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Italy has prolonged its suspension of the EU's Schengen free-movement agreement with Spain until mid-October, according to a statement. The measure means border checks between the two countries will remain in place for several more weeks. The extension continues a restriction that Italy had already imposed on free travel from Spain.

Leibniz University Hannover is holding an event on 15 October from 7 to 9 pm at the Technical Information Library (TIB) in Hannover. It is promoted in connection with topics including libraries, book bans and democracy, suggesting a discussion or documentary screening about censorship and the role of libraries. Details are available through the university's events calendar.

A guardrail engineering principle called 'hallucination blocked before the human' is being discussed among AI developers. The idea is that systems should automatically detect and suppress hallucinated AI outputs before they ever reach a human user, rather than relying on people to catch errors. Advocates frame it as a matter of security, compliance and safer software development practice.

Writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, veteran business journalist Alan Kohler argues that governments are approaching AI regulation as if it were merely a powerful new tool, when it is better understood as something closer to a new form of life — alive, but not life as we know it. His argument frames current regulatory efforts as fundamentally mismatched to the technology's nature, adding to a growing debate about how AI should be governed.