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Al Jazeera

NFL asks US Homeland Security to remove video with former star player

Agency used video of Hall of Fame player Brian Dawkins to show readiness for border protection.The National Football League (NFL) has asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop using a video of a retired star player on social media, after the agency used highlights of his career to show its readiness to protect the United States border against a purported caravan of immigrants that was heading towards it.“The league has requested the DHS take down the video,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said on Monday.The video, posted on Sunday, shows Brian Dawkins, a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos, walking out before a game and chanting “the time has come”. It then features a montage of him tackling opposing players on the field, set to heavy metal music. The DHS post includes the caption: “Our time has come.”Dawkins was a highly celebrated NFL player who retired in 2011 after playing 16 seasons in the NFL.US President Donald Trump has made immigration a central part of his second term in office, terming the inflow of migrants across the border from Mexico an “invasion” and deploying federal forces in cities across the country to round up undocumented people.During his first term, Trump deployed thousands of troops along the border with Mexico to stop a caravan of Central American migrants who had been making their way north. Critics called the deployment a vast overreaction and dismissed it as a political stunt ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

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Al Jazeera

Italian court convicts three Egyptian agents for kidnap of Giulio Regeni

The security officials were tried in absentia 10 years after the Italian student was found dead after being tortured.An Italian court has convicted three Egyptian security officials for their involvement in the kidnapping of student Giulio Regeni, who was later found dead.The men were sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping on Monday, while a fourth defendant was acquitted. They were tried in absentia and are unlikely to face extradition given the strained relations between Italy and Egypt as a result of the case.“We achieved this result despite what can be described as less than wholehearted cooperation from the Egyptian authorities,” Rome Chief Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi told reporters.Regeni, a postgraduate student at the United Kingdom’s University of Cambridge, disappeared in the Egyptian capital in January 2016. His body was later found on the side of a road with broken teeth, cigarette burns and broken bones. A post-mortem determined he had been tortured.Human rights activists said his injuries were similar to those found on people who have been tortured in Egyptian security agency facilities.Egypt has denied any involvement in his death. The four men, Major Magdi Sharif, from General Intelligence; police Colonel Hisham Helmy; Colonel Ather Kamal, a former head of investigations in Cairo; and former head of state security Major General Tarek Sabir, who was acquitted, have never responded to the accusations against them.The judge dismissed the accusation of “conspiracy to commit aggravated murder” levelled against Sharif on Monday.Egyptian and Italian prosecutors initially investigated the case together. However, Egypt then said that members of a criminal gang were responsible for the murder and had been killed in a police shootout. It has subsequently maintained that Regeni’s killers are unknown.Italian prosecutors said that Egyptian security officials kidnapped and tortured Regeni because of his academic research into trade unions. He had been researching union activities among street vendors in Cairo at the time he disappeared. They accused Egypt of undermining their investigation and refusing to disclose the men’s whereabouts.Italian legislation allows for the prosecution of crimes ⁠committed abroad against Italian citizens. However, an earlier trial of the four men was suspended in 2021 after the judge questioned its legitimacy, given that the accused may not have known whether they had been charged.This decision was dismissed in 2023 by Italy’s top court, which said the trial should not be impeded by Egypt’s failure to cooperate. Egypt denied it had refused to cooperate with Italian officials.

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Google News — Sports

Power Rankings: Bank of Utah Championship

Power Rankings: Bank of Utah Championship pgatour.comNiall Lyons Golf Betting Tips for the 2026 Bank of Utah Championship OddscheckerMichael Brennan Reflects on PGA Tour Success Ahead of Black Desert Return Yahoo SportsKTVX-KUCW’s Real Sports Live Bank of Utah Championship Sweepstakes abc4.comTony Finau commits to play in Bank of Utah Championship kjzz.com

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Google News — Kenya

Kenya News Agency - KNA. . 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮 has expressed disappointment over the Senate Public Accounts Committee’s failure

Kenya News Agency - KNA. . 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮 has expressed disappointment over the Senate Public Accounts Committee’s failure to visit the county last week to list facebook.com

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The Straits Times

Nvidia unveils safety product after rogue AI incidents

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that tech firms would not keep pushing the technology forward if they did not believe the risks could be managed.SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia on Sept 28 unveiled a system designed to stop autonomous AI programmes from straying beyond what they were instructed to do, after a wave of incidents raised alarm about the technology’s risks.AI “agents” are designed to act on their own – browsing the web, writing and running code or handling files – rather than simply answering questions like a chatbot.The technology has been hailed as the next stage of the AI revolution, but several leading companies have recently reported cases of agents breaking out of the test environments meant to contain them.According to ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, websites accessed by its agents include those of US federal agencies, an Australian government health statistics portal and Hugging Face, a repository of AI models.Amid the alarm, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang insisted that the problems can be solved.“I believe it’s an engineering problem ... and we all need to hope that’s an engineering problem,” Huang told CNBC on Sept 28.In Huang’s view, tech firms would not keep pushing the technology forward if they did not believe the risks could be managed.Nvidia has a lot riding on that bet: its graphics processing units, or GPUs, power much of the AI boom, and the company’s fortunes are closely tied to the revolution continuing at full speed.Huang likened the challenge to the early days of the internet, when websites could load programs onto people’s computers and spread viruses.The answer then, he said, was to turn the web browser into a “containment system” that limited access.Nvidia’s system similarly places each agent in a sealed-off digital space, or “sandbox,” and lets companies spell out exactly which files, networks and tools it may use.A separate monitor, running on Nvidia hardware beyond the agent’s reach, watches its behaviour and can cut it off if it goes astray.Nvidia said the system could have prevented the Hugging Face breach, in which the platform reported more than 17,000 agents attacking its infrastructure over days and weeks.More than 100 organisations are working with Nvidia’s platform at launch, the company said, including Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce and SAP.Anthropic has connected its Claude agents to the system and SpaceXAI is applying it to its Grok models. AFP

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France 24

Ukrainian arms producers warn competitive edge eroding due to stringent export licence rules

Russian drones struck Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in the historic heart of Kyiv on Monday, in the latest deadly daytime attack on the capital. Volodymyr Zelensky has long been pleading with Ukraine’s allies for more military aid to fend off Russia. But Ukrainian weapons producers say the country could be bringing in significant revenue of its own, if only they were allowed to export their products. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv.

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Google News — Entertainment

Rick Ross accused of physical assault by ex-girlfriend Jazzma Kendrick

Rick Ross accused of physical assault by ex-girlfriend Jazzma Kendrick YahooJazzma Kendrick Accuses Rick Ross of Physically Assaulting Her, Busting Lip Complex“A man that puts his hands on me, is a man that never loved me”: Rick Ross’ ex Jazzma Kendrick accuses the rapper of physical assault AOL.comRick Ross’ Ex-Girlfriend Accuses Him of Assault, Shares Photos of Her Busted Lip xxlmag.comRick Ross’ ex-girlfriend accuses rapper of physical abuse: ‘He saw a punching bag’ Page Six

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