The US Subcommittee on Communications and Technology conducted a hearing on May 22 about a proposal to “sunset” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 by the end of 2025. This section of the act protects tech companies from being held liable for what their users post. “As with any powerful tool, the boundaries of section 230 have proven...

On May 20, civil society organizations including AI Now, Center for AI and Policy Research and Economic Security Project released a shadow report responding to the US Senate’s proposed AI roadmap. Calling out the consultations around this roadmap for focusing on the voices of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the report seeks to offer “an alternative...

A major international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a vast botnet known as 911 S5 that was used to facilitate a wide range of cybercrimes including fraud, harassment, child exploitation, and export violations. The alleged administrator of the botnet, YunHe Wang, 35, a Chinese national and citizen of St. Kitts...

Google has released a blog post explaining the reasons for the inaccuracies present in AI Overview’s answers. The company argues that a number of the odd or unhelpful responses shared by users were doctored screenshots and the real examples occurred when users asked highly uncommon questions. Such questions have very little high-quality content on the...

Genesys International Corporation Limited, a company that provides mapping, survey, and geospatial services, has reported a standalone revenue of Rs. 70.11 crore for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2024 (Q4FY24) ending on March 31, 2024. This marks a 48% rise from its revenue in the same quarter last year, which stood at Rs. 47.39 crore. On...

When we spoke to the co-founder of InstaMojo Sampath Swain last year, he told us that the company no longer intends to apply for a payment aggregator license. He had also questioned whether obtaining payment aggregator (PA) authorization would have been the start of a bigger problem because it would put his company under the regulatory clutches of the...