Israel fired rockets at a car, killing two al-Jazeera journalists in it. Al-Jazeera accuses Israel of intentionally targeting them.

I wonder, how many people were in that car, and what were they doing?

*Artificial intelligence could supercharge threats to civil liberties, civil rights, and privacy.*

*Programs aimed at "situational awareness," like those run by many parts of DHS or police departments preparing for public events, tend to have few safeguards. They often veer into monitoring social and political movements,*

When the authors say "Artificial Intelligence," that includes degenerative systems such as bullshit generators. Spying uses them to converse with people, pretending to be human beings.

Israel still claims it will totally eliminate HAMAS and free the hostages it took, saying that this will require an additional year of fighting.

I don't think it is possible to achieve both of those goals -- they are essentially incompatible. Also, I wonder what fraction of the Palestinian population of Gaza could remain alive after such fighting, with the deadly hunger and thirst which Israel imposes there. I expect it would be much less than 50%.

At some point soon, the US must say to Netanyahu, "We can't let you go on this way."

*The reason for these cynical [Tory] power grabs: the weaker the Tories become, the stronger they need to appear.*

Emissions from the motor sector could have fallen by more than 30% between 2010 and 2022 if vehicles had stayed the same size,* if people had not switched to buying SUVs instead of regular size cars.