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Scotland’s top judge warns AI can invent laws cited in court
Scotland’s top judge, Lord Pentland, has warned that AI-generated legal research can invent laws and court cases, which people may then cite as fact in court. He said AI may help people access justice and support legal work, but it should assist rather than replace human judgement; relying on it uncritically can waste court time…
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Non-verbal autistic five-year-old wandered from Portland school into traffic
An autistic five-year-old non-verbal boy wandered out of Grout Elementary School in Portland through an open gate on 9 September and made his way into traffic on Holgate Boulevard. His mother, Erin McDonald-Wentzell, described watching surveillance footage of the incident as watching “a horror movie playing in slow motion” because she could see exactly what…
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Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
Donald Trump announced a voluntary AI safety pledge signed by leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia. The companies are to oversee their own frontier AI systems under shared guidelines, which the article describes as morally binding but apparently carrying no penalties for breaches. The plan matters because it relies on industry self-regulation…
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Six smugglers jailed for manslaughter over worst Channel small boats disaster
Six people traffickers were convicted in Paris of involuntary manslaughter for their role in the deaths of 31 migrants in the worst small-boat disaster in the Channel. The verdict holds members of two smuggling networks responsible for organising the crossing, which ended in tragedy in November 2021. The boat sank early on 24 November after…
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Bellamy demands Wales respond to Denmark defeat against improving Norway
Wales manager Craig Bellamy has acknowledged his team’s poor performance in a 2-0 defeat to Denmark and is urging improvement ahead of Thursday’s Nations League A match against Norway in Cardiff. Bellamy has expressed respect for Norway’s progress and talent, warning that the Scandinavian nation represents a significant threat and describing them as a team…
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GTA 6 completely “re-engineered” Rockstar’s weather systems to “achieve a sense of scale we haven’t felt before,” adding hurricanes, rainbows and heavy rain
Rockstar Games has substantially redesigned GTA 6’s weather systems to create a more immersive and expansive open world. The VP of art for lighting and rendering revealed that the game now features dynamic hurricanes, rainbows, and improved cloud systems that make the environment feel significantly more realistic and large-scale than previous iterations. The weather system…
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Stock trading ban DIES as Republican ‘poison pill’ with Trump loophole crashes and burns
The US Senate rejected the Stop Insider Trading Act, which would have prohibited members of Congress from trading stocks, in a 53-47 vote that prevented it from reaching President Trump’s desk. Although the bill had already passed the House with some Democratic support, Senate Republicans attached voter identification requirements that Democrats denounced as a “poison…
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Russia advances tests for its long-delayed PTK NP crew spacecraft
Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos is advancing development of a new crewed spacecraft now officially called PTK NP (previously known as “Eagle”), after nearly two decades of delays and name changes. Under new CEO Dmitry Bakanov, the project is moving into testing phases, with parachute system trials planned for autumn and emergency rescue mode tests…
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Asus won’t say how it escaped the US router ban
Asus has received a US exemption from a ban on future foreign-made consumer routers, allowing it to sell new models, including early Wi-Fi 8 routers. The exemption matters because it covers all of Asus’s future routers through March 2028, though the company has not clarified whether it submitted a plan to manufacture in the United…