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• U.N. World Court Opens Landmark Myanmar Rohingya Genocide Case

  13-01-2026 16:55 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Nations NewsThe International Court of Justice opened a landmark case Monday brought by the Gambia against Myanmar, alleging genocide over the military's treatment of the Rohingya minority. Over the next three weeks, the Court will hear oral arguments from both sides, examine witnesses and experts, and consider whether Myanmar breached its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which the country is a...
  
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• Pentagon Embracing Musk's Grok As the AI Chatbot Draws Global Outcry

  13-01-2026 16:55 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: NPRU.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broad push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology. Just days earlier, Grok drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating deepfake sexualized images of women and children without their knowledge or consent.
  
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• Malaysia, Indonesia Become First to Block Musk's Grok Over AI Deepfakes

  13-01-2026 16:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: NPRMalaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, after authorities said Grok was being used to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images of women and children. The moves reflect growing global concern over generative AI tools that can produce realistic images, sound, text, and videos while existing safeguards fail to prevent their abuse.
  
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• Hidden Brain Signal May Reveal Alzheimer's Long Before Diagnosis

  13-01-2026 16:51 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthResearchers have discovered a brain activity pattern that can predict which people with mild cognitive impairment are likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. Using a noninvasive brain scanning technique and a custom analysis tool, they detected subtle changes in electrical signals tied to memory processing years before diagnosis. The findings point to a new way of spotting Alzheimer's early—by listening directly to how neurons behave.
  
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