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Journalists recall day of Sept. 11 attacks

NEW YORK (AP) — Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she heard a loud boom, unlike anything she’d ever heard before. Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her home. “What did you see? What did you see?” people were asking one another. Matthews, an Associated Press reporter, began asking the same question, fumbling to get out her notebook and record what people ...

Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons

Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks no longer require sophisticated skills and even lone individuals can create threats that would not have been possible even a year ago, Anthropic said. The company said it has added stronger safeguards in its latest models to restrict biological research that could also be used to make weapons. “The cases we share ...

Bazetta Community Day set Saturday

BAZETTA COMMUNITY DAY: The Bazetta Township Community Fun Family Day will be 1 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the township park, 2025 Wilson Sharpsville Road. There will be food and craft vendors, basket raffle fundraiser and car, Jeep and bike shows. Proceeds from the event benefit the Bazetta Township Park. For information, call 330-637-8816. Those wanting to donate a basket to the raffle should call Mary at 330-360-7867. SILLY SCIENCE: No other festival in the region allows event goers to walk across 400 pounds of oobleck, bake in a solar oven, catch balls tossed by robots, meet local ...

Home is where the help is

YOUNGSTOWN — Many people fondly remember Blood, Sweat & Tears as a popular jazz/rock group from the late 1960s and early 1970s, though for Jodi Glass, the three nouns mean something nonmusical but no less special. “There are so many people to thank, so many years of planning, dreaming, ...

Man charged with felonies after birthday gone wrong

WARREN — A Hiram man said he went out Tuesday night to celebrate his 20th birthday, but ended up with two felony charges, a drunken driving charge and a badly damaged truck. Billy A. Troyer, 20, of Vista Drive, was taken to the Trumbull County jail sometime Wednesday and was due to be released from the jail Thursday after appearing Wednesday before Warren Municipal Court Judge Patricia Knepp, who set bond of $2,500 for Troyer, who posted it Thursday. He is charged with felonies of being a felon in possession of a firearm, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and ...