German state elections: voters turn to the right in rebuke to Scholz’s coalition (www.theguardian.com)
Worries about the economy and migration pushed up share for far-right AfD in Hesse and Bavaria, while coalition parties did worse...
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims (www.theguardian.com)
The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future (www.theguardian.com)
Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government (www.theguardian.com)
‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec (www.theguardian.com)
DeSantis ‘freedom fund’ Pac targets abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives (www.theguardian.com)
Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races...
Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16243336...
Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record (www.theguardian.com)
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (www.theguardian.com)
Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in London (www.theguardian.com)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13942559...
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors...
‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)
Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...
Apple hit with $2 billion EU antitrust fine in Spotify case (www.theguardian.com)
Apple has been fined €1.8bn ($2bn) by the EU after an investigation found it had limited competition from music streaming services such as Spotify....
Explosive device detonated outside Alabama attorney general’s office (www.theguardian.com)
Alabama’s attorney general on Monday said that an explosive device had been detonated outside his offices over the weekend in the state’s capital city of Montgomery....
‘I’m so scared, please come’: Hind Rajab, six, found dead in Gaza 12 days after cry for help (www.theguardian.com)
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
British teenager behind GTA 6 hack receives indefinite hospital order (www.theguardian.com)
Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns (www.theguardian.com)
‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan (www.theguardian.com)
First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away....
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say (www.theguardian.com)
I banned my daughter from using the iPhone she bought. It made her a better person | Em Rio (www.theguardian.com)
I think its not just kids anymore, it’s adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from “social” media and don’t have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.
‘People ask me to use another door’: MEPs on bias, whiteness and rise of far right (www.theguardian.com)
From being repeatedly asked for ID to feeling threatened by harmful rhetoric, politicians say lack of diversity is undermining work of EU...
EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports (www.theguardian.com)
The European Commission chief said she was “convinced that if the competition is fair” from China, then Europe “will have thriving durable economies”. But she said the “imbalances” caused by state support for Chinese industry leading to cut-cost products threatened jobs in Europe, and that was “a matter of great...
Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO (www.theguardian.com)
The World Health Organization has raised concerns about the spread of H5N1 bird flu, which has an “extraordinarily high” mortality rate in humans....
