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Posted on 11 July 2026 | 8:04 am
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Posted on 11 July 2026 | 6:31 am
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BRUSSELS: Meta must change Facebook and Instagram's "addictive design" or face a heavy fine, the EU warned on Friday. Brussels accused the US tech giant of failing to limit the risks the platforms posed to users, especially children and vulnerable adults, because of features designed to keep t...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 3:00 am
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China on Friday successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system using a net attached to a sea platform, state media reported, in the hope of breaking US dominance in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B rocket lifted off from the Hainan commercial space launch site in southern China at 1...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 1:47 pm
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Posted on 10 July 2026 | 7:43 am
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From remote-controlled trucks delivering life-saving aid in dangerous settings to mobile phone data analysis flagging mass displacement, humanitarians are eyeing ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) can speed up and improve their operations. There have been plenty of warnings about the dangers...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 5:08 am
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WASHINGTON: Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions jumped 27 percent in its latest fiscal year, the tech giant disclosed on Thursday, adding to a wave of worsening environmental reports from an industry racing to build AI infrastructure. Total emissions reached 21.1 million metric tons of carbon ...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 2:24 am
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The US government's shock moves to restrict access to top artificial intelligence systems from Anthropic and OpenAI have sparked growing interest in open-source models — especially ones from China. The de facto bans from an anti-regulation White House blindsided the tech world, which had grown a...
Posted on 9 July 2026 | 8:19 am
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• Summons agency's chief for briefing on online portal, enforcement timelines• Senators seek briefing on revised mechanism for registration of blasphemy FIRs ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights expressed concern over the delay in processing of complaints by the National ...
Posted on 9 July 2026 | 2:29 am
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A Chinese industry regulator warned users on Wednesday of a "security backdoor" embedded in versions of US artificial intelligence company Anthropic's coding tool, Claude Code. The alleged backdoor could allow the software to "transmit sensitive information", including users' locations a...
Posted on 8 July 2026 | 10:47 am
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OpenAI will publicly launch its most capable model, GPT-5.6, on Thursday, after delaying the launch last month on the US government's request amid national security concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused. This comes on the heels of the US government lifting curbs on Anthropic's lates...
Posted on 8 July 2026 | 5:25 am
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Using NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding of the nature of some of the organic carbon — the molecular backbone for all known living organisms — detected on Mars as they explore the question of whether Earth's planetary neighbour ever harboured life. N...
Posted on 6 July 2026 | 6:42 pm
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Microsoft said Monday it was eliminating about 4,800 jobs — roughly 2 per cent of its global workforce — in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of its struggling Xbox gaming division. The cuts include the deepest overhaul in Xbox's history, with approximately 3,200 g...
Posted on 6 July 2026 | 2:55 pm
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Posted on 6 July 2026 | 11:54 am
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The United Nations chief called on Monday for a global governance system to shape artificial intelligence for the good of humanity, warning against allowing the technology itself to "vibe-code" our future. With AI advancing at "runaway speed", UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres cautioned ...
Posted on 6 July 2026 | 8:49 am
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Information Technology Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja on Sunday stressed the need for the proposed changes to telecommunication laws, as the existing legal framework did not meet the demands of modern technologies such as 5G. The proposed Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organisation) (Amendment) Bill ...
Posted on 5 July 2026 | 4:06 pm
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Gaming giant PlayStation has been raked over the coals by consumers after its controversial announcement this week that it would end the production of physical game discs by January 2028, effectively meaning that games produced after that point would only be available on its digital marketplace. ...
Posted on 4 July 2026 | 4:38 pm
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India is investigating a data breach at Tata Electronics that exposed documents linked to Apple's unreleased iPhone 18 Pro, the country's IT secretary said on Thursday in the government's first public comments on the incident. Sensitive lists of components and suppliers as well as photos of iP...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 9:44 am
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India has issued notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal, asking them to explain safeguards around features that allow users to post messages without revealing their phone numbers, a government source said. The notices marked a further escalation of India's policing of online platforms,...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 7:13 am
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Friday that internet services in the country were back to normal after issues with the SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) international submarine cable system were resolved. In a statement, the authority said that the fault in the cable system, which had l...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 6:31 am
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TL;DR Pros: Powerful voice work that understands the assignment Unique and colourful visual style, with excellent cutscene direction Varied, soulful music that leans towards fun and rock-out-friendly Great arcade mode with punchy gameplay and lots of challenge levels Conceptually innovative with he...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 5:30 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: AWS and Microsoft want to embed thousands of their own engineers at client companies to help them capitalise on artificial intelligence, which has yet to prove its profitability in the business world. Microsoft announced on Thursday the creation of a unit called Microsoft Frontier Com...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 3:45 am
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NEW DELHI: India has asked Meta to hold off launching its username feature on WhatsApp, citing concerns over fraud and impersonation. The move comes as authorities in India grapple with a spike in cybercrime, with scammers exploiting low digital safety awareness among millions of internet users. W...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 2:55 am
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Thursday it was closely monitoring internet traffic disruptions caused by a fault in the SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) international submarine cable system, which was likely to cause intermittent degradation in service quality and connectivity. ...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 6:06 pm
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Since DeepSeek shocked markets early last year with its cheap but powerful AI model, global consumers have been faced with a choice: Chinese offerings with lower prices and less capability or OpenAI or Anthropic, which have poured billions into development. A model called GLM-5.2, launched last m...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 1:45 pm
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KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday launched the province's first Google Gemini for Education Corner at NED University and 20,000 Google Career Certificate scholarships for students along with the Google Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) training programme for cabinet member...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 3:36 am
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ISLAMABAD: The GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report 2026 has highlighted Pakistan as the most improved nation among all surveyed countries in narrowing the mobile ownership gender gap, which sharply declined from 37 per cent in 2024 to 27pc in 2025. Pakistan also ranked among the top-performing nations acr...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 2:58 am
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PARIS: The 1.7 million satellites that companies are aiming to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years will have "devastating consequences for astronomy", new research warned on Wednesday. The plans to swarm Earth with huge, extremely bright satellites represent an "existential threat�...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 2:50 am
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Sony on Wednesday announced that PlayStation will end physical disc production for games on its consoles from January 2028. In a statement on PlayStation's blog, the gaming giant said the decision was taken "as consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away fr...
Posted on 1 July 2026 | 1:11 pm
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ISLAMABAD: The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved a $70 million loan for Pakistan's Connected Punjab Programme (CPP) to help the province expand broadband internet access, improve digital service delivery, and enhance cashless transactions. A World Bank statement said the ...
Posted on 1 July 2026 | 10:36 am