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In France, a student protest movement is drawing serious scrutiny over police use of force. Twenty-four investigations have been opened by the national police watchdog into incidents tied to ongoing high school demonstrations, reigniting long-standing calls to ban rubber bullets and launcher-fired riot control weapons that rights groups and United Nations experts have condemned as excessive and dangerous.
Shifting to the digital security beat, researchers have identified two characters that open a significant door for typosquatters and phishing operators targeting users of Chromium-based browsers. The flaw allows lookalike domain names to display as legitimate web addresses within the browser itself, a subtle but serious vulnerability that moves the threat beyond the obvious misspellings most users have learned to spot.
And in the world of artificial intelligence, Anthropic has announced that Claude agents can now write their own multiagent workflows, meaning the system can essentially design and delegate to other AI agents autonomously. It is a meaningful step toward self-organizing AI pipelines, and one that raises real questions about oversight, transparency, and where human control fits into an increasingly automated chain of decisions.
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