Ford unleashes the UK’s first legal hands-free drive car – but who will buy it (www.theguardian.com)
Ford’s Mustang Mach-E lets motorists drive hands-free in UK; T&Cs apply: motorways only, don’t look away for too long.
‘Terrible mistake’: human rights groups decry sending cluster bombs to Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
UK’s armed forces chief says there is no row over cuts with head of army (www.theguardian.com)
French rail operator SNCF fined after train killed cat hiding on tracks (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter Melaina said their pet escaped from its travel bag and disappeared under a high-speed train as it prepared to leave Paris for Bordeaux, in south-western France, with 800 passengers onboard....
Minister orders halt to Cambridgeshire council’s four-day week trial (www.theguardian.com)
Copied a few relevant paragraphs over:...
How John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil war (www.theguardian.com)
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report (www.theguardian.com)
Remember the child mannequin being run over by a Tesla? Now Musk obsessives are putting their actual, living children in front of moving Tesla cars just to prove a point (www.theguardian.com)
A continuation of this: lemmy.ml/post/427773/
Google refuses to reinstate man’s account after he took medical images of son’s groin (www.theguardian.com)
This is why using Google is a bad idea. Random bans that make no sense.
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists hail ‘smart’ insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real time (www.theguardian.com)
The new glucose-responsive insulins (GRIs) only become active when there is a certain amount of sugar in the blood to prevent hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose). They become inactive again when levels drop below a certain point, avoiding hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose). In future, patients may only need insulin once a week,...
Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year – study (www.theguardian.com)
Continent is warming at much faster rate than other parts of world, leading to fires, drought and health problems...
Video doorbells, CCTV, facial recognition: how the police tracked UK rioters (www.theguardian.com)
The hunt to find the rioters and the people who incited them began the moment the first brick was thrown. But the efforts to catch them will last weeks or months, and involve super-recognisers, specialist software, video doorbells and, in a few cases, criminal stupidity....
Utah’s famed ‘Double Arch’ geographical feature collapses (www.theguardian.com)
UK shortage of drug used to prevent brain damage in alcoholics (www.theguardian.com)
Bangladesh parliament dissolved a day after resignation of prime minister (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/20420374...
Police officers injured in Plymouth and disorder in Belfast as violence spreads (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s Truth Social network records second-worst audience decline (www.theguardian.com)
Firefighters continue battle against more than 100 blazes burning in the US (www.theguardian.com)
Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy review – a cheeky look at cinema’s wild sexploitation craze (www.theguardian.com)
Fond amusement is mostly the point (I think) of this clear-eyed look at a short-lived British phenomenon. Sexploitation films emerged from the burgeoning sexual revolution of the 1960s. Depending on who you ask, this revolution came about as a result of sex between men being decriminalised, or the liberating arrival of the pill...
Israel strikes Lebanon as diplomats try to prevent regional war (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli jets struck southern Lebanon overnight as diplomats worked frantically to prevent a regional war after a rocket strike that killed 12 young people in the occupied Golan Heights....
Putin warns US against deploying long-range missiles in Germany (www.theguardian.com)
Russian leader says Washington risks triggering cold war-style missile crisis and promises to respond in kind...
‘Cliff edge’ deadline for UK digital visas still leaves 4m at risk of losing rights | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost (www.theguardian.com)
Britain’s plans to create advanced devices based on the mind-bending physics of the quantum world have received a £100m boost, in a move ministers hope will have a transformative impact on healthcare, transport and national security....