‘Pacing’ won’t eliminate the risk of AI doom. Here’s what could | David Krueger
The Guardianby David Krueger·29d ago
With Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic, we have reached the AI risk tipping point. Millions of people are finally coming to understand what experts have known for years: AI companies have...
Iranian security forces coordinated killing, torture and sexual abuse of protesters, says Amnesty
The Guardianby Deepa Parent·29d ago
Iranian security forces “coordinated” the killing, torture and sexual abuse of hundreds of people who took part in the women-led nationwide protests in September 2022, according to leaked state...
Glory at 11,000ft: Cusco’s Cienciano aim to bring Peru continental success once again
The Guardianby Kervy Justo Robles in Cusco·29d ago
It was one of those nights when Cusco shifted the spotlight from its tourism engine to football. At a stadium named after Garcilaso de la Vega – celebrated for his chronicles about the Inca empire...
Big-money donations poison British politics. We can stop the mega-rich buying access and influence | Gordon Brown
The Guardianby Gordon Brown·29d ago
The British people cannot be bought, but their views and votes can be heavily influenced by a flood of political party propaganda – from expensive advertising and constant leaflet drops to...
Safe Spaces by Tice Cin review – a kaleidoscopic vision of precarity, music and grief
The Guardianby Sana Goyal·29d ago
Tice Cin’s philosophical and poetic new novel about a young Turkish-Cypriot songwriter and music producer extends the preoccupations of her prizewinning debut, 2021’s Keeping the House.
The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance
The Guardianby Leslie Felperin·29d ago
Here is a story that on the face of it seems so wildly unlikely it can only be true. Indeed, the very concept of a romantic documentary sounds almost oxymoronic, an indication of how much...
Iranian football returns in the shadow of war and with row over last league title
The Guardianby John Duerden·29d ago
Just three months ago, Iran was one of the biggest stories in football as Team Melli arrived at the World Cup to try to play in the US, a country that had been bombing and firing missiles at Tehran...
Redwood by Ben Macintyre review – a superbly wrought tale of cold war defection
The Guardianby Oliver Bullough·29d ago
Ben Macintyre uses the acronym MICE to describe the reasons people betray their countries: Money, Ideology, Coercion or Ego.
Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year
The Guardianby Jason Burke International security correspondent·29d ago
Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures...
The other side of Croatia: ‘a landscape that could out-Tuscany Tuscany’
The Guardianby Mary Novakovich·29d ago
‘You’re going to Samobor? You must try kremšnita,” my Dubrovnik friends told me before I set off on my trip north. “But I’ve already had kremšnita in Zagreb,” I told them.
A moment that changed me: I felt hugely self conscious about my skin - until I had a revelation
The Guardianby Natalie Ambersley·29d ago
The microphone felt heavier than I expected. As I stood on stage at a London comedy club last December, I looked out at a room full of strangers sitting quietly, waiting for me to make them laugh.
Squid ink tomato pasta and honey and fig semifreddo: Chris Leach’s Italian recipes for the end of summer
The Guardianby Chris Leach·29d ago
The secret to late-summer/early autumn cooking is to keep things relatively low-effort, not least to assuage those back-to-work/school blues.
Drama on the trail cam – this is Somerset’s version of the snow leopard | Derek Niemann
The Guardianby Derek Niemann·29d ago
Deep into the night, and out of our sight, tiny claws rake over plastic. The animal skitters halfway through a pipe, then stops.
The girl with a will to live: the love, hope and pain of raising Elsie – my one in 163 million daughter
The Guardianby Christelle Randall·29d ago
My daughter Elsie has beautiful curls – blond like a little Botticelli cherub’s, hair that someone dark like me could only ever dream of.
To understand the threat to our real democracy, watch Putin's fake one | Rafael Behr
The Guardianby Rafael Behr·29d ago
Millions of people will participate in elections in Russia this weekend and a new parliament will be chosen, but not necessarily in that order.
Slow Horses season six review – it gets harder to enjoy Gary Oldman’s spy thriller every year
The Guardianby Jack Seale·29d ago
This is a new Slow Horses: season six is the first not to be guided by its creator, Will Smith, a writer whose previous work on The Thick of It and Veep explained why this espionage saga had an...
‘My future is in the EU’: the Ukrainian children who don’t want to go home
The Guardianby Stefania D'Ignoti. Photographs by Camilla Minnozz·29d ago
When he first arrived in his new home in a small village in the Italian Alps in March 2022, 15-year-old Denys* says he felt homesick and confused.
‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life
The Guardianby Charlotte Jansen·29d ago
‘I’ve been very promiscuous,” Sunil Gupta says, reflecting on his experiments with photography since the 1970s.
Saudi Arabia warns of ‘red line’ after Houthi drone intercepted close to holy city of Mecca
The Guardianby Agencies·29d ago
Saudi Arabia’s air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca on Tuesday before it entered prohibited airspace over the holy city, according to a spokesperson for the...
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
The Guardianby Guardian staff reporter·29d ago
Irma puts on her heavy rubber boots as she prepares for a volunteer firefighting shift in her village of Sungai Putri, on the Indonesian side of Borneo island.
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