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After AI chatbot Grok enabled users to create a barrage of sexual deepfakes and morphed photos earlier this year, a proposed class action lawsuit in the U.S. saw five people claiming that their lives have been shattered as a result of child abuse material

Proteins are important diagnostic targets because they are involved in almost every biological process; over the last two decades, scientists have developed aptamers for hundreds of disease-relevant proteins and have become the recognition element of choice in advanced biosensor designs

A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems for layoffs

The Roscosmos spacecraft carrying Anil Menon and Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from Baikonur at 8:17 pm IST on Tuesday (July 14, 2026) just as the orbital laboratory flew over the cosmodrome

What happens to the crew and service modules during descent?

The systems that are gaining real adoption are the ones that are transparent about what they do, that keep the doctor in charge of every decision, and that treat a patients information with the seriousness it deserves

Meta has spent years telling the public that better automation and more advanced models will make its platforms safer. But a detection system only catches what its been built to catch.

India must focus on creating affordable, globally competitive solutions that benefit millions. Indias procurement policy, which favours lowest bidder over innovation, has emerged as the biggest barriers to technological advancement and indigenous innovation.

New York will block new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid

According to the study, while roughly two-thirds of Indias young workforce are AI-proficient, only 23% qualify as AI-native

The data exposed include UAN with the EPFO, LPG cylinder booking details with at least one major oil marketing company, and Aadhaar numbers across several services where a users ID details are saved

Environmentalist calls for afforestation in Karnataka to mitigate rising temperatures

The astronaut speaks about his learnings in space, the importance of science communication, and the space habits he holds onto

The research team, from across China, achieved this using a metal-organic framework, work on which won the Nobel Prize for chemistry last year

The heavily criticised AI feature was announced along with the introduction of Muse Image, which was the first AI image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs

Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute

Erendil-1 named for a character in the Tolkien fantasy epic The Silmarillion will be a single satellite in a non-geostationary orbit

Governments should regulate social media platforms, not users

Muse Image, introduced earlier in the week, was the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and is available in Meta AI

The Ministry is reviewing the companys response, a senior official said

To expand computing infrastructure, Meta has secured long-term, multi-year supply agreements, the memo showed

The caller ID apps developers have argued that users are reporting massive amounts of spam from the supposedly authorised 140 and 160 series of phone numbers for telemarketers and banks.

The parrot bornavirus 4, circulating among captive birds, has raised fresh concerns for aviculture and conservation efforts involving threatened parrot species

The authority said Meta likely abused its dominant position, and it ordered the Facebook owner to put forward details of its payment plan within 15 days

SpaceXAI said Grok 4.5 was trained across tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 graphics processing units

Avast ye! Dust off that black flag and practise singing your sea shanties because Assassins Creed: Black Flag is back as Resynced, the same game you loved, now with eye-popping visuals

Huaweis hold on the market is already weakening as tech rivals Alibaba and Baidu develop their own AI chips and gain market share

British Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a separate case, in coordination with the families, and had retained lawyers both in Canada and California

Leucine offers both protection and more energy to cells and organs

Meta said it was categorically inaccurate to suggest that it knowingly and deliberately targets ads featuring children to people based on an inappropriate interest

Previous studies had tried to answer this question using simplified climate models, finding the biospheres twilight could occur in 100 million to 900 million years

Ever searched for something once and then seen it everywhere online? It can feel like social media is reading your mind, but the real explanation is even more fascinating.

The scanning is being done by CISAs Attack Surface Evaluation team, according to one of the sources

Learn more about the notice issued by the Union government to Meta for disabling the advertisements and content on Instagram that allegedly promote or facilitate access to CSEAM

On July 6, Skyroot Aerospace announced that Indias first privately developed orbital-class rocket will be carrying six payloads

As more powerful telescopes allow us to see further back in time, galaxies and other cosmic objects have turned out to be far bigger than had been thought possible at such an early age

As the Large Hadron Collider switches off its beams for a four-year overhaul, the question is no longer what it has found but whether anything bigger is worth building

Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute

What is the username feature that WhatsApp intends to roll out? How does it work and what privacy safeguards are built into it? Why is the Indian government asking WhatsApp to stop its roll-out? Can the government dictate an apps features?

The sectors AI hiring rose 16% year-on-year in June, while overall IT jobs declined 3%, according to job portal Naukris monthly JobSpeak report

The legal dispute embroiling GoDaddy and others was triggered by more than 20 companies that sought the courts intervention on fake websites damaging their brand

As Amazons annual Prime Day comes up, be on the alert for delivery scams targeting you or those you live with

Indias first privately developed orbital-class rocket is all set for its maiden launch

The Vikram-1 launch vehicle is Indias first privately developed orbital-class rocket designed to carry small satellites weighing up to 350 kg to Low Earth Orbit

Despite strong growth in its cloud business, Microsoft has disappointed markets and its shares have shed nearly a quarter of their value since January

Space oncology is a rapidly emerging field, investigating how microgravity and cosmic radiation impact cancer progression and treatment. Space-based environments are studied to accelerate tumour modelling and drug discovery

Mark Zuckerberg added that a company reorganisation that included major job cuts was not as clean as it could have been

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