Around 2,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to help Russia fight Ukraine are estimated to have been killed, Seoul’s spy agency said Tuesday, according to a lawmaker. Seoul’s National Intelligence Service said in April “the number of war dead was at least 600. But based on updated assessments, it now estimates the figure at around 2,000,” lawmaker […]
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At least 20 people are missing after violent Indonesia protests sparked by lavish perks for lawmakers that have widened to include anger against police, a rights group said Tuesday. At least six people have been killed since protests rocked Southeast Asia’s biggest economy last week, intensified by footage spreading of the killing of a young […]
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Die Anzahl der im Homeoffice arbeitenden Beschäftigten bleibt in Deutschland weitestgehend konstant. Im August arbeiteten 24,4 Prozent der Beschäftigten zumindest teilweise von zu Hause, wie das Münchner Ifo-Institut am Dienstag unter Berufung auf seine jüngste Konjunkturprognose mitteilte. “Ein Trend zur Rückkehr ins Büro ist nicht erkennbar”, erklärte Ifo-Forscher Jean-Victor Alipour. “Prominente Beispiele einzelner Unternehmen, die […]
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Australia said Tuesday it will oblige tech giants to prevent online tools being used to create AI-generated nude images or stalk people without detection. The government will work with industry on developing new legislation against the “abhorrent technologies”, it said in a statement, without providing a timeline.”There is no place for apps and technologies that […]
Read MoreThe potential abuse of consumer AI tools is raising concerns, with budding cybercriminals apparently able to trick coding chatbots into giving them a leg-up in producing malicious programmes. So-called “vibe hacking” — a twist on the more positive “vibe coding” that generative AI tools supposedly enable those without extensive expertise to achieve — marks “a […]
Read MoreRescuers desperately searched Tuesday for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened by an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 800 people. The 6.0-magnitude earthquake, followed by at least five aftershocks, hit remote areas in mountainous provinces near the border with Pakistan around midnight Sunday. The head of the Kunar Provincial Disaster Management […]
Read MoreVietnam held its largest-ever public celebrations on Tuesday to mark 80 years since the declaration of independence, with legions of lock-stepped patriots marching under fluttering flags. Around 40,000 troops and civilians began parading in the capital Hanoi after dawn, feting the date when communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh declared a “Democratic Republic of Vietnam” free […]
Read MoreEine knappe Mehrheit der Jugendlichen in Deutschland befürwortet einer Umfrage zufolge einen allgemeinen Pflichtdienst. 53 Prozent der teilnehmenden Zwölf- bis 18-Jährigen sprachen sich für einen frei wählbaren Pflichtdienst nach Schule oder Ausbildung aus, wie aus der am Dienstag in Gütersloh veröffentlichten Umfrage des Liz-Mohn-Stiftung hervorgeht. 49 Prozent sind jedoch der Ansicht, dass dieser Dienst nicht zwingend […]
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Das Oberste Gericht in Brasilien beginnt am Dienstag mit seinen Beratungen über ein Urteil im Putschprozess gegen den brasilianischen Ex-Präsidenten Jair Bolsonaro. In fünf Prozesstagen bis zum 12. September wollen die fünf Richter entscheiden, ob Bolsonaro mit einem Putsch das Ergebnis der Wahl 2022 kippen wollte, die er gegen den linksgerichteten heutigen Präsidenten Luiz Inácio […]
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