Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns

Australian Signals Directorate chief says advanced AI tools are needed to defend against ‘AI-enabled attackers’

Australians should prepare for more basic and important online services to go offline unexpectedly, the nation’s signals intelligence agency has warned, urging that “system security must be prioritised over system availability”.

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) also says businesses and critical infrastructure must use cutting-edge AI models to defend against digital threats, raising alarm that artificial intelligence is enabling more dangerous threats than ever.

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Norway Rejects Trump’s Slurs Over Nobel Peace Prize Snub – Bloomberg.com

  1. Norway Rejects Trump’s Slurs Over Nobel Peace Prize Snub  Bloomberg.com
  2. Norway Pushes Back After Trump Disparages It Over Nobel Prize Decision  The New York Times
  3. Norway joins the list of countries Trump has abused in vulgar terms  Reuters
  4. Trump: I don’t want Norwegians in US because of Nobel Peace Prize snub  The Telegraph
  5. Trump says 'Norway sucks,' calls it 'a shthouse country' over Nobel Peace Prize rejection  KOMO
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Major clean-up under way after two storms cause havoc in Britain

More strong winds forecast after Austen and Boelo kill two people and bring travel disruption and flooding

A major clean-up operation was under way on Monday after weekend storms caused havoc, with forecasters warning of more strong winds to come.

Two men were killed by falling trees after two named storms, Austen and Boelo, struck parts of the UK, and there was widespread travel disruption, flooding, power cuts and event cancellations.

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Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology.

The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of a statistics project at Anthropic, which is preparing for a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) flotation.

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What are the unanswered questions around the River Tyne nurdle spill? – BBC

  1. What are the unanswered questions around the River Tyne nurdle spill?  BBC
  2. Calls for answers over River Tyne nurdle spill and for details of review to be made public  Chronicle Live
  3. Where have the River Tyne's 850 million nurdles gone?  Newcastle University
  4. What We Still Need To Know About The Tyne Nurdle Spill  ИФЗ РАН
  5. What do we still need to know about the Tyne nurdle spill?  AOL.com
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‘It’s a mess right now’: RFK’s sweeping changes place new vaccines in limbo

Health secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved

US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, and some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration, experts say.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies.

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Japan indicts U.S. Marine in Okinawa killing, reports say – NBC News

  1. Japan indicts U.S. Marine in Okinawa killing, reports say  NBC News
  2. US Marine indicted for murder and robbery of woman in Japan  BBC
  3. Japanese prosecutors charge US marine suspected of robbing and killing woman  The Guardian
  4. Okinawa prosecutors indict US Marine on charge of robbery causing death  Stars and Stripes
  5. Japan air base imposes junior enlisted alcohol ban, curfew after local murder  Military Times
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