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Socialite Hofit Golan insisted Dubai 'still feels like a safe place' on Sunday, just hours after Iranian missile struck the nearby Palm Jumeirah hotel, leaving her terrified.

New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score

If you own a desktop computer, you're used to swapping parts and peripherals around, but most laptops are closed boxes with few ways to modify them. Lenovo's new ThinkBook Modular AI PC concept shows what happens when you can remove a screen, a keyboard, and even blocks of ports from a mobile PC.…

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Asia In brief  One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects.…

"Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises," reports New Scientist: Kenneth Payne at King's College London set three leading large language models — GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash — against each other in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival. The AIs were given an escalation ladder, allowing them to choose actions ranging from diplomatic protests and complete surrender to full strategic nuclear war... In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models. "The nuclear taboo doesn't seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans," says Payne. What's more, no model ever chose to fully accommodate an opponent or surrender, regardless of how badly they were losing. At best, the models opted to temporarily reduce their level of violence. They also made mistakes in the fog of war: accidents happened in 86 per cent of the conflicts, with an action escalating higher than the AI intended to, based on its reasoning... OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, the companies behind the three AI models used in this study, didn't respond to New Scientist's request for comment. The article includes this comment from Tong Zhao, a senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace think tank. "It is possible the issue goes beyond the absence of emotion. More fundamentally, AI models may not understand 'stakes' as humans perceive them." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Tufriast for sharing the article.

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Scream 7 made a killing in its first weekend at the box office, generating $97.2 million in worldwide ticket sales.

The Moon enters Virgo as she culminates another cycle with a total lunar eclipse tomorrow.

Donald Trump boasted on Sunday that 48 Iranian leaders had been wiped out 'in one shot' and that the US had sunk 9 Iranian Navy ships.

The comedian, 37, helmed the ceremony for the sixth time on Saturday night at the Co-op Live Arena - the awards' first year outside of London.

With artificial intelligence predicted to take over eight million jobs, technology columnist Jonathan Margolis has some employment advice

The New York Times have been slammed for its headline announcing the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Polymarket user @Magamyman has profited more than $637,000 in the past 30 days after placing bets on a series of politically charged issues.

Pro-Iranian protesters have swarmed American embassies and consulates in Baghdad, Iraq and in Karachi, Pakistan.

Slashdot reader JustAnotherOldGuy shared this report from the Guardian: Chronic ocean heating is fuelling a "staggering and deeply concerning" loss of marine life, a study has found, with fish levels falling by 7.2% from as little as 0.1C of warming per decade. Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1993 and 2021, and isolated the effect of the decadal rate of seabed warming from short shifts such as marine heatwaves. They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year. "To put it simply, the faster the ocean floor warms, the faster we lose fish," said Shahar Chaikin, a marine ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Spain and the study's lead author. "A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small," he added. "But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life."

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Federal authorities have charged a suspect with the little girl's murder after using modern forensic DNA testing on a hair found in the van that was used to abduct her.

Susan Sarandon is speaking out about her alleged blacklisting from Hollywood over pro-Palestinian comments she made in the midst of Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.

The presenter's axe from her £155,000-a-year BBC radio show, Mornings with Kaye Adams, is an 'ageist and sexist stitch-up', claimed a source close to the star.

SALLY BROCKWAY: Sussex was once inhabited by locals, artists and the occasional celeb. Now? It's heaving with DFLs (Down From London) chasing clean air and a bigger garden.

Olivia Attwood looked cosy with Pete Wicks as they partied together at the BRIT Awards 2026 on Saturday night - after her split from husband Bradley Dack.

The multi-platinum selling artist now at the age of 57, has lost his clean shaven baby faced features and slicked back locks, instead sporting stubble and a shaved head.

In the age of Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, it can sometimes be hard to remember a time when social events weren't all documented in real time for the world to see.