The 22-strong crew of the Dali container ship first realised something was horribly wrong at 1.24am on Tuesday morning (local time) when they lost power.
THIS has been a week of peculiarly disturbing news, and my good friend Stephen CuUnjieng s column on Friday about the concerning implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry ( A counterintuitive view of artificial intelligence, Feb. 9, 2024) reminded me of one of the more terrifying stories. New Scientist magazine reported that AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames. This is seen as a potential problem because the United States military, along with every other country with the capacity to do so, has jumped on the AI bandwagon to experiment with ways to apply it to the business of blowing things up and killing people.
A 12-year-old girl broke four of the bones in her legs and ankles after she jumped off a popular cliff in Australia. Footage of Sarah Jacka has gone viral.
Chris Casey works with New Zealand’s appalling drowning numbers - and in 2021 the data scientist almost became one, after an afternoon kayaking trip on.
An internal NZDF inquiry has exposed the inside story of a critical deployment to one of the world’s hotspots that went horribly awry. The inquiry report.