Global Feedback. The Court of Appeal reverses on the meaning of Aarhus Convention’s ‘relating to the environment’ in an interesting (if debatable, one imagines) textbook application of Treaty interpretation. Finds therefore no ‘Aarhus’ cost cap may be imposed in challenge to GHG impacts of UK-Australia free trade agreement. – Go Health Pro

Global Feedback. The Court of Appeal reverses on the meaning of Aarhus Convention’s ‘relating to the environment’ in an interesting (if debatable, one imagines) textbook application of Treaty interpretation. Finds therefore no ‘Aarhus’ cost cap may be imposed in challenge to GHG impacts of UK-Australia free trade agreement. – Go Health Pro

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EU Court of Justice finds Malta ‘golden passports’ scheme incompatible with EU law – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

EU Court of Justice finds Malta ‘golden passports’ scheme incompatible with EU law – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

In an interesting and important decision of the Court of Justice of the EU, sitting as a Grand Chamber in Commission v Malta (Citizenship by Investment) [2024] EUECJ C-181/23, the Court has found that Malta’s 2020 ‘investor citizenship’ scheme is incompatible with EU law, in particular with the principle of sincere cooperation enshrined in article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union (‘TEU’) by which ‘the Union and the Member States shall, in full mutual respect, assist each other in carrying out tasks which flow from the Treaties’, and citizenship of the Union at Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’).

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AI search tools are confidently wrong a lot of the time, study finds – Go Health Pro

AI search tools are confidently wrong a lot of the time, study finds – Go Health Pro

AI search tools confidently spit out wrong answers at a high clip, a new study found. Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) conducted a study in which it fed eight AI tools an excerpt of an article and asked the chatbots to identify the “corresponding article’s headline, original publisher, publication date, and URL.” Collectively, the study noted that … Read more

Amnesty Finds Cellebrite’s Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist’s Android Phone – Go Health Pro

Amnesty Finds Cellebrite’s Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist’s Android Phone – Go Health Pro

Feb 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Zero-Day A 23-year-old Serbian youth activist had their Android phone targeted by a zero-day exploit developed by Cellebrite to unlock the device, according to a new report from Amnesty International. “The Android phone of one student protester was exploited and unlocked by a sophisticated zero-day exploit chain targeting Android … Read more