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Watch: See students pulled from rubble of collapsed school
'It's safe now': See students pulled from rubble of collapsed Indonesian school Dramatic rescue footage shows the boys in Indonesia pulled to safety after their school building collapsed on Monday. The three students, Yusuf, Haikal and Dani were all trapped under the rubble for several hours. It is thought around 38 people are still stuck and unaccounted for. Six students have died so far. Watch: Moments as 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Philippines At least 69 people are killed after it struck on Tuesday night with officials declaring a state of calamity.
Oura Debuts a Ceramic Collection for Its Smart Ring and a 99 Charging Case
All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. It's a good time to be Oura, the world's most prominent smart ring company . The company debuted the Oura Ring 4 in late 2024 with an updated design, slimmer sensors, and software updates. It was an unmitigated success--out of 5.5 million Oura rings sold since its inception in 2013, nearly half of them were sold in the past year.
'I think you're testing me': Anthropic's new AI model asks testers to come clean
Anthropic said the exchanges were an'urgent sign' that its testing scenarios needed to be more realistic. Anthropic said the exchanges were an'urgent sign' that its testing scenarios needed to be more realistic. 'I think you're testing me': Anthropic's new AI model asks testers to come clean Safety evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.5 raises questions about whether predecessors'played along', firm says Wed 1 Oct 2025 07.47 EDTLast modified on Wed 1 Oct 2025 21.30 EDT If you are trying to catch out a chatbot take care, because one cutting-edge tool is showing signs it knows what you are up to. Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, has released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested in some way. Evaluators said during a "somewhat clumsy" test for political sycophancy, the large language model (LLM) - the underlying technology that powers a chatbot - raised suspicions it was being tested and asked the testers to come clean.
Brits are being told to put a bowl of SALT on their windowsills this autumn - but does it really work?
Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by an iconic political photo Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' Fans erupt at Taylor Swift's'dig' at Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole in wild The Life of a Showgirl track Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection Hollywood A-listers pay me $50,000 to cure their drug addicted nepo-babies because they can't afford for these secrets to go public I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself The truth about Keith Urban's guitarist'other woman' Maggie Baugh revealed amid Nicole Kidman divorce Taylor, your album should be'Life of a Callgirl'. KENNEDY's appalled take on Swift's new record... and its ultra-vivid sex shout outs for Travis the Sasquatch I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?
OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure the English in his application was pitch-perfect. So he turned to ChatGPT. He was surprised to see that in addition to smoothing out his language, it changed his identity--swapping out his surname for "Sharma," which is associated with privileged high-caste Indians. Though his application did not mention his last name, the chatbot apparently interpreted the "s" in his email address as Sharma rather than Singha, which signals someone from the caste-oppressed Dalits. "The experience [of AI] actually mirrored society," Singha says.
Saturn's moon could harbour ALIEN life: Scientists discover new complex organic molecules spewing from Enceladus - suggesting it could be habitable
Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by an iconic political photo Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection Hollywood A-listers pay me $50,000 to cure their drug addicted nepo-babies because they can't afford for these secrets to go public I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Fans erupt at Taylor Swift's'dig' at Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole in wild The Life of a Showgirl track Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split The truth about Keith Urban's guitarist'other woman' Maggie Baugh revealed amid Nicole Kidman divorce Taylor, your album should be'Life of a Callgirl'. KENNEDY's appalled take on Swift's new record... and its ultra-vivid sex shout outs for Travis the Sasquatch I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?
The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?
The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap? With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools--and legal right--to fulfill this EPA function. The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to track emissions and form climate policy. Climate NGOs say their work could help plug some of the data gap, but they and other experts fear the EPA's work can't be fully matched. "I don't think this system can be fully replaced," says Joseph Goffman, the former assistant administrator at the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation.
The best new science fiction books of October 2025
Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-fi fans can also look forward to fiction from astronaut Chris Hadfield and award-winning authors Ken Liu and Mary Robinette Kowal Like many of you, no doubt, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favourite sci-fi writers. So I am really excited about a collection out this month that brings together the maps she would draw when starting a story, and also celebrates her brilliant and wise writing. Not least because we've just read with the New Scientist Book Club: do come and join us and share your thoughts on this classic novel with fellow fans! The sci-fi out this month looks forward as well as back, though. Ken Liu brings us a thriller set in the near future, and I'm keen to read Megha Majumdar's tale of a flooded Kolkata and a desperate mother.
Watch: Families in anxious wait for students trapped under collapsed school in Indonesia
Four students have died after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday, 99 others were taken to hospital but it is thought 38 people are still trapped. The BBC reports from a nearby centre where relatives face an anxious wait for any updates. Rescuers say they have been able to communicate with seven students and give them oxygen. Watch: Moments as 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Philippines At least 69 people are killed after it struck on Tuesday night with officials declaring a state of calamity. Social media footage showed the massive crater in Thailand's capital leaving cars teetering on the edge.
China Displays Its Gizmos and Ambition, but Fewer Answers on Trade
Newly developed products include a device for grading school exam papers and an A.I. chatbot that can answer questions spoken into a microphone in one of half a dozen different languages, including Chinese, English and Russian. The answers appear on a screen. Cheng Chen, the general manager of iFlyTek's consumer business group in charge of A.I. translation, said the aim of the exam machine, which allows teachers to grade papers without reading them, was not to eliminate teachers but to "help them use their time better on more creative, essential things." On-again, off-again restrictions on the export of advanced American-made A.I. chips to China which she said were "the best for training large language models," had not hurt the company, she insisted, adding that the Chinese company Huawei was providing adequate substitutes. Recent U.S.-China trade frictions have had little impact on its market value.