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☆ AI could pose ‘extinction-level’ threat to humans and US must intervene, report warns
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“But it could also bring serious risks, including catastrophic risks, that we need to be aware of,” Harris said. First, Gladstone AI said, the most advanced AI systems could be weaponized to inflict potentially irreversible damage. Safety concernsHarris, the Gladstone AI executive, said the “unprecedented level of access” his team had to officials in the public and private sector led to the startling conclusions. Gladstone AI said it spoke to technical and leadership teams from ChatGPT owner OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Facebook parent Meta and Anthropic. Some employees at AI companies are sharing similar concerns in private, according to Gladstone AI.

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☆ A BBC reporter is being slammed for asking Andrew Scott about Barry Keoghan's junk
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I know Barry, yeah!” Scott tells Paterson at the beginning of the interview. Advertisement“You can spoil away!” Paterson tells him. “I won’t spoil it for anybody,” Scott tells him again. “How well do you know him?” Patterson asks Scott.

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☆ Fujitsu admits it should compensate postal workers whose lives were ruined by its faulty software
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —Japanese technology company Fujitsu has a “moral obligation” to compensate the victims of Britain’s Post Office scandal, the boss of its European arm said Tuesday. “We did have bugs and errors in the system and we did help the Post Office in their prosecutions of the sub-postmasters,” Peter Patterson, Fujitsu’s director for Europe, said Tuesday. “I think there is a moral obligation for the company to contribute,” Patterson told UK lawmakers during a public hearing. Nick Read, CEO of the Post Office, who also addressed lawmakers Tuesday, said he was “committed” to abandoning Horizon. The corporation still uses the IT system, but in a newer iteration than the one involved in the scandal.

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☆ Australian woman arrested in suspected death cap mushroom poisoning
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Australian police have arrested a woman who served a lunch in late July that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning. Victoria Police confirmed a 49-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the case. CNN affiliate Nine News said Patterson was arrested at her home in the town of Leongatha in southern Victoria. In the same statement she claimed she bought the mushrooms used in the meal from two separate stores. Following the arrest, the woman will be interviewed and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.

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☆ Mavis Paterson: After three of her children died, this 85-year-old cycled 1,000 miles around Scotland
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Cycling has become more than a habit for “Granny Mave,” as Mavis Paterson is known. “If I didn’t have my bicycle, and this is terrible to say, I don’t think I would want to live,” she told CNN Sport. “It’s been hard for me, but I’ve managed and people say, ‘Oh, you’re strong,’ and I don’t know where the strength comes from,” she said. I don’t know. Mavis Paterson hugs her grandson, William, at the end of her over 1,000 mile ride round Scotland.

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☆ US economy added 336,000 jobs last month, almost twice what was expected
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The US economy added an estimated 336,000 jobs last month, blowing expectations out of the water, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. In September, leisure and hospitality helped drive job growth higher, with 96,000 jobs added. Today’s headline jobs number — that surprising 336,000 net job gain — is an initial estimate that will be revised twice more. The surprising September jobs report, however, didn’t continue that streak. August’s second look has job growth now at 227,000 for the month, an increase of 40,000.

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☆ PCE: Gas prices heated up inflation last month, but there's also welcome progress for the Fed
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Minneapolis CNN —Higher gas prices heated up overall inflation last month, but the Federal Reserve got some welcome news: Its preferred inflation gauge cooled to its lowest level in two years. The core Personal Consumption Expenditures index, a closely watched inflation measure that excludes gas and food prices, rose 3.9% for the 12 months ended in August. However, it also was largely expected: Gas prices heated up last month as well. The Commerce Department’s monthly Personal Income and Outlays reports are typically closely watched as they provide a comprehensive account of pricing, income and spending data. Other federal data at risk for delays could include key housing and auto sales data, Census Bureau data, PCE and GDP reports, among others.

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The personal consumption expenditures price index increased 0.4% in August, slightly below estimates, while the yearly rise was 3.5%. But it was the core index that strips out food and energy prices coming in at 3.9%, its lowest reading since September of 2021, that is likely of most interest to the Fed. While goods prices have slowed considerably, costs in the services sector have proven harder to bring down, driven largely by housing prices. Looked at just over the past three months, the rate of core inflation has slowed markedly and is not far from the Fed’s 2% annual target. “PCE and core pce figures indicate continued inflation easing,” Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at the Schwab Center for Financial Research, commented on X.

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☆ Lone survivor of suspected mushroom poisoning released from Australian hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The sole survivor of a poisoning involving suspected death cap mushrooms that killed three others in Australia has been released from hospital following a remarkable recovery that could now help police piece together what happened. Within days, Gail Patterson, 70, and her sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, died in hospital, followed by Gail’s 70-year-old husband, Don, a day later. Watkins clung on, critically ill and reportedly in need of a liver transplant but made enough of a recovery to leave Melbourne’s Austin hospital last Friday. In the same statement she claimed she bought the mushrooms used in the meal from two separate stores. As Ian continues his journey towards full recovery, the Wilkinson family kindly requests that their privacy be respected,” the statement said.

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☆ 'Death cap' mushroom poisoning: Australian at center of case says she bought mushrooms from grocer and supermarket
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Among the four relatives who came for lunch, three of them died with symptoms of “death cap” mushroom poisoning, police said during a press briefing last week. But Patterson claims she bought dried mushrooms from an Asian grocer in Melbourne months ago and button mushrooms from a supermarket chain more recently. In a tearful exchange with local media outside her home last week, Patterson previously denied any wrongdoing. However according to ABC’s reporting Patterson’s statement said the children were away at the movies. The following evening she served leftovers but scraped the mushrooms off for the children because they do not like them.

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☆ A new Texas law forces vendors to rate sexual content in schoolbooks. They’re not happy about it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Nadia Bidarian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But a new Texas law might require her to. The law’s primary author, Republican Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson, said its aim is simple: Get sexually explicit content out of schools. Republican Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson debates HB 900, which would ban sexually explicit materials from library books in schools. Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman/APBut the burden of rating these books falls on book vendors. The law also applies retroactively to books sold to schools in the past, meaning that vendors must issue recalls for “sexually explicit” books still in circulation.

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☆ How the market has changed in the 20+ years I’ve covered it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Eastman Kodak (KODK) was a Dow stock. I’ve written about B2B (aka business-to-business) software companies, cloud computing firms, IPOs and SPACs, and cannabis/pot stocks. There have been more flavors of the month in the stock market during my CNN career than at your local Baskin-Robbins. It’s fine to have a lot of your money in S&P 500 ETFs and other funds that will track the broader market. “We still continue to believe that over long periods of time, stocks provide a reasonable hedge against inflation,” Patterson said.

☆ Inspector posing as intruder slips into Uvalde school during safety audit, superintendent says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mirna-Alsharif-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Mirna Alsharif | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

An inspector posing as an intruder was able to access a school cafeteria during a campus safety audit in Uvalde, Texas, this month, an unnerving revelation in a community still reeling after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in May. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District interim Superintendent Gary Patterson shared the findings of the "intruder selection audit" during a school board meeting held Monday. The auditor tugged at the door and it opened, allowing them to gain access to the cafeteria. Greg Abbott to randomly assess schools' security protocols in the wake of the Robb Elementary massacre. Patterson also detailed other security measures the district wishes to implement, including installing new doors and security gates.

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