Wed 24 September 2025: A Canadian probe revealed that TikTok, a social media app with numerous underage users in Canada, did not adequately enforce age limits and gathered substantial sensitive personal information from children. The Canadian government on Tuesday published its report on TikTok amid ongoing debates in the US over whether the app should […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: NASA announced that the number of confirmed exoplanets discovered beyond the Solar System has reached 6,000. This milestone marks the highest level reached by rapidly advancing exoplanet research since the 1990s. In 1992, two planets were discovered orbiting a pulsar for the first time, and in 1995, the first exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star […]
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Sun 17 August 2025: US-based OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT’s lack of ethical safeguards poses serious risks to young people, a new report has found, as concerns mount over the safety of AI-powered chatbots. The British-American watchdog Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in an Aug. 6 report that ChatGPT gave harmful information […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: Imagine a busy train station. Cameras monitor everything, from how clean the platforms are to whether a docking bay is empty or occupied. These cameras feed into an AI system that helps manage station operations and sends signals to incoming trains, letting them know when they can enter the station. The […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: The challenge brought on by the trade group alleges that the age verification law is a violation of free speech The United States Supreme Court has declined to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent. The […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Japan will use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to teach the Japanese language to children with foreign roots. The move comes amid a shortage of teachers who can speak languages such as Portuguese, Chinese, and Spanish, Kyodo News reported on Thursday. Guidelines are expected to be prepared to use AI to adopt […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: A criminal hacker group has obtained the personal data of tens of thousands of holidaymakers from Italian hotels, collected from ID documents required at check-in. The group, called Mydocs, has been offering around 70,000 documents for sale online in recent days, Italian police said on Wednesday. The breach affected high-end hotels in cities such […]
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Wed 13 August 2025: Germany‘s nationwide unidentified flying object (UFO) reporting centre received many calls after lights were seen in the morning sky that were said to resemble “pairs of drones, car headlights in the sky and stars that do not exist.” “Many people have called excitedly or written emails,” the head of the UFO […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an audition, where he was abducted by criminals and taken to a scam centre in Myanmar. Wang was reported missing and, within […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: The acting chief of US space agency NASA is reportedly set to unveil a directive this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, in a bid to boost US space dominance amid growing competition from China and Russia. According to internal documents obtained by Politico, NASA will seek proposals from private industry […]
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