Long-lost Star Wars X-Wing model auctioned for a record-breaking $3.1m (www.theguardian.com)
Spacecraft discovered in cardboard box belonging to late model-maker Greg Jein becomes the ‘most expensive Star Wars screen-used prop sold at auction’...
Mobile roaming: EE prompts anger as it increases price by 150% | Mobile phones | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Chicago police investigated over alleged sexual misconduct with asylum seekers (www.theguardian.com)
Reports that an officer allegedly impregnated an 18-year-old and another had ‘sexual contact with an underage female migrant’
Ukrainian PoWs being sent to fight their own army, Russian news claims (www.theguardian.com)
Russian ‘double tap’ missile strike kills seven near hotel used by journalists (www.theguardian.com)
Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song, saying it could undermine freedom of expression (www.theguardian.com)
The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China’s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.
Tory MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs (www.theguardian.com)
A senior Conservative MP, Crispin Blunt, has been arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs....
Jenni Hermoso files criminal complaint against Luis Rubiales over kiss (www.theguardian.com)
Breeding breakthrough paves way for controversial tuna farming on land (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish research centre achieves first tank-bred Atlantic bluefin as NGOs warn of poor welfare, more antibiotic use and water pollution...
Israeli parliament votes in Netanyahu’s controversial supreme court changes (www.theguardian.com)
Israel’s parliament has voted into law a controversial curb on some supreme court powers submitted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the Knesset speaker has said....
Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian demonstrators (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s son Donald Jr to testify at real estate fraud trial in New York (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump’s eldest son will take the stand today at the New York civil fraud trial surrounding the former president’s business empire....
Ukrainian parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church over alleged links with Russia (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....
TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)
TikTok has been fined €345m (£296m) for breaking EU data law in its handling of children’s accounts, including failing to shield underage users’ content from public view....
AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa (www.theguardian.com)
AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa::Forget ‘AI doomerism’ hype over ChatGPT, big tech’s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and startup form body to regulate AI development (www.theguardian.com)
a body has been formed to regulate ai development
TIL how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders (www.theguardian.com)
Stop wasting your time and $ on mobile game. Get real game. Console, PC master race, …
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...
It’s like a time capsule’: 19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan (www.theguardian.com)
Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update (www.theguardian.com)
Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update
Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre (www.theguardian.com)
Radio Free Europe journalist and US citizen Alsu Kurmasheva detained in Russia (www.theguardian.com)
US deploys second aircraft carrier as Israeli ground invasion of Gaza nears (www.theguardian.com)
