Native title win for Millewa-Mallee First Nations peoples in Victoria after decades-long fight pred 11 urami in 8 minutami Historic decision in Australia’s federal court gives traditional owners in state’s north-west the right to control access to their countrySign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news emailAfter a difficult journey spanning more than two decades, traditional owners say they’ve “weathered the storm” to finally have their native title rights recognised.The federal court on Friday awarded the historic native title determination to the Indigenous peoples of the Millewa-Mallee from north-west Victoria, for the first time granting exclusive native title rights in the state.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Serious pollution incidents by English water companies rose 60% last year pred 11 urami in 30 minutami Environment Agency records 75 serious incidents among total of 2,800, with Thames Water being worst offenderSerious pollution incidents by water companies were up 60% last year compared with the year before, data has revealed.These incidents are the most environmentally damaging and indicate that the sewage spill or other pollution incident has a serious, extensive or persistent impact on the environment, people or property. They could, for example, result in mass fish deaths in rivers. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Grant Shapps defends use of superinjunction to suppress Afghan data leak pred 11 urami in 54 minutami Shapps, defence secretary when the superinjunction was imposed, said its use was ‘entirely justified’ to save livesAfghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the ARR?The former defence secretary Grant Shapps has defended the use of an unprecedented superinjunction to suppress a data breach that led to the UK government relocating 15,000 Afghans.The Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) was created in haste after it emerged that personal information about 18,700 Afghans who had applied to come to the UK had been leaked in error by a British defence official in early 2022. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time pred 12 urami Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, in a move the streaming company’s boss said would make films and programmes cheaper and of better quality.Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The Eternaut) was the first it had made that involved using generative AI footage. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘Not true’ that Labour wants Diane Abbott out, minister says pred 12 urami in 45 minutami Exchequer secretary to the Treasury James Murray said it was ‘absolutely not the case’ that Number 10 had wanted Ms Abbott to out of the party.(London News)
