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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants -- already a daily information gateway for millions of people -- routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was launched at the EBU News Assembly, in Naples. Involving 22 public service media (PSM) organizations in 18 countries working in 14 languages, it identified multiple systemic issues across four leading AI tools. Professional journalists from participating PSM evaluated more than 3,000 responses from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity against key criteria, including accuracy, sourcing, distinguishing opinion from fact, and providing context. Key findings: - 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. - 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems - missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. - 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. - Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance. - Comparison between the BBC's results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors. The team has released a News Integrity in AI Assistants Toolkit to help develop solutions to these problems and boost users' media literacy. They're also urging regulators to enforce laws on information integrity and continue independent monitoring of AI assistants.

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The Energy Secretary should prioritise making power cheaper or risk losing the argument on net zero, it warns.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: For Dr Joel, or Laz to his friends, in the six-part supernatural thriller Lazarus, 'I see dead people' could be the motto on his business card.

Police chiefs have advised ministers that forces in England and Wales should no longer be policing 'toxic culture wars debates' by recording non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs).

EXC: Sir Chris Bryant - then a minister in the department responsible for the digital ID scheme - promised Britons would be able to use physical identification in 'every circumstance' in March.

Mamdani insists he's not a communist, but previous remarks suggest otherwise. And those who can remember when New York almost went bankrupt - say his plans could bring the city to its knees.

Teacher Lucy Martinez was identified as the alleged woman in a video making gestures which alluded to Kirk's death at a 'No Kings' rally at the weekend.

Kim Kardashian stole the show in a sexy black leather gown as she joined her co-stars for the UK premiere of All's Fair in London on Wednesday.

The former prime minister's think-tank called for the Energy Secretary to switch focus from going green to cutting energy bills or risk losing the Net Zero argument.

OpenBSD 7.8 has been released, adding Raspberry Pi 5 support, enhanced AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV-ES) capabilities, and expanded hardware compatibility including new Qualcomm, Rockchip, and Apple ARM drivers. Phoronix reports: OpenBSD 7.8 also brings multiple improvements around enabling AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (AMD SEV) support with support for the PSP ioctl for encrypting and measuring state for SEV-ES, a new VMD option to run guests in SEV-ES mode, and other enablement work pertaining to that AMD SEV work in SEV-ES form at this point as a precursor to SEV-SNP. AMD SEV-ES should be working to start confidential virtual machines (VMs) when using the VMM/VMD hypervisor and the OpenBSD guests with KVM/QEMU. OpenBSD 7.8 also improves compatibility of the FUSE file-system support with the Linux implementation, suspend/hibernate improvements, SMP improvements, updating to the Linux 6.12.50 DRM graphics drivers, several new Rockchip drivers, Raspberry Pi RP1 drivers, H.264 video support for the uvideo driver, and many network driver improvements. The changelog and download page can be found via OpenBSD.org.

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In a bleak report today, the Office for National Statistics said inflation remained stuck at 3.8 per cent in September, the third month in a row.

Meanwhile Sullivan's legal battle continues

interview  Two convicted felons walk into a room at the request of a federal judge who wanted one of them - Joe Sullivan, the former Uber chief security officer found guilty of attempting to cover up a 2016 breach at the rideshare company - to help rehabilitate the other, whom the feds accused of hacking into corporate networks as a teen and participating in a "significant" digital heist.…

Most parents have been guilt-tripped into giving their toddler an extra biscuit or ice cream.

Kimber Mills, 18, of Cleveland, was one of four people who were hit with bullets close to a highway near Palmerdale on Saturday.

Two decades after Labour's then-home secretary John Reid said the Home Office was 'not fit for purpose', Shabana Mahmood said nothing had changed.

Britain's top civil servant could be forced out after just a year in the job amid Cabinet complaints he is a 'plodder' who is obstructing reform.

The singer, 39, appeared on the show alongside huge stars including Stephen Fry, Alan Carr, Paloma Faith and Celia Imrie.

Oliver Holland was left with the catastrophic injuries after the chopper plummeted from the sky and crash landed on top of him earlier this month.

Like Cat and Alan Carr, Jonathan has avoided banishment through the series so far, but in recent episodes, some of the other faithfuls have become suspicious of him.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has partnered with a leather company to rid the Everglades of Burmese pythons.