Assisted dying debate should come after end-of-life care reform, says Burnham

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Introducing the legislation would be ‘very challenging’ until care system improved, PM says

Andy Burnham has said the assisted dying debate needs to wait until palliative care and social care are fixed, as he set out his path to resolving one of the most intractable problems in British politics.

The prime minister said he was not opposed to having the debate on assisted dying, but told reporters it would be “very challenging” to introduce the controversial legislation until the care system was in a better place.

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Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms

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ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face

OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.

The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.

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Boy, seven, dies after Essex coast incident that killed cousin and aunt

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Musa Ahmed was being treated in intensive care in London hospital after being pulled from West Mersea sea

A seven-year-old boy has died a week after an incident off the Essex coast in which his teenage cousin and her mother died as they tried to rescue him.

Musa Ahmed was being treated for life-threatening injuries after being pulled from the sea near West Mersea beach on 22 July.

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BMW to cut ‘as many as 8,000 jobs’ under pressure from Chinese rivals

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Layoffs will come in admin and development divisions in Germany, with production operations unaffected

BMW is planning to cut as many as 8,000 jobs in Germany, according to reports, in the latest sign of Europe’s largest carmakers reducing costs under pressure from Chinese rivals.

The Munich-headquartered company has started a voluntary redundancy programme agreed with employee representatives, a BMW spokesperson said on Wednesday.

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French music producer Kavinsky, known for Drive soundtrack hit Nightcall, dies aged 50

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French authorities investigate death of musician who performed at Paris Olympics, but say ‘no suspicious elements’ at play

The French electronic musician Kavinsky, known for the song Nightcall which achieved iconic status after its inclusion in the Ryan Gosling film Drive, has died aged 50.

A police source speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro indicated that the suspected cause of death was a stroke. Kavinsky, real name Vincent Belorgey, had reportedly been complaining of headaches in recent days, and he was discovered at home after a concerned neighbour alerted emergency services.

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Ukrainian Drones Strike Targets Deep Inside Russia, Wildberries Hit Again – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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  1. Ukrainian Drones Strike Targets Deep Inside Russia, Wildberries Hit Again  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  2. Ukrainian drones strike across Russia, hitting refineries, Wildberries warehouse  reuters.com
  3. Ukraine war briefing: Wildberries attacks shake Russian economy and banking  theguardian.com
  4. Russian industrial sites on fire after Ukrainian drone attacks  Al Jazeera
  5. Will Ukraine’s Wildberries attacks force Putin to the negotiating table?  Chatham House
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US schools are struggling to keep the yellow bus running amid shortages and cuts

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Districts are reducing routes and exploring new ways to get students to class as transportation costs climb

Education officials across the United States are increasingly facing a fundamental challenge: how do they ensure that school students can actually get to their classrooms?

The bright yellow school bus might be a visual icon of US education famous around the world, but in reality it is becoming harder for districts to steer.

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