1.More CCTV, more crime: India’s most-surveilled cities are the least safe. Indore, Hyderabad, and New Delhi are some of the most surveilled cities in the world. But CCTV cameras also pose a threat to data privacy in the country.

2.Seven healthy habits may help cut dementia risk, study says, as reported in The Guardian. Researchers present initial findings from study that followed thousands of US women for about 20 years

Being active, eating a better diet, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, keeping normal blood pressure, controlling cholesterol and having low blood sugar in middle age may all lower the chances of developing conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease later in life, research suggests. Findings appear intuitive.

3.Drones , also called UAVs , are in the news. First, The US Air Force has completed a project to develop face recognition software for autonomous drones, sparking concerns that individuals could be targeted and killed ( as reported in New Scientist)

Second, Russia launched a new wave of Iranian made drones against Ukraine, reports the Wall Street Journal.

4.Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Information reported , citing people with direct knowledge of the effort. As an aside Mr Musk, after recent rise in Tesla shares is back as the richest man in the world.

5.The world is on track to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming, so it’s time to study Solar geoengineering projects, the UN says.

The “speculative group of technologies” that involve reflecting sunlight away from the Earth and back toward space, often called solar radiation modification, or more broadly solar geoengineering, should not be used now, the United Nations said, but they should be studied more rigorously.