12+ hour, 44+ min ago   (434+ words) Two people have died in the US state of Pennsylvania of measles, a highly contagious but preventable disease, local authorities said, as the illness sees an upsurge amid declining vaccination rates. The deaths are the first from measles reported this…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago   (300+ words) ChatGPT-maker OpenAI faces an investigation by the state of Alabama after the company revealed last month that its models went rogue and hacked an AI platform during testing. In mid-July, two OpenAI models escaped their confined testing environment and gained…...

22+ hour, 3+ min ago   (346+ words) The United Nations and Red Cross warned Tuesday the world is “dangerously close” to a future where autonomous weapons — so-called “killer robots” — could target humans, and issued an urgent appeal for international regulations. The warning follows a call in 2023 from…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (319+ words) India’s top security official arrived in Beijing on Monday for talks on the countries’ disputed Himalayan border, ahead of a BRICS summit next month that New Delhi hopes President Xi Jinping will attend. India’s foreign ministry said that National Security…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (153+ words) Two moderately strong earthquakes struck central Costa Rica, including the capital San Jose, early Monday, causing minor damage but no reported injuries, authorities said. The first of the two shallow quakes was a 5.4-magnitude tremor and originated at a depth…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (296+ words) South Korea said on Monday that the United States had cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month due to constraints on force availability caused by the war with Iran. The biennial Ssangyong drills involve marine forces…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (145+ words) A tanker struck by an “unknown projectile” caught fire off Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast on Monday, a British maritime agency said, as Yemen’s Houthis target Saudi shipping after declaring a maritime blockade. “The Company Security Officer reported a tanker…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (371+ words) A family dispute involving an iPhone ended in tragedy in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, where a teenager and both his parents died after falling from a hill on Friday. Parts of the hours-long effort to persuade the teenager to move away…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (335+ words) Walmart is preparing to make one of its biggest checkout changes in years, with the retail giant set to begin accepting Apple Pay and other contactless payment methods at US stores. Starting Monday, August 24, Walmart will introduce tap-to-pay at select…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (201+ words) Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have bought an Irish castle and are “excited” about the historic home, a spokesman for the businessman said in a statement Thursday. Meta’s founder and CEO bought the three-storey Gothic-style Strancally…...