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AI-assisted medical devices have a growing record of malfunctions and injuries,raising questions about the reliance on human oversight.As clinicians skills may weaken with prolonged AI use,the safety model requires reevaluation.

Kyiv Independent Telegram Highlights Thread ⚡️Ukraine to sign contracts for around 1,000 Patriot missiles (kyivindependent.com/ukraine-to-s...) with partner support and EU loan funding, defense minister says. The defense minister cautioned that the contracted missiles would take time to arrive.

Scientists predicted a brutal year ahead as climate change and the El Niño pattern collide, after the latest data showed sea temperatures broke heat records for 100 days and August was the equal hottest on record www.ft.com/content/3014...

Five dead and 86 missing as 'heartbreaking' fire breaks out on Philippines ferry

UK disabled people could swap Pip cash for ‘in kind’ support in benefit overhaul

🎭 Do party members with "dark" traits want "dark" leaders? Paul Webb, @timbale.bsky.social & Stavroula Chrona survey 4,266 UK party members: Reform UK and Conservative members score higher on the "Dark Triad", and those high on these traits prefer leaders who share them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

“So if you want to learn about a candidate for the Senate tomorrow,you will have to go to the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel where you will see it in its entirety,”he noted.”And thank goodness we have that because,in the America we live in right now,that is the best that we can do until November”

I wonder if any in UK sit up and take notice of data centre concentration tables like this - where are the cloud computing so called 'hyperscalar' datacentres. Especially why Dublin is high on the list despite all of its disadvantages www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...

For years, Sweden’s far right has peddled its own, distorted view of Islam, portraying it as being at odds with Swedish values. The Ask-a-Muslim – or Fråga en Muslim – campaign, conceived by Virk in 2017, was his way of fighting back.

In June I pushed the PM to introduce a cap on all political donations. This followed a £5m donation that seems to have been the tip of the iceberg. Since then, we have had a new PM, a new cabinet and a by-election between a man and a bin - but still no change. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day Just remember that everyone that feels suicidal won't all act the same We only get told one way of how it will be, that isn't a blanket list for everyone to thoes that are struggling & are going unnoticed I see you You are not alone. 🖤 ; hubofhope.co.uk

📊 #Inflation "Egyptian inflation slowed in August after quickening the month before, an unexpected easing that came despite price pressures stemming from the Iran war."

Trump says Putin wants to make a deal in Ukraine. If putin wanted peace he could have it any day by ending the war that he started. Putin wants Ukraine to capitulate, Ukraine be destroyed. Russia is the aggressor, russia started the war, not Ukraine! www.reuters.com/world/europe...

A few years ago, I had shown how the Belgian tax system affects the total cost of ownership of different car powertrains - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . I will be discuss how things have changed between 2023 and 2026 (spoiler alert: a lot, and not only because tax legislation has changed)

Many British Jews - whatever they think of the sanctions on West Bank settlements - worry that a consequence will be a rise in antisemitism. We don't have any say in Israeli policy, but are often held responsible - it's totally daft but true, see www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 39.16

Ok, so props to the folks that read Project 2025. I took their word for it during the election. But it came across my social media today & I tried to have a gander for myself. Christ! It just seems demented. Seriously. If I was sitting next to someone on a bus saying this, I'd move seats.

In April, the UN security council heard that in the past three years, at least 1,010 humanitarian workers had died in 21 countries. More than half of those were in Gaza and the West Bank. That is three times more than the 377 killed in the previous three years. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK PM urged to target banks' bumper profits with windfall tax to ease cost-of-living pain. Half-year pre-tax profits of more than £29bn, expected to hit £55.3bn for the year. Made from high charges, low interest on savings, speculation. Many town centres, villages have no bank branches.

Harvey: $200M at $11B. Then $550M at $15.5B. Same year. Investors are separating AI that displaces measurable professional labor from AI that is merely useful. Harvey's ROI is legible — less junior legal work, fewer billed hours. The self-reported ARR behind those numbers isn't independently aud...

Applicants for UK citizenship charged more than five times the admin cost

Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot

“In addition to PAC-2 interceptor missiles, Germany will further step up its continuous provision of AIM-9 air-to-air missiles from Bundeswehr stocks to provide greater quantities to Ukraine." German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyt...

Ukraine has unveiled the Ai-Petri electronic warfare system at MSPO-2026 in Poland. Built by Storkway, it can detect and jam drones and reportedly suppress guided aerial bombs. It scans 360° and can detect targets 20–30 km away. war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/zdatna-p...

Day 1,660 of the full scale invasion has begun Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to September 10, 2026 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine 🔷 Yesterday 1,520 enemy, killed or wounded mod.gov.ua/en/news/tota...

📰 #Finance "Britain is heading into winter with soaring gas prices, high household bills and a slim fuel buffer to cushion it from another energy shock that could stoke inflation."