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Beyond the badge: who audits ‘human-made’ music claims?
Streaming platforms can pin a label on a profile. The harder problem is evidentiary: what proof counts, who stores it, and what happens when an adversary games the system?
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Child malaria medicines after the green light: procurement, politics, and the last mile
WHO prequalification is a quality stamp, not a delivery van; Gavi and the Global Fund help pay for many poor-country vaccines and drugs—but budgets, tenders, and clinic fridges still decide who gets a box tonight.
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Shadow tankers, oil ports, and the new insurance map
War at sea shows up in premiums and clauses as much as in flames: hull cover, sanctions fine print, and older tankers in the grey market moving cargoes mainstream fleets will not touch.
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When ‘AI-first’ means forms faster than fights
Military AI often means cleaning data and rewriting procedures before any robot debuts—sensor fusion, classification rules, and procurement law decide what actually ships.
By Newsorga desk
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Who hosts a rights-and-tech summit when civic space shrinks?
Civic space—the room NGOs, journalists, and citizens have to organise and speak freely—shrinks when summits are cancelled or chilled; hosts and funders inherit risks that badges and slogans cannot paper over.
By Newsorga editorial
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Oscars 2027 rules: AI-only actors and AI-only scripts cannot win—human authorship stays central
For the 2027 ceremony, the Academy drew bright lines: AI-only performances cannot win acting Oscars, AI-only scripts cannot win writing Oscars—while other crafts still weigh how humans steered the work.
By Sofia Ren
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Sox9 boost in astrocytes clears amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s mice, Baylor team reports in Nature Neuroscience
Baylor scientists report that tuning a gene regulator in star-shaped brain cells helped mice clear Alzheimer’s-style plaques—promising lab science, not a human cure yet.
By Priya Nambiar
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Meta closes Assured Robot Intelligence buy to deepen humanoid AI and “whole-body” robotics
By Taylor Brooks