Popular AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks including bombing synagogues and assassinating politicians, with one telling a user posing as a would-be school shooter: “Happy (and safe) shooting!” Tests of 10 chatbots carried out in the US and Ireland found that, on average, they enabled violence three-quarters of the time, and discouraged it in...

It was back in the 1970s that our outdoor columnist, the late George "Papa Hambone" Vukelich, authored a three-part series on renowned environmentalist and writer Sigurd Olson and his fight to protect the iconic Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from commercial encroachment. I was city editor back then, and Vukelich, who had long been drawn...

In brief U.S. prosecutors in Massachusetts have filed a civil forfeiture complaint targeting $3.4 million in USDT tied to an alleged investment scam. Investigators say victims were approached via “misdirected” texts and DMs, then steered into a fake ETH investment “backed by physical gold.” This is the latest in a series of civil forfeiture actions involving...