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Why the future feels dangerous

11 June 2026 at 18:46

It was one of those conversations that starts casually over coffee and ends somewhere much deeper. Nobody mentioned burglars, snakes or illness. Instead, they talked about artificial intelligence, climate change,

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NOAA Issues El Nino Advisory

11 June 2026 at 18:25
The global weather pattern threatens to worsen floods and heat waves already intensifying due to climate change. But it may also mean fewer hurricanes.

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Drought-stressed wheat in a field in Kansas last month.

Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot.

Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI’s safety systems never flagged the conversations for human review or terminated them.

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Patel: World Cup security ‘probably the biggest lift in FBI history’ 

11 June 2026 at 17:02
FBI Director Kash Patel says his agency is making terrorist attack prevention its top job during the FIFA World Cup games, which kick off Thursday afternoon.  “Extremists have used major global sporting events in the past to do harm and spread their twisted ideologies,” Patel wrote in a Wednesday social media post. “We are totally…

Patel: World Cup security ‘probably the biggest lift in FBI history’ 

11 June 2026 at 17:02
FBI Director Kash Patel says his agency is making terrorist attack prevention its top job during the FIFA World Cup games, which kick off Thursday afternoon.  “Extremists have used major global sporting events in the past to do harm and spread their twisted ideologies,” Patel wrote in a Wednesday social media post. “We are totally…

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