The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is working on common standards for messaging platforms operating in India as it moves to formally oppose WhatsApp’s proposed username feature, a government official told Hindustan Times.
AnimeFLV, the largest Spanish-language anime piracy site on the internet, has stopped serving video to its tens of millions of monthly visitors. The site, which the MPA flagged as a notorious market in its latest USTR submission, remains online with its directory intact. However, the videos have been unavailable for weeks now, without any explanation from the operators.
The U.S. continues to crack down on sports streaming sites, seizing well over a hundred additional domain names this weekend. While these enforcement actions sorted effect, several of the targeted domains now use fallback domains on Iran's .ir country-code TLD, which might be harder to reach for American law enforcement.
Indian auteurs Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane have joined forces again to spotlight writer-director Ravi Muppa’s short film “Incognito,” the debut release on shorts-only YouTube channel titled Oh Flip Shorts that is launching July 15.
Commissioned by Universal Pictures International UK & Eire, the construction is actually an exact replica of the wooden horse used in Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” made using the production’s blueprints. It took a team of 34 working a total of 288 hours to put it together using polystyrene, steel, resin tin foil and fibreglass.
Chittorgarh, Rajasthan Gangrar Police have registered an FIR against a Rajasthan based cable operator after a raid allegedly found the unauthorised retransmission of Sony Pictures Networks India’s pay television channels and live cricket matches without authorisation.
Meta has announced the launch of Muse Image, touted as its most advanced AI image generator and the first media generation model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, but the move drew sharp criticism and user concerns around data privacy, image-scraping and consent.
The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has denied reports that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) directed ministries to hold off on deploying OpenAI or Anthropic’s AI models for cybersecurity
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday that the Commission will draft legislation after the summer to restrict children’s access to social media across all 27 member states. This follows an expert report recommending a minimum access age of 13 across the EU.
Major online platforms continue to have significant gaps in detecting child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) and sexual extortion, particularly by relying on user reports instead of proactively identifying harmful activity, according to Australia’s eSafety Commissioner.