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Republican-led committee plans to ask CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit about the ‘radicalization’ of users.Published On 17 Sep 202517 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA Republican-led House panel has asked the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify before Congress next month, following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.In letters sent to each of the four executives on Wednesday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer notes that the hearing is intended to “examine radicalization of online forum users, including incidents of open incitement to commit violent politically motivated acts”.Recommended Stories…

CEO Jensen Huang is expected to discuss the developments with US President Donald Trump in London on Wednesday.Published On 17 Sep 202517 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareChina has banned its leading tech firms from buying chips from Nvidia as the country ramps up domestic manufacturing.The Financial Times reported that the country’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), told tech giants, including ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, and the e-commerce giant Alibaba, to end testing for an AI chip that the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant made explicitly for the Chinese market.Recommended Stories list of 4…

Spotting in the postmenopausal period is commonly neglected. Most women think that a tiny trickle of blood cannot do any harm. This must change, say experts. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: AP Illustration / Annie Ng Menopause is defined as twelve consecutive months without menstrual periods, normally at age 49-51. At this time, the ovaries stop releasing eggs, and hormone levels plummet. By definition, no further bleeding can occur. Due to this, any spotting or bleeding from the vagina following menopause may be indicative of something wrong, and must be evaluated by a doctor immediately.Understanding vaginal…

Robert Irwin spent three weeks leading up to his Dancing With the Stars debut far from the glitzy Hollywood dance floor. He was covered in mud in the Australian bush on Cape York Peninsula, sleeping on a tent floor surrounded by wildlife, and of course, catching crocodiles.   “That’s the great part of getting to live here,” the 21-year-old Australian told Travel + Leisure. “It’s so easy to get out in the middle of nowhere and just forget everything. You feel like you’re part of something so much bigger than yourself.” But for the conservationist, there’s a personal significance to the…

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Hope you like cats! There are more than 1,000 of them on this campus. About 1,200 actually, although it’s impossible for the staff to count them all because … cats. About 30 years ago, the American University of Beirut (AUB) started taking in cats abandoned during years of war in Lebanon. During last year’s war with Israel, it gained a few hundred that were dumped at its gate. AUB has a huge, sprawling campus full of towering trees and…

“I am enjoying this phase of silence; I do not want to get into the headspace of thinking I have won,” says Karthik Ghattamneni, cinematographer-director of the Telugu film Mirai, which has crossed the ₹100-crore mark at the worldwide box office. On September 12, the day of the film’s release, Karthik was in Tirupati for a darshan. He says, “That has always been my way of surrendering to the universe after completing my work. I watched Mirai on day two, standing at the corner of a cinema hall and observing what was working and what wasn’t for the audiences.”Karthik’s previous…

The International Cricket Council (ICC), on Wednesday, put an end to the handshake saga once and for all after the apex body gave its final verdict to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on the Andy Pycroft situation. PCB had written to the ICC twice, demanding the removal of the Zimbabwean from the panel of match referees for the ongoing Asia Cup 2025, blaming him for the handshake fiasco in the match between India and Pakistan on Sunday in Dubai, and faced a rejection on both occasions. Pakistan’s captain Salman Agha, right, watches as India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav flips the coin…

The story so far: For many decades, one of the great challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) has been teaching machines to reason. Reasoning goes beyond memorising facts or completing sentences. It’s the ability to follow steps, reflect on mistakes, and adjust strategies until the right answer is found.Humans use reasoning for everything from solving maths problems to writing computer programmes, from negotiating their daily lives to deciding whom to vote for. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 or DeepSeek-V3 have surprised scientists by showing signs of reasoning when scaled to large sizes. Another method, called chain-of-thought prompting, where the…

I’d read that life coaching is like having an ally in the small war with your irrational, imposter-syndromed self—someone to help dismantle the scaffolding of self-doubt and design your dream life. “But isn’t that therapy?” I asked Guinness. “I like to think life coaching is more forward-looking, more solutions-based,” she replied. In her 20s she worked in film but felt rudderless, lost, a bit lacking. “But then a life coach changed my life,” she said, lighting amber-colored candles as the last of the day’s light spilled through the window. “And so I gave myself a mission: to make people understand…

Varun Chakaravarthy became World No.1 in T20I bowling rankings on Wednesday, days after spinning a web over Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2025 Group A match at the Dubai International Stadium. The 34-year-old became the third Indian bowler to achieve this feat, after Jasprit Bumrah and Ravi Bishnoi. The mystery spinner has been on top of his game in the ongoing eight-team tournament, registering spells of 1/4 in 2 overs against the UAE and 1/24 in four overs against Pakistan. Varun Chakaravarthy becomes World No.1 T20I bowler. (Surjeet Yadav) Earlier this year, Chakaravarthy reached the second spot in the T20I…