EU Hits Elon Musk’s X With $140 Million Fine
The case over online transparency has become a point of contention between the European Union and the Trump administration.
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Anthropic unveils Opus 4.5 with major performance and memory upgrades
Opus 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results in coding tasks, tool-use evaluations, general reasoning tests Anthropic has introduced Opus 4.5, the latest and final release in its 4.5 series of AI models. The rollout follows earlier launches of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. The company says Opus 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results across several … Read more
Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
Samsung unveils Galaxy Z TriFold, its most expensive foldable yet
Samsung says the 10-inch triple-fold model is a ‘special edition’, not aimed at mass sales The Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale on December 12 and is more than twice the cost of the new iPhone 17. Source: AFP The Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale on December 12 and costs more than … Read more
Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.
Red Dead Redemption arrives on Netflix Games, marking franchise’s mobile debut
Release features mobile-optimised controls, including touch-based shooting, movement Netflix has added Red Dead Redemption to its gaming catalogue, making the acclaimed Rockstar Games title available on iOS and Android for the first time. The game is accessible to all Netflix subscribers and can be downloaded through the platform’s mobile app. The release features mobile-optimized controls, … Read more
It’s Not Just You. Users Struggle With the Instagram Repost Button.
The new repost option, sandwiched between comment and share, has led to consternation and accidental reposts by some users.
New giant long-necked dinosaur fossil discovered in China
Paleontologists have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, from a partial skeleton discovered near Chongqing in southwest China, a find that sheds fresh light on sauropod evolution in East Asia. The dinosaur lived during the Early Oxfordian age of the Jurassic, around 160 million years ago. The bones were recovered from purplish‑red … Read more
How Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.
Pakistan ranks number 3 globally in crypto adoption: PVARA leads
With a tech-savvy youth and PVARA in place, Pakistan eyes global crypto leadership DUBAI: Bilal Bin Saqib, chairperson of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA), shared an ambitious vision for Pakistan’s crypto space at Binance Blockchain Week Dubai 2025, He spoke alongside industry leaders CZ, Michael Saylor, and UAE’s AI minister Omar Sultan Al Olama. … Read more