AI chatbots could help plan bioweapon attacks, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
England’s Jewish schools heighten security as antisemitic incidents quadruple (www.theguardian.com)
Jewish schools across England are taking extra precautions to protect their staff and students after the attack on Israel, as the body that provides security advice to Jewish communities in the UK said it had recorded 89 antisemitic incidents between Saturday and Tuesday....
Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network (www.theguardian.com)
Shock and anger: Israelis search for loved ones after Hamas attack (www.theguardian.com)
At least 600 Israelis have been killed and around 100 taken hostage in the deadliest attack in the country’s history...
Vladimir Putin escalates nuclear rhetoric with threat to resume testing (www.theguardian.com)
British soldier took her own life after sexual harassment from boss, says army (www.theguardian.com)
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Travel website Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket (www.theguardian.com)
Travel website Booking.com has left many hotel operators and other partners across the globe thousands of dollars out of pocket for months on end, blaming the lack of payment on a “technical issue”....
Swiss glaciers lose 10% of their volume in two years (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists have said climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels is the cause of unusually hot summers and winters with very low snow volume, which have caused the accelerating melts. The volume lost during the hot summers of 2022 and 2023 is the same as that lost between 1960 and 1990.
Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money (www.theguardian.com)
This may be the only time you will ever see the phrase “Swedish gangster rap,” so enjoy it.
Hong Kong’s multimillion dollar cliffside mansions on brink of collapse after record rains (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses (www.theguardian.com)
The social media company formerly known as Twitter has been accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, including by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK, or Canada....
‘Excited to see the memes’: Germany’s Olaf Scholz posts eyepatch photo (www.theguardian.com)
Takeshi’s Castle is back! UK television gets its best ever version of the Japanese gameshow (www.theguardian.com)
“Except that’s not the case. For the first time, British audiences get to see entire episodes of Takeshi’s Castle as it was designed to be seen by Japanese viewers. Not sneered at by Chris Tarrant, or packaged with a culturally insensitive “oriental riff” influenced theme tune. No, these are new episodes, in full, with...
Recovery of British Museum artefacts under way, says George Osborne (www.theguardian.com)
Institution’s chair of trustees admits its reputation has been damaged by suspected thefts
Ecuador prepares for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ vote to stop oil drilling (www.theguardian.com)
‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books (www.theguardian.com)
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China vows ‘vigorous’ response to US visit by Taiwan vice president (www.theguardian.com)
China’s foreign ministry has criticised a brief US visit by Taiwan vice president William Lai, saying he was a separatist and “troublemaker through and through” and Beijing would take strong steps to protect its sovereignty.
Russian ‘double tap’ missile strike kills seven near hotel used by journalists (www.theguardian.com)
‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole (www.theguardian.com)
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US dispatches warships after China and Russia send naval patrol near Alaska (www.theguardian.com)
Combined naval patrol appeared to be largest such flotilla to approach US territory and ‘highly provocative’, expert says
Virus-carrying tropical mosquitos found in Finland as climate heats (www.theguardian.com)
Ocean surface hits highest ever recorded temperature and set to rise further (www.theguardian.com)
Average daily surface temperature of 20.96C (69.7F) breaks 2016 record, with experts saying warmest month for oceans to come