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China ‘dead or alive’ app allows solo users check in daily, alerts contacts if they miss it

A Chinese phone application called “dead or alive” that helps users check in daily has become a top-ranked app, reflecting the trend of solo living among the country’s young people. The Sileme app, or...

4dSouth China Morning PostTechnology

Focusing on future AI doom lets companies dodge responsibility today, professor says

Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...

2dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk's xAI over alleged explicit Grok deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...

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Sadio Mane takes Senegal past Egypt into AFCON final

In tonight's edition, Sadio Mane thrashed home a dramatic ⁠winner to send Senegal into the Africa Cup of Nations final after they edged Egypt 1-0. And the shutdown of the internet in Uganda ahead of t...

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Grok stops users from making sexualized AI images after global backlash

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Grok will no longer be allowed to create AI photos of real people in sexualized or revealing clothing, after widespread global backlash. "We have implem...

2dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

Why millennials are yearning for 2016 all over Instagram

People are taking to Instagram to reminisce 2016 in all its fishnet-stocking glory. Melodie Jeng/Getty Images 2016 is so back — at least on Instagram. Millennials are putting up pictures of them...

1dBusiness InsiderlifestyleImpact

Deaths outnumber births in France

Despite an increase in the number of women of childbearing age in France, the number giving birth is at a low. In 2025 there were more deaths than births which has some towns concerned that they are l...

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California's Attorney General is investigating Grok's sexualized deepfakes

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...

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X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported o...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

I escaped a cult and was homeless and desperate. Chris Martin gave me a piano, and I became a successful musician.

Jean-Philippe Riopy at his piano Courtesy of Greg Williams At 18, Jean-Philippe Rio-Py escaped a brutal cult that wrecked his childhood. He suffered hardship in his 20s and early 30s, but was determin...

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India: Security, terrorism laws used to silence dissent

Under UAPA, India's controversial anti-terror law, a suspect can spend years in jail without trial if the accusations against them seem true at first glance. Meanwhile, courts are expanding the defini...

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Arrests reported by official media for first time since Tehran protests began

Friday marks the fifth day since the last demonstrations in Tehran, FRANCE 24 correspondent Siavosh Ghazi reported from the Iranian capital. He said the news agency Tasnim, which is linked to the Revo...

1dFrance 24Politics

I moved in with my partner's family to be closer to work. Our arrangement has worked out well, even though my job didn't.

captionTK Jordyn Bradley I moved in with my long-distance partner's family to be closer to a job and save some money. A lot of 26-year-olds might not see the appeal of this situation, but I was gratef...

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A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/calif-teen-chatgpt-drug-advice-fatal-overdose-21266718.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655048 Points: 11 # Comments: 2...

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Ex-refugee and former Iraqi president takes over UN's refugee agency

Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...

4dFrance 24world_newsImpact

Hundreds of farmers protest outside French parliament

French farmers on Tuesday drove hundreds of tractors to stage a protest outside the National Assembly. Farmer anger in France and other European countries has escalated over a rash of challenges. The ...

4dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition

As masked and armed men in combat armor swarmed throughout the Twin Cities, Gov. Tim Walz took to primetime television to ask Minnesotans to film ICE. The videos, he said , would "create a database of...

7hThe VergePoliticsImpact

Democratic congressman Ro Khanna wants creators to have their own 'bill of rights'

US House Rep. Ro Khanna. The Washington Post/Getty Images Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a resolution Thursday called the "Creator Bill of Rights." The progressive congressman is...

2dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

How US sanctions crippled lives of Iranians Trump says he wants to ‘help’

US sanctions have damaged Iran's economy, which was the reason the protests broke out in the first place....

4dAl JazeeraPoliticsImpact

Jafar Panahi: 'Every minute's delay in helping Iranian people means more innocents are killed'

Jafar Panahi, a renowned Iranian film-maker, is urging the international community to help Iranian people because he says the Islamic Republic has lost its legitimacy and will stop at nothing to survi...

4dEuronewsPoliticsImpact
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