Month: June 2023

Police dealing with a “major incident” in Nottingham have closed multiple roads around the city. Officers and other emergency services at several locations are dealing with an “ongoing serious incident”, according to Nottinghamshire police. The Nottingham Express Transit (NET) tram network also said it has suspended all services due to “major police incidents around the
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It seems a day doesn’t go by without another thought leader warning of the clear danger artificial intelligence poses to civilisation as we know it. While they’re not necessarily wrong, I’d argue the risk of AI is something humanity can manage. But handwringing over digital dystopia is distracting us from a very real existential threat
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Next weekend’s security staff strikes at Heathrow have been postponed as Unite, the union, considers a pay offer. Last week security staff at the UK’s largest airport announced an escalation of strike action, with walkouts to take place nearly every weekend from mid-June to the end of August. Two thousand staff were due to strike
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The governments of the Netherlands and Canada have filed a complaint against Syria in the International Court of Justice for breaches of the UN Convention against Torture.   The complaint claims Syria has failed to respect its obligations under international treaty law for widespread human rights violations, including acts of torture, prohibited by the Convention
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Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to provide “personalised learning” to children at school, the prime minister has said. Rishi Sunak said education was one of the public services he was most excited about AI‘s potential to transform, adding it could “reduce teachers’ workloads” by assisting with lesson planning and marking. He said the potential
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