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New SIM binding rules may affect WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal users in India. Know how active SIM requirements and six-hour web logouts could impact messaging.

Meet Jantar Mantar Chalo, a satirical video game by Suraj Kushwah that lets players choose between protesters and Delhi Police in a virtual protest.

From November 1, 2026, India's CNAP service will display callers' registered names alongside phone numbers on 4G and newer networks. Know how the new caller ID rules work.

AI can check whether a hunch about one sign or word holds up across an entire archive in minutes instead of years. It can spot repeated sequences a human eye would miss, and restore damaged or fragmentary inscriptions by predicting likely missing characters.

Bacteriophages could potentially be used to treat bacterial infections, including those that are becoming harder to treat with antibiotics. But advances in biological design also create new challenges for biosecurity.

Scientists have shown that existing measurements of dark energy are robust. Rather than debating whether cosmic acceleration exists, the astrophysical community can return to the exciting task of figuring out what dark energy actually is and how to best measure it.

The evidence of your instructions to your AI agent needs to be verifiable by different systems at each step as the agent carries out a task. Otherwise, how do you prove that the agent did – or did not do – what you told it to?

Lawsuits filed and settled in 2025-26 have alleged that interactions with language models such as ChatGPT led to teen suicidal behaviour and tragic losses, highlighting that commercial chatbots lack effective guardrails and crisis protocols.

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from human writing, detecting disinformation requires more than simply searching for telltale words. It requires understanding how conversations work, how they are manipulated, and when someone is trying to quietly steer them off course.

Today’s computers use machine learning, a kind of artificial intelligence, to sound like a person. Engineers and scientists train an AI program by giving it many hours of recordings of real people talking.

Altman is not the only one thinking about corporate robot leaders. Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he is training an AI agent to partly automate his job as the boss of Meta.

Solar sails and light sails are stepping stones from the present to the future, and from exploring our own solar system to exploring distant stars. Perhaps exoplanet LHS 1140b will be visited by a light sail at some point in our future.