WHATSAPP INTRODUCES LIVE PHOTOS AND NEW FEATURES

Tue 30 September 2025: WhatsApp has announced new features aimed at enhancing the user experience. iOS users can now send Live Photos, and Android users can send Motion Photos. This functionality allows users to send photos that include sound and movement. The update also includes several key additions: Personalized Themes: Users can now create personalized chat themes and video call […]

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YOU’RE LIKELY NOT AS IMMUNE TO SCAMS AS YOU THINK – HERE’S WHY

 The Conjurer, c. 1502. Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch Tue 30 September 2025: What do Tiger Woods, Ben Stiller, Australian pensioners and dating app users have in common? Despite being from different walks of life, they have all fallen prey to various scams. In 2024, more than A$2.03 billion was lost to scams in Australia across 494,732 reported cases. Most of these scams were […]

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EU TO DEVELOP ‘DRONE WALL’ AMID REGIONAL AIRSPACE VIOLATIONS

Sun 28 September 2025: Announcement comes after European bloc blamed Russia for violating Polish airspace in drone incursion earlier this month. European Union defence ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to detect, track and intercept violations of their airspace, according to the bloc’s defence chief. Friday’s […]

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NEW AI TOOL PREDICTS RISK OF OVER 1,000 DISEASES IN ADVANCE: REPORT

Sat 27 September 2025: A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool is capable of predicting an individual’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, in some instances projecting outcomes decades into the future, according to a recent study published on Wednesday. The study, published in the scientific journal Nature, revealed that a modified language model called Delphi-2M […]

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SCAMS AND FRAUDS: HERE ARE THE TACTICS CRIMINALS USE ON YOU IN THE AGE OF AI AND CRYPTOCURRENCIES

Fri 26 September 2025: Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes are the tools. Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt to whatever technologies or trends dominate the moment. In 2025, that means AI, cryptocurrencies and stolen personal data are their weapons of choice. […]

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CANADA ACCUSES TIKTOK OF HARVESTING SENSITIVE DATA FROM KIDS

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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NASA VONFIRMS 6,000 EXOPLANETS, EXPANDING SEARCH FOR EARTH-LIKE WORLDS

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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CHATGPT CAN BYPASS SAFEGUARDS, GIVE HARMFUL ADVICE TO CHILDREN: STUDY

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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