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Cyber & Technology April 20, 2026 312 stories in this edition

Outrage in China after streaming site debuts AI actor ‘database’

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Outrage in China after streaming site debuts AI actor ‘database’

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A slate of Chinese actors took online to declare they had not or would not sign up to the “artist database”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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A slate of Chinese actors took online to declare they had not or would not sign up to the “artist database”.

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Elon Musk summoned in France to show up over deepfakes on X, Grok probe

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MQM-P MNA’s daughter dies after being shot by stray bullet in Karachi

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KARACHI: A 19-year-old medical student, who was the daughter of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) MNA, died after being shot by a stray bullet in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, police said on Monday. Speaking to Dawn, Gulsha...

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FBI’s Patel sues Atlantic for US$250 million, says drinking story ‘is a lie’

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FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation ⁠lawsuit against the Atlantic and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, following the publication of an article on Friday claiming the director had a drinking problem that could pose...

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Myanmar Regime Expands Ban On Menstrual Products Amid Claims Of Misuse By Rebels: Report

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Harvard Gave Epstein What He Wanted, Kept Giving After He Left Jail: Report

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UK pharmacist fights Indian extradition for allegedly killing his ex-mother-in-law with arsenic

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LONDON, April 20 - A British-based pharmacist wanted in India for allegedly poisoning his ex-wife's family with arsenic, killing her mother, and trying to hire assassins to kill her father began his fight against extradi...

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