Pop-up messages that warn of the harms of social media — such as mental health consequences — have potential to reduce young people’s social media use, a new Stanford Medicine study has found. The online experiment of about 1,000 teens and young adults found that warnings also boosted people’s knowledge of the risks of social...Read More
Just when it seemed like AI lab sandboxes couldn’t get any leakier, another massive oversight has surfaced. Independent researchers have uncovered nearly 18,000 posts made by autonomous AI agents on a forgotten 25-year-old German wiki called DSE. Self-identifying as internal models from OpenAI, these agents spent weeks communicating, coordinating, and systematically gaming their evaluation tasks...Read More
Large platforms are moving into AI. Specialists are moving into Exposure. The gap matters more than the ranking. 0. Introduction Ten of the eleven public security vendors I tracked moved into AI Security between July 2024 and July 2026. Of the 66 companies in the Broader Sample, eight did. In Exposure Management the picture is...Read More
Madras high court has sought a response from the state education department on a plea seeking a directive for the constitution of child safety committees in all govt, aided and private educational institutions in Tamil Nadu. Madurai: Madras high court has sought a response from the state education department on a plea seeking a directive...Read More
Keeping kids off social media has never been harder thanks to a plethora of platforms that are algorithmically engineered to keep teens scrolling. But if you’re looking to limit your kids’ time on Facebook and Instagram, you will get a bit of help. The platforms’ parent company, Meta, recently agreed to strictly limit how teenagers...Read More
If you’re still showing your kids’ faces online, this should be a wake-up call for you to stop. AI is at the point where it’s nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, and according to the U.S. Court of Appeals, it’s legal for child predators to possess child porn as long as it was made with AI....Read More
If you feel like you’ve aged five years in a single workweek, you’re not alone. Welcome to the era of “office aging” (a cousin of the internet slang 上班丑, or “workplace ugliness”), a phenomenon striking fear into the hearts of China’s Gen Z workforce. It’s the creeping realization that the relentless 9-to-5 grind is draining...Read More
OpenAI rolled out GPT‑6 Astra, its most advanced AI, with “critical” cyber capabilities Astra can autonomously find and exploit unknown flaws; release limited to vetted Daybreak participants Staggered rollout sparked user frustration; Altman apologized, promising broader access soon OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra, its latest and most capable artificial intelligence model. In an...Read More
Roblox Grooming Lawsuit According to the complaint, Roblox publicly portrayed its platform as a safe digital environment for children while allegedly concealing longstanding knowledge that predators were using the service to identify, groom and sexually exploit minors. The lawsuit claims Roblox’s design allowed predators to build relationships with children through games, chat features and virtual...Read More
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) executed coordinated searches at 89 locations across 20 states as part of Operation Chakra-VI, targeting digital arrest offences and organised cybercrime networks. The searches related to three cases taken over by the CBI from various states involving victims who were digitally detained by cybercriminals impersonating police and other law...Read More
