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Meta ordered to pay $25bn in New Mexico over Cambridge Analytica data case
Judge orders Meta to pay $25bn in New Mexico over Facebook data violations; jury found 43 million breaches.
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Sri Lanka CERT issues critical PHP alert as websites go dark worldwide
PHP2Shell has pulled UK, Japanese and European services offline. Sri Lanka CERT has told local organisations to patch immediately.
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China's Unitree unveils H2-X 'guardian' robot for security and rescue work
The Hangzhou firm says the humanoid runs about eight hours while standing, but has not said whether the stunts in its promotional video were autonomous.
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Police warn that AI voice and video fakes are being used to impersonate relatives and ask for money
Police warn AI deepfakes used to impersonate relatives. Social media photos and voice clips are enough to generate convincing fakes.
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SriLankan Airlines rejects the hacking claim and says no ransom was ever demanded
The airline says investigations found no unauthorised access, no data loss and no service disruption, and traces the allegations to claims made on 29 June.
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Sooriyawewa man, 26, arrested over Telegram 'online business' scam
Police arrested a 26-year-old over a Telegram 'online business' scam, recovering Rs 151,000 from Rs 1.36 million in alleged fraud.
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MP tells Parliament hackers have taken control of SriLankan Airlines systems
Dayasiri Jayasekera said attackers had notified the airline they control its software and urged the government to accept a US offer of help.
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Sri Lanka's first passenger drone arrives, maiden flight set for Port City
Two-seat EHang aircraft landed at BIA. First flight expected 30-31 October; destination pending Defence Ministry clearance.
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Police clearance certificate system back online — after an outage police never dated
Sri Lanka Police say online applications have resumed. This desk's last confirmed status was that the service had been suspended since mid-September.
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Sri Lanka asks China to back a National Sovereign AI Computing Centre
Sri Lanka seeks Chinese support for National Sovereign AI Computing Centre, acknowledging infrastructure gap.
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CID arrests man over WhatsApp fraud run under the SriLankan Airlines name
Officers recovered 40 bank accounts, 15 ATM cards and five applications. Investigators say the racket was operated from abroad.
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SLT-MOBITEL switches on SMART AI, the token-credit platform it announced 69 days ago
The state operator's prepaid AI platform goes live at Rs. 749 per 10,000 credits — but neither filing says what a credit actually buys.
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High Commissioner tours Canberra robotics lab founded by a Sri Lankan professor
Four Sri Lankan doctoral researchers in AI and robotics are named in the mission's account of an 8 October visit. No agreement was signed.
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Sri Lanka's data centre shortage is partly a market failure, President's digital adviser says
Data centre shortage is market failure; private sector hasn't built capacity banks need, forcing government step-in.
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Environment Ministry moves on a national e-waste mechanism, with producer-responsibility rules still pending
E-waste mechanism launched; producer responsibility rules pending since International E-Waste Day consultation.
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Turkey bars under-15s from social media from 1 November
Published in the state journal on 10 October, the rules require platforms to verify age and bar services likely to have an addictive effect on children.
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Rs. 96 billion school digitalisation plan clears policy stage as internet safety guidelines go to pilot
A five-year digital education proposal gets policy-level approval, with safety guidelines piloted in November and a unified university admissions platform.
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ESOFT Uni takes ASOCIO AI in Education Award in Jakarta, its third in three years
The Sri Lankan institution won the 2026 AI in Education Award at the ASOCIO Digital & AI Summit, following an EdTech award in Tokyo in 2024 and a talent.
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Sri Lankan startup puts autonomous drones over Vidullanka's solar plants
Scouts says its locally built drone-and-dock system is the first autonomous aerial security deployment in Sri Lanka, covering two solar plants totalling 4MW.
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Sri Lanka CERT warns of fake foreign university admission ads on social media
Students and parents have lost lakhs of rupees to advertisements promising overseas admission, visas, work permits and eventual citizenship, the agency says.
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99x launches AI Hub to track what engineering teams spend on AI tools
The Norwegian-headquartered, Sri Lanka-rooted firm's new platform measures token use, execution speed and bottlenecks across AI-assisted software workflows.
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India and Sri Lanka hold first formal cyber-security consultations in Colombo
India-Sri Lanka cyber security talks cover AI-driven threats, incident response coordination, and threat intelligence.
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the software that landed Apollo 11, dies at 90
MIT has confirmed the death of Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote Apollo's onboard flight software and coined the term software engineering.
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Four Sri Lankan school teams place at Asia Pacific Robot Olympiad in Hyderabad
A robotic guide dog, a self-navigating garden robot, smart glasses for heritage sites and a folding hospital bed earned places against 149 teams from 25.