French police officer arrested over suspected far-right terror plot

A policeman who follows “a violent radical far-right ideology” has been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, sources told AFP late on Thursday. Confirming a report by the TF1/LCI broadcaster, a judicial source said that the man was also suspected of having manufactured weapons, among other crimes. A separate source close…

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Former Prince George’s County deputy accused of providing explosives to Annapolis man

A former Prince George’s County sheriff’s lieutenant who once led the agency’s K-9 unit has been charged with providing explosives and technical guidance to a man accused of manufacturing dozens of explosive devices, according to court documents. Micah Sam, a longtime sheriff’s deputy who received specialized explosives training during his law enforcement career, is accused…

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Former U.S. Government Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Classified Information to Foreign Government

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 29, of Alexandria, Virginia, a former IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), pleaded guilty yesterday to transmission of national defense information to a foreign government. “U.S. government employees entrusted with our nation’s secrets must always protect our nation’s security, not cavalierly toss aside this responsibility out of disagreement, selfishness or…

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OpenAI model autonomously hacked a rival firm, fuelling fears of rogue agents

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said late Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face…

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NJ nurse arrested for 2 arsons, threatening coworkers on Thursday, officials say

A New Jersey nurse was arrested after setting fire to his apartment and to his car outside of where he worked on Thursday, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. Officers with the Gloucester Township Police Department were called to the Cherrywood Apartment on the 1200 block of Little Gloucester Road around 11:52 a.m. on…

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California mayor charged with acting as illegal agent for China

Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China, the Justice Department announced on Monday. Wang agreed to plead guilty, the Justice Department said. Starting in late 2020 Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun worked together to operate a website called U.S. News Center that “purported…

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