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The government is bringing laws and taking other steps to make social media platforms more accountable for any slanderous content posted on their platforms, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The minister, who was responding to supplementaries during question hour, said the government is amending intermediary rules for social media to tackle the menace of misinformation and deep fake. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate…

Israel’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza have resulted in an extraordinary number of civilian casualties by any standards, especially the killing of children and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, many of whose homes have been totally destroyed. Even the Biden administration, Israel’s staunchest ally in this war since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, has sometimes referred to “indiscriminate bombing” and expressed dissatisfaction with Israel’s efforts to avoid civilian casualties and abide…

“Draw the Law” analysis. Credit: The Law Teacher (2023). DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2023.2282860 Most Year 5 children will know little about the law and their rights, yet at the stroke of midnight on their 10th birthday, they become criminally responsible in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. With this in mind, and drawing inspiration from Channel 4's…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain I recently found myself among a group of alarmed scientists, writing a fervent plea to the European Commission to be more ambitious when it comes to corporate greenhouse gas reporting requirements. Our open letter calling for comprehensive disclosure of corporations' contribution to the climate crisis gathered support from over 100 fellow researchers around the world. …

She sits before me in tears, a positive pregnancy test on the counter in front of us. It’s not that my patient doesn’t want a fourth child. But she is haunted by memories of her third cesarean section (C-section). Hours after her baby was delivered, she hemorrhaged and fell unconscious. Waking in the ICU, she learned she had been transfused several units of blood. Severe anemia and debilitating postoperative pain complicated her postpartum recovery. Now, she is terrified of another C-section—the delivery of a child…

While generative AI is rapidly advancing, it also raises concerns about its potential to be used maliciously. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models may be susceptible to bias, as they learn patterns and generate output/predictions based on the data they are trained on. If the training data is biased or incomplete, the model's output can also be incorrect/biased. Also, given that AI language models can generate human-like text and can be trained to impersonate the writing style of humans, there are also serious…

The last-minute $787.5 million settlement of the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp. was a major step toward making Fox News answer for false claims that Dominion's machines influenced the 2020 election, a key negotiator of the deal said Wednesday."We feel good about being able to accomplish our goals of keeping Fox accountable and exposing the truth," said Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, co-founder of private equity firm and Dominion owner Staple Street Capital, in an exclusive interview with CNBC's Eamon…

WASHINGTON—Silicon Valley has for years brushed back attempts to make internet platforms more accountable for harm to young people. Online safety advocates are hoping to turn the tide with a new force: Moms.Mothers who say social media devastated their sons and daughters are stepping up efforts to pass legislative remedies, including by making personal appeals to lawmakers and working with congressional aides to fine-tune legislation. The power of the lobby of mothers was demonstrated in November, when about 10 women…

Meta META -0.26% Platforms Inc. will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told hundreds of executives on Tuesday. The coming cuts are expected to total many thousands of employees and will likely be the largest of the year to date in the tech sector, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Mr. Zuckerberg appeared downcast in Tuesday’s meeting…

While Biden has in the past called for stronger protections for privacy and for tech companies to stop collecting data, the US — home to some of the world’s biggest tech and AI companies — has so far been one of the only Western nations without clear guidance on how to protect its citizens against AI harms.  Today’s announcement is the White House’s vision of how the US government as well as technology companies and citizens should work together to hold AI accountable. However, critics say the blueprint lacks teeth, and…