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The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year ago for a very different purpose. Today the Department of Science, Industry and Technology announced that it would be renaming the AI Safety Institute to the “AI Security Institute.”

 

However, a smaller number of countries account for the vast majority of all documented physical attacks on dissidents, with China the most frequent offender, responsible for 272 incidents, or 22% of recorded cases. Russia, Turkey and Egypt also rank among the worst perpetrators.

 

MI5 lied to three courts while defending its handling of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal.

 

Labour has mothballed plans to make it easier to legally change gender, The Times has learnt, in a step to counter Reform UK’s surge in the polls.

 

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on Sunday, severing Soviet-era ties amid heightened security after the suspected sabotage of several subsea cables and pipelines.

 

In August 2024, I resigned over the UK government’s refusal to halt arms sales to Israel amid the bombardment of Gaza. This decision followed over a year of internal lobbying and whistleblowing. My resignation made headlines, and weeks later, the new Labour government announced it would finally suspend arms sales to Israel. While this was welcome, it came far too late. Israel has continued to commit atrocities in Gaza as the UK stands by, unwilling to act.

 

In January 2024, Russia was losing far fewer troops — an average of 846 a day, according to the UK MOD.

But it was attracting between 1,000-1,100 new recruits a day, according to an estimate from Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy chief major general of Ukraine's main military intelligence arm, more than enough to replace those lost.

Some estimates of Russia's current military recruitment, alongside soaring casualty figures, suggest that this may no longer be the case.

 

Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of everyone else.

 

The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized the key city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region on Monday for humanitarian reasons, following calls for a safe corridor for aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

 

The UK population is projected to reach 72.5 million by mid-2032, up nearly 5 million from 67.6 million in mid-2022, according to figures from the ONS.

 

Indonesia and India signed a wide range of agreements on Saturday covering culture, health, maritime, security and digital sectors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How are you gentlemen. You have no chance to survive, make your time. Ha ha ha ha.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

At least 13

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well yeah? Once it crashes you can rebuild it properly.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For I.C.Weiner?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It’ll be flowing into mods pockets in no time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Which is a subset of propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Or Mauritius could give the Chagos Islands back to the Chagossians instead of trying to profit off of stealing their land.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I’m sure they had ample opportunity to steal Greek artefacts from when Greeks invaded Egypt and India.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20170521113731/http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16095809&postcount=7

There's this, the original comment lost to time, but a link to an alleged direct quote from GabeN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are you suggesting landlords make zero profit off of the property?

The money we put in is more than the cost of the exterminator, roof not-leaking, many other examples but you get the idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Is that why they stole their money?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The UK: Where children can’t be trans, but you should be able to fuck your cousin.

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