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The Indian government has confidentially ordered companies including Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi to preload their phones with an app called Sanchar Saathi

While DeepSeek-V3.2 is designed as an AI assistant for reasoning on par with GPT-5, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is for more complex tasks and is comparable with the Gemini-3.0-Pro

This is not a user-chosen convenience layer but state-mandated software that can, even if unintentionally, create pathways for monitoring which device belongs to whom, how devices move, when they are active or inactive, and how they interact with telecom networks

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of Communications, said in Parliament that the Sanchar Saathi app could be deleted by users, and was optional

Earlier on X, Mr. Tan had pointed to an article on Mr. Vembus suspicions around the hype of vibe coding

OpenAI hasn't publicly acknowledged it is working on selling ads, but it is testing different types of ads, including those related to online shopping, the report said, citing a person with knowledge of its plans

The deal, unveiled by the companies on Monday, comes as Nvidia has carried out a range of investments, such as those in OpenAI and Anthropic

Apple last month challenged Indias antitrust penalty law which allows the regulator to use global turnover when calculating the penalties

Those in favour of the world-first December 10 ban point to a growing mass of studies that suggest too much time online takes a toll on teen wellbeing

The companies on Monday said they will also launch a new artificial intelligence program to help enterprises in various industries, including financial services, healthcare and retail adopt AI-powered workflows

Australia currently has no specific AI laws though the centre-left Labor government last year signalled it would introduce voluntary guidelines

Netflix has made a mostly cash offer to buy TV and film group Warner Bros Discovery as the storied yet debt-laden Hollywood studio presses on with a sale

What are the two different types of bioremediation? How is traditional microbiology combined with cutting-edge biotechnology? Has the government initiated schemes to further bioremediation programmes? What are some of the challenges the country faces with respect to adoption of such technologies?

As the human presence in the solar system expands, energy will become critical and energy sources will become strategic

The move is meant to safeguard the citizens from buying the non-genuine handsets, enabling easy reporting of suspected misuse of telecom resources and to increase effectiveness of the Sanchar Saathi initiative

Under the pact, HSBC will deploy Mistral's commercial models and future upgrades on a self-hosted basis, combining its internal tech muscle with Mistral's model building

The new service is being unveiled a little over a month after an Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 disrupted thousands of websites worldwide

Iberia said the compromised information included names, loyalty card membership and contact details, but no passwords nor bank card information

Major retail chains and tech companies are offering new or updated artificial intelligence tools in time for the holiday shopping season

The expansion of its plant in Hiroshima will help Micron diversify production away from Taiwan and compete with market leader SK Hynix, the Nikkei said

Even though science tells us we are on track for catastrophic 2.5-3C warming by centurys end, in the back of our minds we think maybe its going to be fine, says RachitDubey, assistant professor, University of California

Australia-based users under the age of 16 will be banned from Metas social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from December 10

Where other pathogens bent to human ingenuity, HIV forced us to rethink everything: diagnosis, therapy, prevention, even the limits of biomedical ambition

He also said there are only a few countries that have done what India has achieved already and that there are even fewer doing what India is planning to

The industry has changed significantly in recent years as billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has risen to dominate space launches

Thorniness in bamboo is a defence against herbivores

The new findings add depth to a poorly understood period of human evolution

Embedding cybersecurity practices into daily routines transforms them from mandatory policies into shared values embraced by the community

Data science is not just about building models; it is about solving real-world problems, which requires more than just coding skills

On November 30, 1858, American tinkerer John Landis Mason received a patent for what went on to be the Mason jar. Even though Mason never gained personally from it, the jar that bears his name revolutionised home-food preservation. A.S.Ganesh hands you a jar full of details

In a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister, the Scientists for Genetic Diversity group said the proposal allows multinational enterprises to gain unfettered control over the vital genetic resources of the Global South

On November 27, the launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket damaged the cosmodrome and forced authorities to suspend crewed operations

During a podcast episode with Logan Kilpatrick from Google DeepMind, CEO Sundar Pichai expressed excitement about vibe coding but also stressed on the need for experts to handle the security and accuracy of code

The move by Baidu, which runs Chinas largest search engine, comes shortly after it reported a third-quarter loss on November 18

Online spending rose 9.4% through 6:30 p.m. ET (1130 GMT) on Black Friday compared with last year, according to Adobe Inc.s data and insights arm

During a company event, Instagram announced Meta AI voice translations in five Indian languages, as well as Indian fonts on Edits

Sennheiser HDB 630 comes with the BTD 700 Hi-Res Bluetooth dongle, compatible with high-res audio devices.

Realme C85 runs on an octa core MediaTek Dimensity 6300 5G chipset paired with up to 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. It operates on Realme UI 6.0 based on Android 15

We have not been in touch with the attacker, CEO Atsushi Katsuki told a news conference as the company again delayed the release of financial results

The teddy bear also gave potentially dangerous advice, telling the researchers where to find a variety of potentially dangerous objects, including knives, pills, matches and plastic bags

A study in Melbourne has found feminising hormone therapy reshapes blood proteins in transgender women, aligning them with cisgender patterns; the findings flag possible long-term health risks and underscore the need for more inclusive research

Previously, users would have to go to the Voice Mode option under Settings and select Separate mode, to use the voice option

16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide in April, with his family alleging that ChatGPT acted as his suicide coach instead of pushing him to seek emergency help when he wanted to harm himself

Canberra's eSafety said the sites had received over 100,000 visits from Australia and had been linked to a number of high-profile cases of AI-generated child sexual exploitation material of students at local schools

Apple denied all wrongdoing, and the CCI is yet to make a final decision in the case, including about any penalty

New brain atlases combine several advanced mapping methods to trace how neurons and glia form, migrate, and diversify across time and species, turning static brain charts into a dynamic developmental reference

India had the wherewithal in the previous decade to help crack an important scientific mystery, but now China has surged ahead

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