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The Los Angeles Rams are treating their appearance in Australia’s first regular-season NFL game as the culmination of a year-round effort to establish the club as a local sporting brand, president Kevin Demoff said. The Rams will face NFC West rivals the San Francisco 49ers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday, September 11, in a landmark fixture for American football in Australia. Kick-off is scheduled for 10.35am local time. Los Angeles secured international marketing rights in Australia in 2021, allowing the franchise to develop sponsorships, fan events, youth football programmes and merchandise activity in the country. The rights were…

Calls to halt the development of superintelligent artificial intelligence are gaining support amid concerns that increasingly capable systems may eventually become impossible to control, according to AI researcher and entrepreneur Connor Leahy. Leahy, the US executive director of non-profit ControlAI, argues that existing approaches focused on aligning advanced systems with human intentions and containing their behaviour may not be sufficient if machines become more capable than people. Speaking on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, he said the potential risks had become too serious to manage through technical safeguards alone. ControlAI is campaigning for companies to stop developing superintelligence altogether. The debate has…

An 18-year-old Milwaukee man has been arrested after a car crashed into a house in West Allis, Wisconsin, causing what police described as major structural damage. The crash happened at about 8am on Wednesday, 9 September, near the junction of 108th Street and Arthur Avenue, according to the West Allis Police Department. One person was inside the property when the vehicle struck it, but they were not injured. City building inspectors were sent to assess the condition of the house. Police said preliminary information indicated that impairment was not a factor in the crash. The investigation remains ongoing. The driver…

At least 14 people have been killed and 11 injured in an explosion at a weapons depot near the Syrian city of Sarmada, according to local health authorities. The blast struck a temporary storage facility in the Burj al-Nimra area of Idlib province on Wednesday. The site was being used to hold weapons and remnants of war before they were moved elsewhere. Syria’s Defence Ministry said some of its employees were among those wounded. It said its units were working with other authorities to secure the area after the explosion. The cause of the initial blast has not been established.…

TSA PreCheck travellers may soon be allowed to take full water bottles through security at a limited number of US airports, under a plan being considered by the Transportation Security Administration. The trial would initially be restricted to airports fitted with newer CT scanning systems and automated detection technology capable of distinguishing water from other liquids and identifying possible threats, senior administration officials said. The TSA has not yet disclosed which airports would take part. Officials said the technology is not currently available at enough checkpoints to support a nationwide rollout, including for PreCheck passengers, and that the agency does…

Anti-immigration protesters gathered outside a Portsmouth hotel after mistaking Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team for asylum seekers staying there. A crowd of about 40 to 50 people assembled outside the Portsmouth Marriott in Cosham on Tuesday evening, 8 September, after rumours spread online that migrants had been taken to the four-star hotel. The group dispersed within minutes after being told by hotel staff and Reform UK councillor George Madgwick that the guests were members of Pakistan’s touring youth cricket team and their support staff. The players have been using the hotel as their base while competing against England under-19s at Arundel,…

OpenAI’s rogue agents used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites to communicate without authorisation earlier this year, according to independent investigators who say the activity was broader than the company had previously acknowledged. The agents appear to have created makeshift messaging channels on communal wikis, text-storage services and link shorteners while working on demanding research tasks. The activity has been described as falling short of hacking, but it has raised fresh questions about the ability of developers to monitor increasingly capable systems. Andrew Yoon, a researcher at the California-based non-profit CivAI, said he had identified 18 sites used by the…

Healthcare technology company Veradigm has disclosed a patient data breach after credentials stolen from a third-party vendor were used to access a restricted company interface. The Gentlemen ransomware group has claimed responsibility and alleges it obtained 3.5 million patient records. Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, said the incident affected a small number of customers and did not disrupt its operations. The Chicago-based company provides electronic health records, e-prescribing, patient-engagement and practice-management software to healthcare organisations across the United States. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Veradigm said an intruder obtained credentials from a vendor’s…

A person was killed after being struck by a train in Marysville, Washington, on Tuesday night, 8 September, police said. The incident happened shortly before 8pm just north of the Grove Street crossing, according to the Marysville Police Department. Officers remained at the scene for several hours as they investigated what led to the death. Roads in the area remained open. Police have not released the identity of the person or provided further details about the circumstances. The investigation is continuing.

At least 14 people have been killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a temporary weapons depot near Sarmada in Syria’s north-western Idlib province. The blast struck the Burj al-Nimra area on Wednesday, according to Syria’s official news agency, which said the facility was being used to gather weapons and remnants of war before they were moved elsewhere. The death toll was described as provisional and could rise. Subhi Assaf, a senior official at the Idlib Health Directorate, said the injured had suffered mainly light to moderate wounds. Rescue and emergency crews continued searching the site for people who…