Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought | A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found ( www.theguardian.com )
‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference ( www.theguardian.com )
“The peace activists are war activists,” co-founder and CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”...
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report ( www.theguardian.com )
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found...
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report ( www.theguardian.com )
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found...
OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher ( www.theguardian.com )
Jan Leike, a key safety researcher at firm behind ChatGPT, quit days after launch of its latest AI model, GPT-4o
Upside-down US flag reportedly hung outside Samuel Alito’s home days after Capitol attack ( www.theguardian.com )
Texas governor pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 ( www.theguardian.com )
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a full pardon on Thursday to a former US army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....
Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens ( www.theguardian.com )
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....
‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein...
Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show ( www.theguardian.com )
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging...
University of Georgia pulls out of ‘Cop City’ lawsuit requesting public records ( www.theguardian.com )
Dean of law school orders first amendment clinic to curtail core work, including on Atlanta Police Foundation case...
‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein ( www.theguardian.com )
Phone messages and meetings suggest a friendship between Copperfield and the disgraced financier. His lawyers deny it...
Trump and Johnson spread unfounded fears by urging non-citizen voting ban ( www.theguardian.com )
Trump falls back on false claim that non-citizen voting threatened his popular vote, despite data proving that it’s a lie...
French police shoot suspect dead in synagogue incident in Rouen ( www.theguardian.com )
Interior ministry says armed suspect ‘neutralised’ after attempting to set fire to synagogue in Normandy city...
University of Georgia pulls out of ‘Cop City’ lawsuit requesting public records ( www.theguardian.com )
Dean of law school orders first amendment clinic to curtail core work, including on Atlanta Police Foundation case...
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
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UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest ( www.theguardian.com )
John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors...
Patients in England want right to see GPs with 24 hours enshrined in NHS ( www.theguardian.com )
Royal College of GPs says constitution guarantee would just pile on pressure given loss of 1,000 practices in past 10 years...
[Opinion] I’ve never felt more disillusioned as a Palestinian | Ahmad Ibsais ( www.theguardian.com )
My classmates and school at large, like most of the west, see the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a far-removed problem...
Rhythm Nation: how music gives Haiti hope amid the chaos ( www.theguardian.com )
The country has been hit by decades of crises and catastrophe, but its culture continues to thrive across the diaspora. Here, Haitian musicians celebrate its ’sounds of freedom’...
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday....
Cop29 at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance: Fossil-fuel dependent country hopes to provide bridge between wealthy global north and poor south at November gathering ( www.theguardian.com )
How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming ( www.theguardian.com )
South Africa calls on ICJ to order Israel to end Rafah offensive ( www.theguardian.com )
South Africa has asked the international court of justice (ICJ) to urgently order Israel to end its assault on Rafah, halt its military campaign across Gaza, and allow international investigators and journalists into the territory....
