Maharashtra Plans Biometric Attendance Rollout in Junior Colleges The Maharashtra state government is moving to install biometric attendance systems across junior colleges statewide, targeting a deeply entrenched culture of absenteeism driven by students skipping lectures in favour of private coaching…
Microsoft Pulls Claude Code Licences as Token Costs Spiral Out of Control Microsoft is cancelling most internal licences for Anthropic’s Claude Code across its Experiences and Devices division — the team behind Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Surface —…
India’s Supreme Court Revives Colonial Sedition Law It Once Called Oppressive India’s Supreme Court has reopened the door to sedition prosecutions under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, reviving a colonial-era provision that both the court and the Union…
Anthropic’s AI Security Model Uncovers Tens of Thousands of Vulnerabilities, Exposing a New Bottleneck in Global Cybersecurity Anthropic’s advanced AI cybersecurity model, Claude Mythos Preview, has identified more than 10,000 high- and critical-severity software vulnerabilities in a single month —…
India’s Chief Justice Pushes Virtual Hearings Across High Courts as Fuel Conservation Measure Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant confirmed on Thursday that he has written to the Chief Justices of all High Courts requesting them to facilitate virtual…
NCA and Police Chiefs Call for Under-16 Social Media Ban Ahead of Consultation Deadline Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) have jointly called for a ban on social media access for children under 16,…
Graduate Unemployment Is Rising — But AI Is Not the Culprit Recent university graduates in the United States are facing their worst employment conditions since 2020 — but the technology most frequently blamed for their predicament is not the primary…
Meta Begins Mass Layoffs, Employees Notified by Early-Morning Email Meta launched a sweeping round of layoffs on May 20, with thousands of employees worldwide receiving an early-morning email from company leadership informing them their roles had been eliminated. The message,…
Meta Shifts 7,000 Staff Into AI Units as It Cuts 8,000 Jobs in Deepest Cull Since 2022 Meta Platforms is simultaneously reassigning 7,000 employees into newly formed artificial intelligence teams and eliminating roughly 8,000 positions globally — a dual restructuring…
Beijing Hails Trump-Xi Summit as Historic Turning Point, But Analysts Warn of Veiled Threats Chinese state media responded with carefully orchestrated enthusiasm to President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, framing his meetings with President Xi Jinping as a diplomatic watershed…
