'Baffling but brilliant' post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything wins Booker Prize Author M John Harrison has become the oldest ever winner of the Booker Prize, picking up the prestigious literary award for his post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything. Harrison, 81, who has built a cult following over his 60-year career, was named the winner of the £50,000 prize at a ceremony in London on Monday. The End of Everything is set in the years after a mysterious catastrophe that caused British society as we know it to collapse. It has divided opinion among readers, and was described as bleak but brilliant and dreamlike and baffling by one critic. Dame Mary Beard, who chaired the Booker judges, said: It's a challenging read, but some of the best fiction is challenging.

Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic? Alex Pearce was doing the morning rounds at his fruit and vegetable wholesale business in London on Monday last week when he noticed something odd. The defrost light on refrigeration unit 2 was on, and the panel reading was 150C. Unit 4 was the same. As he approached his biggest unit, its defrost light also blinked on.

Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. AI'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI One of the "godfathers of AI", Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a "doomer" about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a "wonderful future" but he said "it might be that we would have been better off never developing it". I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans' Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology's risks and enable what he called "radical abundance" or whether "we fail to manage the risks and have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart".

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Head of the British Fashion Model Agents Association John Horner poses for a photograph during an interview in London on July 2. | REUTERS LONDON - AI-generated fashion models present a tantalizing opportunity for brands: the ability to create lifelike images for their retail websites while cutting costs by 90% or more compared to photo shoots with human models. For the modeling industry, the technology poses an existential threat because of scant regulation governing the ownership or use of digital twins. Fashion models face the risk of unpaid replication of their image -- or replacement by entirely synthetic models. To understand how AI is upending the economics of fashion modeling, Reuters interviewed 15 model-agency directors and reviewed more than a dozen confidential photo-shoot contracts in which brands including Diesel, Calvin Klein and L'Oreal detailed proposed terms for AI-created alterations and future use of the images. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

Fans are sick and tired of the NFL's obsession with flags, anthem fatigue is real & UGA football is too smart! Team USA's Olympic hockey heroes reunite as Jack Hughes' Devils land goalie Connor Hellebuyck in blockbuster France's top soccer team obeys police order to move Sunday match; Saints, Steelers owners meet with Macron AOC says she supports men in women's sports because she's a girl's girl Did Texas use artificial intelligence to call fourth-down play against Florida? LeBron James doubles down with sneaky golf hip turns during national anthem after Trump's'total disgrace' dig Drake Maye's end-zone interception proves costly as Patriots fall 30-24 to Bears in primetime Rhamondre Stevenson's miraculous 48-yard touchdown stuns Bears as clock expires in first half Todd Benzinger, who caught the final out of the Reds' 1990 World Series sweep, dead at 63 Super Bowl champion Marshall Faulk says he is living with Parkinson's disease Gina Hinojosa is'further to the radical left' than Talarico, Gov Greg Abbott says DOJ official says department is following a'web of information' on Ilhan Omar Enes Kanter Freedom says he was treated like a'criminal' at WNBA game President Trump touts his administration's border security at midterm rally in Florida Data shows Iran's shadow tanker fleet has run out of oil Court documents reportedly list Rep. Ilhan Omar under different name While the NTT IndyCar Series regularly heads north of the border to race in the Toronto area, it's been a minute since the series went abroad. That changes next season when it heads to Spain, the homeland of defending five-time series champion Alex Palou. IndyCar released the second phase of its 2027 season schedule -- every race of which will be broadcast on Fox for the third straight year -- and the big addition was a race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on July 18.

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'Whatever claims the labs are making, they are not warning us enough. We need to understand that nobody can stop the AI storm.' 'Whatever claims the labs are making, they are not warning us enough. We need to understand that nobody can stop the AI storm.' What are self-replicating'AI worms', and why is Anthropic worried about them? Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future - together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already - are being issued so quickly that even security experts have difficulty triaging what to worry about. Yet a report this week from Anthropic's offensive research team grabbed attention by describing a new, practical threat, one devoid of human characteristics or apocalyptic musings.

'Nightmare Scenario': Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising. On Thursday, researchers from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto revealed a worst-case scenario found in the wild: spyware silently infecting targets as they browse past ads in their daily digital lives. Dubbing the attacks "AdFection," the researchers documented a campaign in which an Israeli-registered advertising firm allegedly connected to the servers linked to a spyware company and infected dozens of devices with its invasive malware. Citizen Lab believes this to be the first detailed technical evidence made publicly available of sophisticated spyware infecting devices via digital ads. Zero-click hacks are a holy grail for attackers and catastrophic for victims, because they can automatically install malware on devices without requiring any interaction or missteps from the target. When sophisticated hackers have deployed rare zero-click attacks in recent years, they have often exploited vulnerabilities in mobile messaging and communication apps to infect victims.