At least 30 people were killed and homes and shops were burned in attacks by armed assailants on three villages in northwest Nigeria, according to residents. The violence, which involved bandits riding motorcycles and shooting indiscriminately, highlights the ongoing insecurity plaguing the region, as reported by The Guardian.
The attacks occurred in northwest Nigeria, but the exact villages were not specified in the provided source material. Military personnel were seen guarding the area after a deadly raid in Doma, Katsina State, Nigeria, on February 4, according to a photograph from Reuters featured in The Guardian. The Nigerian government is under mounting pressure to restore stability in the face of these attacks.
In other news, a former AI safety researcher at Anthropic, Mrinank Sharma, resigned from the company with a stark warning that the "world is in peril," according to BBC Technology. Sharma shared his resignation letter on X, citing concerns about AI, bioweapons, and the state of the world. He plans to pursue writing, study poetry, and move back to the UK. This resignation comes in the same week that an OpenAI researcher also resigned, expressing concerns about the deployment of advertisements in the ChatGPT chatbot.
Meanwhile, in France, Gisèle Pelicot, the central figure in the country's largest rape trial, spoke to the BBC about her experience. Pelicot, whose ex-husband was found guilty of drugging her and inviting dozens of men to abuse her, described feeling "crushed by horror" upon discovering the extent of his crimes. "It was like a tsunami," she told the BBC, adding that informing her three children was the toughest experience of her life. Pelicot's story is detailed in her memoir, "A Hymn to Life," and she is scheduled to be interviewed on "CBS News Sunday Morning" on February 15, according to CBS News.
Finally, in a decades-old cold case, the murder of 17-year-old Mary Kay Heese in Wahoo, Nebraska, is being revisited. Heese was last seen on March 25, 1969, getting into a car with two men. Her body was later found beaten and stabbed to death. The case remained unsolved for years. A new investigation is now underway, and the story will be featured on "48 Hours" on CBS, according to CBS News.
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