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GuardianOct 1Preview

Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy

Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy securityOf all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist.Trump is the “greatest gift” to the environmental movement, argued Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, due to the fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran. Continue reading...

Oliver MilmanDonald TrumpGavin Newsom

Al JazeeraOct 1Preview

Portugal coach responds after Ronaldo leaves camp

Portugal coach Jorge Jesus said he stands by his decision not to play Cristiano Ronaldo after he left the team camp.

Sport

Al JazeeraOct 1Preview

Why did Ronaldo leave Portugal’s training camp, and will he play again?

Cristiano Ronaldo left after Portugal head coach Jorge Jesus held a news conference. Al Jazeera explains what happened.

Sport

NYTOct 1Preview

New York Times Reporting Through a Front Page That Never Published and More

Times reporters and editors discuss items that have shaped our coverage, including Dean Baquet on the “Madam President” front page that never was.

Henry LeutwylerNew York TimesNews and News Media

GuardianOct 1Preview

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States revealsAmid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on brittle chatbots almost brought the US into war with China – went mostly unnoticed by the public.The biggest international AI news of the past three weeks was Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon’s resignation. According to him, OpenAI and Anthropic are “racing straight towards self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. Coxon’s description of a “terminator” scenario, a machine becoming much smarter than humanity and deciding to wipe us out, captured the public, journalists’ and politicians’ attention, stirring waves of fear-inducing, credulous reporting, and policy actio

Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderAI (artificial intelligence)Computing

Al JazeeraOct 1Preview

Photos: Kashmir’s Dal Lake faces environmental and climate challenges

Dal Lake’s fragile ecosystem is deteriorating amid pollution, unregulated construction and climate change in Kashmir.

News

GuardianOct 1Preview

‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong

In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthroughWith your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property next to the home of an AfD politician. Now you’ve written a history book about the Nazis’ rise to power. Don’t we already know everything there is to know about the 1932 elections, the Reichstag fire and the Enabling Act of 1933?About three years ago I became interested in how Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ party (NSDAP) rose to prominence when Germany was still a democracy, because I hoped it could tell us something about the success of rightwing extremist movements today. From looking at historical sources, I realised that the Reichstag elections of 1

Philip OltermannEuropeHistory books

GuardianSep 30Preview

Cristiano Ronaldo walks out on Portugal after being dropped from starting lineup

Jorge Jesus earlier said captain would again be a subThe 41-year-old has trained alone in gym since weekendThe Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, announced on Wednesday that he had left the team’s training camp in Denmark after head coach Jorge Jesus told reporters that the iconic striker would not start their next match.Ronaldo had been due to train with his teammates at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen on Wednesday but left abruptly after Jesus’s press conference. The veteran coach had said that Ronaldo, who spent the entire match on the bench against Norway on Sunday, would not start Thursday’s Nations League clash away to Denmark either. Continue reading...

Agence France-PresseCristiano RonaldoPortugal

BBCSep 30Preview

Ronaldo leaves Portugal camp after coach denies rift

Cristiano Ronaldo says he has left Portugal's international camp and will explain why "in time", hours after head coach Jorge Jesus denied any rift with the player.

NYTSep 30Preview

How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea

They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.

Maria Varenikova and Nicholas KulishRussian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)Drones (Pilotless Planes)

GuardianSep 30Preview

MI5 warns UK universities over ‘theft of tech secrets by Chinese front company’

Security service says academics should stop working with and taking grants from firm backed by Chinese intelligenceMI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universitiesMI5 has issued a rare public warning to UK universities that China’s intelligence service is using a front company to pay for research by UK academics and steal the secrets of hi-tech projects.Britain’s domestic security service said researchers and academics should cease work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), sometimes also known as the China Academy of General Technology (CAGT).Additional reporting by Helena Horton Continue reading...

Vikram Dodd, Sally Weale, Simon Goodley and Richard AdamsUK security and counter-terrorismMI5