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Donald Trump social media post flagged to judge as prosecutors seek order
Getty Images By Matt Murphy BBC News Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s upcoming trial have asked for limits on what the ex-president can publicly say about the case, after he shared a threatening message online. In a filing late on Friday night, the prosecutors said they feared Mr Trump might disclose confidential evidence. They justified the…
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Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky
Telegram/Volodymyr Zelensky By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News A Russian guided air bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing and injuring people, Ukraine’s president has said. Volodymyr Zelensky said rescuers were now trying to tackle a blaze after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night. “Defeating…