Spanish transport minister resigns after train crash killed 69 people
Oscar Puente says he could not ‘continue in office’ after two major train accidents in less than a year.

Oscar Puente says he could not ‘continue in office’ after two major train accidents in less than a year.








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Malaysia has barred civil servants from using Waze for official duties over its links to Israel.

AI-linked job losses in the UK are running at twice the rate of US and Germany.
The vulnerability allows a hacker to change a website or extract data, including personal information.
AI was used to pinpoint two vulnerabilities in the PHP language, used by about 70 percent of websites.
The loss, up from $13bn in the same period last year, was driven by accounting charges, according to the report.

Japan has launched a five-year uncrewed mission to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.
Newsom signed an executive order to examine kill switches for AI models and other measures he had earlier vetoed.
Thwaites glacier has been losing ice for decades. Now there are concerns of rapidly accelerating loss.
California-based Alef Aeronautics mocked Tesla, releasing a video of its flying car soaring over a Tesla Roadster.
Experts say balancing the need to govern AI for public safety with user privacy is ‘extraordinarily difficult’.