Unregulated e-bikes are a growing danger on American streets. In one Bay Area town, a terrible accident finally led to reform.

OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on popular songs without permission A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling. The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany’s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to “learn” from them. Continue reading...

DNA particles are programmed to assemble with precision into complex lattices

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Ministers and medical groups have acted quickly to limit fallout after US president made unproven link between paracetamol and autism

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Small study suggests uniQure drug could be first successful treatment for devastating brain disorder

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Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas The heads of UK physics departments say their subject is facing a national crisis as one in four warns that their university departments are in danger of closing because of funding pressures. In an anonymous survey of department heads by the Institute of Physics (IoP), 26% said they faced potential closure of their department within the next two years, while 60% said they expected courses to be reduced. Continue reading...

Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.

Nature - Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.

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Photographer Ray Giubilo’s half terrifying, half sublime one-in-a-million image of Jasmine Paolini had more than an element of fortune to it

Israel aprobó nuevos asentamientos en la Cisjordania ocupada, y sus soldados llegaron a las afueras de la ciudad de Gaza. Las medidas plantean dudas sobre la viabilidad de una propuesta de alto al fuego.