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October 3: Flydubai Cockpit Attack and Kyiv Bridge Strikes
On the Flydubai flight
The UAE prosecutor general said Saturday that a Flydubai co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash axe and tried to seize control of an Israel-bound flight on Wednesday. Officials described it as an attempted terrorist attack. The aircraft, carrying 182 people, went into a sharp plunge and nearly crashed, according to officials. Passengers and crew subdued the co-pilot and stabilised the plane.
At Guantanamo Bay
U.S. Southern Command has deployed unmanned systems to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The command says the deployment is a first step toward establishing a training and mission-support site for its new Autonomous Warfare Command.
In Ukraine
Kyiv’s mayor says Russia has struck the city’s Northern Bridge, following repeated attacks on another major bridge in the capital in recent days.
In British telecoms
BT has been accused of temporarily cutting off customers’ broadband to pressure them into switching to digital landlines. Providers are working toward an end-of-January deadline to move households from the old copper telephone network to voice services that use a broadband connection. Across the industry, 16 to 17 million lines have already been migrated.
In space technology
Google has launched a refrigerator-sized satellite to test whether its AI chips can operate in space, NPR reports. Launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on October 1, the prototype carries four Tensor Processing Units and will run a version of Google’s Gemma model for 15 minutes at a time because of heat-management limits. The year-long mission is intended to test radiation, temperature and spaceflight stresses, an early step toward the company’s proposed solar-powered AI data centres in orbit.
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