8 h. ago US to test hypersonic missile TODAY to show 'readiness' amid nuclear arms race fears

The US Air Force has revealed its plans to test a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the next 24 hours.

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28 h. ago Suspect 'pulls knife out on tram' in Manchester as armed police race to the scene

A 17-year-old boy was seen being hustled into a police van by armed officers after an incident that witnesses said left bystanders 'scared' in South Manchester on Monday

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29 h. ago Armed police race to scene after reports of 'machete' brawl in south Manchester

Witnesses said there were 'loads of kids fighting with machetes'

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3 d. ago Police seal off Scots street as armed cops and fire crew race to ongoing incident

ARMED cops have been scrambled to a residential street this evening. Police rushed to The Loan area of South Queensferry in Edinburgh this afternoon. Cops also alerted the fire service at 5.20pm and one appliance was dispatched to the scene. The nature of the incident is currently unknown. Speaking to The Scottish Sun, one resident...

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4 d. ago Is Trump really going to start testing nuclear weapons in the US?

President’s surprise announcement this week has caused confusion and raised fears of a global arms race

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4 d. ago Trump stirs global alarm with pledge to restart nuclear testing

US president’s surprise announcement raises fears of global arms race

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4 d. ago Donald Trump's nuclear move branded 'nonsensical' by former Navy officer amid WW3 fears

As President Donald Trump announces America's first nuclear tests since 1992, there are fears he could trigger a new nuclear arms race with China, Russia, and the rest of the world

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5 d. ago Mushroom clouds over Vegas? What Trump’s nuclear weapons tests could mean for America and the world

Trump’s command risks a global arms race while the Doomsday clock ticks closer than ever to midnight, experts say

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5 d. ago Trump starts new nuclear arms race as he orders Department of War to begin testing 'immediately'... just moments before facing off with China's Xi

The president ordered the Pentagon to begin their first nuclear tests since 1992 just moments before his scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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1 week ago North Korea fires 'new hypersonic missiles' capable of carrying nuclear warheads

Kim Jong Un's military is claimed by North Korea to have used a new hypersonic system to test fire missiles and has called it strategic implying they are designed to be armed with nuclear warheads

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2 w. ago Scottish independence would be a 'win' for Vladimir Putin, warns UK defence minister

The UK Minister for Defence Readiness tore into the SNP's strident opposition to nuclear weapons and accused the Scottish Government of "attacking" submariners working on the Clyde.

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2 w. ago Dining across the divide: ‘We didn’t agree on immigration. She was almost conspiratorial’

She thought he was naive; he thought she was too staunch on immigration. Would they find common ground on capitalism, Trump or nuclear power?Lucas, 23, BlackpoolOccupation Works for the NHS Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Can you actually fool AI to push your resume to the top of the pile?

Recruiters are locked in a technological ‘arms race’ with desperate jobseekers — and secret instructions targeted at hiring robots are the latest trick, Io Dodds reports

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on EU accession for Ukraine: Orbán must not be allowed to call the tune | Editorial

In a critical phase, Brussels should find a way to bypass Hungary’s prime minister in the interests of European solidarityHosting European Union leaders in Copenhagen earlier this month, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, described Europe as facing “the most difficult and dangerous situation since the second world war”. There have been other moments of high tension, such as during the 1980s when US cruise missiles were deployed in Germany in response to an escalating arms race with the Soviet Union. From next year, long-range missiles will be back on German soil, amid fears that recent Russian incursions into EU airspace herald a new and ominous phase of the war in Ukraine.As Donald Trump’s US continues to carry the status of an unreliable ally, European unity, cohesion and solidarity are of critical importance. But little of substance emerged from the Copenhagen talks. Disagreement persists, for example, over the advisability of leveraging €140bn of frozen Russian assets...

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3 w. ago Governments are spending billions on their own ‘sovereign’ AI technologies – is it a big waste of money?

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheapIn Singapore, a government-funded artificial intelligence model can converse in 11 languages, from Bahasa Indonesia to Lao. In Malaysia, ILMUchat, built by a local construction conglomerate, boasts that it “knows which Georgetown you’re referring to” – that is, the capital of Penang and not the private university in the US. Meanwhile, Switzerland’s Apertus, unveiled in September, understands when to use the Swiss German “ss” and not the German-language character “ß”.Around the world, language models like these are part of an AI arms race worth hundreds of billions of dollars mostly driven by a few powerful companies in the US and China. As giants such as OpenAI, Meta and Alibaba plough vast sums into developing increasingly powerful models, middle powers and developing countries are watching the landscape carefully, and sometimes placing their own, expensive bets. Continue reading...

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