MediaNama

A few hours ago, I found my name, address and linked to my father’s name, on a website that has digitised India’s Election Commission rolls. In the email, the person who wrote in, offering to partner with MediaNama for “a custom site, a data extract/service, or an API” said, “We index the published Election Commission rolls (~57 crore electors) so you can query people, househ...

IPO-bound Prism, the parent entity of OYO, is building an AI agent that will run a hotel’s daily operations end-to-end.

Called GM Agent, the AI system will execute tasks such as reconciliation, vendor renewals, occupancy calls and review action plans, “without a human triggering each step”.

“This is the shift from AI that assists hotel operations to AI t...

Meta said that it is renaming its “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” on Instagram and will limit the reach of AI-generated profiles that doesn’t carry the label. The social media giant has...

By Mouhamed Noordeen

Android represented something larger than a mobile operating system, embodying a political idea about computing. Built on the Linux kernel and released through the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Android offered a markedly different vision from the tightly controlled ecosystems that were beginning to define the smar...

California lawmakers have passed a bill that would exempt qualifying open-source operating systems from the state’s age-verification requirements.

Assembly Bill 1856 says that an operating system provider “does not mean a per...