Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI's George OsborneWithout AI you will be a 'weaker and poorer nation', says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firmThe former chancellor George Osborne has said countries that do not embrace the kind of powerful AI systems made by his new employer, OpenAI, risk "Fomo" and could be left weaker and poorer.Osborne, who is two months into a job as head of the $500bn San Francisco AI company's "for countries" programme, told leaders gathered for the AI Impact summit in Delhi: "Don't be left behind." He said that without AI rollouts they could end up with a workforce "less willing to stay put" because they might want to seek AI-enabled fortunes elsewhere. Continue reading...
Kenyan authorities used Israeli tech to crack activist's phone, report claimsCitizen Lab report suggests Cellebrite software was used to break into Boniface Mwangi's phone while he was under arrestWhen Boniface Mwangi, the prominent Kenyan pro-democracy activist who plans to run for president in 2027, had his phones returned to him by Kenyan authorities after his controversial arrest last July, he immediately noticed a problem: one of the phones was no longer password protected and could be opened without one.It was Mwangi's personal phone, which he used to communicate with friends and mentors, and contained photos of private family moments with his wife and children. Knowing that its contents could be in the hands of the Kenyan government made Mwangi - who has described harassment and even torture - feel unsafe and "exposed", he told the Guardian. Continue reading...
How an undercover cop foiled an IS plot to massacre Britain's Jews - podcastThe Guardian's community affairs correspondent, Chris Osuh, reports on the plot by two IS terrorists to massacre Jews in Manchester, and how it was thwarted by an undercover stingWalid Saadaoui had once worked as a holiday entertainer, organising dance shows and quizzes at a resort in his native Tunisia. After moving to the UK and marrying a British woman, he became a restaurateur and an avid keeper of birds.All the while, however - as the Guardian's community affairs correspondent, Chris Osuh, explains - he was hiding a secret: he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Continue reading...
Assailants kill at least 32 in north-west Nigerian villages, residents sayResidents who escaped violence tell of bandits riding in on motorbikes and shooting indiscriminatelyArmed assailants on motorbikes killed at least 32 people and burned houses and shops during raids on three villages in north-west Nigeria's Niger state early on Saturday, local officials and residents who escaped the violence said.The dawn raids targeted the communities of Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso, and Pissa. Continue reading...
53 people dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes in MediterraneanOnly two survivors rescued after boat overturned off Libyan coast, UN migration agency saysFifty-three people are dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the UN migration agency said on Monday. Only two survivors were rescued.The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned north of Zuwara on Friday, in the latest disaster involving people attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing in the hope of reaching Europe. Continue reading...
Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctionsKimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal courtWhen the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump's administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. "It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief," she said. Continue reading...
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