Peter Aitken

The new Sora artificial intelligence (AI) program has obvious pitfalls, but experts highlighted the benefits of the new tech while acknowledging the need for greater safeguards and public education on its use. “While the rapid advancement of Al video generation is a remarkable technological breakthrough worthy of recognition, we must also acknowledge the profound challenges this innovation presents to the social media ecosystem and information environment as a whole,” Jake Denton, Research Asso…

The United Nations office in Geneva removed multiple photos from a pro-Palestinian exhibit after several critics, including the Israeli mission, noted that dead Israeli children had been included. “Hamas killed Ido,” the Israeli mission to the U.N. in Geneva posted on X, formerly Twitter. “We call on [U.N. Geneva Director-General Tatiana] Valovaya to immediately remove this exhibition, which spreads misinformation and is part of a propaganda campaign.” The mission first flagged the misinformatio…

Israel’s military forces have opened up fighting in nearly two dozen locations along the Gaza border after Hamas terrorists launched thousands of rockets into Israel Saturday morning. “There is no community in Southern Israel where we do not have forces in all the towns,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a statement Saturday evening. “There are communities that have been rid of terrorists, but we want to finish additional scans of the area before declaring so.” Ira…

A group of wild monkeys raided a supermarket and made off with a haul of bananas in a bizarre hit-and-run theft in Thailand. The monkeys diverted from their normal foraging grounds in a nearby forest to hit a 7-11 and take what bananas they could. The video of the incident shows the monkeys ransacking plastic crates after they pull back the covers, taking food then running away in rotation. When the shop workers try to chase the monkeys away, the monkeys just sit on the nearby wires out of reac…

The parents associations at eight elementary schools in the town of Greystones, County Wicklow, have agreed to enforce a ban on smartphones for all students until middle school.

The local council reiterated a number of advisories about walking near the cliffs, telling pedestrians to remain aware of the tides and to stay away from the cliff edge or base.

Birmingham, England, reports one of the highest crime rates in the United Kingdom, with one crime analyst group reporting the city as having the fourth-highest crime rate per 1,000 people.

Imran Khan faces numerous court cases regarding a litany of charges ranging from contempt to corruption and terrorism, all of which he argues his country’s military has pushed.

The volcano had lain dormant for around 6,000 years before it suddenly became active in 2021, with three eruptions in three years since the first eruption occurred.

U.S. health authorities have deemed the chemical propylene glycol, used in food dye and as an ingredient in coolant, as “generally recognized as safe.”