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The French rescue workers packed up their gear with well-practised efficiency. The medical tents. The stretchers. The security cordons. Shortly after the last bodies had been driven away from the quayside in Boulogne, the remaining ambulances and red emergency vehicles drove off too, leaving only a handful of officials standing in the fading light beside a few frayed fishing nets near the harbour wall.
Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Ms Kenny said: “People are coming forward for the first time, disclosing their abuse, many of whom are “overwhelmed with emotion and a sense of grief and loss for their childhood”. The inquiry found that there were almost 2,400 allegations of sexual abuse at 308 schools and recommended that a commission of investigation be established.
Despite what we’ve been led to believe, the timing of evening screen use, rather than the activity itself, negatively impacts youth sleep, a University of Otago study has found.
Current sleep guidelines recommend no screen use in the hour or two before bed. However, the researchers found screen time in the two hours before bed had little impact on youth sleep, it was screen time once in bed that caused problems.
Just like humans, artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of saying it isn’t racist, but then acting as if it were. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT4 output racist stereotypes about speakers of African American English (AAE), even when they have been trained not to connect overtly negative stereotypes with Black people, new research has found. According to the study—published today in Nature—LLMs also associate speakers of AAE with less prestigious jobs, and in imagined courtroom scenarios are more likely to convict these speakers of crimes or sentence them to death.
That could put a new spotlight on the presidential candidates’ positions on marijuana. Vice President Kamala Harris has backed decriminalizing the drug and said it’s “absurd” to have it in the DEA’s Schedule I category alongside heroin and LSD. The Democratic nominee’s position has shifted over the years; she once oversaw the enforcement of cannabis laws and opposed legalized recreational use for adults in California while running for attorney general in 2010.