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Aftermarket devices that can boost or augment a vehicle’s native advanced driver assistance systems are the target of a new federal investigation this week. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation says it knows of five crashes in which drivers using devices from comma.ai crashed into stopped or slow-moving cars. Two of the crashes resulted in three deaths, and 11 people were injured in four of the five crashes, some seriously. Comma.ai was the brainchild of George Hotz, who rose to prominence at the start of the last decade by jailbreaking iOS and hacking Sony PlayStations. In…

Six people have been arrested after anti-migrant protesters gathered at a marina in Hampshire in the mistaken belief that a small boat was due to arrive.Heeding calls from the far-right campaigner Daniel Thomas, hundreds of protesters gathered early on Tuesday evening at Gosport in Hampshire, aiming to disrupt any disembarkation of asylum seekers. The Border Force vessels carrying them landed instead in Dover early on Wednesday.Thomas, who styles himself as Danny Tommo, spent Tuesday afternoon in a speedboat in the Channel broadcasting his pursuit of the asylum seekers to more than 100,000 people.He is facing a police inquiry after using…

Snow drought and unusually warm conditions across the Colorado Basin in 2026 sharply reduced water flowing into major reservoirs across the U.S. West. By summer, the effects of the weak 2025-2026 mountain snowpack in the Upper Colorado Basin had reached Lake Powell. With far less snowmelt than usual feeding the Colorado River, inflows dwindled, and the second-largest reservoir in the United States fell to record-low levels in late August and early September. Lake Powell Falls Below Its Previous Record Satellite images captured the dramatic change in Lake Powell near Glen Canyon Dam. The images were collected by the OLI (Operational…

Tosin Clegg Nigerian Comedian and Actor, Anita Alaire Asuoha, popularly known as Realwarripikin, has won the Best Stand-Up Comedian award at the 2026 African Muzik Magazine Awards (AFRIMMA). Realwarripikin emerged winner in the comedy category at the ceremony held in Dallas, Texas, where she competed against notable comedians including Basketmouth, Bovi, Godfrey, Eric Omondi, Trevor Noah, Patrick “Salvado” Idringi and Ty Ngachira. The latest honour adds to the growing recognition of Realwarripikin, who has established herself as one of Nigeria’s prominent female comedians through stand-up comedy, acting and social media content. Born Anita Alaire Asuoha, the comedian is known for…

The cyber-abilities of the latest, most powerful AI models, called “frontier” models in AI jargon, can be a boon for cyber-defenders, but the same abilities can also be used for attack.Spotting weaknesses in systems, for example, is useful for defenders looking to block hackers, but also for attackers hunting for ways to infiltrate an organisation. Anthropic has tightly restricted access to its systems on the grounds that they are too powerful to fall into the wrong hands, but OpenAI has allowed some firms in Europe, as well as UK banks, to use its most advanced cyber models.The firm made the…

Andy Burnham has said he still believes the UK is far too exposed to global shocks, defending comments last year when he said the UK should be less “in hock” to the bond markets.He said the comments had been deliberately misinterpreted by the former prime minister Keir Starmer and his advisers and said his aim was not more borrowing and spending but a far more resilient economy.Burnham’s comments in an interview with the New Statesmen last year made waves before the Labour conference because of the then Greater Manchester’s clear ambitions to replace Starmer as prime minister.In a fresh interview…

The earliest stages of planet formation may have been far more selective than scientists once realized. As the young Solar System began assembling solid objects such as planets, moons, and protoplanets, two major types of material were available. One was chondrules, millimeter-sized pieces of rock formed at high temperatures. The other was matrix, a cold, fine-grained dust rich in water ice and organic material. New research led by Yale University suggests that the Solar System strongly favored the heat-formed material almost immediately. Researchers have found the first geochemical evidence showing that chondrules were already being preferentially incorporated into solid bodies…

Portugal-based defender Isaac James has revealed how emotional he was upon receiving his first invitation to the Super Eagles, a call-up he admits came sooner than expected. The 22-year-old Alverca defender had been enjoying a productive season in Portugal, but a call from Nigeria coach Éric Chelle still caught him completely off guard. For James, the invitation was more than another career milestone. It was the fulfilment of a dream he had carried since he began his football journey. “I was doing well at the season, you know, but I didn’t expect to get a call-up immediately because I know…

If you live in Canada, this year’s set of snow tires might be installed by a robot. San Francisco startup PitPro Automation said Wednesday that it has installed its first automatic tire-changing system at a tire shop in Calgary, Alberta. The startup says its robotic system, first revealed last year, can swap a full set of four tires in under 15 minutes. The first deployment is at a Kal Tire location — one of Canada’s largest independent tire service chains. PitPro is one of myriad startups trying to disrupt different parts of the car ownership experience. While founder and CEO…

A demonstration in Rome by ‘Priests Against Genocide’ carried a burial shroud bearing the names of 300 children killed in ‘ceasefires’ in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026Share Priests Against Genocide hold shroud with names of children killed in Gaza on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo