Delhi HC asks govt if it is contemplating policy to regulate addiction causing features on social media appsThe Delhi High Court sought the Centre's stance on regulating social media's addictive design elements. The court questioned if a policy is...
16 Sep, 2026, 02.27 PM IST
'Not the people I interviewed': Trump lashes out at Supreme Court after it blocks his mail ballot restrictions for the midtermsPresident Trump sharply criticized the Supreme Court after its ruling against his administration's voting restrictions. He expressed disapp...
15 Sep, 2026, 08.25 PM IST
Billions on the table: Senate crypto vote tests how far Trump's ethics concessions really goThe US Senate prepares for a crucial vote on a cryptocurrency regulation bill. Democrats are concerned the legislation inadequately address...
15 Sep, 2026, 07.28 PM IST
Who is Lucy Letby, and why does her case remain contested even as a UK inquiry blames hospital failures?A British inquiry found hospital managers failed to act sooner on concerns. This failure allowed nurse Lucy Letby to harm more infants in h...
15 Sep, 2026, 05.27 PM IST
Gates Foundation warns AI could widen inequality as foundation pledges $1B to expand accessAnd despite the United States' international aid cuts, Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said he would continue pressing Congress and Presid...
15 Sep, 2026, 10.18 AM IST
Meet Enos Mills, a teenager who built his own cabin near Colorado’s Longs Peak; decades later, he helped secure the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915Enos Abijah Mills developed a lifelong connection with the Rocky Mountains after moving from Kansas to Colorado as a teenager. Although he ...
15 Sep, 2026, 12.41 AM IST
Crypto's shopping hack; Centre eyes Meta child safeguardsIndians are buying groceries, fuel, food and gold via gift cards on overseas crypto platforms. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
11 Sep, 2026, 01.00 PM IST
California bans addictive social media features for under-16s, AI chatbot toysCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed technology laws protecting children online. These measures restrict social media features designed ...
11 Sep, 2026, 07.13 AM IST
Meta Muse: Why is this new AI agent raising privacy concerns?Meta introduced Muse, an AI assistant designed for task execution and personal assistance. This agent can send emails, book travel, and fil...
09 Sep, 2026, 01.21 PM IST
NCPCR summons Meta India chief over alleged child sexual abuse material adsIn response to alarming discoveries from a BBC investigation, the National Commission for Child Rights has called upon the leader of Meta I...
08 Sep, 2026, 09.39 PM IST
EBay probes how banned gender-test kits were available in India, listings removedEBay has launched an internal review of its safeguards after Reuters found gender-prediction kits being offered for delivery to India, wher...
08 Sep, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
Elon Musk's xAI loses court bid to block Minnesota's AI 'nudification' banU.S. District Judge Donovan Frank rejected xAI's request for a preliminary injunction against the law, which took effect on Aug. 1 and pro...
05 Sep, 2026, 10.00 AM IST
300 years later, archaeologists uncovered why this 17th-century Polish woman was buried with a padlock on her toe and an iron sickle across her neckMore than 300 years after her death, archaeologists uncovered the unusual grave of a young 17th-century Polish woman buried with a padlock ...
04 Sep, 2026, 03.34 PM IST
Pakistan's Punjab Assembly seeks ban on social media accounts for children under 16The Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution seeking a legal ban on social media for children under sixteen. This move addresses growing con...
02 Sep, 2026, 01.50 PM IST
A 2025 Stanford study gave 4,829 Americans AI-generated arguments supporting six different policies and found that participants became modestly more supportive after reading them, with AI messages appearing as persuasive as human-written arguments and often perceived as more logical and informedNew research shows large language models can influence political attitudes. AI-generated messages proved as persuasive as those written by ...
01 Sep, 2026, 10.58 AM IST
Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement puts Instagram and Facebook on a digital bedtimeMeta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a multistate lawsuit alleging Facebook and Instagram were designed to hook children, w...
27 Aug, 2026, 02.10 PM IST
Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers' dataANPD said that the local unit of China's ByteDance had processed personal data of teenagers aged 13 to 18 without a valid legal basis. The ...
26 Aug, 2026, 12.58 AM IST