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France's constitutional council rejects bid for referendum on pension reform

Ratings agencies are like pub bores.They state the obvious.Bank collapses arrive out of the blue but the ratings agency, Fitch, is troubled by the fact that France is 3,000 billion in debt.Didn't we know that already?Isn't that one of the reasons why President Emmanuel Macron wants the French to retire later and stop piling up deficits in their state pension system?

OPINION: Will French debt lead to a Greek-style crisis? Not yet

Ratings agencies are like pub bores.They state the obvious.Bank collapses arrive out of the blue but the ratings agency, Fitch, is troubled by the fact that France is 3,000 billion in debt.Didn't we know that already?Isn't that one of the reasons why President Emmanuel Macron wants the French to retire later and stop piling up deficits in their state pension system?

Eight men on the run after fleeing immigration detention centre after riot

Eight men are on the run after escaping from an immigration detention centre after a riot.A disturbance broke out at Yarl's Wood, in Bedfordshire, on Friday evening shortly before 10pm, and 13 people escaped through the perimeter fencing.Five people have been found but the remaining eight others seven Albanian men in their 20s and one in his 30s are still being searched for by police.

SNP MP Joanna Cherry says she has been cancelled over gender views

One of the Edinburgh Fringe festival's most popular venues could be at risk of legal action, lawyers have warned, after staff refused to work at an event with the SNP MP Joanna Cherry.The MP has been outspoken in her opposition to self-identification for transgender people.The Stand Comedy Club said that Cherry's planned appearance during the Fringe Festival in August had been cancelled because key operational staff were unwilling to work with her.

Leading British Jews call for meeting with Guardian editor over Richard Sharp cartoon

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has called for an urgent meeting with the editor-in-chief of The Guardian over the use of antisemitic tropes in a cartoon about Richard Sharp.The newspaper removed the drawing by cartoonist Martin Rowson from The Guardian website on Saturday and apologised to the Jewish community and Mr Sharp who announced his resignation as BBC chair earlier in the week.

Children could be prescribed weight-loss jabs on the NHS

Children as young as 12 in England could be given weight-loss injections on the NHS after the government asked medical watchdog Nice to assess the potential benefits of prescribing them to under-18s.Department of Health officials have asked the watchdog to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of giving semaglutide injections to obese children aged 12 to 17, in addition to healthy nutrition and increased physical activity, the Observer can reveal.

France's constitutional council rejects bid for referendum on pension reform

Ratings agencies are like pub bores.They state the obvious.Bank collapses arrive out of the blue but the ratings agency, Fitch, is troubled by the fact that France is 3,000 billion in debt.Didn't we know that already?Isn't that one of the reasons why President Emmanuel Macron wants the French to retire later and stop piling up deficits in their state pension system?

OPINION: Will French debt lead to a Greek-style crisis? Not yet

Ratings agencies are like pub bores.They state the obvious.Bank collapses arrive out of the blue but the ratings agency, Fitch, is troubled by the fact that France is 3,000 billion in debt.Didn't we know that already?Isn't that one of the reasons why President Emmanuel Macron wants the French to retire later and stop piling up deficits in their state pension system?

Eight men on the run after fleeing immigration detention centre after riot

Eight men are on the run after escaping from an immigration detention centre after a riot.A disturbance broke out at Yarl's Wood, in Bedfordshire, on Friday evening shortly before 10pm, and 13 people escaped through the perimeter fencing.Five people have been found but the remaining eight others seven Albanian men in their 20s and one in his 30s are still being searched for by police.

SNP MP Joanna Cherry says she has been cancelled over gender views

One of the Edinburgh Fringe festival's most popular venues could be at risk of legal action, lawyers have warned, after staff refused to work at an event with the SNP MP Joanna Cherry.The MP has been outspoken in her opposition to self-identification for transgender people.The Stand Comedy Club said that Cherry's planned appearance during the Fringe Festival in August had been cancelled because key operational staff were unwilling to work with her.

Leading British Jews call for meeting with Guardian editor over Richard Sharp cartoon

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has called for an urgent meeting with the editor-in-chief of The Guardian over the use of antisemitic tropes in a cartoon about Richard Sharp.The newspaper removed the drawing by cartoonist Martin Rowson from The Guardian website on Saturday and apologised to the Jewish community and Mr Sharp who announced his resignation as BBC chair earlier in the week.

Children could be prescribed weight-loss jabs on the NHS

Children as young as 12 in England could be given weight-loss injections on the NHS after the government asked medical watchdog Nice to assess the potential benefits of prescribing them to under-18s.Department of Health officials have asked the watchdog to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of giving semaglutide injections to obese children aged 12 to 17, in addition to healthy nutrition and increased physical activity, the Observer can reveal.
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FTC says Facebook violated privacy order, proposes ban on monetizing youth data

Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday.On top of "continuing to give app developers access to users' private information" that Meta claimed had been cut off, the FTC alleges that Facebook has caused new harm.

Opinion | The Closing of This School Is Bad News for America

The area on the far western side of Manhattan now known as West Chelsea was once a working-class neighborhood of industrial docklands.Today it is better known for its art galleries and luxury apartments, but its past can still be glimpsed, sometimes literally.On the High Line, the elevated park that has come to define the neighborhood, there is a place just north of West 21st Street where the walkway adjoins an old brick building with stained-glass windows.

FTC says Facebook violated privacy order, proposes ban on monetizing youth data

Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday.On top of "continuing to give app developers access to users' private information" that Meta claimed had been cut off, the FTC alleges that Facebook has caused new harm.

Opinion | The Closing of This School Is Bad News for America

The area on the far western side of Manhattan now known as West Chelsea was once a working-class neighborhood of industrial docklands.Today it is better known for its art galleries and luxury apartments, but its past can still be glimpsed, sometimes literally.On the High Line, the elevated park that has come to define the neighborhood, there is a place just north of West 21st Street where the walkway adjoins an old brick building with stained-glass windows.
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Apple faces 1.6b lawsuit in the UK over iPhone throttling

Apple could face yet another lawsuit regarding the purposeful throttling of the iPhone 6 and 6s, colloquially known as batterygate.The suit in question is worth £1.6band is by Justin Gutmann on behalf of UK-based users affected by Apple's "throttling" of the iPhone 6 and 6s.Gutmann's lawyers argue that Apple concealed issues with the older iPhones' batteries by limiting performance.

Apple's iPhone batterygate controversy refuses to die

Half a decade after introducing a software feature designed to dial back performance on iPhones with degraded batteries, Apple is still dealing with the reaction to what became known as "Batterygate".The feature - which Apple explained is designed to slow down older iPhones to prevent aging batteries from tripping low-voltage protections - sparked a $2 billion (£1.6

Reported EU legislation to disclose AI training data could trigger copyright lawsuits

The current AI boom, from Bing and Midjourney, relies on free access to training data, much of it scraped from the web and often protected by copyright.The use of this data has led to both criticism and lawsuits, particularly in the art world, with rights owners arguing that their work is being exploited without their permission.

Apple faces 1.6b lawsuit in the UK over iPhone throttling

Apple could face yet another lawsuit regarding the purposeful throttling of the iPhone 6 and 6s, colloquially known as batterygate.The suit in question is worth £1.6band is by Justin Gutmann on behalf of UK-based users affected by Apple's "throttling" of the iPhone 6 and 6s.Gutmann's lawyers argue that Apple concealed issues with the older iPhones' batteries by limiting performance.

Apple's iPhone batterygate controversy refuses to die

Half a decade after introducing a software feature designed to dial back performance on iPhones with degraded batteries, Apple is still dealing with the reaction to what became known as "Batterygate".The feature - which Apple explained is designed to slow down older iPhones to prevent aging batteries from tripping low-voltage protections - sparked a $2 billion (£1.6

Reported EU legislation to disclose AI training data could trigger copyright lawsuits

The current AI boom, from Bing and Midjourney, relies on free access to training data, much of it scraped from the web and often protected by copyright.The use of this data has led to both criticism and lawsuits, particularly in the art world, with rights owners arguing that their work is being exploited without their permission.
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You'll never walk alone: 10 great UK walking festivals for spring and summer

May is national walking month a good excuse to do something you've been putting off, or to expand your repertoire of rambles.The weather is perfect for hiking, the days lengthening, and spring flowers greeting walkers in rural spots.Walking cleans and heals the brain and body as well as the environment, and many festivals are designed to welcome those taking to the outdoors for the first time.

Ross admits press access to PM at conference could have been handled better'

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has conceded that interaction between the Prime Minister and the press could have been handled better at the party's conference after claims Mr Sunak attempted to dodge journalists.Mr Ross also said the party is absolutely open and transparent, although he could not provide current membership figures.
 @emptywheel1 year ago
@scottjshapiro Like this. Twitter Files, by design, obscures what they're really wailing about. Turns out Taibbi gave House testimony to complain, in part, that EIP counted how big the Big Lie was, w/o affecting its dissemination in real time.

Matt Taibbi Is Furious that Election Integrity Project Documented How Big Trump's Big Lie Was - emptywheel

As you've no doubt heard, #MattyDickPics Taibbi went on Mehdi Hasan's show yesterday and got called out for his false claims."Well, that, then, is an error."-@mtaibbi, confronted with previously unacknowledged mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting, by @mehdirhasan.Watch the full conversation later tonight: https://t.co/WI2GDlekQP

TECNO PHANTOM V Fold Foldable Phone Review: When The Price is Right - Yanko Design

You know that foldable phones have really hit mainstream when even relatively lesser-known brands start launching one.Although it has been serving markets like Africa for years now, TECNO has only recently started to spread its wings globally.This year, it made its most ambitious move yet, launching a phone in a market that is still considered niche and a luxury that few could afford.

What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA

It has been 20 years since scientists put together the first rough draft of the human genome, the three billion genetic letters of DNA tightly wound inside most of our cells.Today, scientists are still struggling to decipher it.But a batch of studies published in Science on Thursday has cast a bright light into the dark recesses of the human genome by comparing it with those of 239 other mammals, including narwhals, cheetahs and screaming hairy armadillos.
 @OttLegalRebels1 year ago
Consumer advocates reject media calls to preserve exemptions to Australian privacy law

Consumer advocates reject media calls to preserve exemptions to Australian privacy law

Consumer digital rights advocates have rejected media companies' call to preserve their exemption to privacy law, warning that commercial models should not be put ahead of public interest.Peter Lewis, the director of the Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology, said it was disappointing that the Right to Know coalition set up with the laudable goal of protecting journalists and whistleblowers is now being deployed to prosecute Big Media's business interests at the expense of the public they purport to serve.
 @PatentBuddy1 year ago
Too Many Patent Suits? The Data Suggests There are Too Few

Too Many Patent Suits? The Data Suggests There are Too Few

"Given the incredible number of active patents, the question is not 'why are there so many suits?"but "why are there so few?'"The simplest facts are sometimes the most difficult to comprehend.Patent suits are not as pervasive as they are portrayed in the media or by defendants.Remarkably few are filed relative to the number of patents that are active.
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