Voting Problems Cause a Surge in Misleading Fraud Claims Online
Mentions of “cheat,” “steal,” “rig” and similar terms spiked on X this morning as voting began.
OpenAI and Anthropic Set Up ‘War Rooms’ to Fight Disinfo About Midterm Elections
OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.
AMD needs a big quarter to escape Intel’s fate as AI fears grow
AMD reports third-quarter results on Tuesday after its shares fell about 17% in two days alongside Intel. Analysts expect revenue to rise 41%, but investors
UK’s ARIA will test Lumai’s light-based AI servers in a data centre
ARIA’s Scaling Inference Lab will deploy Lumai’s Iris servers, which use beams of light to run AI calculations, as its first optical platform. Lumai claims
Greenland parliament approves security deal with US, Denmark
Lawmakers vote 16-0 for trilateral agreement signed in September, while seven abstained.
Jerusalem Daily: Israel detains Al Jazeera journalist in Hebron raids
Al Jazeera journalist Montaser Nassar was detained in raids near Hebron.
Russian strikes on Dnipro kill two, injure 20 others
Russian strikes on Dnipro damaged residential areas and several medical facilities.
Google to shut off search for schools that opt-out of AI
Google announced Tuesday morning that it would switch off AI products by default for students in schools that use the technology giant’s education software.
Escaped Tennessee inmate captured, authorities say
Jacob Allen Morley, the convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison, is in custody, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.
Seven flights across Europe targeted by suspected bomb threats
Planes in Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Italy have been checked for explosives following separate threats.
Irish Olympian Ciara Mageean was a ‘talented and inspirational human being’
The former European champion and two-time Olympic runner had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer.
Death toll rises in Ukraine after Russia attacks aid centre, hospice and hospital
At least 38 people are killed in 24 hours and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky warns dozens more could be trapped under rubble.
Binance says fake job interviews used as part of $6.3bn crypto hack
An engineer was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform and invited to bogus job interviews with fake company representatives, Binance says.
All 5 genetic “letters” of DNA and RNA discovered in a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid
Scientists have discovered all five essential nucleobases used in DNA and RNA in pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu, revealing that key ingredients for life existed