Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13351707...
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder (www.theguardian.com)
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Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14830625...
UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (www.theguardian.com)
Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa...
Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study (www.theguardian.com)
As people get older, they revise the age they consider to be old upwards...
Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested (www.theguardian.com)
A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week....
‘Workers end up paying the price’: laborers call for safer building sites (www.theguardian.com)
Falls, slips and trips accounted for 865 worker fatalities in 2022 – more than 400 of whom worked in construction...
Gaza doctors save baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike (www.theguardian.com)
Doctors in Gaza have saved a baby from the womb of her mother as she lay dying from head injuries sustained in an in Israeli airstrike. The girl was delivered via an emergency caesarean section at a hospital in Rafah....
UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals (www.theguardian.com)
TechScape: No WhatsApp in China, no TikTok in the US, and the return of Llama | Technology | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
While Apple removed the platform from App Stores without a squeak of public protest, its battle with the EU rages on....
Homelessness case before US supreme court could have far-reaching effects (www.theguardian.com)
Justices to consider constitutionality of punishing people for sleeping outside as western states seek to address encampments...
The west defends Israel’s skies, not doing the same for Ukraine is a deadly mistake: If Europe doesn’t share its air defence systems now, Putin’s threat will only spread. (www.theguardian.com)
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Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said....
A progressive congresswoman made history in 2022. Can a billionaire stop her re-election? (www.theguardian.com)
Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn (www.theguardian.com)
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city (www.theguardian.com)
Lebanon’s economy and electricity system are broken and much power is now generated locally, with devastating effects on air quality and health...
$18k in stolen antlers: poaching on the rise in Wyoming as collectors ‘cheat the system’ (www.theguardian.com)
Gathering antlers has been a favorite pastime in the state, but the high dollars they fetch is now putting animals’ lives at risk...
Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, ‘may be of largest-ever marine reptile’. (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian US: Trump cancels North Carolina rally due to storm in first public address since New York trial (www.theguardian.com)
Trump follows with postings about how the beautiful mother nature whom he’s always respected has joined the witch trial by continuing to keep him from speaking. But at least he could catch up on some rest.
Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms...
‘He erased the entire project’ … the book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published (www.theguardian.com)
Stanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in 1970, he threatened legal action to block publication of a book which dared to discuss flaws in his films....
Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case (www.theguardian.com)
A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind....
Residents push for renaming of Trump Plaza to disassociate from ex-president (www.theguardian.com)
While Donald Trump endures the ignominy of being the first former US president to face criminal trial, there is further humiliation brewing, with a movement to strip the Trump name from a building in his home state....
Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price (www.theguardian.com)