iPhone Photo Rejected from Photo Contest for Suspected AI Use (www.theguardian.com)
Always love when self agrandized authorities act like idiots. Feels like the box wine wins wine competition article....
Bayer division 'knowingly sold' HIV-infected protein (2003) (www.theguardian.com)
Death Valley approaches global heat record as US reels from extreme weather (www.theguardian.com)
Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128F (53.3C) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said.
First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190,000 (www.theguardian.com)
Nicaragua fails to back censure of Russia at end of EU-Latin America summit (www.theguardian.com)
EU leaders have failed to persuade all of their Latin America and Caribbean counterparts to strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite watering down a joint statement closing a two-day summit in Brussels....
Why bands are disappearing: "Young people aren’t excited by them" (www.theguardian.com)
I was looking into why I just don’t see cover bands at my local venue but this hits a bit deeper at the issue....
‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
A man and two children shield themselves with plastic during monsoon rainfall (www.theguardian.com)
Is there a relationship between increasing animal atacks on humans and global rising temperatures? (www.theguardian.com)
So would you say animal behaviour is indeed changing lately?...
UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions (www.theguardian.com)
China to ‘fill the gap’ in Solomon Islands budget as PM blasts ‘unneighbourly’ Australia and US (www.theguardian.com)
DNA database to be used to crack down on dog faeces in French town (www.theguardian.com)
I can excuse shit and late trains, but mispronouncing Northern train stations? An abomination. (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla directors agree to return $735m to settle claims they were grossly overpaid (www.theguardian.com)
EU to give Tunisia €1bn to fight trafficking and prop up ailing economy - Von der Leyen to return with Italian and Dutch PMs despite warnings over ‘breakdown’ of democracy under Saied (www.theguardian.com)
40 Years of the Nintendo Famicom (www.theguardian.com)
Looks like bridgeposting is back on the menu, boys! (www.theguardian.com)
Some explosions reported at the Kerch Strait bridge. Again.
Tory MPs condemn delay to ban on LGBTQ+ conversion practices (www.theguardian.com)
Senior Conservative MPs have accused the government of a “moral failing” for delaying the long-promised ban on conversion practices that they say damage the lives of LGBT+ people....
‘Hell on earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests the limits of survival (www.theguardian.com)
Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
Tunisia says it will not be ‘reception centre’ for returning migrants (www.theguardian.com)
Tunisia has said it will not be a “reception centre” for returns of sub-Saharan migrants from Italy or any other country in Europe despite a groundbreaking €1bn deal signed on Sunday.
Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud (www.theguardian.com)
Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud::Experts say LBRY’s failure casts shadow on future of other ‘alt-tech’ sites as Twitter becomes more receptive to far right
The state of AI and social media shows capitalism is unlikely to end with a robot rebellion | Jeff Sparrow (www.theguardian.com)
We tend to think about media disruption as driven by technological innovation. But the ‘enshittification’ of our socials shows that the tech itself plays a relatively minor role
Woman’s iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI | Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by judges, even though it was ... (www.theguardian.com)
Woman’s iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI | Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by judges, even though it was …::Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by judges, even though it was taken on her...