Technology

Australian telco Optus said on Monday it had suffered another emergency call outage in an area south of Sydney, 10 days after a broader disruption that it said had probably caused four deaths when customers were unable to get timely aid. The Australian government called the outage an “absolutely shocking failure” and has said it will seek answers from Singapore Telecommunications (STEL.SI), which owns the country’s No. 2 carrier. Singtel Group CEO Yuen … Read more

China’s new visa programme aimed at attracting foreign tech talent kicks off this week, a move seen boosting Beijing’s fortunes in its geopolitical rivalry with Washington, as a new US visa policy would prompt would-be applicants to scramble for alternatives. While China has no shortage of skilled local engineers, the programme is part of an effort by Beijing to portray itself as a country welcoming foreign investment … Read more

The 23rd Future Banking Summit and Expo focused on the digital transformation of Pakistan’s banking space through easing digital banking for customers and merchants with cashless solutions, AI integration, and stronger cybersecurity. The innovation and ideas displayed at the event have the potential to modernise Pakistan’s digital banking infrastructure with secure, convenient, and efficient services, … Read more

Hundreds of South Korean public services remained offline on Monday after a fire at a data centre disrupted government websites and exposed vulnerabilities in the country’s digital infrastructure. Authorities said 62 government services had been restored out of about 647 systems affected by the fire which broke out during routine maintenance in a server room at the state-run National Information Resources Service in Daejeon on Friday. President Lee Jae Myung has apologized for … Read more

Pakistan’s future is in data Mari Energies Limited (MARI), one of Pakistan’s top oil and gas explorers, has created a new subsidiary dubbed Mari Technologies. They plan to make a 5MW data centre in Islamabad and plan to make another one in Karachi. It’s definitely an exciting time to be a Pakistani. We’ve got the … Read more

Social media platform X said on Monday it plans to appeal an Indian court order that would allow over two million police officers nationwide to issue arbitrary takedown requests via a secretive online portal called the Sahyog. “We will appeal this order to defend free expression,” X said in a post on the platform, in its first statement since the High Court of Karnataka ruled last week … Read more

OpenAI has introduced a new feature, ChatGPT Pulse, designed to provide users with a proactive daily feed of personalized updates. Launched in preview for Pro subscribers on mobile, Pulse compiles information overnight using context from users’ chats and optional app connections, such as Gmail and Google Calendar. Each morning, subscribers are presented with a digest … Read more

BYD’s luxury sub-brand Yangwang revealed that its U9 Xtreme hypercar had hit a blistering 496.22 km/h (308.4 mph) at Germany’s ATP Papenburg test track. Driven by Marc Basseng, the one-way run edged past Bugatti’s Chiron Super Sport 300+, which topped out at 490.48 km/h (304.77 mph). For more than two decades, Bugatti has defined the … Read more

Pakistan’s V-SenseDrive takes on road safety with AI Created using Gemini Road accidents are a daily threat in Pakistan’s chaotic traffic mix, but a new local project aims to change that. Researchers have unveiled V-SenseDrive, the country’s first privacy-preserving driver behavior dataset, built entirely from Pakistani roads. Instead of invasive face recordings, the dataset combines … Read more