Foreign spies seeking AUKUS secrets, Australia intelligence chief saysAustralia's military faces heightened foreign espionage and sabotage threats related to the AUKUS submarine partnership, according to ASIO'...
19 Feb, 2025, 03.42 PM IST
Despite Australia's strict social media ban for minors, a YouTube exemption poses risksThe initial ban was meant to include YouTube but after hearing from company executives and children's content creators who use the site, th...
03 Feb, 2025, 01.42 PM IST
Trump campaign against diversity urges government employees to turn informerThe Trump administration escalates measures against diversity programs by urging government employees to report concealed DEI initiatives. ...
23 Jan, 2025, 09.47 AM IST
UK PM Keir Starmer to hold emergency meeting as riots intensifyRiots have erupted across towns and cities in the last week after three girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport in northwest Engla...
05 Aug, 2024, 01.01 PM IST
Australia's spy boss seeks more co-operation from big tech in hunt for extremistsIn a speech to be delivered in Canberra on Wednesday, agency chief Mike Burgess will outline how "offshore extremists" are asking a commerc...
23 Apr, 2024, 06.13 PM IST
Healthcare sector rallied behind Nazis to create euthanasia programmes that claimed at least 230,000 victims, says a new studyBy 1945, between 50 to 65 percent of non-Jewish German doctors had joined the Nazi party.
15 Nov, 2023, 09.10 AM IST
Online deceits and AI are making the truth a casualty of warThe war between Israel and Hamas has spawned so much false or misleading information online -- much of it intentional, although not all -- ...
14 Oct, 2023, 11.02 PM IST
Elon Musk's Twitter roils with hate speech as trolls test new limitsTwitter has long wrestled with how to enforce content policies fairly on its platform in order to appease the advertisers, users and powerf...
29 Oct, 2022, 09.33 AM IST
Meta's AI chatbot hates Mark Zuckerberg - but does it care about racism?AI chatbots learn the patterns of our prejudices, biases, preoccupations and anxieties from the linguistic data.
03 Sep, 2022, 05.00 PM IST
Zoom joins tech industry's counterterrorism group in the USThe Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, or GIFCT, is an independent group through which member companies share information to comba...
16 Dec, 2021, 08.36 AM IST
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's 11-year-old tweet on racism resurfaces. But did he actually say that?Netizens on the platform slammed Agrawal before verifying the statement.
01 Dec, 2021, 12.28 PM IST
Twitter reacts to Parag Agrawal's appointment as CEOThousands of users also expressed pride in how people of Indian origin were now leading some of the largest tech companies in the world, po...
30 Nov, 2021, 02.33 PM IST
Groups associated with al-Qaeda, ISIS spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19: UN reportIt said that criminals and violent extremists are exploiting the pandemic to build their support networks, undermine trust in government an...
19 Nov, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg's bad week gets worse with live-streamed mosque shootingThe ultimate blow came on Friday with the massacre of 50 people in New Zealand, live streamed on Facebook.
17 Mar, 2019, 04.13 PM IST
2014: A politically eventful year for IndiaThe states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...
31 Dec, 2014, 12.23 PM IST
- Gurudwara shoot-out: Followed by private groups, Wade Michael Page was not on FBI radar
While private groups had been quietly monitoring the Wisconsin Gurdwara shooter and his racist leanings, Page was not on the radar of the F...
08 Aug, 2012, 01.00 PM IST
- Web 2.0 gives new tools to hate groups: experts
Social networks MySpace and Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube are being used as powerful new tools by extremist groups to spread a me...
18 Nov, 2008, 09.09 AM IST