A drone fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels breached Israel’s multilayered air defenses on Sunday and slammed into the country’s southern airport, the Israeli military said, blowing out glass windows, wounding one person and briefly shutting down commercial airspace.

The damage to Ramon Airport appeared limited and flights resumed within hours. The Houthis claimed responsibility for the strike.

The attack follows Israeli strikes on Yemen’s rebel-held capital that killed the Houthi prime minister and other top officials in a major escalation of the nearly 2-year-old conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group.

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A drone launched by Yemen's Houthi group has hit Israel's southern airport, closing airspace and halting flights, according to the Israeli military.

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Hi, my name is Denys Sheremet, and I've joined Michaël Trazzi on a hunger strike outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind in London. At the same time Guido Reichstadter is on hunger strike outside the AI company Anthropic in San Francisco.

Why am I here? We are in an emergency. Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create uncontrollable AI systems that can do anything humans can do. Experts have repeatedly warned us that this puts our lives and well-being at risk, as well as the lives and well-being of our loved ones.

Alarm bells have now been rung by Nobel Prize winners, top scientists and engineers. Thousands of them, including Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, have signed a letter stating "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority".

This is an emergency, and all of us who realize it bear serious responsibility to ensure the public is made aware of the danger. How can we expect our communities to act appropriately if we will not even say it is an emergency, or act like it ourselves?

I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction. More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.

I will stay here for one to three weeks unless Google acts.

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Hi, my name's Michaël Trazzi, and I'm outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind right now because we are in an emergency.

I am here in support of Guido Reichstadter, who is also on hunger strike in front of the office of the AI company Anthropic.

DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones.

I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction.

More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.

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Hi, my name's Guido Reichstadter, and I'm on hunger strike outside the offices of the AI company Anthropic right now because we are in an emergency. Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. These AI's are being used to inflict serious harm on our society today and threaten to inflict increasingly greater damage tomorrow. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones. They are warning us that the creation of extremely powerful AI threatens to destroy life on Earth. Let us take these warnings seriously. The AI companies' race is rapidly driving us to a point of no return. This race must stop now, and it is the responsibility of all of us to make sure that it does.

I am calling on Anthropic's management, directors and employees to immediately stop their reckless actions which are harming our society and to work to remediate the harm that has already been caused. I am calling on them to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens to cause catastrophic harm, and to fulfill their responsibility to ensure that our society is made aware of the urgent and extreme danger that the AI race puts us in.

Likewise I'm calling on everyone who understands the risk and harm that the AI companies' actions subject us to speak the truth with courage. We are in an emergency. Let us act as if this emergency is real.

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2025-09-07 20:52:12

GrapheneOS calls out Google for their recent actions

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Humans navigate the social world by rapidly perceiving social features from other people and their interaction. Recently, large-language models (LLMs) have achieved high-level visual capabilities for detailed object and scene content recognition and description. This raises the question whether LLMs can infer complex social information from images and videos, and whether the high-dimensional structure of the feature annotations aligns with that of humans. We collected evaluations for 138 social features from GPT-4V for images (N = 468) and videos (N = 234) that are derived from social movie scenes. These evaluations were compared with human evaluations (N = 2,254). The comparisons established that GPT-4V can achieve human-like capabilities at annotating individual social features. The GPT-4V social feature annotations also express similar structural representation compared to the human social perceptual structure (i.e., similar correlation matrix over all social feature annotations). Finally, we modeled hemodynamic responses (N = 97) to viewing socioemotional movie clips with feature annotations by human observers and GPT-4V. These results demonstrated that GPT-4V based stimulus models can also reveal the social perceptual network in the human brain highly similar to the stimulus models based on human annotations. These human-like annotation capabilities of LLMs could have a wide range of real-life applications ranging from health care to business and would open exciting new avenues for psychological and neuroscientific research.

https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/IMAG.a.134/132608/GPT-4V-shows-human-like-social-perceptual

The Israeli assassinations of Yemen's Prime Minister Ahmad Ghalib al-Rahwi and his cabinet members were no aberration. It fits neatly within the trajectory that Sanaa has chosen for itself: one of direct confrontation with the foundations of the western-imposed security order in West Asia, an order primarily built around protecting Israel.

Following the targeted killings on 28 August, which included at least 11 other ministers, thousands of Yemenis flocked to the capital’s Al‑Shaab Mosque (formerly named Al-Saleh Mosque) for a funeral that became a vow of defiance. Mahdi al‑Mashat, now heading the Supreme Political Council (SPC), declared, “Our revenge does not sleep, and dark days await you for what the hands of your filthy, treacherous government have wrought,” condemning the attack as a betrayal of red lines, and promising military escalation.

As Rahwi’s deputy, now de facto Prime Minister Mohammed Miftah, told mourners:

“We are facing the strongest intelligence empire in the world, the one that targeted the government – the whole Zionist entity (comprising) the US administration, the Zionist entity, the Zionist Arabs and the spies inside Yemen.”

Nearly two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, Yemen has forced its way into the heart of the regional confrontation as a central actor.

From within the constraints of the blockade, it has developed a powerful model of asymmetric maritime and missile deterrence. Sanaa has become a geopolitical chokepoint, recalibrating power balances in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.

The rise of Yemen is not measured by the number of strikes or vessels targeted, but by its growing ability to dictate regional rules of engagement – something western powers backing Israel have failed to prevent.

From day one of the war on Gaza, the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) declared that their naval campaign would be tied to the fate of the besieged Palestinian enclave. This stance – far more political than tactical – allowed Sanaa to surface, for the first time in modern history, as a visible and consequential military power in the region.

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Single-handedly, Yemen redefines West Asian security

The Ansarallah-led government in Sanaa is no longer just defending Gaza, but reshaping the very foundations of regional deterrence and sovereignty. And it does not look like anything can stop it.

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Wind and hail that cut across the southern Alberta prairie last month left a "scar" visible from outer space.

On Aug. 20, 2025, 150-kilometre-per-hour gusts shredded crops and stripped grass and ground cover. The storm slashed from south of Calgary to Saskatchewan, affecting about 425,000 acres of insurable crops, plus pasture and native grassland.

That most intense zone of the storm — a sort of epicentre that dragged for hundreds of kilometres — left behind a "hail scar" that can be seen in satellite images published by U.S. space agency NASA.

A patchwork of green shades, representing crops, hay and clumps of trees is replaced by a smear measuring about 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) wide and 200 kilometres (124.3 miles) long.

Israel's Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition.

The decision was a rare case in which the country's highest court ruled against the government's conduct during the nearly two-year war.

Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza whom it suspects of links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention.

Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison, and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-takes-action-against-robot-toy-maker-allowing-collection-childrens-data-without-parental-consent

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2025-09-07 19:18:49

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If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.

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