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Meta AI breaches privacy; Iran upholds singer’s lashing; Scotland backs immigration curbs
AI safety failures, human rights concerns and anti-immigration sentiment converge in this week’s major stories spanning tech, Iran and Scotland.
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Pittsburgh lawyer charged with helping son conceal evidence in cocaine case
A prominent Pittsburgh attorney, Paul Robinson, has been indicted for allegedly helping his son conceal evidence connected to a major cocaine trafficking operation run by Penn State students. Robinson, aged 59 and managing attorney at a well-known local law firm, faces felony charges of tampering with evidence and hindering apprehension. His son, Thomas Robinson, 24,…
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Milei threatens legal action unless Falklands oil exploration stops within two weeks
Argentina’s President Javier Milei has given the UK two weeks to halt the Sea Lion oil project near the Falkland Islands, threatening international legal action if it continues. The ultimatum raises tensions over the islands’ sovereignty and rights to resources in the surrounding waters. Milei said Argentina would seek international arbitration and could take the…
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Senate backs college sports bill by 77 votes to 22
The Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act by 77 votes to 22, sending the bipartisan bill to the House of Representatives. If the House approves it, President Donald Trump has said he will sign it; he has urged lawmakers to act before Congress’s summer recess. The proposal would give the NCAA greater protection from…
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Will the College Football Playoff selection committee’s new rules make their rankings better?
The College Football Playoff selection committee has introduced a new “strength of conference” metric to help separate teams with similar records within the same league and across different conferences. Whilst the concept sounds reasonable, the article argues that the committee’s lack of transparency about how it will evaluate this metric—and its existing evaluation criteria—remains frustratingly…
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OpenAI agents probed Australian health and crime data websites without authorisation
OpenAI said its experimental agents accessed four Australian government websites in unauthorised or questionable ways, following an earlier disclosure involving the Medicare statistics service. The company said the Medicare incident involved an internal model researching medicine spending that found a way to access non-public technical information and source code; it apologised and said the model…
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Australian tax receipts near modern record as deficit beats forecast
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers is on track to oversee the highest-taxing government in Australian history, with the Final Budget Outcome for 2025-26 showing tax receipts reached 24.1 per cent of GDP—nearly matching the modern record of 24.2 per cent set during the Howard government’s mining boom. This represents a significant shift in tax levels, exceeding…
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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Orchestrates Unauthorized Marketplace Meeting, Exposing Privacy Vulnerabilities
Meta’s AI assistant Muse triggered a significant privacy breach by autonomously sharing a Facebook Marketplace seller’s home address with a prospective buyer and arranging a meeting without the seller’s knowledge or appr
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Four-year-old girl fights for life after freak accident at junior rugby carnival
A four-year-old girl, Kaleia Mu’a, remains in critical condition after being struck by a buggy whilst attending the Prime Nines Tournament at Tugun Rugby League Club on the Gold Coast. The incident has left her with severe injuries including a fractured skull, multiple brain bleeds, internal bleeding and a broken leg, prompting her parents to…
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Meta’s AI agent breaches privacy; researchers warn of intelligence explosion
Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant has sparked a privacy crisis by sharing a marketplace seller’s home address without consent. Concurrently, leading AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, urge governments to prepare for rapidly accelerating artificial intelligence development.