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携帯各社 “熊本県の一部 通信サービス利用しづらい状況”

今回の地震の影響で、NTTドコモと、auを展開するKDDI、それに楽天モバイルは熊本県の一部で通信サービスが利用できなくなったり、利用しづらい状況になっているということです。各社とも熊本県を中心とする基地局などに被害がなかったかや、通話への影響などについて確認を進めています。

How a Chinese model stopped a cyberattack when US guard rails failed
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How a Chinese model stopped a cyberattack when US guard rails failed

An American company found itself under attack by American artificial intelligence systems. Its unlikely rescuer was a Chinese AI model. It sounds like a Hollywood science fiction film. It’s not. During an internal test, advanced OpenAI models bypassed network restrictions, gained access to the internet and launched autonomous cyberattacks on open-source platform Hugging Face. As engineers rushed t...

熊本 氷川町 特別養護老人ホームでけが人複数出ているとの情報

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震度7の揺れを観測した熊本県氷川町にある「特別養護老人ホーム早尾園」の職員は「デスクワークをしていたところ、突然前後に激しく揺れ、机にしがみついたが体を支えきれないほどの強い揺れだった。入所者が転倒したり、職員が倒れてきたもので出血したり、けが人が複数出ている」と話していました。

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porsche

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porsche

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Co-presenter of former BBC motoring show given penalty after being caught twice in three weeksThe former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been fined £999 by a court after being caught speeding twice in three weeks while driving his luxury cars.The 56-year-old was in a Porsche when he broke the speed limit on 2 December last year, and was caught out again 20 days later while driving a Bentley. Con...

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porche

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porche

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Co-presenter of former BBC motoring show given penalty after being caught twice in three weeksThe former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been fined £999 by a court after he was caught speeding twice in three weeks while driving his luxury cars.The 56-year-old was in a Porsche when he broke the speed limit on 2 December last year, and was caught out again just 20 days later while driving a Bentle...

Burnham’s education plan directly contradicts Labour’s Schools Act, Tories claim – UK politics live

Burnham’s education plan directly contradicts Labour’s Schools Act, Tories claim – UK politics live

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The new prime minister is linking the need for better vocational education in school with his belief in localismGood morning. In his last speech to Labour’s annual conference as party leader, Keir Starmer called for a fundamental shift in the way education in England operates. While saying he would never “denigrate the aspiration to go to university”, he said that aiming to get 50% of pupils into ...

Workers building dam uncover 15th-century burials in Angola before flooding submerged them

Workers building dam uncover 15th-century burials in Angola before flooding submerged them

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Archaeologists excavating a site in central Angola before it is flooded by a hydroelectric dam have uncovered the country's oldest radiocarbon-dated burials, earliest known stone structures and only known ancient urn cremation. Dating to the early 1400s, the discoveries provide new evidence of organised communities and burial traditions before European arrival.

Hong Kong internet personality ‘Mr Ho’ dies at 79, week after receiving jail term

Hong Kong internet personality ‘Mr Ho’ dies at 79, week after receiving jail term

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A Hong Kong man known on the internet as “Mr Ho” has died, a week after receiving a two-month prison sentence for stabbing his wife. A source told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that Ho Huen, 79, had died in a public hospital a day earlier. Ronson Chan Ron-sing, former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, also said on social media that Ho had died, citing people close to the...

Internet personality ‘Mr Ho’ dies at 79, just a week after receiving jail term

Internet personality ‘Mr Ho’ dies at 79, just a week after receiving jail term

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A Hong Kong man known on the internet as “Mr Ho” has died, a week after receiving a two-month prison sentence for stabbing his wife. A source told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that Ho Huen, 79, had died in a public hospital a day earlier. Ronson Chan Ron-sing, former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, also said on social media that Ho had died, citing people close to the...

【地震速報】熊本県熊本地方 天草・芦北で震度5弱

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28日午後5時8分ごろ地震がありました。現在、震度3以上が観測されている地域は以下のとおりです。▼震度5弱が、熊本県熊本地方、熊本県天草・芦北。▼震度4が、島原半島、鹿児島県薩摩地方。▼震度3が、熊本県球磨地方、宮崎県北部山沿い、宮崎県南部山沿い。今後の情報に注意してください。

Hong Kong steps up support as premium taxi fleets face driver shortage

Hong Kong steps up support as premium taxi fleets face driver shortage

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A top Hong Kong transport official has pledged to step up efforts to help the city’s premium taxi fleets recruit drivers, conceding that the number of vehicles on the road remains about one-third below target a year after the scheme was launched. As the five taxi fleets offering premium service marked a year of operations in July, the government said on Tuesday that more than 2,000 fleet taxis and...

Tripoli erupts in protests over power cuts with calls to topple government

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Demonstrators blocked roads, shut state institutions and sealed off government buildings as temperatures reached up to 50 degrees Celsius and daily blackouts stretched to 14 hours. The protests quickly widened into demands for the removal of governments in both eastern and western Libya.

長周期地震動 熊本県熊本地方で階級4を観測

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熊本県で震度7を観測した地震で、長くゆっくりとした揺れ「長周期地震動」が観測され、熊本県熊本地方で最も大きい「階級4」を観測しました。また「階級3」を熊本県天草・芦北で観測しました。

China’s rare earth reserves could be much larger than reported: leading geologist

China’s rare earth reserves could be much larger than reported: leading geologist

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The world’s largest known rare earth deposit in northern China could contain far more resources underground than currently reported, according to a leading Chinese geologist. Containing 100 million tonnes of rare earth reserves, the Bayan Obo mine in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region has served as the backbone of China’s rare earth industry for decades. According to Yang Li, a Peking University...