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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...

19hEuronewsPoliticsImpact

UK launches investigation into Musk's Grok amidst global backlash

Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...

18hFrance 24TechnologyImpact

Uganda: Crackdown, internet blackout ahead of vote

Uganda's authorities have shut down rights groups, arrested opponents and their supporters, now they've turned off the internet. After 40 years in office, President Yoweri Museveni has no intention of...

14hDeutsche WellePolitics

Case on whether Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya opens at UN court

The Gambia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2019, arguing a so-called "clearance operation" by Myanmar's military in 2017 violated the 1948 Genocide Convention....

1dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

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...

21hSouth China Morning PostTechnology

I started drinking at 14, and it became a dangerous habit for more than 55 years. I'm finally sober at 70.

From left: Barbara Face pictured as a teenager when she first started drinking, at the height of her alcoholism, and sober, as she is today. Courtesy of Barbara Face Barbara Face began drinking at 14 ...

17hBusiness InsiderHealthImpact

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...

19hDeutsche Welleculture

Malaysia to take legal action against Elon Musk's X and xAI over misuse of Grok chatbot

Authorities said Grok was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual AI images....

19hEuronewsTechnologyImpact

How Iran switched off the internet — and Iranians fought back

Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...

2hFinancial TimesPolitics

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

Article URL: https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605...

13hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Trump tells Iranian protesters 'help is on its way' and cancels talks with officials

US President Donald Trump said on January 13 he’s cancelled talks with Iranian officials amid a protest crackdown, telling Iranian citizens “help is on its way.” Trump did not offer any details about ...

16hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Germany’s Merz says Iran’s leadership may be in ‘final days’

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran’s current leadership may be nearing its end amid mass protests across the country. “If a regime can only stay in power through the use of violence, then it i...

22hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

The UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

Article URL: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/11/how-the-uk-is-shaping-a-future-of-precrime-and-dissent-management/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194 Points: 28 # Comments:...

19hHacker NewsPoliticsImpact

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...

20hFrance 24world_newsImpact

Indonesia hails ‘99.9% successful’ free meals scheme amid food safety, oversight concerns

Indonesia’s ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...

19hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

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...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Hong Kong activist loses legal fight over prison shorts ban for female inmates

A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department rule that prohibits female inmates from wearing shorts in summer, with the court ruling that the women...

18hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Iran's communication blackout is 'more serious' than ever before, and this time, the restrictions may become permanent

Iran's communication blackout is "more serious" than ever before. Restrictions may last beyond the current protests, according to one expert....

17hDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

My nonprofit celebrates birthdays for families who can't afford them. In 14 years, I've never grown tired of seeing their joy.

Paige Chenault Lohoefer founded The Birthday Project in 2012 Courtesy of This be Grace Paige Chenault Lohoefer is the founder of the nonprofit The Birthday Party Project. The organization celebrates k...

15hBusiness InsidersocietyImpact

We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

Article URL: https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/12/11/we-cant-have-nice-things-because-of-ai-scrapers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840 Points: 10 # Comments: 0...

9hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact
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