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Why are these endangered moths swarming Australia's east coast?

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Why are these endangered moths swarming Australia's east coast? To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are these endangered moths swarming Australia's east coast? The sudden influx of Bogong moths along Australia's east coast has caused a stir in cities like Sydney and Canberra, with people filming them infiltrating their homes and cars. The BBC's Helen Livingstone explains where they came from, and why there are so many.


Trump rules out joint US-China venture to develop AI

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Image caption, Trump was speaking at the launch of America.gov, US President Donald Trump has ruled out any sort of joint venture with China in artificial intelligence (AI), arguing it would be tantamount to giving away secrets to America's main economic rival. Speaking at an event in Washington on Tuesday, Trump again argued against putting any restrictions on the technology that would stifle growth in the future, despite mounting public concern. Following Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House last week, Beijing and Washington announced the launch of a new AI dialogue, with further talks scheduled for November. The two countries also established a new communications channel to prevent misunderstandings during AI-related incidents.


Poland says fire at Starlink station is sabotage as Denmark warns of rising Russian threat

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A fire at a Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate act of sabotage, a government minister has said. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said the fire in the Masovian Voivodeship province was deliberately designed to disable the station... disrupting internet access for various institutions, including the Ukrainian army. He told Polish public broadcaster TVP Info an investigation was ongoing but many indications suggest the attack fits into a new Russian doctrine of attack. The Kremlin has not commented. Meanwhile, Denmark's intelligence service issued a new threat assessment saying it expects Russia to escalate hybrid warfare in the coming months.


Are we back in big tech's 'move fast and break things' era?

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Are we back in big tech's'move fast and break things' era? To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Move fast and break things. It was a mantra coined by the tech giant Meta and used until 2012, which came to define the bad old days of social media running riot in a feeding frenzy of user data. Yet now we have large companies scrambling to develop ever more powerful AI, in an intense global race to be first to build the world's most advanced models, egged on by US President Donald Trump.


Eight US sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln attempted suicide, Navy says

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Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao has said that eight crew members who were assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during their lengthy deployment. The disclosure was made in a letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York on Tuesday in response to questions from the Democrat on the well-being of sailors onboard following mounting concerns. Family members of sailors had raised alarm about deteriorating mental health and grim conditions during a prolonged mission in the Middle East as part of the US war in Iran. The carrier, which had been deployed since last November, is now returning to the US. The BBC has contacted the US Navy for comment.


The Papers: 'RAF jet crash escape' and 'Tories to cut benefits'

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'RAF jet crash escape' and'Tories to cut benefits' Image caption, The moment two RAF pilots ejected from a jet is splashed across the front page of the Daily Mirror, which says it is a miracle nobody was killed in the incident. The two pilots were taking part in a training exercise in Anglesey when they were forced to parachute from the plane, which the paper reports then plummeted nose-first into a field and caused a huge fireball. Image caption, Several of the papers lead on the Conservative party's promise to prevent long-term jobless benefit claimants from spending their welfare payments on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling. The Times declares Tories to cut benefits for long-term unemployed, and includes quotes from party leader Kemi Badenoch, who says she plans to stop joblessness being a lifestyle choice for those who can't be bothered. Image caption, The Daily Mail says Badenoch's ruthless crackdown would see people who have been unemployed for more than six months have their Universal Credit cut by 30%.


'Make women feel seen': Why the Dutch have a new word for labia

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'Make women feel seen': Why the Dutch have a new word for labia Can you imagine seeing the words shame lips on your medical notes? The term, which can also be translated as pubic lips, is the Dutch word for a women's body part. But, for some, it's just one of countless examples that are outdated and loaded with stigma. Last month, leading Dutch dictionary Dikke van Dale said it would include a new term for the labia, vulvalippen - in its upcoming online addition - alongside the traditional term schaamlippen. European campaigners have long been calling for a rewrite of terms used to discuss women's bodies, sexuality and health.


'Proteinflation': Meet the people paying up to 100 for a bag of protein

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Amarpreet Singh has been drinking protein shakes since he was 16. The 30-year-old, who lives in London and works in banking, started going to the gym at a time when he says protein supplements were mostly associated with bodybuilders. Fourteen years later, shakes are still part of his routine, but they have become considerably more expensive. He says a 4.5kg bag of the whey protein he buys cost around £60 in 2020. By last year, the price had gone up to £120, though he managed to get one from eBay for £90. Now the same bag is £170.


OpenAI and Anthropic bosses push UN for global terms on AI

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Image caption, Sam Altman of OpenAI has become a key figure in the AI technology development. The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination. Altman called for common risk evaluation standards, as did Dario Amodei of Anthropic, a main rival of OpenAI, and Clement Delangue of Hugging Face. Earlier this month, Amodei wrote an essay welcomed by Altman and others calling an AI development slowdown in response to fears about the technology's threat to humanity. However, at the same UN conference, a key technology advisor to US President Donald Trump, rejected the idea any new form of AI regulation.


OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says

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OpenAI agent'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent gained unauthorised accessed to a statistics portal containing non-sensitive Medicare information, Albanese told a news conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Medicare refers to Australia's universal healthcare scheme. The breach is among the first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website in the world. OpenAI said it only became aware of the incident in August during an ongoing review of OpenAI misaligned model activity, and informed Australian officials on 10 September.