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Aftermath of RSF drone attack which killed dozens in Sudan's el-Fasher

Al Jazeera

Aftermath of RSF drone attack which killed dozens in Sudan's el-Fasher NewsFeed Aftermath of RSF drone attack which killed dozens in Sudan's el-Fasher Video shows the aftermath of drone and artillery strikes on a shelter in the besieged city of el-Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur state, which killed at least 60 people. The attack was carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a Sudanese medical advocacy group. Al Jazeera reporters follow Palestinians' return to northern Gaza Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado?

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: How a Ukrainian video game hit by war is breaking records

Al Jazeera

A Ukrainian video game is shattering records since its release on November 20, despite many delays and its being a target of a Russian disinformation operation. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is the latest edition of a game series that started in 2007 with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, developed by GSC Game World, a Ukrainian video games studio. The game surpassed one million downloads and 117,000 concurrent players within 48 hours of its release, making it the most successful Ukrainian-developed title to date. Yet, that landmark achievement in the country's gaming industry was bittersweet. Former GSC Game World developer Volodymyr Yezhov, who worked on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and was known by the nickname "Fresh", was killed in combat near Bakhmut in December 2022, while serving in the Ukrainian military.


How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe

The Guardian

From fake images designed to cause fears of an immigrant "invasion" to other demonisation campaigns targeted at leaders such as Emmanuel Macron, far-right parties and activists across western Europe are at the forefront of the political weaponisation of generative artificial intelligence technology. This year's European parliamentary elections were the launchpad for a rollout of AI-generated campaigning by the European far right, experts say, which has continued to proliferate since. This month, the issue reached the independent oversight board of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta when the body opened an investigation into anti-immigration content on Facebook. The inquiry by the oversight board will look at a post from a German account featuring an AI-generated image emblazoned with anti-immigrant rhetoric. It is part of a wave of AI-made rightwing content on social media networks.


Aftermath of Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Russia has launched a second straight day of missile and drone attacks, targeting several Ukrainian regions and killing at least five people. Two people were killed when a hotel was "wiped out" by a missile in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials said on Tuesday. Three died in drone attacks on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said Kyiv would retaliate and asked allies to consider joint air defence operations and provide long-range weapons capabilities. Ukraine's air force said it downed five of 10 incoming Russian missiles and 60 of 81 drones in Tuesday's attacks.


Russia says two children killed in Ukrainian attack on Belgorod

Al Jazeera

At least 10 people, including a child, have been killed and 45 injured following a Ukrainian attack on the centre of the Russian provincial capital of Belgorod, the Russian Emergencies Ministry has said. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Saturday that the attack on Belgorod, about 30km (19 miles) from the border with Ukraine, had hit a residential area. In a Telegram post, he urged all residents to move to air raid shelters as sirens sounded. Belgorod borders Ukraine's Luhansk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, some of which were hit by Russian air raids on Ukraine on Friday, in what was one of the deadliest attacks since the war began in February 2022. The death toll has risen to 39 from those attacks.


'Collective punishment': Ethiopia drone strikes target civilians in Amhara

Al Jazeera

Weeks after a deadly drone attack on November 30 killed five civilians in the town of Wegel Tena in Ethiopia's Amhara region about 570km (350 miles) north of the capital, Addis Ababa, a witness is still reeling from the trauma. "It's extremely difficult to even describe the scene of the aftermath," said Gebeyehu, who requested use of his first name only for safety reasons. "Bodies were burned so badly they had turned to dust. I saw the finger bones of one of the victims still shaped as though it was still clutching a mobile phone." Several witnesses told Al Jazeera that a drone fired on an ambulance as it approached the Delanta Primary Hospital in Wegel Tena and obliterated it.


Pushing Buttons: Why Fortnite is suddenly the most popular game in the world once more

The Guardian

Over the weekend, almost 45 million people returned to Fortnite. The beginning of the battle royale shooter's's "OG" event saw the map restored to its 2018 state, back before the entire in-game island was memorably sucked into a black hole. Those people played for a combined 102m hours in a single day, an all-time record, according to developer Epic Games. Not bad for a game that has been available for more than six years, and been a topic of playground conversation for half a decade. That's 10 times the number who watched the premiere of The Last of Us, and more people than have ever bought a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.


Video captures aftermath of massive train derailment in Arizona

FOX News

Drone footage from Coconino County Emergency Management shows the aftermath of a train derailment in Williams, Arizona. A drone video captured the aftermath of a massive train derailment in Arizona involving a freight train that emergency officials say was "carrying a variety of new cars, vans and trucks." The train, operated by BNSF, derailed around midnight Wednesday in Williams, located outside of Flagstaff, according to Coconino County Emergency Management. "A total of 23 cars derailed and sustained heavy damage. The train cars involved were carrying a variety of new cars, vans and trucks," Coconino County officials said.


'Magic: The Gathering' publisher Wizards of the Coast sent the Pinkertons after a leaker

Engadget

When a highly anticipated set of Magic: The Gathering cards leaked on YouTube last week, it's hard to imagine anyone would have guessed the incident would end with the involvement of one of the most infamous private security firms in the world. But that's exactly what happened after YouTuber Oldschoolmtg uploaded an unboxing video featuring a collection of March of the Machine: The Aftermath booster packs. If you're not familiar, Aftermath is an upcoming 50-card Magic: The Gathering set Wizards of the Coast will release on May 12th. It's billed as a supplement to the game's current March of the Machine expansion, which has been available since April 21st. Predictably, Oldschoolmtg's unboxing video was all anyone in the Magic: The Gathering community could talk about in recent days.


Big Tech Hasn't Fixed AI's Misinformation Problem--Yet

TIME - Tech

The scrappy underdog AI firm OpenAI has stirred the sleeping tech giants with its generative AI products, most recently and most prominently the conversational chatbot ChatGPT. Microsoft spent $10 billion on a partnership with OpenAI in an attempt to leap-frog its younger big tech competitors by weaving AI into many products; Google internally declared a "code red" and is cutting red tape to put out AI products more quickly, including a direct competitor to ChatGPT that was just announced; meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg has declared his intent to make Meta a "leader in generative AI," clearly a reaction to the attention OpenAI is garnering. The products these companies are suddenly striving for sound similar, but who will be the winner? Although much discussion has centered around the size of the AI models and how much data they are trained on, there's another factor that may matter a lot, too: the degree to which the contenders build trustworthy systems that don't unduly harm society and further destabilize democracy. OpenAI's earlier text generation product GPT-3 grabbed a lot of attention but never saw the widespread consumer adoption that ChatGPT has attained.