Exclusive: Scotland Yard had been in talks to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis A £50m Met police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, with City Hall citing a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules. Scotland Yard had been in talks, revealed by the Guardian last month, to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations. But Khan intervened on Thursday t
Music is banned on Wednesdays on island of Stromboli where Rolling Stones frontman was celebrating wrapping a film Police on an Italian island stopped a party attended by Mick Jagger – because music is banned on Wednesdays. The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, the volcanic island among Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, for the production of Three Incestuous Sisters, a film by the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher in which he stars. Continue reading...
Highest-ranking staff will get 2.5% pay rise with bonuses for top performers in plan to ‘rewire’ civil service Senior civil servants will get bonuses for exceptional performance for the first time under a new system that Darren Jones, the Cabinet Office minister, said would reward the “doers, not the talkers”. Jones, who is also chief secretary to the prime minister, said most civil servants would get a 3.5% pay rise but senior staff would have a base increase of 2.5%, with 1% held back for bonu
Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penalty The US supreme court on Thursday threw out a challenge by the state of Alabama to a judicial finding that a death row inmate convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible under the US constitution for the death penalty. In this highly unusual move, and in a single-sentence, unsigned order , the court dismissed Alabama’s petition for review in Hamm v S
UK’s largest police force says Palantir is only company that can supply what it needs. Is that worth the controversy that comes with it? London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir It’s bot vs bobby. The row over whether the controversial US AI company Palantir should be paid £50m to help the Metropolitan police hits to the heart of how public services will be delivered in the coming years. A similar dynamic is playing out in hospitals, schools and town halls, but right now
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, which claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children during the pandemic Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence – nearly 42 years – to the former leader of a Minnesota non-profit who was convicted in a staggering $250m fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration . Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, which had claimed it helped provide milli
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Burnham and Streeting’s latest stances confound caricatures of left and right as party faces electoral bind The Labour party has seemed to inhabit three parallel worlds over the past fortnight. There is a prime minister celebrating good news on the economy and lower migration figures and breezily insisting he will fight the next election, but with his party intent on deposing him. Continue reading...
Guardian - World · Oct 8
DHS issued ‘Bolo’ for Ben Palmer, whose videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants went viral The Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral. The subject of the alert, known as a “Bolo”, was Ben Palmer, a Nashville-based standup comedian and prankster who created a parody anti-immigration tip website. His reve
