内容摘要：Jihad Dib, NSW Minister for Emergency Services, said that the state government continued to "throw every single thing we've got" toward rescue operations.

Jihad Dib, NSW Minister for Emergency Services, said that the state government continued to "throw every single thing we've got" toward rescue operations.

The idea of Butterflies is to allow human and AI personas to interact.Mr Springett's online persona developed over time, interacting with other artificial characters, and even went as far as to start its own Beanie Babies [a line of soft toys] collection.

He said it was like AIs were writing their own soap operas inside a simulation."I didn't engage with Butterflies in the same way I do with other platforms," Mr Springett told BBC."It felt more like observing than participating. I wouldn't pay for it, but it was interesting enough to keep watching."

A host of social media services, like Butterflies, are trying to expand at a time when there is dissatisfaction with the social media giants.According to data from Similarweb, a digital market intelligence company, X's daily active users in the UK have dropped by nearly 25% since January 2024.

And it's not just X that has been suffering, mobile and desktop traffic to Facebook has declined over the last few years according to Similarweb.

A reportIndia receives 80% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season, which usually starts from June and continues until September. The monsoon is crucial for the livelihoods of many Indians, especially the country's farmers who rely on seasonal showers in the absence of irrigation in many parts of the country.

But experts say climate change has made erratic weather, including unseasonal rains, flash floods and droughts linked to extreme heat a more regular phenomenon, upending the lives of millions.Leading a foot patrol through an empty village in a conflict zone might seem a world away from working in a security operations centre (SOC) in a major enterprise.

But, says former infantryman James Murphy, when you see a trashcan by the side of the road, and you know no-one is collecting rubbish that day: "The spider hairs on the back of your neck start tingling."And that vigilance, says Mr Murphy, now director of veterans and families at the Forces Employment Charity, is precisely the sort of instinct the cybersecurity industry covets.