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US lawmakers are racing to address concerns that the rapid expansion of AI data centres will push up household electricity bills, but Congress faces difficulty establishing how much of the cost should fall on residential ratepayers. The dispute has intensified ahead of the midterm elections, with competing proposals seeking to make large electricity users pay more for the grid infrastructure and power supplies they require. Republicans this week have been pressing the Ratepayer Protection Act, sponsored by Ohio senator Jon Husted. The measure would require state utilities to consider making “large-load” customers responsible for increased costs and passed the House…

Two trailers stolen from an autonomous trucking company in California were found abandoned after thieves discovered they contained 40,000 pounds of sand rather than valuable artificial intelligence equipment. The trailers were taken overnight from PlusAI’s warehouse in Fremont last week. One carried Nvidia branding, although the company’s vehicles were not transporting Nvidia chips. Employees noticed the trailers were missing the following morning. They were recovered later that day after a friend of PlusAI’s vice-president of legal spotted them parked outside an office in Newark and sent a photograph to the company. Police told PlusAI that the thieves had forced open…

Larry Nassar has been removed from Michigan’s sex offender registry after a state Supreme Court ruling led to about 20,000 people being taken off the list. The Michigan State Police removed offenders whose crimes took place before 1 July 2011, following the court’s decision that amendments made to the state’s Sex Offender Registration Act in 2021 could not be applied retrospectively to older incidents. A search for Nassar’s name now produces no result on the registry. His conduct occurred before 2011, although his convictions came later. Nassar was the US women’s gymnastics team doctor from 1996 to 2014 and a…

Three young men have been charged with murder after a suspected robbery ended in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Adrian Navarette-Garcia in DeKalb County, Georgia. Brayan Ibarra, 18, Joel Espinoza-Zaldivar, 18, and Mario Cota, 19, were each charged with murder and four counts of aggravated assault, according to DeKalb County police. Officers were called to the 3500 block of Meadowglenn Village Lane at about 9.45pm on 8 February after reports of gunfire. Navarette-Garcia was found dead at the scene with gunshot wounds. As officers searched the surrounding area, they found a second shooting victim on nearby Aztec Road. The person…

Freestyle swimmers Lani Pallister and Sam Short have combined to win five titles at the national short course championships. The pair’s performances have underlined their status as leading figures in Australian freestyle, with Pallister and Short each contributing to the duo’s haul at the competition.

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Chinese hackers impersonating AI experts targeted US policy specialists by posing as prominent figures, including a former White House official, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. The China-aligned group, known as TA419, sent deceptive emails to policy experts in July, inviting them to take part in an AI Policy Advisory Committee. The messages appeared harmless at first, but recipients who responded were directed to fraudulent login pages intended to steal their credentials. Those targeted included specialists working for think tanks, defence contractors, universities and law firms in the US and Japan. Proofpoint said the group had been conducting…

General Motors sales fell 5.5% year on year in the third quarter, with the Detroit-based carmaker selling 670,974 new vehicles as demand for its electric models weakened sharply. The figures mark a steep reversal from the same period last year, when GM recorded record electric vehicle sales ahead of the end of federal incentives worth up to $7,500 for consumers buying an EV. Electric vehicle sales fall sharply Sales of the Chevrolet Equinox EV dropped 92.4% to 1,905 vehicles, while the Blazer EV fell 84.4%. Hummer EV sales were down 72.9%. The decline comes as hybrids are expected to take…

Roommates of a Cornell University student who accused seven fraternity members of drugging and sexually assaulting her said she appeared to be in shock and took time to process what had happened, according to accounts given to investigators. One roommate said she exchanged messages with the student at about 3.05am on October 20, 2024, asking when she would return home. The student replied that she was unsure. She arrived at about 11.15am and told both roommates that she had had sex with several men and had taken ketamine. One roommate said she did not “really remember [Jane Doe] ever kind…

Newcastle United are interested in signing Dinamo Zagreb defender Noa Mikic, but face competition from Brentford, Ipswich Town and Hull City for the highly rated 19-year-old. Mikic has impressed in Croatia and is attracting interest from several English clubs, with Fussball News reporting that the quartet are monitoring his situation. The Croatia Under-19 international can play at right-back and has been credited with showing defensive maturity while also contributing in the final third. Newcastle are understood to view him as a potential long-term option in that position. That interest comes as Tino Livramento has been linked with moves to leading…