AI ethics in the headlines.

SEBI has imposed a Rs 1 crore penalty on CDSL for cybersecurity lapses linked to the November 2022 malware attack. The regulator found failures in critical asset classification, vulnerability testing, system monitoring, and disaster recovery, while dropping proceedings against the former CISO and CTO. The post SEBI imposes a Rs 1 crore penalty on CDSL for 2022 malware attack appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

These healthy habits benefit your whole body—including your brain—and may help contribute to lower dementia risk over time.

Growing up in Las Vegas, Hunter Manz took annual trips to nearby Lake Mead with his father. Each year, he watched the reservoir, Southern Nevada’s primary water source, recede further, sparking an early interest in water conservation. As a teenager, Manz began experimenting in his garage with potential solutions to water scarcity. He later enrolled at Utah Tech University, studying mechanical engineering and finance, and learned about desalination, which removes salt and other contaminants from

Ambient scribe developer Nabla said Brian Manning will be the Paris-based company's new CEO as it looks to grow in a highly competitive market.

La Comisión Europea ha multado a AliExpress con 550 millones de euros por permitir la venta de productos ilegales, inseguros y falsificados en su plataforma. Es la sanción más alta jamás impuesta bajo la Ley de Servicios Digitales (DSA) , la norma con la que Bruselas obliga a las grandes plataformas online a vigilar lo que se vende y se publica en ellas. La investigación, abierta en marzo de 2024, ha concluido que los sistemas de detección de AliExpress "no funcionaban correctamente": muchos pro

Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that made engineers feel as powerful as their bosses, all of whom dressed down in sneakers and

The UK utility company is investing $1.75bn in a developer focused on supplying power to data centres

At the launch of the State of Tech in Africa H1 2026 report, investors and founders got candid about why early-stage capital has dried up, what African venture capital owes the ecosystem, and where the next wave of growth is actually coming from.

Native, the agentic intelligence company building the operating system for offline trade, today announced it has acquired Frontline Research Group, a leading market intelligence business serving consumer goods companies across more than 14 African markets.

Weil ein Robotaxi Rauch ignoriert und sich einer Brandstelle genähert hat, ruft Zoox seine Fahrzeuge zurück. Laut einer Verkehrsbehörde war es kein Einzelfall.

Daimler-Truck-Chefin rechnet bei Elektro-Lkw mit kräftiger Konkurrenz aus China. Um wettbewerbsfähiger zu werden, sollen in Deutschland 5000 Jobs wegfallen.

While the court upheld the validity of the regulations, it agreed with one of WASPAN's central arguments: the FCCPC's consumer protection powers do not extend to licencing telecommunications operators.

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…

Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.

Even before massive staff cuts at the Department of Education, it could take years for officials to process a request under the Freedom of Information Act. But now, some offices that handled the hundreds of inquiries that pour in each month — from parents, reporters and watchdog groups — have either been eliminated or have […]

Remote job opportunities increased 28% during the first six months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, says Pnet.

My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap “There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “ Your AI?” I asked. He was 27, three months out of a breakup, and entirely aware that his AI relationship was, as the psychotherapist Esther Perel put it , “a business product”. Still, he confided in it more than he ever had his friends. I mention Jerome because, in the four years I’ve been reporting on gen Z, I have watc

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Technology leaders are very comfortable talking about productivity . We can discuss automation rates, developer velocity, cost curves, and defect rates with great confidence. We are less comfortable talking about mental strain, especially when the thing creating the tension is the very thing we are excited to adopt. Artificial intelligence agents will make that discomfort harder to avoid. Agents can write code, triage issues, research options, test hypotheses, and perform many of the tasks that

A second-year medical student in Nepal is at the center of an international research network churning out everything from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to case reports and database studies, Retraction Watch has learned. The student, Raghabendra Kumar Mahato, leverages this network, which includes nearly 1,000 members connected through the WhatsApp messaging platform, to produce large … Continue reading Exclusive: Medical student in Nepal behind busy research factory

Future major events can’t rely on yesterday's playbook. Lessons from the World Cup show why true cyber resilience starts months before kickoff and extends far beyond stadium perimeters. The post What the World Cup can teach us about cybersecurity resilience appeared first on CyberScoop .

The robots are expanding into healthcare, logistics, retail, hospitality and education as AI advances fuel global demand.

The political party says Johannesburg’s call centre going dark points to inadequate disaster recovery planning and poor ICT governance.

Here’s what to know about the latest trade policy by the U.S. against its neighbor.

A groundbreaking cross-border insurance policy covering a piloted aircraft has cleared a key regulatory obstacle, allowing the Shenzhen vehicle to take to the sky in Hong Kong. Shenzhen-based aircraft developer Yivtol recently obtained a policy for an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, underwritten in its home city but issued in neighbouring Hong Kong. With a total liability of HK$20 million (US$2.6 million) covering the one-year period ending in June 2027, this marks the..

Le « Q-Day » pourrait avoir lieu aux alentours de 2030-2035, même si actuellement les machines quantiques rencontrent de nombreuses limitations. Les pays et les services de renseignements se préparent car la guerre fait déjà rage sur les financements, les brevets et les ingérences avec des laboratoires de recherche sous surveillance. La Cour des comptes […]

China’s rapid move to stem a rout in its stock markets – through direct state buying and pledges of more stabilising measures – underscores the resolve of policymakers to protect the country’s high-stakes push for technology innovation and safeguard more than 200 million individual investors. Beijing’s intervention signals a regulatory intention to engineer a more durable and sustainable bull run on the nation’s US$15 trillion stock market, which is now counted on to support strategic tech...

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Expleo introduced ExpleoTeresa at a microfinance provider through a focused proof of concept, automating critical loan origination and disbursement journeys.

Digital healthcare technology can help transform community screening programmes into meaningful healthcare interventions.

The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperrealistic looking ads promise medical miracles, and appear to be targeting older women, while making misleading health claims for a profit.

For the past two years, companies have been trying to add AI to their processes. That sounded reasonable at first. Existing workflows, existing systems, existing data, existing dashboards — now with intelligence attached. Add a copilot here, an agent there, a few automated steps, a model connected to some tools, and wait for productivity to rise. But this approach is starting to reveal its limit: The problem isn’t that AI can’t act. It increasingly can. The problem is that most companies don’t h

A bipartisan group of senators is asking the Office of Federal Procurement Policy for a plan to implement a law now two years overdue. The post Senators sound alarm on unaddressed conflicts of interest in government contracting provision in FAR appeared first on FedScoop .

Terming the PIL alleging Delhi Police surveillance on Jantar Mantar protesters as "luxury litigation", the Solicitor General said, "every protest is always recorded" & it's only for "law and order" purpose not snooping. The post Delhi Police says Jantar Mantar protest videography is for law and order, not surveillance appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Xiaomi trained Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on more than 100,000 hours of motion data collected by people using camera-equipped handheld grippers rather than robots. Adding data improved performance far more than increasing model size. The gains haven't plateaued, though absolute success rates remain low. The article Xiaomi-Robotics-1 shows that more data beats bigger models when training robots to move appeared first on The Decoder .

Hugging Face a publié le 16 juillet 2026 une divulgation d’incident au sujet d’une intrusion dans une partie de son infrastructure de production. Selon l’entreprise, cette intrusion présentait une caractéristique inédite : elle a été pilotée de bout en bout par un système d’agent IA autonome. Au constat de cette intrusion, Hugging Face en a […]

There’s a clear consensus that America hollowed out its critical minerals base. How to rebuild it is less settled. Alex Grant of Magrathea Metals and Wes Spurlock of Principal Mineral join Jonathan to discuss the processing technology, labor force, and how government can catalyze private capital investment in the sector rather than replace it.Image: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission via Wikimedia Commons. The post Rebuilding America’s Critical Minerals Base appeared first on War on the Rocks .

Xfce is a Linux desktop environment that is great at giving old machines new life. Two major distributions present this desktop differently. So, which is best?

BrainCo, a Hangzhou brain-computer interface developer, demonstrated a brain-controlled robot platform at WAIC 2026. The system uses an EEG headset to translate a user’s neural signals into commands for machines. The company says the platform can connect to humanoid robots, robotic arms and robot dogs. It is designed to translate imagined actions into physical operations […]

XPENG has published TuringViT, a vision encoder for vision-language and vision-language-action models used in smart driving, smart cockpit systems and its IRON humanoid robot program. XPENG offers TuringViT-18L and TuringViT-24L. At 1536×1536 resolution, the company says TuringViT-18L reached 3.04 times the throughput of Seed1.5-ViT and 2.16 times that of SigLIP2-ViT-L. XPENG says the model was […]