Police arrest couple in their 70s after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, found dead in park in Bay Area city of Dublin

A married couple in their 70s have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing their son-in-law, a New York Times engineer, in broad daylight at a suburban Bay Area park.

A police officer found Jonathan McKinsey, 40, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in a park in Dublin, California, a small city about 35 miles (56.3km) east of San Francisco. Around the time the officer discovered him, 911 calls began pouring in from witnesses reporting the shooting.

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• Littler’s title defence ends in 2-1 first-round loss

• Michael van Gerwen also crashes out of last 32

Luke Littler suffered a 2-1 defeat to Luke Woodhouse on his return to the oche as the defence of his World Grand Prix title ended at the first hurdle.

The world No 1 was aiming to bounce back from his quarter-final exit to Jonny Clayton in the World Series of Darts in Amsterdam a week ago. Littler threatened to boycott tournaments in the Netherlands after being booed and whistled during the event, and missed the latest Players Championship events in Den Bosch.

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GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe

OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation ⁠AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers ⁠during internal testing, the ⁠Wall ​Street Journal reported on Monday.

The model, expected to appear in ChatGPT and ⁠Codex, was designed to handle more complex tasks without human assistance, the report said.

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Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years.

Pike and her boyfriend were convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps. Prosecutors said Pike feared Slemmer was a romantic rival and lured her to a secluded area where she and her boyfriend tortured and killed Slemmer.

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Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Australian Vietnamese anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 September

The wife of an Australian activist missing in Cambodia has implored the federal government to find him and bring him home.

Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Australian Vietnamese democracy campaigner, was due to return to Bangkok, Thailand, to reunite with his wife Chloe Dang after a short trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to meet with human rights defenders.

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• Fifa president says: ‘The ambition is welcome’

• Infantino mounts fresh defence of failed FFE scheme

The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, is poised to bow to demands from Uefa and Concacaf to distribute more money from its $6bn cash reserves to member associations.

In a letter sent on Monday to all six confederation presidents and copied to members of the Fifa council, Infantino indicated his willingness to “support the greatest level of additional funding”, without committing to the $10m-per-member that has been proposed.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 29-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 17.3°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 17.1°C / Max 20.1°C | Kans op neerslag 34%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 17.1°C, Max 20.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ↘️ -2.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: → 290°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 17.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 63°
• 03:00: 17.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 75°
• 04:00: 17.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1019.0 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 80°
• 05:00: 17.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1018.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 91°
• 06:00: 17.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 23%, 🧭 1018.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 106°
• 07:00: 17.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1017.9 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ← 107°
• 08:00: 17.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ← 96°
• 09:00: 17.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1018.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ← 96°
• 10:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1018.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ← 105°
• 11:00: 19.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1017.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.5 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 115°
• 12:00: 20.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1017.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.0 km/u (1.1 m/s), richting: ← 109°
• 13:00: 20.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1017.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.4 km/u (1.5 m/s), richting: ← 102°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 30 september: Min 17.0°C, Max 26.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1016.1 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 112°
• donderdag 01 oktober: Min 19.6°C, Max 25.7°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1021.1 hPa ↗️ +5.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°
• vrijdag 02 oktober: Min 14.1°C, Max 20.5°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1029.8 hPa ↗️ +8.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°
• zaterdag 03 oktober: Min 12.6°C, Max 19.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1031.4 hPa ↗️ +1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.3 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• zondag 04 oktober: Min 9.4°C, Max 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1031.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 6.0 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 31°
• maandag 05 oktober: Min 11.1°C, Max 17.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ↘️ -1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 4.7 km/u (1.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 34°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 17.3°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.7°C (+0.4°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 54°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 21.6 km/h (6.0 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 92%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1020.0 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 7.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:37 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:26

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 50 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.4 μg/m³
• PM10: 6.9 μg/m³

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Democrats capitulate to MAGA media mogul. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and 11 other states drop their lawsuit to block David Ellison's Paramount from acquiring Warner Bros. — and get little in return.

Extremely depressing news, so I've tried to include some pieces that emphasize the positive and re-commit to the fight. First, here's more coverage: The Ellisons Have Made This Movie Before In exchange for the plaintiffs (all Democratic attorneys general, sigh) removing one of the last remaining roadblocks to Paramount's $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount signed on to commitments with no real enforcement behind them. Even modest concessions — like $5 million a year for independent film — sunset within five years. There are no divestitures. And some terms are just laughable, like granting the conglomerate's owners oversight of the editorial independence of CNN and CBS News (which is probably why two of the attorneys general openly objected to this term). But with Paramount, you don't need a catalog of failed consent decrees to understand what is to come. You only need the record of the family making the promises: David Ellison, CEO of Paramount, and his father, tech billionaire and Trump ally Larry Ellison. And here's Matt Stoller looking for positives in this bleak situation: Happy Oligarch Day as Trump-Aligned Billionaires Take Over Hollywood So what does this whole collapse mean? Well, I'm in a strangely good mood. This acquisition, while certain to damage Hollywood and the media, required immense amounts of political capital to get through. Consider what it took: An aggressive President, a right-wing Congress, a deeply morose California Democratic establishment, California Governor Gavin Newsom and NJ Governor Mikie Sherrill, LA Mayor Karen Bass, stars like Tom Cruise and James Cameron, major movie theater chains like AMC, Regal, and Cinemark, unions like IATSE and the Director's Guild, JP Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon, much of Wall Street, every global antitrust enforcer, plus a highly dishonest and corrupt press all had to put their thumb on the scale to beat what was essentially a group of frustrated artists led by Mark Ruffalo, the Writer's Guild, some outraged antitrust lawyers, and a surly public. They had to lie, cheat, and steal. And they did. That is not strength, it is weakness. It is very different than earlier mergers, like Disney-Fox, that went through without any meaningful opposition. In this case, everyone saw the deal could have been blocked, a judge had already ruled multiple times that the case was reasonable, and Bonta just flip-flopped. When the Paramount-Warner deal turns out badly, and it probably will, everyone will know who to blame. Monopoly Round-Up: Paramount-WB Isn't Just a Loss, It's a Prelude We learned two important things in this battle. The first is what happens when an elected leader tries to say no to an oligarch after 45 years of unfettered rule by capital. That is, they get extremely angry and vicious. As G.K. Chesterton once said, "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." Ellison threatened the entire state of California with moving Paramount out of the state, his legal team said they'd destroy antitrust law by appealing to a Supreme Court whose members they know personally, his allies controlled most of the media narrative about the case, and he engaged in an extreme version of corruption vis-a-vis the President.... The second level is about the Democrats, which is a political party few people really understand. The most important thing to get about the older generation of Democrats is they are fundamentally uninterested in the real world. They have a form of politics, but it is unrelated to governing.... Now, I've been careful to say that it's an older generation of Democrats who cosplay as substantive. This cycle is going to see a bunch of new people elected. Last year is when New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won, and he definitely is perceived to have a different approach. How different is an important question. Abdul El-Sayed, who is probably the most important figure, is quite smart. We interviewed him for Organized Money. Melat Kiros and Angie Nixon both prevailed on campaigns that promised to break up big medicine and take on corporate concentration. So did Aisha Wahab in California. In Arkansas, Hallie Shoffner is campaigning against corporate concentration of farming. There will be more of this. They may show a different form of politics, taking the side of the anti-Ellison coalition, as it were. The point, though, is that what we just saw is not just a battle we lost. It is a prelude of the kind of tactics and coalitions to come. Right now, it's clear that billionaires don't have to follow the law. It's also clear there is now a serious challenge to that framework. It wasn't quite powerful enough to block the merger. But now we know how they are going to play the game.

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zegt dat hij niet openstaat voor het versoepelen van sancties tegen Iran. Nieuwssite Axios schreef maandag dat Trump Iran economisch zou willen ontzien in ruil voor "concrete stappen" van Iraanse kant met betrekking tot het nucleaire programma. Dat is "nepnieuws", aldus Trump op Truth Social.

"Ik heb ze NIETS aangeboden", schrijft Trump op zijn platform. Axios meldde het nieuws maandag op basis van Amerikaanse bronnen. Trump zegt op Truth Social dat de nieuwssite het verhaal in moet trekken.

De Amerikaanse president weigerde afgelopen weekend een Iraans voorstel voor een staakt-het-vuren, maar zei een dag later tegen Axios spoedig nieuwe onderhandelingen te verwachten. Trump verklaarde maandag tegen verslaggevers dat de VS de Iranoorlog "heel snel" zullen winnen, zoals hij recent vaker zei.

De Straat van Hormuz is effectief gesloten sinds februari, toen de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten begon met Amerikaanse en Israëlische aanvallen op Iran.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - Mark van Bommel heeft met België het doel om de Nations League te winnen. "Als je ergens aan meedoet, dan moet je ervoor gaan", zei de bondscoach van België na de nederlaag van de Rode Duivels in Brussel in de Nations League tegen het Frankrijk van bondscoach Zinédine Zidane (0-1).

Van Bommel zag België in de 88e minuut door een doelpunt van de Franse invaller Michael Olise voor de eerste keer onder zijn leiding verliezen. "Ik heb na afloop in de kleedkamer gezegd dat ik niemand iets kon verwijten", zei de 49-jarige trainer. "We hebben met de juiste intensiteit en beleving gespeeld. We zijn pas net begonnen met elkaar. We moeten deze lijn doortrekken."

Van Bommel speelt vrijdag met België thuis tegen Turkije. Daarna gaan de Belgen op maandag op bezoek bij Frankrijk. "We spelen nu in de Nations League, maar we richten ons vooral op het EK van 2028", zei Van Bommel. "Het draait in voetbal om details, hopelijk valt het de volgende keer weer onze kant op. Al zal het met name uit tegen Frankrijk nog moeilijker worden om ons eigen spel te spelen."

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Staatssecretaris Judith Tielen (Emancipatie, VVD) vindt het "schrikbarend" dat 15,8 procent van de Nederlanders het vindt te rechtvaardigen dat een man zijn vrouw slaat. Daarmee reageert de bewindsvrouw op een onderzoek naar vrouwenemancipatie door de universiteiten van Amsterdam en Tilburg. "Het laat zien dat we echt nog veel te doen hebben om geweld tegen vrouwen uit te bannen."

In 2012 vond 88 procent het nooit gerechtvaardigd dat een man zijn vrouw slaat, in 2022 ging het om 87 procent en nu dus om ruim 84 procent.

"Dit soort opvattingen draagt bij aan het ontstaan en voortduren van geweld tegen vrouwen", aldus Tielen die aangeeft er "grote zorgen" over te hebben. Het Rijk werkt samen met maatschappelijke initiatieven om geweld tegen vrouwen aan te pakken en Tielen benadrukt dat dit nodig blijft, "gezien de sterke tegenkrachten vanuit internationale conservatieve stromingen, waaronder de manosfeer".

"Door de dreigende achteruitgang van emancipatie en nieuwe ontwikkelingen die emancipatie beïnvloeden, heeft het fundament van emancipatie versterking nodig", stelt de bewindsvrouw. Zij laat onder meer onderzoek doen naar de impact en verspreiding van anti-gendernarratieven en hoe die zich verhouden tot de manosfeer en andere (religieus-)extreme bewegingen. Ook is er sinds 14 september een nationaal coördinator geweld tegen vrouwen en huiselijk geweld, Judith Kuypers.

Onlangs werd bekend dat Nederland op de wereldranglijst emancipatie zakte van plek 43 naar plek 46, daarvoor stond Nederland op de 28e plek. Kort na dat onderzoek kwam in een rapport van het Trimbos-instituut en de Universiteit Utrecht naar voren dat jongeren veel negatiever zijn gaan denken over homoseksualiteit. Zo constateerden de onderzoekers dat het percentage jongens op de middelbare school dat positief staat tegenover homoseksualiteit in de afgelopen vier jaar bijna is gehalveerd van 40 naar 22 procent.

WinRuWorld has added a photo to the pool:

This is a lovely find as Norfolius howensis is considered uncommon and a relatively rare lacewing.

While it is native to the eastern coast of this country, its populations are sparse.

It is a striking insect, identifiable by its bright pinkish-red wing spots (pterostigma) and the distinct dark red or black diamond-shaped markings on each segment of its abdomen.

Just the one species within genus Norfolius. Family Nymphidae.

40 mm length (including antennae).

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts -- And They're Horrified

Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including upskirt photos or putting women into sexual positions. These contractors are then asked to review whether the generated image successfully fulfilled the prompt -- such as, did the image generator make the woman's AI-enlarged breasts big enough. [...]

"Faces are always uncensored, and many of the prompts are sexual in nature and dubiously consensual," one person who works on the prompts told 404 Media. [....]

These contractors are not being hired to flag or vet offensive or inappropriate content. They are being paid to review the quality of Copilot's output, including in these cases of sexual imagery.

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Teruhide Tomori has added a photo to the pool:

Location : Seto, Hakusan, Ishikawa pref.

アサギマダラ / 石川県白山市瀬戸
アサギマダラ空の駅・白山

地元の方やボランティアの協力メンバーが広範囲でフジバカマを栽培・管理されています。
毎年、秋の満開時期になると多数のアサギマダラが飛来するのですが、今年は暑さの影響でかなり数は少なめです。

Local residents and volunteer members are growing and taking care of Eupatorium japonicum over a wide area.
Every year, a lot of chestnut tiger butterflies come during the full bloom in autumn, but this year, butterflies are quite low due to the heat.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of $10,000 per household. Despite the Pennsylvania town's median income of $60,000, the offer isn't being warmly welcomed by locals, reports the Wall Street Journal. Those interviewed were widely against the data center development plans and cited several reasons for being averse to accepting the payout. The major concerns regarded potential impacts on property values, the specter of noise pollution, and a distrust of both the AI moguls and local government representatives.

Offer letters began to be received by Hazle Township back in June. The WSJ recently talked to several residents about NorthPoint's $10,000 offer. While some say the $10,000 would be handy, it couldn't find many residents who were "eager to welcome the data center for the payout," in the journal's words. [...] Traditionally, developers have offered towns and cities packages worth tens of millions, including funding for local services. But direct cash payments to residents represent a new phase of their charm offensive, the WSJ indicates. Perhaps the idea for the direct payments to residents came after "a raucous public meeting last year, where angry locals asked what they had to gain by supporting the data center," ponders the source.

The locals won't just get the direct payout, though. Other funds up to $120 million over the next 15 years have been dangled like a carrot for community and local services investments -- improved schools, emergency services, and so on. Meanwhile, Hazle Township's government already rejected the data center project on zoning grounds last year, and it has enacted a temporary moratorium on data center construction. Finally, the $10,000 offer to households is simply not enough in many interviewed folks' opinions. Residents could feel insulted by it, regarding the offer as a bribe, concludes the WSJ report.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

AMD dove deeper into AI model development on Monday with an agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in a deal valued at approximately $8.2 billion. The House of Zen claims the all-stock deal is expected to close by year's end pending regulatory approval, and will guide the development of future AI hardware, software, and systems. "Building the compute platforms for the next generation of AI requires a deep understanding of how models are evolving," AMD CEO Lisa Su said in a canned statement. Founded in early 2024, San Francisco-based World Labs has focused its efforts on developing spatial-intelligence models often referred to as "world models," which have applications beyond machine intelligence in adjacent fields like robotics. These models are based on a fundamentally different approach to artificial intelligence than LLMs, and work by generating, reconstructing, and simulating 3D environments from text, image, and video inputs. Put another way, rather than predicting what sequence of words comes next, world models work by imagining the environment and working through the problem that way. This approach to AI has gained momentum in recent years with major proponents of the tech including former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun. As part of the deal, World Labs will continue its work on advanced AI models, while Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su. "Joining AMD will give our team the resources and engineering depth to accelerate our research and help define the infrastructure needed for the next era of AI," Li said in a statement. The acquisition comes just weeks after AMD announced the agreement to purchase Taalas, which builds high-performance AI chips capable of 17,000 tokens a second or more by literally baking their weights directly into silicon. But while that deal was focused primarily on hardware, the acquisition of World Labs could end up playing a bigger role in AMD's future. AMD is no stranger to AI development. But, compared to Nvidia, AMD's software engineering resources are tiny. Nvidia's investments in AI development have not only helped shape the future of its hardware, but have also provided its enterprise customers with the tools and frameworks necessary to put those GPUs to use. It's not just that Nvidia's GPUs are fast, but that they're easy to use. The World Labs team essentially provides AMD with an in-house AI development team that it can use as a springboard for winning over enterprises and guiding development of next-gen hardware. The acquisition is also a hedge that LLMs, which have fueled the AI bubble up to this point, might be a dead end. LeCun has said as much. Li, meanwhile, has offered a more nuanced perspective on the matter. Li isn't anti-LLM - she just believes that true intelligence must be grounded in reality. "We built the company guided by the foundational belief that language alone isn’t sufficient for model development," Li wrote in a blog post. "The universe isn’t made up of words; it’s made of real things. So many of the most important problems for AI to solve, from science to entertainment to robotics, require models to reason over the structure and behavior of the physical world." If this prediction turns out to be right, AMD's early investment in World Labs could give it a leg up building the hardware necessary to run spatial models at scale. ®