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San Francisco, Jun 17: : A report on Friday alleged that Facebook had put the safety of its content moderators at risk after accidentally exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users of the social network. As per The Guardian, a bug in the software, identified in late 2016, affected more than 1,000 workers across 22 departments at Facebook, who used the company"s moderation...

Kasaragod, Jun 16: The police have registered a suo motu case in connection with an alleged murder attempt on a youth by an unidentified four-member group at Chowki here on Wednesday night. The police said Rajesh alias Raju, 35, a resident of Mogral-Puthur village who was riding a scooter, along with a friend as pillion, was waylaid by a four-member group and attacked with weapons. The Kasaragod...

Bengaluru, Jun 15: Campus Front of India will be conducting a national level seminar on ‘Saffron in Education and the Students Resistance” on June 17 at 2 p.m. at SCM Hall, SCMI near Mission Road, Bengaluru. The aim of the seminar is to bring a healthy discussion on swiftly progressing saffronisation of the educational system and the extreme oppression and alienation being faced by students...

Kanhangad, Jun 15: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader C.K. Padmanabhan has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of failing to maintain law and order situation in the State. Mr. Vijayan seemed to be acting like a party leader as he failed to condemn the attacks on BJP workers in Kozhikode by CPI(M) workers, Mr. Padmanabhan said, addressing the BJP-sponsored ‘Marxist Akrama Virudha...

A lawmaker from Kerala has announced that he is returning to eating meat, fish and eggs after practising vegetarianism for nearly two decades. There's nothing unusual about a lapsed vegetarian but V T Balram said his decision was prompted by the Central 'Hindu nationalist' BJP government's attempt to seize the people's right to eat what they wanted. “I have been living without eating meat, fish or...

Washington, Jun 13: Humans may be able to detect alien life within the next two decades, according to experts who believe that the hunt for life beyond our planet may soon yield results. In the next few years, researchers will be able to use the James Web Space Telescope and other detection devices to look for biomarkers such as oxygen and methane in the atmospheres of these Earth-like planets...

Kasargod, Jun 13: The incessant rains that has been lashing since the onset of monsoon wrecked havoc damaging at least 10 houses across the district, crippling normal life. According to official sources, the district received 145.30 mm rains over the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. on Monday with a cumulative tally touching to 450.20 mm. The rains and winds damaged four houses – two in Kumbadaje...

London, Jun 12: A teddy bear rose to 100,000 feet into space after it was tied to a helium balloon by a group of school children in the UK. The teddy bear, named as Roffa by the children of King's Rochester Preparatory School field in Boley Hill, Kent, reached the stratosphere, the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere, and travelled around 29 km (18 miles) before the balloon exploded due to...

London, Jun 11: News and sports websites have some of the lowest levels of security adoption, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks, a new study has found. Researchers looked at the security protocols used by the top 500 sites in various industries and online sectors. They found that fewer than 10 per cent of news and sports websites used basic security protocols such as Transport Layer Security...

Jun 11: Nobody likes hitchhikers.. especially when it's a large, unwelcome snake slithering on your vehicle. Ryan McMurphy from Georgia, US was driving on the highway when he noticed the reptile crawling on his car's hood, making its way towards him. The fact that the car was moving didn't stop the cheeky snake from wriggling towards the driver. In a matter of seconds, the snake reached the driver...