AI fakes and disinformation spread in first Bangladesh election since student protests

BBC Verify's Shruti Menon is in Bangladesh for the country's first election since the former prime minister was ousted in 2024 and has been assessing the spread of disinformation ...
InfoWorld

Last JavaScript-based TypeScript arrives in beta

TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.

Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info

There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don’t have the best of intentions, but Google has some handy tools to address that, and they’ve gotten an upgrade ...

Explore where Winter Olympic sports are most accessible across the U.S.

For millions of Americans — those who live in the biggest cities, along the coasts or in heat-drenched areas — the Winter Olympics can feel a world away. These aren’t the Summer Games, where some ...

Here’s what a new congressional map could mean for Hampton Roads

Democratic legislators in the General Assembly unveiled their proposed new congressional map Thursday night. The new map would favor Democrats in 10 out of Virginia’s 11 districts.
GitHub

simplysuvi/OFLC-wage-map

This project visualizes prevailing wage data published by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) for Labor Condition Applications (LCAs). It enables interactive ...

Climate change is making the Winter Olympics harder to host

The warm December weather in both host locations is a reminder of the fragility of winter sports. Even with the intervention ...
University of Sheffield

Strength-in-numbers X-ray technique to map the structure of molecules and materials

Scientists have developed a way to map the atomic structure of materials, where previously thought unattainable, by using a strength-in-numbers approach with X-rays. For many decades, the method to ...

What tracking data and satellites can tell us about the US military build-up in the Gulf

Just before we close BBC Verify Live let’s recap some of the stories we’ve been working on today. We’ve looked at the insights publicly available flight tracking can give us about the movement of US ...
KRIV

Houston power outage tracker: CenterPoint, Entergy maps, numbers; report an outage

A few thousand customers are without power on Sunday amid a winter storm. CenterPoint and Entergy say their crews are ready to restore any weather-related outages. Here's how to track outages and ...
The Hindu

Madras High Court accepts Chennai Corporation’s revised layout map restricting number of shops in Marina beach to 300

The Madras High Court has accepted a revised layout map submitted by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) after restricting the number of shops on the Marina beach in Chennai to 300, as directed by ...