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• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese introduced "my feed, my way" rules to allow social media users to opt in or out of platform algorithms. • The digital duty of care bill requires tech companies to protect children from harmful material, including pornography and content promoting eating disorders. • These regulations give individuals direct control over how their social media feeds are curated rather than relying on automated platform decisions.

• Italian 10-year government bond yields are rising in tandem with European natural gas prices, creating a feedback loop where high energy costs drive inflation. • The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to hike interest rates at its next meeting and again by December to counter persistent inflation. • This situation is critical because rate hikes do not resolve energy supply shortages and may stifle demand within an already fragile European economy.

• Pyth is experiencing a price decline of 7.48%, trading at $0.047 today. • The downturn is driven by an API migration that has potentially compromised the stability of DeFi price feeds. • This technical shift is significant because it creates operational risks for decentralized finance protocols that rely on Pyth for accurate real-time data.

• The EU is implementing new "watermarking" rules to make artificially edited content and AI-generated selfies easier for users to identify. • Marianne Gros reports that the current EU framework for preventing "greenwashing" remains limited in its ability to stop companies from making false environmental claims. • Aitor Hernández-Morales notes that a series of overlapping crises are hitting Europe simultaneously, coinciding with a period when top officials were seeking respite.

• Trump Media has launched a new fast-access data feed service this month, with more than 10 firms already paying up to $100,000 per month for access. • The initiative is designed to create a "meaningful" and "durable" revenue stream to offset the company's recent quarterly losses. • This data service complements a broader media strategy that focuses on expanding digital assets and increasing advertising revenue.

Exclusive: Film-maker Gabar Choli describes how he endured coercive treatment over eight months in detention in TexasA Kurdish man who was force fed over the course of eight months while on hunger strike in US immigration detention has spoken out about it for the first time, describing how much the process harmed him physically and psychologically.Gabar Choli, a film-maker and activist now living in Canada after being deported, described how he endured the coercive treatment – a practice widely considered torture by international human rights groups – often twice a day after being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when his asylum application was denied. Continue reading...

Gabar Choli tells of how, for months, he was shackled, pinned and forcibly fed – and the physical and emotional scars the ordeal has leftIn June 2025, a sluggish and thin Gabar Choli, with sunken temples and bones visible under his skin, braced himself for the immigration detention center guards to charge into his cell once again.Choli was in a solitary confinement medical cell inside the Port Isabel service processing center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in south Texas where immigrants arrested in Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown are detained. Continue reading...

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representationOne hunger striker in an immigration detention center was force-fed for almost six months.One detained immigrant with mental health problems was about to be force-fed, until his attorney intervened and stopped the process.Read part one and part two of our Ice force-feeding series Continue reading...

Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show medical procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood drawsHomeland security officials under the Trump administration have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, a Guardian investigation has found.In 2025 and 2026, officials had definitely performed the procedures on at least three detained immigrants and likely subjected two more to the forced treatment – widely considered torture by human rights groups. The other five people gave in and broke their hunger strike at the last minute as force-feeding procedures loomed.One Kurdish asylum seeker and hunger striker detained at the privately-run Port Isabel service processing center in Los Fresnos, south Texas, was subjected to force-feeding for nearly eight months, according to a series of filings in the southern district of Texas federal court, beginning in May 2025 and ending only when he was deported.Another hunger striker at the same facility was subjected to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, for nearly six months between September 2025 and March 2026, filings in the same court show.Someone detained at the Krome service processing center in Miami, a privately-run ICE jail, was subjected to forced medical procedures for nearly three months, filings in the southern district of Florida federal court show. DHS seemingly began the forced practices three days before Trump’s 2025 inauguration for a second term, then continued.Two other hunger strikers, one at the Northwest ICE processing center in Washington state and another inside the Montgomery processing center on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, were likely subjected to forced medical procedures, according to filings in the western district of Washington and in the southern district of Texas federal courts.In at least five cases, hunger strikers detained in Texas, Arizona and Florida, ended their hunger strike right before officials began with the forced medical procedures, filings in the southern district of Texas, district of Arizona and southern district of Florida federal courts show.The forced procedures were performed inside the detention centers.In six cases reviewed by the Guardian, detained immigrants did not have any legal representation during the court proceedings granting the involuntary medical procedures.DHS and ICE have conducted these procedures throughout the years, regardless of which presidential administration is in power. In 2024, under Joe Biden, the Guardian found that DHS attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in ICE detention to forced medical treatment. It definitely proceeded with at least two people, and likely subjected at least four more people to them. However, since the return of Trump to the White House and the dramatic increase in immigration arrests and detention , medical experts and advocates worry more hunger strikes will occur and strikers will be subjected to the practices.Look out for Force-fed by ICE parts two and three in the coming days Continue reading...

• On April 9, 2025, Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on several new tariffs shortly after advising Truth Social followers that it was "a great time to buy." • The controversy centers on the "Truth API," a $1.2 million data feed that allows Wall Street firms to receive the president's market-moving announcements with minimal latency. • Critics argue this creates a systemic advantage for high-frequency traders, effectively allowing them to front-run policy shifts that impact the S&P 500 and digital assets.

• On April 9, 2025, Donald Trump launched a $1.2 million data feed via Truth API, providing high-speed access to his policy announcements. • The service allows Wall Street traders to potentially front-run market-moving news, such as Trump's recent announcement of a 90-day pause on several new tariffs. • Critics argue this creates a conflict of interest, as the president retains an economic stake in the vendor while generating the information that drives market volatility.

• Dyadic announced a collaboration on May 28, 2026, utilizing its C1 platform to enable fast and scalable biologic production based on research into Andes, Marburg, and Ebola viruses. • Simultaneously, a new company was launched following breakthrough discoveries published in *Science* by Moffitt Cancer Center scientists, focusing on AI-enabled chemoproteomics and covalent chemistry. • In a separate public health initiative dated July 23, 2026, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health partnered with OpenEvidence to provide physicians with localized health guidance.

• Starting next month, Netflix will begin streaming licensed short-form video content from prominent digital publishers, including BuzzFeed and Condé Nast. • The platform will host a variety of content from brands such as Variety and Architectural Digest, with video lengths ranging from 3 to 20 minutes. • This move represents a strategic shift for Netflix as it expands its library beyond original series and movies to include curated digital media.

• European industrial AI hubs are being deployed across Germany, Poland, and the broader Eurozone to drive a regional technological revolution. • This widespread implementation serves as a scalable blueprint for developing economies to modernize their own industrial processes. • Kenya's burgeoning manufacturing sector is specifically identified as a key beneficiary that can adopt these AI frameworks.

It’s a thumbs up from the country’s 3 million students, who can now buy cheap meals up to twice a dayWhere in France can you get a nutritious and balanced three-course meal for €1?If you are one of the country’s estimated 3 million students in higher education, the answer is: the university restaurant or cafe. Continue reading...

Births of the mammals extremely rare in captivity, say keepers, with ‘Womble’ only the second calf born at ChesterInside a heated incubator at Chester zoo, a wrinkled newborn aardvark nicknamed “Womble” spent its first weeks being bottle-fed milk through the night by keepers determined to keep the rare calf healthy.Named after the creatures in Elisabeth Beresford’s children’s books and the subsequent animated TV series, the nocturnal animal is only the second aardvark born at the zoo in its 94-year history. Keepers say births of the species are extremely rare in captivity, with the last aardvark calf born in the zoo in 2022. Continue reading...

• Dow Jones’ business-news feed surfaced multiple fresh U.S.-relevant market stories within the past hour, including a piece on “The Most Brutal Car Market Is Spreading to the Rest of the World” and a report that Elon Musk lost his case against OpenAI after jury deliberation. • Other prominently listed items include coverage of home prices and rates, with Kathie Lee Gifford seeking $100 million for her Connecticut waterfront home and Home Depot earnings due as mortgage rates hit a year-plus high. • The feed also flagged a bond-market warning for the Federal Reserve to act on inflation and potential rate hikes, underscoring how investors are still focused on policy direction and borrowing costs.

Never documented archaeologically before, evidence points to First Nations people caring for and nursing the animalGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe discovery of a millennium-old dingo burial site in western New South Wales, including evidence of a “feeding” ritual never before documented archaeologically, has shed new light on the longstanding relationship between the canines and First Nations people.The dingo was buried along the Baaka, or Darling River, in Kinchega national park near the Menindee Lakes. Continue reading...

Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suetGarden birds should not be fed seeds and nuts over the summer months, the RSPB has said, in an attempt to reduce the spread of avian diseases.Bird lovers are being urged to take down their bird feeders between May and October to help birds such as the greenfinch, whose numbers have plummeted after the spread of trichomonosis, a parasitic disease transmitted more easily when birds cluster around feeders in the warmer months. Continue reading...

Sacking of Simon Dudley is latest distraction at a time when party is keen to show it is serious contender for governmentIt was a week that started with a candid admission from Nigel Farage when asked if his party’s vetting process was now finally up to scratch. “I accept that at the last general election, basically there was no vetting really,” the Reform UK leader said after the latest of what a senior colleague had described as a “series of abhorrent incidents”.The latest had involved a Welsh Senedd candidate, Corey Edwards, who was forced to step down after a picture of him appearing to do a Nazi salute surfaced online. Continue reading...

Shipments to Russian smelters from Aughinish Alumina have increased sharply since the invasion of UkraineA leading Irish metals refinery is part of an international aluminium supply chain that appears to conclude with shipments to arms producers feeding the Kremlin’s war machine in Ukraine, leaked records and public data suggests.Trading records show that shipments to Russian smelters from Aughinish Alumina, which is located on the Shannon estuary in the west of Ireland and has been owned by the Russian aluminium group Rusal since 2006, have increased sharply since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading...