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Published on 05/08/2026 – 11:25 GMT+2 AI music generator Suno, which allows users to generate songs via prompts, has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit to German licensing agency GEMA. In the January 2025 filing, GEMA argued that Suno was using songs to train its AI models without obtaining any licenses or paying the artists. The decision, handed down on Friday 31 July by the Munich Regional Court, ruled that Suno’s use of the songs was in breach of both the German and US copyright law, and that the AI platform unlawfully obtained, processed and reproduced music that was represented by…

Giorgetti said Italy will request to spend an additional 0.6 percent of gross domestic product on green energy investments and 0.9 percent on defense — the full amount that is envisaged under the new fiscal guidelines. The additional defense spending will “include both new multi-year investment programs and proposals to reallocate resources already provided for under current legislation,” Giorgetti told MPs. Italy’s parliament is expected to approve Giorgetti’s request to the Commission on Wednesday. The extra flexibility is aimed at reducing dependence on fossil fuels and moving toward NATO’s target to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense. With 2 percent…

Guatemala remained on high alert Tuesday after evacuating hundreds of people following an eruption of the Fuego volcano, one of Central America’s most active. The disaster management agency CONRED said 659 people were evacuated from eight villages and moved to nearby shelters, with about 10 more communities expected to be evacuated. Authorities raised the alert level to red. Footage showed a lava fountain nearly 500 meters high and pyroclastic flows in multiple ravines, officials said. A major highway near the volcano was closed and classes suspended in nearby towns. A 2018 eruption of Fuego killed hundreds and destroyed a village,…

Four moves would help Europe accelerate. The first is multi-speed procurement. Software-led systems such as drones and targeting improve in rapid cycles throughout their deployment and need procurement that can keep up. Israel’s Iron Dome started out as far less capable than it is today and improved continuously in service. European defense ministries have already set up high-speed procurement units with dedicated teams and greater risk tolerance. These need to become mainstream, rather than the exception. Collaboration in procurement, maintenance and training brings costs down and delivery forward. The second is military collaboration to reduce fragmentation. Collaboration in procurement, maintenance…

Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed at least 15 people and wounded 42 overnight into Wednesday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. Footage showed firefighters battling large warehouse blazes in Brovary and the villages of Velyka Dymerka, Kvitneve and Peremoha, with smoke and flames engulfing burnt-out structures. In Kyiv, crews extinguished fires in four districts after one person was killed. The Kyiv region suffered the heaviest toll, with 14 deaths and 27 injuries. Crews also put out fires at logistics sites in Bucha district and a vehicle blaze in Fastiv.

Published on 05/08/2026 – 9:06 GMT+2 A boed i’r Grym fod gyda chi. That’s what many Welsh Star Wars fans will be saying instead of “May the Force be with you” later this year. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Star Wars film, Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), and to celebrate the milestone, the iconic sci-fi adventure has been dubbed into the Welsh language – Cymraeg – for the very first time. The new translation marks a collaboration with Welsh language broadcaster S4C and the Welsh Government. Lucasfilm co-president Lynwen Brennan, who was born and raised…

A 52‑year‑old vegetable seller in Kherson has described how a Russian drone pursued him around his market van before detonating beside him. An attack captured on National Police CCTV cameras was described by Ukrainian officials as a wider pattern of “human safari” strikes on civilians. Yuriy says the day began like any other. He and his wife drove in to set up their stall, parking their van at a farmers’ market. “We had just started laying out the vegetables. I had only set up the umbrellas and begun taking the crates out. My wife was there too,” the 52‑year‑old said…

As soon as I arrived, I learnt that a demonstration against the government had just been called, and I made arrangements to go and film it. By then, it made no difference that the Interior Ministry was insisting that almost all the migrants had returned to Morocco. To the chants of “Ceuta is not for sale”, “Pedro Sánchez, resign!” and “Ceuta, united, will never be defeated!”, those present said they felt abandoned, humiliated and betrayed. “This cannot be, Spain cannot have such a useless intelligence service that it has no idea what is going on in Ceuta,” one woman told…

Hundreds of people living on the slopes of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano evacuated their homes throughout Tuesday after a huge eruption spewed lava and plumes of ash. Emergency services issued a red alert, the most severe warning, after Central America’s most active volcano erupted on Monday morning, with conditions intensifying by nightfall. Rivers of lava streamed down the 3,763-metre volcano located less than 100 kilometres from Guatemala City, while ash rose some six kilometres into the sky. “Since early morning it was active. That night, the alarm was raised that we needed to evacuate,” local resident Alejandro Garcia told the AFP…

PARIS — Entre ses interventions et interviews données à intervalles réguliers et sa récente lettre aux Français, Bernard Cazeneuve, pas encore officiellement candidat, avance ses pions petit à petit dans la campagne présidentielle. En matière d’énergie, notamment, l’ancien Premier ministre compte faire entendre une voix singulière à gauche. La décarbonation n’est “pas une option” pour celui qui, comme tous ses concurrents, érige la souveraineté énergétique en objectif prioritaire et pense qu’il faut électrifier la France pour résoudre le problème de surproduction d’électricité. Il défend une “économie décarbonée qui ne soit pas une écologie punitive”, décrypte son entourage. Sauf que Bernard…