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British parts found in Russian drones, Zelensky says

BBC News

British microcomputers were among more than 100,000 foreign-made parts contained in Russian missiles and drones used in Sunday's deadly strikes on Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The Ukrainian president called for further effective sanctions after saying parts originating in allied countries including Germany, Japan and the US have been identified in Russian weapons. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) said it had recently undertaken efforts to crack down on UK firms whose products have continued to make their way into Russia's military supply chain. We take reports of goods from UK companies being found in Russian weaponry incredibly seriously, a government spokesperson said. The spokesperson said the government had banned the export of thousands of goods to Russia including every battlefield item Ukraine has brought to our attention, adding that they have imposed the most the most severe package of sanctions. What are the sanctions on Russia and are they working?


North Carolina waterfront ambush 'highly premeditated,' suspect tied to anti-LGBTQ conspiracies: docs

FOX News

Nigel Max Edge allegedly opened fire from a boat at American Fish Company in Southport, North Carolina, killing three people and injuring five in what police call a premeditated attack.


Denmark bans all civilian drone flights ahead of European summit

BBC News

Denmark has banned all civilian drone flights this week ahead of a European Union summit in Copenhagen, the country's transport minister said on Sunday. The ministry said the decision was made in order to simplify security work for the police, and they could not accept foreign drones creating uncertainty and disruption. Denmark is one of several European countries that have reported drone incidents in recent weeks, with unidentified drones sighted above Danish military sites as recently as Saturday. Defence ministers from 10 EU countries have agreed to create a drone wall in response to the sightings, and Nato says it has enhanced vigilance across the Baltic. In their statement announcing the ban, the transport ministry said police were on significantly increased alert ahead of this week's summit and that they needed to take care of Danes and our guests.


Massive Russian drone and missile attack kills four in Kyiv

The Japan Times

Men stand at the site of heavily damaged residential buildings following a Russian air attack on the outskirts of Kyiv on Sunday. KYIV - A massive Russian drone and missile attack against Ukraine lasting 12 hours into Sunday killed at least four people in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl, Ukrainian authorities said. Neighboring Poland scrambled jets to secure its airspace in the wake of the barrage, after NATO accused Moscow of being behind a series of violations of the defense alliance's airspace. Diplomatic efforts to stop the war have faltered, and Russia has vowed to press on with the offensive that it launched in February 2022. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.


Denmark bans civilian drone flights due to EU summit

The Japan Times

A mobile radar installation is positioned near the strait between Denmark and Sweden on Friday. COPENHAGEN - Denmark will ban all civilian drone flights across the country over the coming days to ensure security as Copenhagen hosts an EU summit gathering heads of government, the transport ministry said Sunday. Mysterious drone sightings across Denmark since Sept. 22 have prompted the closure of several airports, with Denmark hinting at possible Russian involvement, though Moscow denies the charge. Drones were observed over Danish military sites Saturday night for the second straight day, Denmark's army said on Sunday. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.


Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,313

Al Jazeera

Can Ukraine restore its pre-war borders? Why are Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine a'red line' for Russia? Is Russia testing NATO with aerial incursions in Europe? Russian forces killed four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured 13 in an attack on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, on Sunday night, Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, wrote in a post on Telegram. Those killed also included staff and patients at a cardiology centre, Tkachenko added.


Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Next Location Predictors

Beneduce, Ciro, Lepri, Bruno, Luca, Massimiliano

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Predicting the locations an individual will visit in the future is crucial for solving many societal issues like disease diffusion and reduction of pollution among many others. The models designed to tackle next-location prediction, however, require a significant amount of individual-level information to be trained effectively. Such data may be scarce or even unavailable in some geographic regions or peculiar scenarios (e.g., cold-start in recommendation systems). Moreover, the design of a next-location predictor able to generalize or geographically transfer knowledge is still an open research challenge. Recent advances in natural language processing have led to a rapid diffusion of Large Language Models (LLMs) which have shown good generalization and reasoning capabilities. These insights, coupled with the recent findings that LLMs are rich in geographical knowledge, allowed us to believe that these models can act as zero-shot next-location predictors. This paper evaluates the capabilities of many popular LLMs in this role, specifically Llama, GPT-3.5 and Mistral 7B. After designing a proper prompt, we tested the models on three real-world mobility datasets. The results show that LLMs can obtain accuracies up to 32.4%, a significant relative improvement of over 600% when compared to sophisticated DL models specifically designed for human mobility. Moreover, we show that other LLMs are unable to perform the task properly. To prevent positively biased results, we also propose a framework inspired by other studies to test data contamination. Finally, we explored the possibility of using LLMs as text-based explainers for next-location prediction showing that can effectively provide an explanation for their decision. Notably, 7B models provide more generic, but still reliable, explanations compared to larger counterparts. Code: github.com/ssai-trento/LLM-zero-shot-NL


Google 'panic': Samsung said to consider switching to Bing

#artificialintelligence

Google went into a "panic" after Samsung, the world's second-largest manufacturer of smartphones and a user of the company's Android operating system, said it was considering offering Bing as the default search engine for users, according to a report published by the New York Times on Sunday. The tech giant is scrambling to catch up to rivals Microsoft in the adoption of A.I. services. The threat to Google's $162 billion business is reportedly pushing the company to revamp its search products, including creating an entirely new A.I.-powered search engine. Google's drive to compete contrasts with comments from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in an interview, also aired on Sunday, in which he suggested that he wanted to avoid a rush to release new A.I. products for fear of how they might affect society. In the interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Alphabet CEO Pichai called artificial intelligence "the most profound technology humanity is working on," adding that it was "more profound than fire or electricity or anything that we've done in the past."


AI app's ability to resurrect lost loved ones sparks fears technology is crossing the fantasy-reality Rubicon

FOX News

Orthodox Catholic philosopher Joe Vukov discusses the moral implications of using artificial intelligence to cope with the loss of loved ones. HereAfter AI is giving mourning families a space to talk with digital replicas of their deceased loved ones in what some are calling an eerie blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality. The interactive app is the latest venture in the rapidly-advancing tech space, allowing mourners to keep the voice and personality of their deceased loved ones alive and chat with them using artificial intelligence. While the innovation might sound unique and comforting to some, others say the development's moral implications could restrict the significance of life to simple characteristics that attempt to replace a once-living person. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTH CARE: NEW PRODUCT ACTS AS'COPILOT FOR DOCTORS' "The motivation driving this sort of conversation is clear – we want to keep people around who we've lost," Orthodox Catholic philosopher Joe Vukov said Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend."


Croatia vs Morocco third-place predictions: World Cup 2022

Al Jazeera

Croatia take on Morocco for the third-place playoff at World Cup 2022. Saturday's game will be the second encounter between the Atlas Lions and 2018 runners-up at this year's World Cup in Qatar. Their opening group match ended in a goalless draw. Kashef, our artificial intelligence (AI) robot, has analysed more than 200 metrics, including the number of wins, goals scored and FIFA rankings, from matches played over the past century to see who is most likely to win on Saturday. Prediction: Morocco's dreams of reaching the World Cup final were dashed after a 2-0 loss to France in the semifinal.