Vladimir Putin Signs Law Banning Gender Changes In Russia – Legislation outlaws medical interventions ‘aimed at changing the sex of a person’ and altering gender details in public records. [guardian]

ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber & Dumber As The Days Go By – Dedicated researchers from Stanford and Berkeley dove into the mystery, comparing the performance of ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-3.5 from March to June this year. Their findings? A noticeable dip in accuracy and a spike in coding errors month after month. [news]

WATCH | ‘EFF Has Blood On Its Hands’: UCT Students Fume As Controversial Anti-Gay Academic’s Talk Goes Ahead – Staff, students, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community held protests at the University of Cape Town against a planned lecture by controversial academic, Professor Patrick Lumumba. [news24]

Obama’s Personal Chef Drowns While Paddleboarding Near Former President’s Martha’s Vineyard Estate – The man who drowned while paddleboarding on a pond outside the Obamas’ Martha’s Vineyard estate has been identified as the former first-family’s personal chef. [nypost]

That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming, Crying, And Throwing Up In A Mar-a-Lago Bathroom – On the same day that word came down racketeering charges are likely to come out of the Fulton County probe, Judge Aileen Cannon set a date for the classified-documents trial for well before the 2024 election. [vanityfair]

City’s Traffic Services Catch 16-Year-Old Cape Teen Driving Taxi Crammed With Pupils – Cape Town – A Toyota Condor, driven by a 16-year-old, was pulled aside. The vehicle had 16 pupils, including four squashed between the back seat and the door. [iol]

Britain’s First £1 Million Footballer Trevor Francis Dies Aged 69 – Trevor Francis, Britain’s first £1 million footballer, has died at the age of 69 from a heart attack, a family spokesperson said on Monday. [sapeople]