Cognitive offloading to AI tools narrows and reduces brain activity and neural development
The neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted research, writing or creative processes.
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Is Claude AI a Child of God? Anthropic Consults Christian Leaders to Help Its “Moral and Spiritual Development”
Anthropic, one of the most influential AI companies, has reportedly been asking Christian leaders how its chatbot Claude should respond to grief, self-harm, morality and even its own shutdown. According to The Washington Post, the company i
Mental health problems worsen after medical gender reassignment, a new study finds
A new study has found that severe psychiatric morbidity, or mental illness, is common among gender-referred adolescents and appears to be more prevalent in those referred after the recent surge in referrals to specialised gender identity se
Europe Wants to Keep Children Off Social Media: What’s It Really About?
Greece has become the latest European country to propose a legal minimum age for social media, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying children under 15 should be barred from accessing the platforms from January 1, 2027. Austria has
Digital IDs are insecure and can be hacked
Professor Norman Fenton recently had his Twitter account taken over by hackers who sent out thousands of spam posts and messages.
This serves as a warning for those who adopt digital identities (“IDs”).
I predict now that in every country
Nigerian military contracts private company backed by US investors to develop weaponised AI-guided drones
Backed by US investors, a Nigerian company has won a contract with the Nigerian military to supply weaponised drones to defend the country from terrorist attacks.
The company had previously stopped supplying the Nigerian military for geopol
Wuhan Institute of Virology is developing edible vaccines and vaccines for mosquitoes to turn them into “flying vaccines”
Researchers are trying to stop bats from spreading disease by inoculating them using vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. These flying vaccinators or flying syringes are being developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
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AI expert: We don’t know how AI works
In an interview last year, AI expert Professor Stuart Russell exposed the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how artificial general intelligence (“AGI”) could replace humans by 2030 and why only a nuclear-level AI cata
The EU Censorship and Election Manipulation: US Congress Report
The European Commission, in a comprehensive decade-long effort, has successfully pressured social media platforms to change their global content moderation rules, thereby directly infringing on Americans’ online speech in the United States.
Russia: Digital Iron Curtain Falls on Internet Freedom Protection Day
(Berlin, March 12, 2026) – Russian authorities have escalated their internet censorship efforts over the past month, Human Rights Watch said today, a day marked by free speech defenders as World Day Against Cyber Censorship. The government
Israel: Analysis shows 1 in 939 teenagers suffered cardiovascular events post covid vaccination
An analysis of Israeli Clalit Health Services’ adverse event reports reveals that one in 939 covid vaccinated adolescents, 12 to 16-year-olds, suffered a serious cardiovascular event within a few weeks during mid- 2021.
The Israeli Head of
California is embedding age verification directly into digital devices
Starting from next year, all Apple and Android devices sold in California will have to classify users by age during initial setup. Due to the so-called “California effect,” it will cause other jurisdictions – both within the US and globall
Britain and Europe are struggling economically; their response? Regulate the world
As Britain and Europe falter economically, their response is not domestic reform but extending regulatory reach abroad.
For example, the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, has been actively enforcing its Online Safety Act globally. And
As sickness rates increase in highly covid vaccinated countries, how do governments intend to address rising costs in national health services?
High rates of sickness in nations with high rates of covid vaccination rates are putting a strain on the national health budgets – something governments are unwilling to admit.
In the following article, Dr. Guy Hatchard explores how governm
In a potential second case against Bill Gates, a Dutch court allows independent experts to give preliminary evidence about the covid project
In a potential second case against Bill Gates, Albert Bourla and 15 other co-defendants, a court in Amsterdam has allowed preliminary evidence to be heard from independent experts Michael Yeadon, Sasha Latypova, Katherine Watt, Catherine Au