IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ (www.theguardian.com)
Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military had claimed
WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’ (www.theguardian.com)
WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’::By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’
Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics (www.theguardian.com)
Footage shows moments before and after Israeli airstrike hits civilian convoy fleeing Gaza – The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Video is censored by blurring, but still disturbing.
Microsoft’s $69bn deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard cleared by UK (www.theguardian.com)
Russia-Ukraine war: at least 51 people killed in Russian strike on village food shop (www.theguardian.com)
Texas Republican vows to pass bill on Ten Commandments in public schools (www.theguardian.com)
Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage (www.theguardian.com)
Security services say spate of fires and infrastructure attacks could be part of systemic attempt by Russia to destabilise continent...
‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson (www.theguardian.com)
US citizen who fought with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine reported dead (www.theguardian.com)
Russell Bentley, 64, reported killed in Moscow-occupied Donetsk by Russian state media and confirmed by his battalion...
Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president (www.theguardian.com)
‘Russia doesn’t care’: Sweden sounds alarm over unsafe oil fleet (www.theguardian.com)
Foreign minister warns of environmental catastrophe in Baltic Sea as he accuses Moscow of using unseaworthy vessels...
New York’s Vessel to reopen with steel-mesh safety measures after suicides (www.theguardian.com)
Climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards in Manhattan closed in 2021 after four people died by suicide...
US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide (www.theguardian.com)
The last time Brood XIX and Brood XII emerged from underground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson was president...
Researchers analysed songs lyrics across several genres from 1980 to 2020, found that song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed (www.theguardian.com)
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ | Jared Kushner | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
‘Why are you asleep?’ Rahul Gandhi pleads with India’s low castes to vote out Modi (www.theguardian.com)
Cameron urges US to aid Ukraine and not show ‘weakness displayed to Hitler’ (www.theguardian.com)
David Cameron has urged US lawmakers to pass a bill including support for Ukraine and warned them not to show “the weakness displayed against Hitler”....
Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal and vows to fight until ‘total victory’ (www.theguardian.com)
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point (www.theguardian.com)
Last year the annual number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of scientific fraud....
UN court orders Israel to ensure acts of genocide are not committed in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
In an interim judgment delivered on Friday, the president of the court, Joan Donoghue, said Israel must “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts that fall within the scope of the genocide convention and must ensure “with immediate effect” that its forces do not commit any of the acts covered by the...
Florida advances law banning children under 16 from using social media (www.theguardian.com)
Bill would prohibit teenagers from creating an account, and is now headed to the state’s Republican-controlled senate...
Philippines president sparks outcry for using presidential helicopter to see Coldplay concert (www.theguardian.com)
