Facial Recognition Technology Set to Be Rolled Out Across the UK After High Court Ruling

A top court in Britain on Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge to the London police's use of live facial recognition technology, ruling that the force's policy does not breach human rights law.

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.

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

Seven significant failings of New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Covid

Ian Brighthope lays out seven significant failures of New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into the country’s covid response. “No inquiry begins in neutrality when its scope is constrained before the first question is asked. The origin