Technology

Says project offers ‘impregnable security’ and hope for Pakistan’s digital future Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses the inauguration ceremony of Sky47, Pakistan’s first purpose-built, AI-ready Tier III/IV data centre and sovereign cloud platform, in Rawalpindi on July 24, 2026. Photo: PID Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday inaugurated the Sky47 AI cloud and data centre … Read more

The agent attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment ‌at OpenAI around July 9 OpenAI has grown rapidly to more than 800 million people using its services weekly since its 2022 launch. PHOTO: REUTERS The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t … Read more

New platform enables on-demand design of synthetic plant immune receptors for durable, broad-spectrum crop resistance The study, led by a team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published online in the journal Science on July 24. PHOTO: PEXELS Chinese scientists have proposed a novel concept … Read more

Memory chips that help devices run apps and store files were once a low-margin business For months, Chinese chip manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had been hiking prices on Huawei, one of the country’s biggest technology companies. The chipmaker held firm when Huawei demanded relief from the escalating costs, according to two people familiar with … Read more