I'm so fucking pissed off about the DPIIT committee report on AI and Copyright. They're forcing a compulsory license for copyright owners to allow AI companies to take their work...but they're offering royalties: Sample this (Screenshot below) as an example of how they expect

So this particular duopoly has let down customers, and employees, and embarrassed a regulator that doesn’t know how to deal with “Too Big to Discipline.” And yet, in sector after sector in India, economic concentration is on the rise. Expect similar results.

Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.5 billion users' phone numbers, photos for half and profile text for almost a third, the biggest personal data exposure ever by some measures.

i too was struck by the mass yubikey x calamity

Across social media platforms, political posting remains tightly linked to affective #polarization -- the most hyperpartisan users post the most. As casual users disengage and polarized partisans remain vocal, the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more

IMP: #ClimateCrisis is altering #southwestmonsoon. Imp to pay careful attention to science #disasterresilience, a plan for #Himalayan regions. #Monsoon circulation weakening bt excess moisture triggering extreme spells, heat wl lead to spike in vector diseases especially dengue

Now: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Karnataka HC that railways ministry "misused" Section 79.3.b of IT Act in issuing the takedown notice dated June 26. He said "misuse of provision" doesn't make provision itself wrong. Details of June 26 notice:

New: K'taka HC allowed X to challenge part of IT Rules, 2021. Rlys min sent X takedown notice on June 26. Digipub's intervention app not admitted but to be heard along with the matter. + details of govt's 2 written submissions Link to full story: https://t.co/jIva7iyBE5

Cautionary tale: The last time the Iranian military establishment suffered a “decapitation” comparable to the last few days was when the Khomeini regime purged the Shah’s generals. 1/7

Geolocation of crash site in Ahmedabad where Air India flight AI171 to London carrying 242 people crashed just after takeoff. Coordinates: 23.054638, 72.611664

For Kashmir, bruised by terror yet again, a new train that rolled into Srinagar on Saturday may solve more than trade and transit challenges. In today's HT, I write from the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express, the first train to bridge Kashmir with India's vast rail network.

Welcome to Day 4 of #AIinConversation! Join us today for the panel discussion on “AI and the Changing Landscape of Journalism” on May 29th at 6 PM IST. This panel will explore the shift from traditional long-form reporting to an AI-driven media landscape defined by 60-word

Exclusive: From Delhi, UP to Tokyo: Indian students learning Japanese target Japan’s elderly, swindle crores. Six arrested after CBI raids. What gave them away? Broken Japanese, Hindi in the background, & Indian caller IDs. I report. https://t.co/SCtUBK3eXZ

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.

It will be glorious for the margins of European defense companies when bottlenecks in critical supplies meet the great rearmament spending.

HT has prepared an exhaustive database of all the 279 judges the Supreme Court has so far. We will be running a three part series based on this database. Here is the first part- 1. 32 out of all 279 Supreme Court Judges have had close family relations https://t.co/YLht1cEUM1

My read of the military situation so far a few days in. The first night, with the downing of at least some Indian aircraft, likely went as well as Pakistan could have expected. Since then, it has gone about as well as India could have expected.

This appears to be pretty misleading reporting, and from my examination of the Maxar catalogue, there is nothing suspicious, least of all to support the implication in the article that Pakistani security forces provided specific imagery-intelligence to the terrorists. See more⬇️

Latest: How a deepfake video infiltrated Indian media coverage of the escalating India and Pakistan conflict… https://t.co/oPHSxV7DcG

Now: Twitter’s Global Affairs account restored in India. MeitY had asked X about its tweet from last night (8,000 accounts, etc.), as per a person aware of the matter. X blocked it in India without an order. Now MeitY has issued an order to X to NOT block it, as per this person.