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Amazon layoffs: Tech giant to cut 16,000 jobs in next 3 months amid expansion of AI use

With 14,000 jobs already slashed in October last year, the current layoffs are expected to affect workers in Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video & human resources departments.

Why banning social media for kids risks misdiagnosing the problem

A blanket ban treats young people as a single homogeneous group, ignoring the diversity of their experiences, needs, and circumstances.

Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China’s latest tech obsession

The bluntly named “Are You Dead?” platform is plain. Users, largely people living alone, tap to confirm they are still alive. Miss two days and an emergency contact gets notified.

As Andhra considers Australia-like social media ban for kids, parents & experts warn against rushed law

State IT Minister Nara Lokesh said Andhra Pradesh was studying Australia’s recent under-16 social media ban and examining the need for strong legal safeguards.

The Effort to Stop AI Nudes Is Missing a Deterrent

There’s another kind of damage that is being overlooked in the discourse: what this technology does to the people who create these images.

4.7 million accounts blocked after Australia banned social media for children under-16

Officials said it was too early to say whether social media platforms were fully complying with the legislation, though the early numbers were encouraging.

After Indonesia & Malaysia, Philippines moves to block Grok AI

The Philippines’ cybercrime center is working with the telecoms commission to implement the “immediate” blocking of Grok.

How reels, shorts & TikTok clips can reduce focus

Research links fast-paced short-form video use with weaker attention, poor sleep and higher anxiety in young users.

Why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella needed a low-budget blog

The site is intended to become a written record of evidence Nadella is a big idea kind of guy. A cynic might call it a kind of intellectual cosplay.

Why the deepfake menace is likely to get worse in 2026

The combination of surging quantity and personas that are nearly indistinguishable from real humans creates serious challenges for detecting deepfakes.

On Camera

Let me explain the K-drama addiction. I, too, am an addict

The three Ghaziabad sisters were lonely. None of them had gone to school after the Covid-19 pandemic. K-dramas offered them solace.

Late-stage startups in Karnataka feel funding winter as overall investments decline 28%

Tech startups raised $3.8 bn in 2025, down 28% y-o-y, driven by sharp contraction in late-stage funding even as early-stage investments showed resilience, according to Traxcn.

Tejas MK 1A to fly with IAF latest only by June-July this year. Here’s why

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is yet to deliver two of the remaining order of 8 Tejas trainer aircraft as well, an order that was placed in 2010.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.