A ban on sites like Tiktok, Instagram, and Snapchat was brought in for children in Australia at the end of last year -- the first country to impose a ban -- and similar plans were backed by peers in the House of Lords in January. Supporters include actor Hugh Grant, …

7 hours ago Iona YoungBBC Scotland Business owners have said they are "heartbroken" after dozens of retail units burnt to the ground during a fire in Glasgow. More than 250 firefighters were called in to tackle the blaze that started in a vape shop on Sunday, before it engulfed the …

RAF jets have taken out two more drones, says Healey 11 hours ago Jack Fenwick ,Political correspondentand Becky Morton ,Political reporter RAF Typhoon fighter jets have taken out two drones, one over Jordan and one heading to Bahrain, Defence Secretary John Healey has said. He also confirmed that the warship …

A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, expert video analysis shows. A video published yesterday by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, which BBC Verify has confirmed as authentic, shows a …

It has been the most volatile day of oil trading in world history. The oil price spiralled to $115 (£86) a barrel at one point early on Monday, but word soon emerged of an emergency meeting of the G7 finance ministers. The speculation alone was enough to temper the rise …

8 hours ago Katy Watsonand Simon Atkinson ,reporting from the Gold Coast Five members of the Iranian women's football team have been granted humanitarian visas in Australia after their elimination in the Asian Cup, the government in Canberra says. Immigration Minister Tony Burke said the women "were moved to a …

3 hours ago Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent President Donald Trump and his administration have so far offered mixed messages and contradictory explanations on the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. And Monday - the 10th day of an operation that has rattled allies and shaken markets - typified this confusion …

While Washington’s breakup with Anthropic exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing artificial intelligence, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should actually look like. The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last …

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To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as man camps. This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in …