Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline
US says Chinese spy balloon downed in February did not collect information. Yet, Biden was referring to it as a spy balloon just this month. (www.theguardian.com)
Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British history
India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing (www.theguardian.com)
Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge (www.theguardian.com)
Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago...
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it - The Guardian
Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect (www.theguardian.com)
Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months....
Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform (www.theguardian.com)
Any ex-Tesla employees willing to take up an offer? 😜
US supreme court to hear case on domestic abuser’s right to own guns (www.theguardian.com)
The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case which gun and domestic violence prevention groups are warning could be a matter of life and death for thousands of abuse victims and their families....
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
New regulations will target six major tech companies to improve consumer experience and data privacy. These include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft....
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial (www.theguardian.com)
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board...
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating (www.theguardian.com)
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda
ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish football federation threatens to sue player Jenni Hermoso over kiss ‘lies’ (www.theguardian.com)
In a statement, the federation said that it would take the “necessary legal action” and told the female players that “playing for the national team is an obligation on any member of the federation called upon to do so”.
Donald Trump mugshot released after former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – live (www.theguardian.com)
We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world (www.theguardian.com)
When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)
Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.
‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies (www.theguardian.com)
“Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network”...
