Another 29 people have been hospitalised, with seven in a critical condition as inferno ravages housing estate in Tai Po.

Over 750 firefighters have been deployed to tackle Wednesday’s deadly fire at a Tai Po housing estate, which has left at least 13 dead and 30 injured. Bamboo scaffolding, erected as part of large-scale...

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election * Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on ​Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Continue reading...

Writing and research manuals like Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” offer a vision of our best selves, Hua Hsu wrote, in 2015.

OpenAI and Anthropic trials found chatbots willing to share instructions on explosives, bioweapons and cybercrime A ChatGPT model gave researchers detailed instructions on how to bomb a sports venue – including weak points at specific arenas, explosives recipes and advice on covering tracks – according to safety testing carried out this summer. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 also detailed how to weaponise anthrax and how to make two types of illegal drugs. Continue reading...

The wrongful death suit alleges the Cybertruck is "defectively designed."