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A Pakistani astronaut will travel to China's Tiangong space station aboard the Shenzhou-24 mission, becoming the first foreigner to visit the orbiting outpost, Beijing's manned space agency said on Saturday. Pakistan and China are close diplomatic and strategic partners, and signed a deal in Feb...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 11:20 am
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Posted on 7 November 2026 | 10:40 am
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TOKYO: A Japanese minister blamed Elon Musk's X social media platform on Friday for almost plunging him into diplomatic hot water, after its automatic translation feature implied he did not know the names of world leaders he was meeting. Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa assured reporters that he kne...
Posted on 7 November 2026 | 12:05 am
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The National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has warned of an increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated bots to carry out credential-based and coordinated cyberattacks, noting that critical infrastructure and financial services are at particular risk. NCERT, in an advisory da...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 7:44 pm
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Protesters broke into the construction site of a Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam on Friday at the start of two days of rallies that are part of a growing global backlash over the rapid build-out of computing power needed for AI. Activist groups have announced actions in 16 countries on Friday and...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 6:38 pm
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Production of Cybertrucks — the pickups hailed by enthusiasts as a symbol of Elon Musk's futuristic ambitions and equally hated as ugly reminders of the Donald Trump era — will wind down, the Tesla CEO said Friday. Tesla will stop building the truck at its Texas factory around the middle of 20...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 3:10 pm
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European Union's (EU) tech regulators charged social media platform TikTok on Friday with breaching the bloc's online content rules, telling it to fix the so-called "rabbit hole" effect of its recommender system, which attracts users' attention to a constant stream of similar videos. TikTo...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 2:54 pm
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Apple has an undisclosed multilingual grey list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said on Friday. The list is not a ban; iPhone users can still type what they like when drafting emails and texts. But the words on the lis...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 1:37 pm
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Posted on 6 November 2026 | 12:28 pm
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Technology shares plunged on Friday after an unnerving rout on Wall Street as fears grew that Democrats would accelerate a backlash against AI after their crushing defeat of President Donald Trump's Republicans in the US midterms. The Tokyo and Seoul stock markets closed out their weeks with losse...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 12:17 pm
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Posted on 6 November 2026 | 9:59 am
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TL;DR Pros: Gunplay feels amazing with the removal of random weapon spread Animation and visual quality is superb Campaign has a compelling story, good voice acting and solid mission design Multiplayer maps are good overall, with Silkworm being a standout Every weapon in the game feels lik...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 5:30 am
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said Pakistan aimed to develop one million artificial intelligence (AI) professionals by 2030, as part of its broader strategy to strengthen the country's digital economy and expand technological ...
Posted on 6 November 2026 | 1:59 am
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Thursday dismissed reports of a ban on video-sharing platform TikTok as "false and misleading", clarifying that no notification to that effect had been issued. In a post on social media platform X, the authority said that a fake notification rega...
Posted on 5 November 2026 | 7:50 am
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An aging Nasa satellite telescope that a robotic spacecraft was sent to retrieve on a failed rescue mission this summer was headed for a fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 22 years after it was launched into orbit. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, weighing roughly 3,200...
Posted on 4 November 2026 | 6:12 am
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Binance released on Tuesday a detailed investigation into the $6.3 billion hack of its cryptocurrency platform, showing how attackers used fake job interviews and malicious code to steal the funds. The crypto exchange said it had replenished 98 per cent of the affected assets by drawing on its own f...
Posted on 3 November 2026 | 6:51 pm
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Australia's world-first teen social media ban was "ill thought out" and amounted to a "profound restriction on political debate", a lawyer for messaging platform Reddit told the country's top court in the first legal challenge to the law. Reddit and a l...
Posted on 3 November 2026 | 8:42 am
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Ahold Delhaize said on Monday that an "IT incident" had hit fridges and freezers in dozens of its supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg. In October, the retailer reported an earlier cybersecurity incident to the Dutch police, coinciding with a cyberattack in France that caused refrigerators and...
Posted on 2 November 2026 | 4:10 pm
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Dozens of robots took on more than 3,000 steps up one of China's most famous peaks on Monday, carrying eggs and watermelons in a race organisers billed as a test of real-world machine endurance, state media showed. For hundreds of years, Mount Tai — the tallest peak in China's eastern Shandong...
Posted on 2 November 2026 | 9:49 am
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UAE state oil company ADNOC on Monday announced a partnership with OpenAI, saying it would be the world's first energy firm to deploy OpenAI Frontier, an advanced artificial intelligence platform. The deal was announced as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attended the UAE's flagship oil industry event in A...
Posted on 2 November 2026 | 9:07 am
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Posted on 2 November 2026 | 4:44 am
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Posted on 2 November 2026 | 3:43 am
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The four members of a crew who took part in a simulated mission to Mars have emerged after 378 days in isolation at the US space agency's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, an endeavour designed to help prepare for a possible future excursion by Nasa astronauts to Earth's planetary neighbour...
Posted on 1 November 2026 | 7:15 pm
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Binance, the worlds biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said it would resume withdrawals on Sunday after covering 95 per cent of the $6.3 billion in tokens stolen from its platform in the world's largest digital heist, which the FBI has tied to North Korea. The exchange, founded in China, said the fi...
Posted on 1 November 2026 | 6:54 am
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Crypto exchanges are taking quick action to bolster their defences and urging greater industry-wide information-sharing after a record $6.3 billion hack of Binance exposed their vulnerability just as they become more embedded in mainstream finance. Coinbase said it made adjustments to its systems th...
Posted on 31 October 2026 | 12:52 pm
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Every year, Lahore is choked by a smog season worse than the last one, points out student and independent video game developer Ibrahim Hisham. This is his inspiration for Fogbound — a short psychological horror game slated to release at the end of this year under his studio Minidevs — which feat...
Posted on 31 October 2026 | 5:30 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: Meta reached a settlement in a landmark case over the alleged harms of social media, the plaintiffs' lawyers said on Friday, leaving Snap as the only defendant in a trial set to open in Los Angeles next week. "We remain committed to improving safety for kids on social media apps ...
Posted on 30 October 2026 | 11:19 pm
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Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance in the world's biggest crypto heist, putting a spotlight on how cryptocurrency exchanges insure their digital assets against theft and cyberattacks. But insurance protection is far from uniform. Coverage depends on how assets are stored, how hackers gain acc...
Posted on 30 October 2026 | 12:12 pm
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Cryptocurrency platform Binance said Friday it was working to resolve a "complex attack" that hit around $6.3 billion in funds, with about half that amount frozen to prevent a massive theft. The company — the world's largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes — said investigations ha...
Posted on 30 October 2026 | 10:58 am
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rose to 95th place among the 139 economies of the world featured in the 'Global Innovation Index 2026' published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), it emerged on Thursday. Advancing in rank from 99th place in 2025, Pakistan also reclaimed its "overperfo...
Posted on 29 October 2026 | 9:08 pm