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It began, as many turning points do, with a strangely honest confession. Aditya Agarwal, one of Facebook’s earliest engineers and a former chief technology officer (CTO) of Dropbox, posted on X that he had spent a weekend writing code with Claude, an artificial intelligence (AI) model. His...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 February 2026
Shares of Indian information technology (IT) services companies plunged on Wednesday, with the Nifty IT index sliding 6.3% before ending the day 5.87% down at 36,345 points, as investors reacted to a fresh and uncomfortable question: What happens to an industry built on selling human labour...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 03 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday strongly criticised WhatsApp and Meta (which owns WhatsApp) for the messaging platform's 'take it or leave it' privacy policy, adding that the policy appears to enable data theft (WhatsApp, Meta Vs Competition Commission of India).   A Bench comprising Chief...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 02 February 2026
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced a Rs 1.06 lakh crore health budget for 2026-27, a 9% increase from the current financial year. Yet persistent gaps in utilisation, staffing and quality suggest higher allocations alone cannot fix India's public health crisis.   Despite a...

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The head of America’s cyber defence agency recently illustrated a risk that millions of people take every day — sharing sensitive information with public artificial intelligence (AI) tools without really thinking about where that data ends up.   Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 30 January 2026
The Supreme Court has held that administering stem cell therapy for the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder outside an approved and monitored clinical trial is unethical and amounts to medical malpractice.    A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan ruled that such treatment is not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2026
The Economic Survey 2025–26 has issued a rare and pointed warning on the financial risks embedded in the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom, cautioning that highly leveraged investments in capital-intensive AI infrastructure could emerge as a new source of systemic instability, with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 January 2026
Nearly two out of every three Indian smartphone users say they have seen advertisements that appeared to be linked to their private voice conversations, according to a new nationwide survey conducted by LocalCircles, raising fresh concerns over digital privacy, consent and the unchecked use of...

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KBS Sidhu 26 January 2026
Sir Mark Tully (1935–2026) Legendary journalist and chronicler of modern India passes away at 90 in New Delhi   Sir William Mark Tully, the veteran British journalist whose calm, authoritative voice became synonymous with the BBC’s coverage of India for over three decades, passed away on...

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For 40 years, I have been propagating in all my management lectures that networking is one of the ‘keys to success’. I was so glad to see, in the last few months, how the government of India has been working on the ‘networking principle’ to work out links with the governments of UK and also...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 January 2026
In a chilling reminder that cybercrime cuts across age groups, Cuttack police have uncovered a large-scale sextortion racket in which even senior citizens were allegedly involved in defrauding another elderly person, leading to a financial loss of about ₹88 lakh.   According to a release from...

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Sanskrita Bharadwaj (IndiaSpend) 19 January 2026
For 15 years, Binita and Mridul Buragohain built their pig farm in Betbari village, starting with two pigs and slowly expanding to a herd of 75. In October last year, one of their pigs fell ill, and five others died soon after from African Swine Fever (ASF). The rest had to be culled to prevent...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2026
At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded in everyday life, yet continues to intimidate many users, technology educator Yazdi Tantra urged people to approach AI with clarity, caution and common sense. “AI should be used as a tool, not treated as a final...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2026
At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded in everyday life, yet continues to intimidate many users, technology educator Yazdi Tantra urged people to approach AI with clarity, caution and common sense. “AI should be used as a tool, not treated as a final...

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A few days ago, a friend shared a link with me. His son had received it while applying for a job with MahaMetro. At first glance, it looked like a routine recruitment form. The kind job-seekers see every day. But something did not feel right.   From experience, one rule is clear. Genuine...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2026
The Bombay High Court (HC) has strongly deprecated the practice of filing unverified, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated legal submissions after a litigant relied on a non-existent court judgment, prompting the Court to impose Rs50,000 as costs to High Court Employees Medical...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on a plea seeking permission for passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a man who has been in a permanent vegetative state for more than 13 years following a severe traumatic brain injury.   A bench of justice JB Pardiwala and justice KV...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
Facing mounting global backlash, regulatory scrutiny and government pressure, Elon Musk-led social media platform X has disabled key image generation features of its AI chatbot Grok, following widespread misuse of the tool to create sexualised and non-consensual images of women and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2026
A fresh controversy has erupted over India’s proposed smartphone security framework after the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) questioned the Indian government’s denial of plans to mandate source code access for smartphones, citing publicly available government documents and reporting by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2026
India’s proposed overhaul of smartphone security standards has triggered concern among global technology companies after a Reuters report says the government is considering measures that could require access to proprietary source code, a claim that the Union government has now formally...

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