IT minister says spectrum auction to be completed early next year, will pave way for better internet services

By Malik Shahzad Aslam : Information and Technology Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja on Tuesday said that the auction of 600 MHz spectrum would be completed early next year, stating that…

Are these AI prompts damaging your thinking skills?

By Ariz Riaz : A recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) utilized electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor the brain activity of students while they wrote essays. The results…

Engineer becomes first wheelchair user to go to space

By Sabeeh Zunair : An engineer from Germany has become the world’s first wheelchair user to go into space. Michaela Benthaus, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a mountain…

TikTok is Finally Being Sold to US to Avoid Ban

By Malik Shahzad Aslam : TikTok has finalized an agreement to sell a sufficient stake in its US operations to comply with the country’s divest-or-ban law, setting the stage for…

The Invisible Intruder: New ‘GhostPairing’ Attack Turns WhatsApp’s Linking Feature into a Hacker’s Backdoor

By Tanveer Ahmed : A dangerous new threat is targeting WhatsApp users. Security researchers at Gen Digital recently discovered a sophisticated account takeover method. They are calling it GhostPairing. This attack allows criminals to gain…

Meta May Start Charging Creators Just For Pasting A Link

By Tanveer Ahmed : Facebook has begun testing a controversial new feature that limits how many links users can share in posts each month unless they subscribe to Meta Verified,…

YouTube outage briefly blocks users worldwide, service now largely back online

By Malik Shahzad Aslam : Alphabet’s YouTube was largely back up after a brief outage denied access for thousands of users globally on Friday, according to Downdetector.com. There were about…

Stay Put: Google Advises Visa-Holding Staff to Cancel Travel as Embassy Backlogs Reach Critical Peaks

By Tanveer Ahmed : Alphabet’s Google has advised some employees on US visas to avoid international travel due to delays at embassies, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing an internal email. The…

Google’s ‘Babel Fish’ Moment: Gemini AI Brings Real-Time Speech Translation to Any Headphones

By embedding Gemini’s architecture directly into the platform, Google Translate can now decipher the subtle complexities that often trip up traditional machine translation. Rather than providing rigid, literal results, the…

Institutional Shake-up: Ministry of Interior Purges Top NCCIA Brass Over Deepening Corruption Probe

Malik Shahzad Aslam : In a significant move to address a deepening institutional crisis, the Ministry of Interior has officially sanctioned the resignations of four high-ranking officials from the National…