Mark Carney: Global order is 'breaking down', Canadian PM tells Australian parliamentAAPCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (right) was given a warm welcome by his Australian counterpart Anthony AlbaneseWith the post-war "global architecture breaking down from consecutive crises" Australia and Canada should work together as "strategic cousins", Mark Carney has told the Australian...

Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text. The novel was scheduled to be published in the United States this spring. Hachette said it will also discontinue the book in the United Kingdom, where it’s already available. ...

Ferry carrying 116 passengers sinks off Guyana coast, authorities sayA ferry carrying 116 passengers has sunk off the coast of Guyana with eight people so far rescued, local authorities have said.The MV Barima capsized near Iron Punt, on its route from Georgetown to Port Kaituma.A distress call was received at 23:01 local time (03:01 +1 BST), triggering an urgent search operation involving...

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. Archive.today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph — is perhaps most widely used to access...

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’ Pinterest on Wednesday announced a new experimental app called “Ask Pinterest” that will allow the company to explore a more conversational approach to shopping and product discovery that could eventually find its way to the main Pinterest app. It also introduced other AI initiatives, including Pinterest Model Context...