Lovepreet Mann/Image: Peel Regional Police A 27-year-old Indian-origin man has been charged in Canada after a series of attempted carjackings in Brampton that included a stabbing and a break-in at a nearby home.Lovepreet Mann, of Brampton, was arrested and charged with three counts of robbery, aggravated assault, dangerous weapons and uttering threats.According to Peel Regional…

Joe Benton calls for greater transparency from AI companies. Days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that AI companies were “gambling with our lives” in their race to build self-improving superintelligence, another employee from the company’s safety team has also stepped down, raising concerns over the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.Joe Benton,…

Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review of social media posts attributed to Nigerian-born professor Uju Anya after a fresh backlash over remarks described by the university as “hostile and threatening”. The university said Anya, an associate professor of second-language acquisition in…

Australia could be sitting on a hidden stockpile of hundreds of tonnes of silver as millions of solar panels approach the end of their working lives. More than one million tonnes of waste solar panels are expected across the country by 2050, containing an estimated 300–500 tonnes of silver. Much of that valuable metal is…

Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan and emptied sewers into the Chicago River, which flowed straight into Lake Michigan. But every rainstorm flushed the stockyards and slaughterhouses and a million people’s waste out toward the water intakes. This is why the nineteenth-century city was periodically…