Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.

Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks

Violence at the Bell Hotel: Far-right footprints in Epping Forest

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse: These anti-immigrant protests aren’t really anything to do with protecting women.

Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says

Why Labour keep losing the attention war

‘I can’t cope with it any more’: newsrooms scramble to retain audiences amid the big switch-off

When a Tweet Becomes a Crime: What the Lucy Connolly Case Says

Why Gen Z Loves to Invest: (well, those who have spare money) - mainly because trying to live on wages alone really isn’t sufficient any more for a lot of people.

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats

‘None of us feel safe’: attacks on A&E nurses double in six years as waits rise

Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot: This of course actually was a Black Mirror episode.

Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner: A lot of this makes me nervous.

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London: Mostly for holding up a sign saying they support Palestine Action it seems.

Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse: There is nothing new under the sun.

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world: Open source technologies built by the community that solves real problems,

Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music: Yet another reason.

Trump fires statistics chief after soft jobs report: Shooting the messenger because he doesn’t like the unemployment stats.

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not.: Just run on progressive economic policies.

Ring reintroduces video sharing with police

Russia using children to design and test its military drones, investigation finds