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Police warn AI is being used to generate realistic child abuse material
Sri Lanka Police say criminals are manipulating ordinary photographs of children into realistic abusive images, and list warning signs for parents.
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Train tickets go on sale online as the strike shuts station counters
Ordinary journey tickets can now be bought on pravesha.lk, announced as a 48-hour strike by 29 railway unions halted ticket issuing at many stations.
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Coordination office opens for Sri Lanka Broadcasters' Symposium 2026
Mass Media Minister Nalinda Jayatissa opened the coordination office for a broadcasting sector symposium focused on digital technology and content production.
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Digital Summit Asia returns to Colombo on October 1-2 under theme 'The Epicentre'
The Digital Marketers Association of Sri Lanka will hold its two-day summit at Water's Edge, with speakers from TikTok, Uber and Publicis Groupe.
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Musk urges AI firms to test each other's models as Trump calls safety fears a 'hoax'
Elon Musk proposed rival AI developers audit one another's models, hours after Donald Trump dismissed calls for AI controls as a 'sick conspiracy'.
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Online Police Clearance Certificate service suspended for maintenance
Sri Lanka Police suspends online issuance of Police Clearance Certificates and opens three 24-hour helplines for applicants.
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UN rights chief warns of 'irreversible change' in open letter to frontier AI developers
Volker Türk told states and ten leading AI companies that voluntary self-regulation is 'nowhere near sufficient' to contain frontier AI risks.
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Anthropic says it blocked five attempts to use Claude for biological weapons research
The AI firm's threat report details bird flu, smallpox-family and toxin research, plus Russian espionage and Iranian propaganda use of its models.
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Police launch SOS mobile app that sends your location to the nearest station
Holding the SOS button for 10 seconds transmits a user's location to the nearest police station. The service starts as a Colombo District pilot.
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UK government rejects 'kill switch' law for dangerous AI
The Cabinet Office says Britain 'cannot simply turn AI off' and that blocking models domestically would not stop them being developed or misused elsewhere.
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Founder says Presidential Secretariat has cleared a 'universal basic AI' pilot for Sri Lanka
Presidential Secretariat clears universal basic AI pilot for Sri Lanka–Australia partnership targeting US$600m-a-year digital services.
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Anthropic researcher quits with warning that AI firms are 'gambling with our lives'
Jacob Coxon's resignation drew agreement from a senior Anthropic colleague and a pledge from Senator Bernie Sanders to seek a pause on AI development.
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Labour Ministry launches redesigned website with online complaints and digital EPF service
The trilingual site at labourmin.gov.lk carries amended labour laws, Wage Board decisions and EPF information, and lets the public file workplace complaints.
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UAE breaks up its giant AI campus and studies underground bunkers after Iranian strikes
Abu Dhabi is spreading its 5-gigawatt AI data centre project across multiple sites and weighing air defences after Iran named Stargate UAE as a target.
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Government approves 5MW canal-top solar pilot on the Viyana Canal
The government will build Sri Lanka's first canal-top solar pilot on the Viyana Canal, with 5MW generated over a 5km stretch at Mahiyanganaya.
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Apple's foldable is called the iPhone Duo, not the Ultra — and it starts at $1,999
Apple unveiled its first folding iPhone at Wednesday's keynote, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. The two lines go on sale five weeks apart.
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Sri Lanka to sign host agreement for BIMSTEC Technology Transfer Facility in Colombo
The pact with the BIMSTEC Secretariat is due to be signed Friday, on the sidelines of the bloc's fourth science and technology expert group meeting.
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Prime Minister says deepfake images are being used to target women political leaders
PM reports receiving letter documenting deepfake abuse against women political leaders.
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OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents cracked part of a 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours
The company resolved two of four statements in the Navier–Stokes problem. A rival mathematician says his progress reached OpenAI before it began work.
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Apple's foldable iPhone expected at Wednesday keynote — what it could cost in Sri Lanka
The event streams at 10.30 p.m. Sri Lanka time. A rumoured iPhone Ultra near $2,000 would land here well above half a million rupees.
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Every state institution to get a Digital Transformation Unit under a Chief Digital Officer
Cabinet approved the President's proposal to place a CDO in each government institution, reporting directly to its head.
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Health Ministry in talks with Indian biotech experts on non-communicable diseases
Deputy Health Minister Hansaka Wijemuni met an Indian biotechnology delegation on tools for medical research and NCD detection.
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German Spectrum rocket reaches orbit from Norway, a first for private continental Europe
Isar Aerospace's second launch carried five satellites from Andøya, eighteen months after its first rocket exploded seconds into flight at the same site.
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AI monitoring fitted to first 10 intercity buses in Colombo road-safety pilot
AI monitors 10 intercity buses at Bastian Mawatha for drowsiness, phone use and seatbelts. NTC plans islandwide rollout after evaluation.