UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger (www.theguardian.com)
The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology....
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Where are they supposed to go to be safe?
EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: how a little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans (www.theguardian.com)
Major investigation shows local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize
Weighty issue: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make aircraft too heavy to fly (www.theguardian.com)
Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the ‘unusual step’ of transferring sumo rikishi to another flight...
Marine Le Pen should stand trial over alleged misuse of EU funds, say prosecutors (www.theguardian.com)
The Paris prosecutor’s office has recommended that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 23 members of her National Rally party stand trial over the alleged misuse of EU funds....
Leaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending summit in New York....
US anti-child trafficking activist resigns after sexual harassment allegations (www.theguardian.com)
The anti-child slavery activist Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in the movie Sound of Freedom, resigned from the Operation Underground Railroad (Our) organization he founded amid allegations he sexually harassed colleagues, it was reported on Monday....
TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)
"It serves no purpose, it is unjust:" 63 Australian politicians urge US to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walk free (www.theguardian.com)
The Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, who remains in Belmarsh prison in the UK, warning of “a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia” if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited.
US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak avoiding UN summit after being warned about potential rejection (www.theguardian.com)
Jenni Hermoso files criminal complaint against Luis Rubiales over kiss (www.theguardian.com)
Takeshi’s Castle is back! UK television gets its best ever version of the Japanese gameshow (www.theguardian.com)
Storm Hilary aftermath: 10,000 without power, Palm Springs declares emergency (www.theguardian.com)
"Wave of murder, rape and domestic violence": Russian women living in fear as Wagner’s convicted murderers return home as free men (www.theguardian.com)
Deadlier Atlantic storms excessively killing US people of color – study (www.theguardian.com)
Named tropical storms and hurricanes, which have become more intense, have caused about 20,000 more deaths from 1988 to 2019
Fury as Alberta cuts renewables during Canada’s worst fire season ever (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much (www.theguardian.com)
Notice sent to employees who were not in office at least three times a week, after other tech firms’ efforts to get workers back on site
Heat from extinct volcano could be piped into Dutch homes (www.theguardian.com)
Italy wildfires encircle Palermo as temperatures hit 47C (www.theguardian.com)
Unilever to comply with Russian conscription law if staff called up (www.theguardian.com)
Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96 (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 ... (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...