Anthropic warns that AI is increasingly building better AI, raising the risk of recursive self-improvement—and urges coordinated action among developers and policymakers before societies lose meaningful oversight. The post Anthropic calls for the ability to slow or pause frontier AI development appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

A security researcher discovered a fully developed facial recognition pipeline inside Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses companion app, though the feature remains disabled. The post Meta’s AI smart glasses are one switch away from recognising and naming faces appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

CBSE's digital evaluation experiment has spiralled into a controversy involving cybersecurity flaws, low results, cyberattacks, and procurement allegations. The post Everything to know about CBSE’s 2026 evaluation crisis: a timeline appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

Indian travellers in Cambodia can now make UPI-based QR code payments at over 4.5 million merchants, following a new payment connectivity arrangement launched on June 2 by NPCI International and Acleda Bank. The post India Launches UPI-Based QR Payments in Cambodia appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue to introduce and implement legislation requiring all online users to verify their ages before accessing the digital space. In some...

Last year during LGBTQ+ Pride month, we launched an LGBT Q&A where we answered your most pressing digital rights questions on EFF’s Instagram and TikTok  accounts.  Ahead of LGBT Q&A Season 2 launching next week, we’re posting a recap with some of the questions we answered. Check them out below....