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Government has announced an extension to the deadline for updating Aadhaar card details without any charge until June 14, 2024. Initially set to expire on March 14, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has decided to prolong the free online document upload facility, providing individuals with additional time to ensure the accuracy and currency of their Aadhaar card information.This move comes as a relief for many citizens who may have been unable to update their Aadhaar card details within the original…

Experiencers and Forecasters estimated the percentage of participants who would comply with the search request. Experiencers' average guess (67.30%) significantly exceeded Forecasters' (43.79%), but both groups significantly underestimated compliance when compared to true compliance—the percentage of Experiencers in the experiment who ultimately complied (94.57%). Error bars represent bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. Credit: Journal of Empirical…

MacPaw’s Setapp Mobile is coming to iOS in April for iPhone users in the EU, allowing subscribers of the third-party app store to access a curated collection of apps.The beta version of Setapp Mobile will launch in April, and EU citizens can sign up to join the waitlist for a “unique opportunity to be part of a transformative journey that will reshape the iOS app landscape.”This is a very exciting development for EU iPhone owners. Setapp on Mac is a fantastic platform that gives subscribers access to hundreds of paid…

Named for the winged horse of Greek mythology and often sent by text message, Pegasus can burrow into your phone without your knowledge or even your click, hiding for days or weeks inside, surreptitiously recording everything—messages, photos, encrypted chats, and video and audio—in real-time. Exactly where your data is going often remains a mystery, lost in a tangle of servers. But the deadly impacts of Pegasus and other cyberweapons—wielded by governments from Spain to Saudi Arabia against human rights defenders,…

At least half of French citizens or about 33 million people have had their personal data stolen in perhaps one of the largest cyberattack to hit a European nation. The breach targeted two French service providers catering to medical insurance companies…

"Ambiguity in All Directions," acrylic on canvas, 2018, by Jan Gerrit Schuurman, is part of an art installation on display at the Santa Fe Institute. Credit: "Ambiguity in All Directions," acrylic on canvas, 2018. JG Schuurman The city you live in could be making you, your family, and your friends more unconsciously racist. Or, your city might make you less racist. It depends on how populous, diverse, and segregated your city…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chinese citizens who rarely voice open criticism of their government reveal stronger negative views when they can answer questions anonymously, according to a new study published in The China Quarterly. The study by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences shows an enormous drop in citizen support…

Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy said citizens who receive subsidies or free services from the government should pay back to make the lives of their own children better.Murthy, a first-generation entrepreneur, said he was not at all against subsidies, having come from a poor family himself, being one of the eight children of a high-school teacher father. But while it was a nice thing for the government to provide a free service such as electricity or a subsidy, it should also get something in return from citizens who…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Among Latinos and Asians living in California, immigrants are less likely than citizens to own a firearm and more likely to report being afraid of becoming a victim of gun violence, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. While gun ownership among both groups of…

The government will assist citizens in filing FIR against social media platforms for violation of IT rules in case they are aggrieved from objectionable content like deep fakes. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) will develop a platform on which users can notify about IT rule violation by social media platforms. India to establish government watchdog to combat deepfakes and misinformationMoS Electronics & Technology Rajeev…