A researcher and songwriter spent a month generating thousands of songs and an entire fictional post-punk band to test the ...

From a single prompt to widespread harassment, X’s in-built AI, Grok, is enabling the rapid creation of non-consensual images ...

Meta’s technology may help identify distress, but what follows is human: often messy, inconsistent and fragile.

The US has intervened militarily in Venezuela, detaining President Nicolás Maduro and triggering international concern.

Raids and rescues have failed to shut them down, as scam hubs keep shifting across Myanmar’s conflict-hit border regions.

AI slop refers to the growing volume of low- to mid-quality content produced using AI tools, often created quickly with ...

Supreme Court took suo motu note of several matters of importance including the issue of stray dogs and digital arrest ; This ...

A viral video from Maharashtra of metal spoons and coins sticking to a vaccinated person's body is being shared and was also reported by several Marathi news outlets claiming the man exhibited a ...

BOOM was one of the first Indian member of the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) and also the first to partner with Facebook on its Third Party Fact Checking Programme from India. BOOM's team ...

SIM-swap scams and their digital counterpart, the eSIM fraud, are fast-growing threats in India. Criminals hijack phone numbers to intercept OTPs, drain bank accounts, and lock you out of your own ...

In September this year, a handful of AI images showing men that appeared unmistakably Muslim, placing large rocks on railway tracks, cropped up on X and Facebook in India. Some of the posts, which ...

In November 2021, Aijaz Baba was sitting with his family when his phone rang. The call was from an unknown number. Aijaz, a government teacher, was then on Covid vaccination duty so he had been ...