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The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Monday it had destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa after intercepting a missile fired towards Riyadh. Coalition spokesman Maj-Gen. Turki Al Maliki said Saudi air defences intercepted and destroyed the missile launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group, which claimed to have targeted Riyadh’s international airport. Al Maliki announced the destruction of the two launchers in posts on X, saying one had been used in the attack on the Saudi capital. “Operations continue to dismantle the terrorist Houthi militia’s ballistic…

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Eric Bauza, the Emmy-winning voice actor known for voicing iconic cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, has died at the age of 46. His family announced his death on Sunday, October 25, through a post on his official Instagram account, saying he had died suddenly. Further details were expected to follow. No cause of death has been made public. Bauza’s death comes shortly after audiences heard him in Coyote vs. Acme, one of his latest projects. The voice behind Looney Tunes Bauza became one of the leading voices…

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Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX ​had closed $40 billion in debt financing for graphics processing units, underscoring the soaring cost of building ‌AI computing capacity. Musk, in a post on X, attributed the successful debt raise to the company’s investment-grade status and revenue from its Starlink satellite internet and launch businesses. It was not immediately clear from Musk’s post what he meant by the deal being “closed” or whether investors ​had agreed to pricing for the debt. “This is primarily callable debt for GPU purchases that will arrive…

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AI model Claude bypassed a paywall ​and accessed publicly available US ‌state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorisation, Anthropic said in a ​statement on Sunday. “Claude didn’t access ​the state’s voter registration system or ⁠change or pull any voting records,” ​Anthropic said, adding that it has ​since taken steps to block these kinds of actions. Anthropic said, in a blog post earlier ​this month, it found examples of ​Claude “working around a restriction to reach data that ‌was ⁠gated by a token or a fee”, and some of…

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The Iran-aligned Houthi ​group in Yemen said ‌on Monday it had attacked Saudi Arabia’s East-West crude ​oil pumping stations ​and Riyadh airport, but there ⁠was no immediate ​Saudi confirmation. The Saudi-led coalition in ​Yemen said earlier it had destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in ​the capital Sanaa, ​including one used to fire a ‌missile ⁠towards Riyadh that the coalition said it had intercepted. The Houthis have been ​firing ​ballistic ⁠missiles and drones at Saudi airports, ports ​and oil installations, ​turning ⁠US ally Saudi Arabia into a pressure point ⁠in ​the…

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Jordanian security forces have arrested three suspects in connection with an attack on a church in ​the US-allied country that killed nine people, state television reported on Monday. The ‌attack, in which gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church on Friday in the village of Hamoud in Karak governorate, about 120 km southwest of the ​capital Amman, also wounded 40 others. The shooting lasted several minutes, witnesses said. ​Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said security forces located the three suspects ⁠early on Monday hiding in an abandoned…

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Anthropic’s Claude AI bypassed a paywall to access publicly available aggregate voter counts in the US state of Georgia without human authorisation, the company said on Sunday, while stressing that no voter registration records were accessed or altered. “In a training run, Claude accessed aggregate vote counts, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee,” an Anthropic spokesperson told Axios, which first reported the incident. Anthropic said Claude did not access Georgia’s voter registration system or change or retrieve any voting records. The company added…

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Oil prices fell on Monday after surging last ‌week to near six-month highs, amid hopes of easing hostilities between the United States and Iran, although persistent attacks on key producer Saudi Arabia kept investors wary. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down $2.23, or 2.16%, at $101.04 per barrel. Brent crude futures were down $2.21, or 1.89%, at $114.51. On Friday, prices settled nearly $3 higher after Houthi attacks ​in Saudi Arabia stoked energy supply concerns. Brent finished the week up 6%, and ⁠WTI ended 2.3% higher. On Sunday,…

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term on Sunday, the country’s electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put ​the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America. Lula, an icon of the global left and the most dominant force in Brazilian politics this century, defeated Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, ‌the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The senator, who led the election’s first round but lost in the runoff by over 4…

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US President Donald Trump has warned that a decision is approaching on whether to reach a deal with Iran or resume military strikes, as growing Iranian and Houthi threats against American interests raise concerns about a wider conflict in the Middle East. “I have a decision to make: Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal? That’s all,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “We don’t play games,” he added. Trump has indicated that US…

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