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Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the accused gunman in a shooting at Florida State University last year used ChatGPT to help plan the attack. OpenAI says the chatbot is "not responsible for this terrible crime" and only provided factual information available from public sources. NPR reports: The Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, said at a press conference in Tampa on Tuesday that accused gunman Phoenix Ikner consulted ChatGPT for advice before the shooting, including what type of gun to use, what ammunition went with it, and what time to go to campus to encounter more people, according to an initial review of Ikner's chat logs. "My prosecutors have looked at this and they've told me, if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder," Uthmeier said. "We cannot have AI bots that are advising people on how to kill others."
Uthmeier's office is issuing subpoenas to OpenAI seeking information about its policies and internal training materials related to user threats of harm and how it cooperates with and reports crimes to law enforcement, dating back to March 2024. At the press conference, Uthmeier acknowledged the investigation is entering into uncharted territory and is uncertain about whether OpenAI has criminal liability. "We are going to look at who knew what, designed what, or should have done what," he said. "And if it is clear that individuals knew that this type of dangerous behavior might take place, that these types of unfortunate, tragic events might take place, and nevertheless still turned to profit, still allowed this business to operate, then people need to be held accountable."
[...] Ikner, 21, is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder for the April 2025 shooting near the student union on FSU's Tallahassee campus, where he was a student at the time. His trial is set to begin on Oct. 19. According to court filings, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the case.
Uthmeier's office is issuing subpoenas to OpenAI seeking information about its policies and internal training materials related to user threats of harm and how it cooperates with and reports crimes to law enforcement, dating back to March 2024. At the press conference, Uthmeier acknowledged the investigation is entering into uncharted territory and is uncertain about whether OpenAI has criminal liability. "We are going to look at who knew what, designed what, or should have done what," he said. "And if it is clear that individuals knew that this type of dangerous behavior might take place, that these types of unfortunate, tragic events might take place, and nevertheless still turned to profit, still allowed this business to operate, then people need to be held accountable."
[...] Ikner, 21, is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder for the April 2025 shooting near the student union on FSU's Tallahassee campus, where he was a student at the time. His trial is set to begin on Oct. 19. According to court filings, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the case.
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BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla says it used an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to comb through Firefox's code, and the results were hard to ignore. In Firefox 150, the team fixed 271 vulnerabilities identified during this effort, a number that would have been unthinkable not long ago. Instead of relying only on fuzzing tools or human review, the AI was able to reason through code and surface issues that typically require highly specialized expertise.
The bigger implication is less about one release and more about where this is heading. Security has long favored attackers, since they only need to find a single flaw while defenders have to protect everything. If AI can scale vulnerability discovery for defenders, that dynamic could start to shift. It does not mean zero days disappear overnight, but it suggests a future where bugs are found and fixed faster than attackers can weaponize them. "Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few months ago, and now they excel at it," says Mozilla in a blog post. "We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world's best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't."
The company concluded: "The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all."
The bigger implication is less about one release and more about where this is heading. Security has long favored attackers, since they only need to find a single flaw while defenders have to protect everything. If AI can scale vulnerability discovery for defenders, that dynamic could start to shift. It does not mean zero days disappear overnight, but it suggests a future where bugs are found and fixed faster than attackers can weaponize them. "Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few months ago, and now they excel at it," says Mozilla in a blog post. "We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world's best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't."
The company concluded: "The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all."
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Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York
Rabbit Hole writer David Lindsay-Abaire takes on a list of modern American conflicts in a fun, if ultimately underdeveloped, comedy drama
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire has an impressively eclectic bibliography that includes the Pulitzer prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, the Tony-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo, and providing book and lyrics for a singing and dancing version of Shrek. His new comedy The Balusters doesn’t exactly bring all of his talents together in a single sum-up work, but it does require a versatility of imagination in the pulling together the nine-member Vernon Point Neighborhood Association. Not quite as officious as an HOA but not quite as benevolent as a friendly get-together, the group assembles to discuss various issues affecting the safety, sanctity and aesthetic qualities of a neighborhood in an unnamed US area. (Based on a few stray references, somewhere around suburban DC seems likely.) They’re remarkably polite, even friendly, considering how much some of them seem to not-so-secretly dislike one another. It’s sometimes hard to tell whether they know each other too well for passive-aggressive behavior, or if Lindsay-Abaire doesn’t have quite the right ear for it.
The newest member of the group is Kyra (Anika Noni Rose), freshly moved from a Baltimore-area neighborhood where, we learn, her family’s departure was hastened by an incident with a previous neighborhood group. Kyra is well-to-do – almost anyone living in Vernon Point is – firm in her convictions, and aware, as any Black woman in her position would be, of what reactions she may inspire in her rich white neighbors. Her first order of business is to address a dangerous corner outside her house, where speeding drivers have been diverted following the installment of a new traffic light elsewhere in the neighborhood. She hopes for another light, or at least a series of stop signs; association president Elliot (Richard Thomas) insists any further change will blight the “esplanade”, as he calls it.
Continue reading...Russian oil can flow again, says Ukrainian president, leaving ‘no grounds’ for blocking €90bn EU package; warning of all-out Kremlin cyberwar. What we know on day 1,519
The Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia is ready to resume operations, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday, after Ukraine repaired the damage from a Russian attack. Kyiv now expects the EU to unlock a €90bn EU loan after Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, spent months blocking it. Orbán is about to leave office after losing badly in national elections.
“There can now be no grounds for blocking it,” said Ukraine’s president, referring to the loan. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday, said she expected a positive decision on the loan within 24 hours. Reuters, quoting an industry source, said pumping oil through the pipeline would resume on Wednesday.
Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on Europe to diversify energy supplies and not resume flows via Druzhba from Russia. “No one can currently guarantee that Russia will not repeat attacks on the pipeline infrastructure,” he said on Tuesday.
Guns were fired as Ukrainian authorities arrested military draft officers in Odesa for allegedly snatching people from the street and extorting money using the threat of being sent straight to the frontline. The Security Service of Ukraine said four officers working for the local territorial recruitment centre – which carries out conscription and recruitment – were detained after agents including special forces shot at the tyres of a vehicle in which they tried to escape. The group was being investigated for extortion, said the SBU. “The perpetrators face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.”
Moscow is taking its Ukraine war tactics and techniques “beyond the battlefield” to target the UK and Europe in cyberspace, the head of Britain’s cybersecurity force at GCHQ will say on Wednesday. Richard Horne will point to “sustained Russian hybrid activity” and warn that companies must learn how it is done in order to defend themselves. Horne is head of the national cybersecurity centre at Britain’s signals intelligence agency. He is due to speak at the CyberUK conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
In recent months, Sweden, Poland, Denmark and Norway have all reported hackers linked to Russia have targeted their critical infrastructure including power plants and dams. Horne will say that in Britain the NCSC currently handles around four “nationally significant” cyber incidents a week with the most serious threat coming from cyber-attacks carried out directly or indirectly by other states. He mentioned Russia, China and Iran.
In a conflict, Horne will say, the UK would probably face cyber-attacks “at scale” but – unlike with ransomware deployed by organised criminal hackers – companies would not be able to pay their way out. For that reason, he will say, every organisation needs to understand the “full extent” of the risk they face and improve their cyber defences.
Continue reading...These dodgy operators are very good at the shady work they do: they crank up the terror, drown out the logical part of your brain and then move fast
For the second time in the space of three years, I was sitting on my bed screaming, “They’ve stolen all my money.” I feel sick about it. Foolish and ashamed. Within minutes, thousands of dollars were stolen from my accounts, and I won’t be getting it back because I “willingly” gave out my private information.
In 2023 I wrote an article after I fell victim to a Facebook scam and had $1,000 stolen from my bank account. I thought that experience made me immune from it ever happening again. It didn’t and I think I know why.
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静岡県伊豆市湯ヶ島にある井上靖氏の墓地に瓊花の木が２本あります。毎年4月中旬から5月初めに直径13〜4cmの花が満開になります。
奈良の唐招提寺の奥庭、湯ヶ島の井上靖氏の墓地、長泉町駿河平の井上靖文学館、佐賀県の鑑真の上陸地、皇居など限られた場所にあります。
花びらのように見えるのは装飾花のガクです。ガクアジサイは4片なのに瓊花は5片あります。花は 真ん中のつぶつぶで花を囲むガクの個数は8個です。日本では珍しい花木です。
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LOOSDRECHT (ANP) - De mobiele eenheid heeft opnieuw moeten ingrijpen bij een demonstratie tegen de opvang van asielzoekers in Loosdrecht. Er zijn minstens twee personen aangehouden voor openbare geweldpleging, meldt een woordvoerder van de politie. Meer aanhoudingen worden niet uitgesloten.
Op dinsdag verzamelden rond 20.00 uur zo'n tweehonderd personen zich voor het voormalige gemeentehuis aan de Rading in Loosdrecht. De betoging was niet vooraf bij de gemeente aangemeld. Na iets meer dan een uur heeft de politie ingegrepen, zag een ANP-verslaggever.
Volgens een woordvoerder van de politie zijn er stenen gegooid naar agenten. Daarop zijn er charges uitgevoerd door de mobiele eenheid waarbij is geslagen met wapenstokken. Later zijn ook politiehonden ingezet om de groep demonstranten uiteen te drijven. Een woordvoerder van de gemeente Wijdemeren, waar Loosdrecht onder valt, laat weten dat de burgemeester later op de avond een noodbevel heeft afgekondigd zodat de politie de demonstratie kon beëindigen.
Even na 22.00 uur liepen er volgens de verslaggever nog kleine groepjes mensen door de wijk. Sommigen werden daarbij achternagezeten door ME'ers.
De gemeente Wijdemeren laat in de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag in een verklaring weten dat het rond 22.45 uur weer rustig was. Het noodbevel gold tot 00.01 uur op woensdag.
HOENSBROEK (ANP) - Bij een steekincident in het Limburgse Hoensbroek is een man overleden. De politie meldt dat zij een onderzoek heeft gestart.
De identiteit van de man is bekend bij de politie, maar omdat de politie de familie nog niet in kennis heeft kunnen stellen, laat zij daar desgevraagd niets over los.
Rond 22.35 uur ontving de politie een melding van een steekincident op de Akerstraat-Noord in het Zuid-Limburgse Hoensbroek. Er kwam een traumahelikopter voor medische assistentie waarna het slachtoffer per ambulance naar het ziekenhuis werd gebracht, aldus de politie. Daar is hij overleden aan zijn verwondingen.
De Forensische Opsporing doet onderzoek in de woning. De recherche is ook aanwezig om camerabeelden te bekijken en getuigen te horen.
SEVENUM (ANP) - In het Limburgse dorp Sevenum woedt een grote brand in een winkel aan de Maasbreeseweg in het centrum van het dorp. Dat meldt de veiligheidsregio.
Het vuur zou rond even na 22.30 uur zijn uitgebroken. Vervolgens is er opgeschaald naar zeer grote brand. De brandweer is met veel materiaal ter plaatse, volgens een woordvoerder van de brandweer worden er ook hoogwerkers ingezet, mede omdat het uiteindelijk om een uitslaande brand gaat. Volgens de veiligheidsregio is het dak al "gedeeltelijk ingestort".
Rond 00.30 uur is er een NL-Alert voor het dorp afgegeven. De rook trekt mogelijk richting een verzorgingstehuis in de buurt. Uiteindelijk hoeft deze na onderzoek ter plekke niet ontruimd te worden, al waren daar de voorbereidingen al wel voor getroffen. "Enkele huizen" in de directe omgeving zijn ontruimd en de bewoners ervan zijn elders ondergebracht, aldus de woordvoerder.
Volgens de veiligheidsregio zijn er geen gewonden. Het is niet bekend of er mensen in het pand waren toen het vuur uitbrak.
Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone
Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s only a test for a small number of users.…