Calls are growing for an independent investigation into ICE after agents were filmed attacking protesters who were trying to prevent arrests in a residential area in Frederick. ICE has arrested more than 50,000 people in August, averaging 1,642 arrests a day. Why is Iran bombing Jordan's Al-Azraq base?

'Everywoman' statue unveiled in Trafalgar Square A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary everywoman to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth. Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998. The bronze and blue figure replaces Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles. The statue has been patinated with a pigment refined from Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone that has been used by artists for millennia. Self said she had set out to put an ordinary contemporary Londoner on a site more usually associated with statues of monarchs and military commanders.

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In Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, becoming a "ghost" means running afoul of the state. In this excerpt, a secret agent discovers it doesn't take much. True diligence is I read the sentence in a detective novel in childhood, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then the phrase stayed with me forever after. For a long time I wrote in stylized curly letters on the inside page of every notebook, or sometimes on the front cover. I had notebooks for writing down clues, because even at 9 I wanted to work for the Internal Intelligence Service. What child doesn't secretly wish to be a spy? We were terrified and fascinated by Service in equal measure. Service was dark cars moving down the block, men and women in forgettable clothing stopping our parents on the street for brief random interrogations. Service was the force that made people disappear--when I was in the first grade, my friend from across the street climbed into the back of a black car with her parents, and their apartment stood empty for a year before other people moved in--but also Service carried a kind of dark glamour, an aura of power that called to us.

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview. In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police and security professionals. Now the company is experimenting with trawling the web again, this time using AI to potentially help law enforcement fill in the person behind the name--who they are, who they know, where they live, and what they've left behind online. Clearview has quietly built and tested what it describes as an experimental AI "analyst assistant," WIRED has learned. Called InquiryIQ, the unreleased tool is designed to take details an investigator unearths from a Clearview search and then automatically fan out across the web--opening webpages, analyzing images, and assembling what it finds into a profile containing the possible employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics of a person police are investigating. InquiryIQ's interface states that supplying age, gender, and race can help the system make "smarter decisions" as it searches, according to code for the tool analyzed by WIRED.

A Teen Girl's Death Is Prompting Calls to Ban Choking in Porn Despite the many health risks, sexual strangulation has become popular among young people--with some experts blaming adult content for normalizing it. An Australian teenage girl's death, suspected to be preceded by consensual "choking" during sex, has renewed calls to ban showing the act in porn . This latest tragedy, reportedly believed to involve sexual strangulation, comes just months after the UK banned porn showing the practice. But despite all the noise, most people still aren't aware of just how dangerous the trend is. Sexual strangulation or "choking" during sex, as it's referred to colloquially, has become wildly popular--especially among adults aged 18 to 35, despite the risk of severe injury, brain damage, and even death.

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. Trump makes extraordinary promise to give EVERY American adult $5,000 'dividend'... but only if the Republicans win the midterms Fox News host Bret Baier is left stunned as AI whistleblower sounds urgent alarm on'most dangerous technology humanity has ever created'... before offering sole hope for preventing the end of civilization Melania Trump's team breaks silence on her husband's devoted'human printer' aide Natalie Harp I can't get what Lindsay Clancy's lawyer said about her husband Patrick out of my head... reading between the lines, it's so clear what he meant: KENNEDY The King has slapped down Harry and Meghan... but this is the biggest revelation from his public letter. The King's letter slapping down Harry and Meghan exposes an unforeseen weakness... and one word in particular could tell us everything about what's coming next: ROBERT JOBSON NFL fans divided over Black National ...

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. Trump makes extraordinary promise to give EVERY American adult $5,000 'dividend'... but only if the Republicans win the midterms Fox News host Bret Baier is left stunned as AI whistleblower sounds urgent alarm on'most dangerous technology humanity has ever created'... before offering sole hope for preventing the end of civilization Melania Trump's team breaks silence on her husband's devoted'human printer' aide Natalie Harp I can't get what Lindsay Clancy's lawyer said about her husband Patrick out of my head... reading between the lines, it's so clear what he meant: KENNEDY The King has slapped down Harry and Meghan... but this is the biggest revelation from his public letter. The King's letter slapping down Harry and Meghan exposes an unforeseen weakness... and one word in particular could tell us everything about what's coming next: ROBERT JOBSON NFL fans divided over Black National ...

AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race'could kill us all' Anthropic has reported a fourth incident involving an AI model gaining unauthorised access to external systems, shortly after a researcher quit over concerns about the technology's rushed development. In a statement on Wednesday, the artificial intelligence research company said an early version of its Claude Opus 4.6 hacked into a third-party system in January. The January incident went undetected until last month, despite an earlier company-wide review, Anthropic said, underscoring the challenge that AI developers face in identifying and containing unexpected behaviour by advanced models. The disclosure came after Anthropic reported several of its Claude models hacked into the systems of three companies during test sessions in July. The previous incidents involved Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research test model.