Data from over 47,000 dogs found that they are pretty adaptable, except for one behavior. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. While it would be great to read a dog's mind to figure out why they chew your shoes or howl at the moon, that technology is probably still a long way off. However, a study published today in the journal is offering pet owners and veterinarians a baseline for understanding dog behavior . The data comes out of the Dog Aging Project, a large-scale research initiative that involves over 40 different institutions.

A horrific new era of ultrarealistic, AI-generated, child sexual abuse images is now underway, experts warn. Offenders are using downloadable open source generative AI models, which can produce images, to devastating effects. The technology is being used to create hundreds of new images of children who have previously been abused. Offenders are sharing datasets of abuse images that can be used to customize AI models, and they're starting to sell monthly subscriptions to AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The details of how the technology is being abused are included in a new, wide-ranging report released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a nonprofit based in the UK that scours and removes abuse content from the web.

They're often referred to as'man's best friend', but a new study suggests that when it comes to communication, not all dogs are equal. Researchers from George Washington University have revealed the dogs that give humans the most expressive stares. Their findings suggest that it's not about breed, and it instead comes down to dogs' facial markings. Those with one, solid colour face are perceived as more expressive than those with multi-coloured faces, according to the researchers. 'Knowing what dogs are trying to tell us and what they might be thinking or feeling can really enhance both their experience and ours when we're together,' said Courtney Sexton, lead author of the study.

Kara Frederick, tech director at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the need for regulations on artificial intelligence as lawmakers and tech titans discuss the potential risks. An internet watchdog is sounding the alarm over the growing trend of sex offenders collaborating online to use open source artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material. "There's a technical community within the offender space, particularly dark web forums, where they are discussing this technology," Dan Sexton, the chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), told The Guardian in a report last week. "They are sharing imagery, they're sharing [AI] models. Sexton's organization has found that offenders are increasingly turning to open source AI models to create illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and distribute it online. Unlike closed AI models such as OpenAI's Dall-E or Google's Imagen, open source AI technology can be downloaded and adjusted by users, according to the report. Sexton said the ability to use such technology has spread among offenders, who take to the dark web to create and distribute realistic images. An internet watchdog is sounding the alarm over the growing trend of sex offenders collaborating online to use open source artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material. "The content that we've seen, we believe is actually being generated using open source software, which has been downloaded and run locally on people's computers and then modified.

Early on in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the trio of lead characters gives a fictional interview to a very real video games publication. The troubled but passionate Samson Mazur tells the interviewer, "There is no more intimate act than play, even sex." This is an explosive statement, but a perfect one in the context of a novel that treasures the act of play and holds it sacred. In some ways, this is a thesis statement for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow itself: the novel opening its heart, and showing you what it is truly about. Video games are seldom treated in literature as a site of emotion, but in Zevin's work they are the very landscape that the full spectrum of relationships, grief, and love play out in.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to a surge in demand for data management skills, as companies seek to bolster their ranks with the right talent as the "age of AI" draws closer. According to a report, Harnessing the Power of AI: The Demand for Future Skills, by recruitment firm Robert Walters and market analysis experts Vacancy Soft, uptake of the technology will change the job market "drastically" and create 133 million new jobs across the globe. In the UK, where the research was based, up to a third of jobs will be automated or changed as a result of AI, impacting 10.5 million workers. "As businesses become ever more reliant on AI, there is an increasing amount of pressure on the processes of data capture and integration," said Ollie Sexton, Principal at Robert Walters. "Now is the perfect time to start honing UK talent for the next generation of AI-influenced jobs. If you look at the statistics in this report we can see that demand is already rife, what we are at risk of is a shortage of talent and skills."

AI is set to drastically change the UK job market in the coming years with up to a third of jobs expected to be automated or likely to change as a result of the emergence of AI, impacting 10.5 million workers, according to a report from Robert Walters and VacancySoft. The report found that 133 million new jobs are expected to be created globally with the uptake of AI by industry. Robert Walters also found that demand for data professionals is rapidly growing. IT professionals dedicated to data management appear to be the fastest growing area within large or global entities, with volumes increasing ten-fold in three years, an increase in vacancies of 160% since 2015. Data roles across the board have increased by 80% since 2015, with key areas of growth including data scientists and engineers.

It's 7.40am on Monday morning and Stiofan Sexton is about to do something he has never done before – and he doesn't even know it. Waiting on the platform at Sydney's Chatswood station, he is one of the first thousand passengers on the new fully driverless Metro Northwest in its first weekday rush-hour test. He used to take a slow bus up to work in North Ryde. Now he steps on to a carriage that goes up to 100km/h, along a 66km track, with service every four minutes, all run by a single computer. Asked by Guardian Australia how he feels about the fully automated train, he says he did not realise it was.