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The body of missing 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper has been found in a remote New South Wales national park more than a week after she set out on her hike.Sign up for the Breaking News Australia emailNSW police said in a statement: “The body of a woman has been located in bushland following the search for a missing bushwalker in the Southern Highlands.”A police spokesperson said “while yet to be formally identified, the body is believed to be that of the 18-year-old woman”. They said a report would be prepared for the coroner.Earlier on Thursday, NSW police said a “hiker”…

Worried about the frequency of accelerated cyberattacks on organisations, largely driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that have hugely defrauded organisations globally, Digital Encode, has launched DEPAS AI, its fully autonomous enterprise penetration testing platform to counter such attacks. Known as Digital Encode Penetration Autonomous System (DEPAS), the platform was developed in Nigeria to address sophisticated local and global cyberattacks on ogranisations. The platform was developed to shift organisations from periodic manual assessments, to continuous autonomous cyber resilience. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos to announce DEPAS AI platform, the Chief Visionary Officer at Digital Encode, Prof. Adewale Peter…

A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece.The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were “five to eight years” behind and lacked a “middle school” education on fractions and basic algebra. Stankova said the UC system’s test-blind admissions were to blame, suggesting that students who weren’t sufficiently prepared for the rigor of Berkeley’s mathematics program were admitted because a longstanding…

The government is considering whether to allow new oil and gas drilling at two sites in the North Sea, a move environmental activists warn will accelerate climate chaos. Helen Pidd speaks to reporter Helena Horton about the government’s dilemma – and what it tells us about Andy Burnham’s approach to the green energy transition Photograph: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Weeping willow trees are found in many cities globally.Credit: avada/AlamyAcross Beijing, millions of weeping willows and poplar trees turn the megacity into a green metropolis. But compounds released by these trees are becoming a major contributor to air pollution1, finds a study.Beijing is not alone. Many trees planted in urban areas — species that are often chosen for their quick growth and climate resilience — are worsening ozone emissions, suggests the study published in Science Advances today. Rising temperatures from global warming could exacerbate the problem.Ozone forms when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by some vegetation, vehicles and chemical industries…

Hope Not Hate said current attempts to tackle online abuse often focused too heavily on what happens after a racist post had already been seen.Players can block users, report messages and platforms can suspend accounts, but Hermansson says those measures do not address the way abusive content is amplified.”X doesn’t take racism seriously enough,” he added. “We’ve seen it for a number of years now. There is no change or improvement.”He said social media companies already had the tools to alter how their algorithms recommended content, particularly during periods when abuse is surging.”It’s actually a relatively small number of accounts…

As Hollywood and fans mourn the death of Hayden Panettiere, her Heroes onscreen dad is recalling the late actress’ talent and heart. Jack Coleman, who starred as Claire’s (Panettiere) father Noah Bennett on the NBC superhero drama, remembered Panettiere as a “prodigious talent” and “extraordinary young woman” in a heartfelt statement after her death at age 36. “I’m heartbroken. I couldn’t begin to put my thoughts into words until now, and they will be inadequate,” he began on Instagram. “I’ve loved Hayden since day one of the pilot of Heroes, 20 years ago, when she introduced herself by shouting ‘daddy’…

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‘It’s a difficult time in our relationship’: Wong rejects calls to end diplomatic ties with IsraelPenny Wong says Australia does not maintain diplomatic relations “as an endorsement of any particular country”, rejecting calls to expel the ambassador and sever diplomatic relations.She tells the press conference: double quotation markWe maintain those relationships because they enable us to engage in order to advance Australia’s interest. Removing an ambassador would remove our ability to be able to engage, press for Australia’s interests. Asked how she would describe the current status of the relationship between Australia and Israel, she asks: double quotation markObviously it’s…

President Donald Trump has said the US will inflict “TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences” on any country that helps or does business with Iran.He wrote in all capital letters on Truth Social that he was launching “the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country!” He gave no further details, and did not name any other nation. It comes after a 60-day ceasefire with Iran expired on Monday, with no sign of a diplomatic or military off-ramp to the conflict that the US and Israel began at the end of February.Trump’s latest move appears to extend the pressure campaign of Operation…