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Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather says he will return to pro boxing 9 years after his retirement

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Floyd Mayweather says he is ending his nine-year retirement and returning to competitive boxing this summer.

Mayweather, who turns 49 on Tuesday, hasn't fought in a real boxing match since 2017, when he beat Conor McGregor. Following that big-money bout against a mixed martial artist, Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs) declared himself retired for the third time in his career.

The former five-division world champion has still been in the ring regularly throughout his 40s with a series of lucrative exhibition bouts against the likes of online influencer Logan... Read More

Officials turn to controlled explosions to recover bodies of California avalanche victims

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Officials worked to lower the risks of more deadly slides Friday by setting off controlled explosions in the area where an avalanche struck in California’s Sierra Nevada so crews could safely recover the bodies of the people killed.

Rescue crews loaded up a snow vehicle with skis and other supplies and headed toward the area near Castle Peak, northwest of Lake Tahoe, while helicopters circled overhead. Avalanche mitigation work is designed to intentionally release unstable snowpack to reduce the risk when rescue crews go in.

Brutal weather and... Read More

5 European nations pledge millions to use Ukrainian know-how to make cheap drone defenses

WARSAW (AP) — Five European nations have announced a new program to produce low-cost air defense systems and autonomous drones using Ukrainian expertise hard-won over the past four years of war against Russia.

Friday's initiative of the E5 nations — France, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy — comes as one of many European efforts to bolster defense along their borders, like a “ drone wall ” with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe’s airspace.

Both Moscow and Kyiv have cutting-edge drone warfare... Read More

Mississippi hospital system closes all clinics after ransomware attack

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A ransomware attack forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all of its roughly three dozen clinics around the state and cancel elective procedures for a second day on Friday, hobbling one of the state's largest health care providers.

University officials warned that the shutdown could continue for days as they try to evaluate the extent of the attack, including whether patients' sensitive information was compromised, and restore network systems they took down as a precaution.

Richard Bell, 55, drove three hours from his home... Read More

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago

TORONTO (AP) — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.

OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities.”

The San Francisco tech company said it considered whether to refer the account the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold for OpenAI... Read More

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Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather says he will return to pro boxing 9 years after his retirement

Officials turn to controlled explosions to recover bodies of California avalanche victims

5 European nations pledge millions to use Ukrainian know-how to make cheap drone defenses

Mississippi hospital system closes all clinics after ransomware attack

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago

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