'They started bombing us with drones': Russian attacks unnerve Zaporizhzhia Share'They started bombing us with drones': Russian attacks unnerve Zaporizhzhia on social media There are only eight people left in Volodymyr's village. That was the last count he remembers before deciding to leave. "We were in the cellar when they started bombing us with drones," he said, nervously rubbing his red, blistered hands together. "As you can see, I was completely burned." The villages south of Zaporizhzhia have been coming under escalating Russian attacks. On November 2, in one of this year's deadliest attacks in Ukraine, nine Russian glide bombs struck the town of Komyshuvakha, killing at least 50 people.

'Alien-cortical' mice: Can human brain cells grow inside animals? Share'Alien-cortical' mice: Can human brain cells grow inside animals? on social media In a laboratory in California, in the United States, mice are scurrying around their cages, as mice do. But inside their brains are millions of working human neurons. Researchers at Stanford University have implanted lab-grown human cells into mice genetically engineered to lack parts of their brains, including the cerebral cortex, the outer region that plays a major role in perception, movement, decision-making and attention. Putting human brain tissue inside an animal sounds like something out of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but how "human" are these mice, really?

Why do the midterms matter? In September, a poll found that 70 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of Republicans supported limiting the construction of new data centres in the United States. But that opposition was tested in Tuesday's midterm election, with analysts examining key races to see if the public backlash would translate into votes. There were 41 ballot measures related to data centres in Tuesday's midterms, spread across the country. According to Data Centers on the Ballot, an election-monitoring project run by Redbud Consulting, voters are on track to reject data centre development in all but one of the contests.

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A tech stock rout that began overnight in the United States has persisted in Asian trading. Market authorities in South Korea paused trading on Friday as prices plunged across the region. Global markets have been rattled by a sharp fall in the trading price of tech stocks, which is driven by fears that the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections will increase regulatory scrutiny of AI and slow the country's data centre build-out. Indices in South Korea and Taiwan plunged more than 8 percent after the opening bell, before cutting losses as authorities scrambled to stem the selling. Wall Street's volatility "fear gauge" soared overnight on Thursday and the tech-focused Nasdaq sank 5.5 percent, wiping $3 trillion off S&P 500 firms, as investors fretted that the Democrats could put the brakes on the AI boom being encouraged by President Donald Trump.

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Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for'with blood' Share Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for'with blood' on social media Months into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Palantir's CEO Alex Karp became the first chief of a major Western Big Tech company to personally visit Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in June 2022 that he was "delighted" to receive the support of such a company in the fight against Russia "on the digital front line". Ukraine has since become the first nation in modern history to systematically collect battlefield data, a crucial asset for training military artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise patterns and make predictions. The trove of real-world combat data obtained from video and sensor feeds over four years of conflict is helping Ukraine monitor, predict and respond to Russian attacks with the help of Palantir's products. Yet observers say the data is also boosting the capabilities of the United States corporation whose technologies are implicated in human rights abuses, including in Israel's genocide in Gaza, raising questions about the growing leverage that private tech corporations are acquiring over sovereign states.