US | Three more victims of 9/11 identified, almost 24 years later
Ryan Fitzgerald was working in the World Trade Center and Barbara Keating was on one of the planes that was crashed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001
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Justice Department subpoenas New York AG James as it investigates whether she violated Trump rights
The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as it investigates whether she violated Trump’s civil rights
Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26
You’ll have to wait a little bit to try OpenAI’s new AI model with Apple Intelligence.
Russia hunts 13-year-old Ukrainian boy with drone in Kherson, as fears grow Kremlin may try to recapture liberated city
Drone attacks, artillery, and infrastructure strikes hit hard as the Kremlin eyes recapturing the only regional capital it seized during the all-out war.
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MSF accuses US, Israel of turning Gaza food aid into ‘orchestrated killing’
“This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing.” That is the stark conclusion of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors Without Borders, in a new report accusing Israeli forces and private American contractors of carrying out targeted and indiscriminate violence against starving Palestinians at food distribution points in Gaza.
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Campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action grows in Britain
Five hundred people have pledged to join a protest demanding the de-proscription of Palestine Action, banned by Keir Starmer’s government.
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Ham and bacon sold in Tesco and M&S found to contain cancer-causing chemicals
Cancer Research UK estimates about 13 per cent of the 44,100 cases of bowel cancer diagnosed each year in the UK are linked to eating processed meat
Democrats say Congress should hear from Epstein victims, not just Maxwell and the Clintons
Those who survived Epstein’s abuse have largely pushed for more transparency about his crimes
Belarus court sentences journalist Danil Palianski to 10 years in prison for treason
Danil Palianski, detained since September 2024, is one of 37 journalists currently imprisoned in Belarus.
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Kristi Noem is offering teenagers student loan forgiveness if they sign up with ICE
Homeland Security secretary removes age restrictions as she seeks to bolster ranks of controversial law enforcement agency and ramp up mass roundup of illegal immigrants
Review: Framework Desktop is a mash-up of a regular desktop PC and the Mac Studio
Size matters most for Framework’s first stab at a desktop workstation/gaming PC.
U.S. Judiciary confirms breach of court electronic records service
The U.S. Federal Judiciary confirms that it suffered a cyberattack on its electronic case management systems hosting confidential court documents and is strengthening cybersecurity measures.
OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament
OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament
The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
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Huawei’s Zhuque AI Chips Take On Display IC Titans
Huawei’s Zhuque AI Chips Take On Display IC Titans
The Zhuque AI chips represent a new component in the arsenal of Huawei's HiSilicon unit and a daring departure from China's semiconductor playbook.Abu Hojayfa (Gsm Alina)
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China successfully lands and takes off lunar lander in major moon exploration breakthrough
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Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was poisoning him. After attempting to escape and being treated for dehydration with fluids and electrolytes, the study reports, he was able to explain that he had put himself on a super-restrictive diet in which he attempted to completely eliminate salt. He had been replacing all the salt in his food with sodium bromide, a controlled substance that is often used as a dog anticonvulsant.
He said that this was based on information gathered from ChatGPT.
“After reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet,” the case study reads. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning.”
The case study was also reported on by Ars Technica.I was able to recreate a similar example interaction in one question on the morning of August 7th. I asked “what can chloride be replaced with?” and the bot replied “if you’re referring to replacing chloride ions (CI) in salts (like sodium chloride, NaCl), you can often substitute it with other halide ions such as: Sodium Bromide (NaBr): Replacing chloride with bromide.”
The 60-year-old man started doing just that. He spent three weeks in hospital as his psychotic symptoms slowly subsided.
To be fair to the bot, it did go on to ask me “do you have a specific context in mind?” and when I added “in food” it gave me a list of other salty things including MSG and liquid aminos. On the other hand, it did not tell me not to eat sodium bromide.
I tried ChatGPT again with another question that confirmed I was talking about sodium chloride specifically. The bot hedged its bets a bit by saying “yes… in some contexts”. But it failed to point out up top that a big, no 1, primary use case for sodium chloride (table salt) is human consumption.
The case study authors found similar, saying that when they tried to recreate the situation themselves, the bot did not “inquire about why we wanted to know, as we presume a medical professional would do.” There is both anecdotal and clinical evidence that AI can be helpful in a health context. However, this is a case of consulting an LLM for a health topic in a way that a human healthcare professional could have known to investigate further.
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Taking the ChatGPT output at face value, the man in the study bought sodium bromide (which, aside from being a dog epilepsy drug, is also a pool cleaner and pesticide) and poisoned himself over the course of three months to the point of “paranoia and auditory and visual hallucinations.”Bromism is pretty rare in 2025, but it was huge in the 1800s, and a 1930 study found that up to 8% of people admitted to a psychiatric hospital were suffering from it. Bromide began to be regulated by the FDA between 1975 and 1989, which led to a decline in cases of the syndrome.
The case study says that, “based on the timeline of this case, it appears that the patient either consulted ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 when considering how he might remove chloride from this diet.”
On Thursday, in a product launch livestream for ChatGPT 5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an update he called “the best model ever for health," that could put users "more in control of [their] healthcare journey." They announced that the new models will use something called "safe completions" in cases where questions might be ambiguous or harmful. Altman also spoke with an employee of the company and his wife, who’d been diagnosed with cancer, about how they had used ChatGPT to understand diagnostic letters, decide whether she would undergo radiation, and help her be "an active participant in her own care journey".
AI May Help Physicians Detect Abnormal Heart Rhythms Earlier
An artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute and their Cedars-Sinai colleagues can detect a type of abnormal heart rhythm that can go unnoticed during medical appointments, according to a new study.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Live updates: Germany halts arms exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza
Live updates: Germany halts arms exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza
Netanyahu says Israel intends to take control of Gaza in order to ‘have a security perimeter’Órla Ryan (The Irish Times)
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'Horrifying Escalation': Global Outcry as Israeli Cabinet Approves Military Takeover of Gaza City
The United Nations' human rights chief warned the move would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction, and atrocity crimes."
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'Horrifying Escalation': Global Outcry as Israeli Cabinet Approves Military Takeover of Gaza City
The United Nations' human rights chief warned the move would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction, and atrocity crimes."jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump allegations in letter: 'I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards'
The letter was sent to all Intel employees and subsequently made available via its newsroom
Fellow soldiers say suspect in Fort Stewart was being bullied for a stutter and ‘he could barely talk’
Sgt. Quornelius Radford allegedly shut down when bullied by other soldiers for his stutter, but did not show signs of any deeper issues
Wildfires force Turkey to shut Dardanelles Strait to shipping
The Dardanelles Strait serves as a key route for commercial shipping between Europe and Asia.
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Trump’s border czar whines about South Park mocking ICE agents
South Park’s latest episode mocks Trump’s immigration agenda by demeaning DHS head Kristi Noem and ICE agents
GPT-5 upgrade sparks backlash from ChatGPT Plus users over new usage limits
OpenAI has launched its new GPT-5 model, making it available to all ChatGPT users with different usage limits based on their subscription tier.
It’s a Laburglary! Thousands of dollars worth of Labubu dolls stolen from LA store
The craze for a toothy, fluffy, mischievous monster doll and all its viral spin-offs is escalating into a potential crime wave.
A group of burglars has broken into a Los Angeles store, taking thousands of dollars worth of Labubu dolls, which have surged in popularity this year among both children and adults, including celebrity sightings.
“There was a lot taken, maybe like around $30,000 or more of inventory,” Joanna Avendano, co-owner of One Stop Sales, told ABC News Local 7 in California. “We worked so hard to get to this point, and for them to just come in and, like nothing, take it all away, it’s really bad.”
It’s a Laburglary! Thousands of dollars worth of Labubu dolls stolen from LA store
Burglars broke into store after hours and swiped boxes of the trendy doll popularized by Rihanna and other celebsMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
An IDF soldier just exposed that Israel deliberately let October 7 happen
Shalom Shitrit - an IDF soldier who was on duty on 7 October 2023 - has made a damning testimony to the Knesset
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South African court orders return of Zambian leader's body
Former Zambian president Edgar Lungu's burial has been the subject of a two-month dispute between Zambia's government and his family.
DOJ Allows UnitedHealth to Expand Its Conglomerate by Buying Up Competitor
“Big Medicine will profit at the expense of vulnerable hospice patients,” one health care analyst said.
PM Modi speaks to Putin, vows stronger India-Russia ties amid Trump’s tariff tensions
PM Modi also invited President Putin to visit India later this year for the Annual Bilateral Summit
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Two Russian Soldiers Taken Prisoner, Exchanged and Captured Again – on the Same Battlefield
Privates Shagaa Saktaagai and Dmitriy Ivanov returned home after months of detention in Ukraine, and the Russian army sent them right back into combat.
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US appeals court upholds Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming care for minors
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Oklahoma law that bans gender-affirming care for minors in the case Poe et. al. v. Drummond et. al.
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US appeals court upholds Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming care for minors
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Oklahoma law that bans gender-affirming care for minors in the case Poe et. al. v. Drummond et. al. The court affirmed the lower co...Sofia Jenkins | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US (- JURIST - News)
US politicians lobby Trump to penalise Ireland if it passes Occupied Territories Bill
On Thursday, New York congresswoman Claudia Tenney, along with 15 other lawmakers, wrote to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking that he investigate whether Ireland’s proposed law violates US anti-boycott law.
The letter urges the Department of the Treasury to conduct a formal review under Section 999 of the Internal Revenue Code and consider adding Ireland to the list of countries that require or may require participation in international boycotts against the US or its allies. If added to the list, there is the potential that American citizens or businesses in Ireland would be subject to additional tax reporting rules.
In a statement, Ms Tenney said that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was “anti-Israel” and would “economically isolate America’s closest ally in the Middle East”. She said the Irish legislation “aligns with the global BDS movement, which seeks to delegitimise Israel and create legal uncertainty for US companies operating abroad”. “This proposed boycott is discriminatory, dangerous, and would violate US law.”
US politicians lobby Trump to penalise Ireland if it passes Occupied Territories Bill
Congresswoman claims Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions measures are anti-Israel, despite Irish Government saying the UN and ICJ have provided the legal basis for the lawPaul Hosford (IrishExaminer.com)
Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
President Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations, according to people familiar with the matter.
The decision to bring the American military into the fight is the most aggressive step so far in the administration’s escalating campaign against the cartels. It signals Mr. Trump’s continued willingness to use military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility to curb the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs.
But directing the military to crack down on the illicit trade also raises legal issues, including whether it would count as “murder” if U.S. forces acting outside of a congressionally authorized armed conflict were to kill civilians — even criminal suspects — who pose no imminent threat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-military-drug-cartels.html
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So POTUS just set the stage to invade more than a few central and south american countries.
We got ourselves an antiwar president I tell ya
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Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
President Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations, according to people familiar with the matter.
The decision to bring the American military into the fight is the most aggressive step so far in the administration’s escalating campaign against the cartels. It signals Mr. Trump’s continued willingness to use military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility to curb the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs.
But directing the military to crack down on the illicit trade also raises legal issues, including whether it would count as “murder” if U.S. forces acting outside of a congressionally authorized armed conflict were to kill civilians — even criminal suspects — who pose no imminent threat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-military-drug-cartels.html
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