Leader says party ‘won’t give up the fight’ to defeat ‘nasty populism’ in first-day speech to delegates
The Liberal Democrats’ leader, Sir Ed Davey, took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Elon Musk on the first day of his party’s annual conference, saying that they “won’t give up the fight” to defeat “nasty populism” and the far-right party’s “£72m arsenal of hate and lies”.
Speaking from the main stage at Brighton Centre, Davey called on the assembled delegates not to be deterred in the face of Reform’s hope “that the anger and the hatred and the lies will grind us down until eventually we just give up”, and praised earlier speakers for showing “why we care and why we fight”.
Continue reading...Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter of man who stabbed soldier continues to divide country
Israel’s president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker who had stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, in a case that divided the country a decade ago.
Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter and his release after serving two-thirds of his 18-month sentence drew enormous attention in Israel, where military service is compulsory for most Jewish men.
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I first heard of SKYbrary when it was mentioned in an episode of Mayday during a binge-watch. It is a European aviation-safety reference site developed by EUROCONTROL and other aviation-safety organizations, covering everything from wake turbulence and runway incursions to controlled flight into terrain, human factors, phraseology, weather and emergency procedures.
The accidents and incidents section collects investigation summaries and links them to contributing factors and related safety material. There is also a bookshelf of reports, studies, guidance material and regulatory documents. The human factors material goes well beyond "human error" as an explanation, covering fatigue, distraction, ineffective monitoring, authority gradients, plan-continuation bias, spatial disorientation, workload, communication and decision-making. There is also material on crew resource management, including situational awareness, teamwork and task allocation. It is a little like Wikipedia for aviation safety, except that many of the articles trace accidents back to the procedures, checklists and regulations that were changed or introduced afterward. There are several U.S. counterparts. The NTSB aviation database contains official accident and incident investigations going back to 1962. The FAA's Lessons Learned from Civil Aviation Accidents library turns selected accidents into case studies of what happened, what changed afterwards, and why. NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, run at Ames Research Center, takes a different approach: confidential voluntary reports from pilots, controllers, mechanics, flight attendants and dispatchers about incidents, mistakes and near-misses. The searchable ASRS database contains the de-identified narratives, an enormous archive of "this did not become an accident, but let me tell you what happened."
The accidents and incidents section collects investigation summaries and links them to contributing factors and related safety material. There is also a bookshelf of reports, studies, guidance material and regulatory documents. The human factors material goes well beyond "human error" as an explanation, covering fatigue, distraction, ineffective monitoring, authority gradients, plan-continuation bias, spatial disorientation, workload, communication and decision-making. There is also material on crew resource management, including situational awareness, teamwork and task allocation. It is a little like Wikipedia for aviation safety, except that many of the articles trace accidents back to the procedures, checklists and regulations that were changed or introduced afterward. There are several U.S. counterparts. The NTSB aviation database contains official accident and incident investigations going back to 1962. The FAA's Lessons Learned from Civil Aviation Accidents library turns selected accidents into case studies of what happened, what changed afterwards, and why. NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, run at Ames Research Center, takes a different approach: confidential voluntary reports from pilots, controllers, mechanics, flight attendants and dispatchers about incidents, mistakes and near-misses. The searchable ASRS database contains the de-identified narratives, an enormous archive of "this did not become an accident, but let me tell you what happened."
PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - Twee Duitsers zijn zaterdag aangehouden in Parijs, omdat ze met plakband twee schilderijen hadden opgehangen in het Louvre, melden bronnen bij de politie. Ze hingen de nepkunstwerken op in de zaal waar ook de Mona Lisa hangt. Er ontstond lichte schade aan de muren van de historische zaal.
Op een van de werken was een van de twee mannen te zien in een harnas. Op de andere was het tweetal samen met een vrouw afgebeeld. De beveiligingsdienst van het museum heeft de mannen aangehouden en de politie ingeschakeld. De mannen hebben verklaard dat het om een grap ging.
De bewakers van het Louvre constateerden lichte beschadigingen aan de muur toen ze de twee schilderijen van de muur haalden. De Mona Lisa, het wereldberoemde kunstwerk van Leonardo da Vinci, had geen schade opgelopen.
De beveiliging van het Louvre ligt onder een vergrootglas nadat vorig jaar een bende inbrekers in enkele minuten tijd kroonjuwelen met een geschatte waarde van 88 miljoen euro wist te stelen.
U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN.
"The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode."
Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship [according to two of the sources]. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains. But the episode underscores the profound risks of using this powerful, new and relatively poorly understood technology for targeting in the middle of a war...
Officials say the US can't afford to fall behind in integrating AI in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US. In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released his agency's "Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy" in a bid to speed up the military's use of AI. "We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI," Hegseth said in a speech announcing the strategy.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader stabiesoft for sharing the news.
"The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode."
Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship [according to two of the sources]. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains. But the episode underscores the profound risks of using this powerful, new and relatively poorly understood technology for targeting in the middle of a war...
Officials say the US can't afford to fall behind in integrating AI in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US. In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released his agency's "Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy" in a bid to speed up the military's use of AI. "We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI," Hegseth said in a speech announcing the strategy.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader stabiesoft for sharing the news.
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