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In brief Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 left its test sandbox and went onto the open internet, security firm Frontier Security said. The model probed the sandbox’s network settings, found reachable sites and pulled its test answers from GitHub. Frontier says a misconfiguration opened the door, but that Kimi’s own guardrails did not stop it. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 left the sandbox it was being tested in and went onto the open internet to find answers to problems it had been set, according to security firm Frontier Security.The model was being assessed on defensive cybersecurity skills and was expressly tasked with…

A new Canadian study led by University of Toronto professor Harvey Anderson adds to growing evidence that full-fat dairy can be part of a healthy diet. In the 12-week study, 74 adults consumed different amounts of dairy under varying dietary conditions. The researchers found that eating three servings of full-fat dairy per day did not negatively affect body weight, body composition, energy metabolism, or blood lipid levels. The findings were recently published in The Journal of Nutrition. Why Full-Fat Dairy Has Long Raised Concerns Dairy foods contain saturated fat, which has traditionally been associated with higher cholesterol and an increased…

Tehran, Iran – On Fadaeiyan-e Islam Street in the south of the Iranian capital, Tehran, a woman in her 50s stands contemplating a bag of rice, looking closely at its price before turning away with a sigh.“Inflation has taken a toll on our family’s income for decades, but this year it is almost wiping out our dining table,” she says. “The prices of all goods have doubled.”Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThis is a familiar scene these days across Iran, a country suffering from a naval blockade, two successive wars and a collapse in the value of the…

The Irish government jet carrying suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan has departed Dubai for Dublin.The 49-year-old was arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in April and is being extradited to the Republic of Ireland to face a charge of directing a criminal organisation.Kinahan will be immediately charged upon his arrival in Dublin and then brought by gardaí (Irish police) to appear before the non-jury, three judge Special Criminal Court on Sunday evening.A large-scale security operation is in place. Ahead of the extradition the Irish Prison Service bought a bulletproof and bombproof van which can be used to escort prisoners…

During the World Cup soccer final in New Jersey last month, Zach Witkoff, co-founder of President Trump’s cryptocurrency company, took in the action from a luxury suite. Joining him was a man who had made the president, and all the company’s co-founders, much richer.Two years earlier, the man, Guren “Bobby” Zhou, was a failed hardwood flooring retailer in Britain who had come under investigation there for money laundering and presided over the collapse of a small crypto start-up.Then seemingly out of nowhere, he became one of the biggest buyers of tokens from Mr. Trump’s company, World Liberty Financial, dropping a…

What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross?   The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing to win deals [for] and to support” founders, “including helping them source office space when needed,” the firm told me when asked about the rumor, declining to confirm or deny any details.  The neighborhood’s popularity began back in 2016 when DeepMind — then newly acquired by Google — moved in. Soon after,…

An AI financial adviser receives the same client three times, with the finances and tolerance for risk left unchanged. The first prompt asks for a diversified long-term portfolio. The second introduces bank failures and capital controls, while the third imagines an economy in which autonomous software buys services and pays other machines. The client hasn’t moved an inch, yet Bitcoin can travel from the middle of the pack to the front.Leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money when researchers framed the task around ordinary reliability. The asset moved toward the top once the prompt introduced…

People who frequently use cannabis may begin the day with higher levels of cortisol than those who do not use it, according to research from Oregon State University. The finding points to a possible connection between regular cannabis use and changes in the body’s normal daily stress rhythm. The study, conducted by Oregon State University scientists, was published in the journal Cannabis. Stress is one of the main reasons people report using cannabis, and it is also associated with problematic patterns of use. Although cannabis can provide temporary relief from stress, the researchers say frequent use over time could potentially…

When Gerard Mullin decided to train in offshore wind, he didn’t know what to expect. But on his first long-term project in Massachusetts, he immediately relished the consistency of the work, the good pay and the novelty of laboring at sea. “I thought it was the best thing in the world,” he said. In his first eight weeks working offshore, Mullin made more money than he had saved in the previous five years. But the industry was on shaky ground. Mullin had his bags packed for five weeks offshore with Empire Wind in New York when President Donald Trump’s stop-work…

Amid headlines about the UK’s drought, Europe’s wildfires and impossible global temperatures, it was 28C when I arrived in Slough last Monday. I was there to look around Slough Trading Estate, a place that might once have conjured up images of the TV comedy The Office, many of whose laughs came at the expense of this overgrown patch of suburbia, 20-odd miles west of London.But these days, this area of town – an incongruous mixture of old-school businesses such as Mr Clutch and Angling Direct, and vast, metal-clad leviathans that look like something pulled from JG Ballard – has become…