Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds arrested as US Jews protest against Israel’s Gaza assault (www.theguardian.com)
Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Media company recently signed lucrative deal with Saudi government-controlled MBC Group
‘Orphaned by decree’: Italy’s same-sex parents react to losing their rights (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing PM Giorgia Meloni has demanded councils register only biological parents on birth certificates, leaving partners in legal limbo
‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants (www.theguardian.com)
Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms
Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find (www.theguardian.com)
‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president (www.theguardian.com)
Suella Braverman says rough sleeping is ‘lifestyle choice’ (theguardian.com)
The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has described rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of Britain....
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August (www.theguardian.com)
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August::Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads
Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ (www.theguardian.com)
Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
Big business lobbies against heat protections for workers as US boils (www.theguardian.com)
Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform (www.theguardian.com)
Any ex-Tesla employees willing to take up an offer? 😜
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes....
Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli PM said to have turned down proposal in early talks and continues to take tough line
Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city (www.theguardian.com)
After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian...
‘Stressed beyond her limits’: co-owner of Kansas newspaper dies after police raid (www.theguardian.com)
Police served a search warrant to the Marion County Record’s Joan Meyer, 98, after the paper’s investigation into local restaurateur
Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants (www.theguardian.com)
Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men
‘Nightmare is over’: Polish election result brings relief for LGBTQ+ people | Poland | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office (www.theguardian.com)
Ron DeSantis’s claim he sent military equipment to Israel unravels (www.theguardian.com)
Ron DeSantis is receiving pushback from Israeli diplomats, Florida Democrats and the White House after he falsely claimed credit for a gun-running operation to assist Israel’s military operations in Gaza....
Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time (www.theguardian.com)
Hong Kong’s top court rules in favour of legal recognition for same-sex couples (www.theguardian.com)
Hong Kong must provide an alternative to marriage in order to legally recognise the rights of same-sex couples, the city’s highest court has declared, opening the way for civil unions....
US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins (www.theguardian.com)
US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins::US makes case Google leveraged power and wealth to strangle competition, spending billions on deals with Apple and Samsung
US nutrition panel’s ties to top food giants revealed in new report (www.theguardian.com)
Almost half of a federal government panel that helps develop US nutritional guidelines has significant ties to big agriculture, ultra-processed food companies, pharmaceutical companies and other corporate organizations with a significant stake in the process’s outcome....
Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists...
