Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

Run by a social enterprise, the six shops operate from shipping containers across Johannesburg’s Alexandra township and sell food and household goods by weight in small, affordable amounts

Elite schools in the UK are bound to the history of British colonialism. This paper examines the material ties between these schools and the transatlantic slave trade. We combine multiple sources t...

Consumer watchdog Which? set up and accepted payment for fake listing for ‘1 bed apartment in heart of London’ Successive politicians have clawed their way past colleagues over the years to call the residence home. Yet in an offer that probably seemed too good to be true, the property site Booking.com has been accused of “systemic security failures” after it was able to set up and accept payment for a fake listing for 10 Downing Street. A property listed as a “1 bedroom apartment in the heart of London” – with the exact address and a picture of the prime minister’s home – was listed on 18 June by researchers from the consumer watchdog Which?. Continue reading...

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

The Guardian borrowed freely from attack lines against Jason carried by the Mail, Times, Telegraph and elsewhere, says Jo Maugham

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified