Category: Politics
India bans open source messaging apps on security grounds
GPT-4: India’s government has banned 14 messaging apps, including open source services Element and Briar, citing…
Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
That may bode ill for nuclear deterrence and the peace of the world. Read more at…
A rogue killer drone ‘hunted down’ a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
The KARGU-2, a deadly attack drone, autonomously attacked a human during a conflict in Libya, according…
How ’90s porn led to the internet’s foundational law
In a collaboration with Retro Report, Open Sourced by Vox looks at how today’s heated political…
Middle Students Solve The Issue Of Gerrymandering And Win $10,000 Prize [Infographic]
Three middle school students decided to take on one of the more serious issue in American…
Netflix faces criticism over ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners’ ‘Three-Body Problem’ series
Netflix has responded to criticism over comments by the author of the books on which the…
Gaming companies are reportedly the next targets in the US government’s potentially broader Tencent purge – TechCrunch
Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from…
Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night
Way more Democrats will vote by mail than Republicans given partisan differences about fears of the…
Comedian uses Trump supporters’ ‘conservative logic’ to defend the most evil people in history
Comedian Greg Larsen on Monday challenged his Twitter followers to name some of the most evil people in…
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI | ZDNet
The block was put in place at the end of July and is enforced via China’s…
Hong Kong Police Quickly Enforce China’s Security Law as Thousands Protest
Thousands of protesters, unbowed by a new national-security law imposed by China, staged the largest show…
India Blocks TikTok Amidst Border Tensions With China
The Indian government has blocked TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps in the wake of ongoing…
An extraordinary escalation ‘using rocks and clubs’
The most serious face-off on the world’s longest unsettled land border in nearly half a century…
After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
At Microsoft-owned GitHub, the parent company’s decision to stop offering facial recognition software to police reinvigorated…
Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we’ve removed
Today we are disclosing 32,242 accounts to our archive of state-linked information operations — the only…
The US could shift to 90-percent renewable energy by 2035 at no extra cost
The US could but most probably won’t shift to 90-percent renewable energy by 2035 at no…
How the U.S. Stole an Island
The remote, militarized island that the US secretly stole. Read more at YouTube…
For Russia, SpaceX success is ‘wakeup call’
Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the…
Germany confronts Russian ambassador over cyberattack
BERLIN (AP) — Germany said Thursday it is seeking EU sanctions against a Russian man over…