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Motorists are asking whether an electric car left at airport parking for a week or two will lose meaningful charge. Experts note that modern EVs lose only a small amount of charge while parked, typically a few percent, though factors like cold weather, battery age and active features such as security systems or sentry mode can increase drain. Advice includes charging to around 70-80% before leaving and avoiding leaving the car plugged into accessories. The topic has been picked up widely by consumer and motoring outlets.

The European Central Bank is holding the ninth edition of its Macroprudential Policy Group Workshop, a regular forum where central bankers and financial stability experts discuss tools for preventing systemic risk in the banking system. The event brings policymakers together to review macroprudential measures such as capital buffers and lending rules at a time of heightened scrutiny of banking sector resilience.

An essay in The Conversation revisits the 1983 film 'WarGames' to explain a long-standing lesson of computer science: keeping AI under control is a well-studied problem, not an unsolvable mystery. It argues researchers have long understood what is needed to keep automated systems from acting unpredictably, and the piece is being shared in cybersecurity circles amid ongoing debate over AI safety.

Microsoft Research has introduced Quine, a multimodal world model of biology. According to a report by Unite.AI, the system is designed to integrate different types of biological data into a unified model. Details about its capabilities, benchmarks and intended applications remain limited in the initial coverage, and independent expert reaction has not yet been reported.