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Australia: Writers' festival called off amid boycott

The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...

4dDeutsche Welleculture

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...

2dDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

Will Turkey export home-grown 'Islamic State' extremists?

Turkey is no longer just a transit country for one branch of the extremist "Islamic State" group. Experts say the group has become more professional in Turkey and could pose a danger domestically, and...

5hDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

Hong Kong: Life sentence looms for media tycoon Jimmy Lai

With the last stage of Jimmy Lai's national security trial drawing to a close, Hong Kong's High Court is set to decide on the sentence for the pro-democracy tycoon. Will Lai get life in prison?...

2dDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

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...

3dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Iran: Activists report more than 2,500 dead after brutal crackdown

Activists report that more than 2,400 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, according to updated figures from the Human Rights Activist News Agency, which says most of th...

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‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's ...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

How 911 calls actually work, according to a former emergency dispatcher

Ricardo Martinez II spent more than a decade as a 911 dispatcher, handling thousands of emergencies as US 911 centers face a nationwide staffing and funding crisis. Across the country, emergency call ...

2dBusiness InsidersocietyImpact

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...

3dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

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 ...

5dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Costa Rica builds new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador jail

El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious...

2dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

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

Iran calls for fast trials of protesters despite Trump’s warning

Iran's judiciary chief on Wednesday called for fast-track trials for detained protesters, despite US President Donald Trump's threat of "very strong action" if the Islamic republic goes ahead with exe...

3dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

I had 90 days to find a job after getting laid off while on a work visa. A $50 book helped me land my dream role.

Aman Goyal Aman Goyal After being laid off last year, Aman Goyal faced pressure during his job search due to his visa status. Within two months of searching, he landed his dream role as an associate p...

1hBusiness Insidersociety

Live: UN rights chief 'horrified' by Iranian crackdown amid reports of hundreds killed

UN ​human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...

5dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

'Focus on petrol: Trump never talked about democracy nor the Venezuelan people'

François Picard welcomes Venezuelan author Vicente Ulive‑Schnell who offers a thoughtful assessment of recent geopolitical developments in Venezuela, following the US military operation, and the reali...

2dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

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

The $1 trillion reason Elon Musk ended Tesla FSD purchases

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Reuters Tesla shifts its full self-driving service to a subscription-only model. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will end outright purchases of FSD in February. The lesson: Yo...

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I quit my job at Microsoft to be a more present mother. I'm not worried about finding a new job — I have a plan.

Kruthika Jayatheertha Kruthika Jayatheertha Kruthika Jayatheertha left her Microsoft job to take an extended career break after maternity leave. She believes being present during her child's early yea...

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Grok undressed the mother of one of Elon Musk’s kids — and now she’s suing

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the man...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact
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