Society

India's electronics and information technology ministry has formally asked Meta to re-examine the systems that decide what Facebook and Instagram users see, warning that the company's algorithms risk Government Presses Meta to Rework How Content Reaches UsersRead more

Delhi Police moved before dawn, detaining activists, a prominent YouTuber and organisers connected to the Civil Justice Platform (CJP) hours before a planned demonstration demanding the resignation Delhi Detains Protest Organisers Ahead of Second CJP RallyRead more

The US Department of Defense has indicated it intends to broadcast the execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, by firing squad. If carried out as described, it Pentagon's Plan to Livestream an Execution Raises Legal QuestionsRead more

Drivers and vehicle owners seeking a private hire licence from the City of Wolverhampton Council must now navigate a detailed digital application process that brings together identity verification, Wolverhampton Moves Private Hire Licensing Checks Fully OnlineRead more

More than 3,100 items from the private papers of Stuart Hall, the Jamaica-born sociologist who coined the term Thatcherism, have been digitised and made public by the University of Birmingham. The Birmingham Archive Digitises Stuart Hall's Papers, Blocks AI ScrapingRead more

A woman who alleges she was raped by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house in 2024 is now contending with a second ordeal: a coordinated online effort to unmask her. Her lawyer, Thomas Cornell Rape Case Accuser Faces Online Hunt for Her IdentityRead more

The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act became binding law on 1 August 2024, marking the first comprehensive legal framework anywhere in the world governing how artificial intelligence EU's Landmark AI Law Takes Effect, Setting Global Compliance BarRead more