At least 11 tourists were drowned Saturday in the Swat River which caused widespread grief and anger across the Pakistani citizens. The common people demanded accountability of the high-ups for their gross negligence in performing their duties. The hapless family waited for several hours for help which did not arrive. Not only the laymen, the…
After Matthew Schaefer pulled the blue-and-orange sweater over his head at the NHL draft, his eyes already glistening with tears, he glanced down at his left shoulder and saw a pink ribbon. The symbol of breast cancer awareness was the New York Islanders’ tribute to his mother, Jennifer, who died of the disease just 16…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s data protection commissioner has asked Apple (AAPL.O), and Google (GOOGL.O), to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores in the country due to concerns about data protection, following a similar crackdown elsewhere. Commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement on Friday that she had made the request because DeepSeek illegally transfers users’ personal…
(Reuters) – OpenAI has recently begun renting Google’s (GOOGL.O) artificial intelligence chips to power ChatGPT and its other products, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Friday. The ChatGPT maker is one of the largest purchasers of Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) graphics processing units (GPUs), using the AI chips to train models and also for…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Meta Platforms (META.O) may face daily fines if EU regulators decide the changes it has proposed to its pay-or-consent model fail to comply with an antitrust order issued in April, they said on Friday. The warning from the European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, came two months after it…
(Reuters) – Ripple Labs will withdraw its cross-appeal against the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a prolonged legal battle tied to the sale of its XRP tokens, the crypto firm’s CEO said on Friday. “We’re closing this chapter once and for all,” Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse said in a post on X, adding…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After Matthew Schaefer pulled the blue-and-orange sweater over his head at the NHL draft, his eyes already glistening with tears, he glanced down at his left shoulder and saw a pink ribbon. The symbol of breast cancer awareness was the New York Islanders’ tribute to his mother, Jennifer, who died of…
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar underscored the government’s commitment to taking balanced decisions that maintain financial discipline without placing undue burden on the public. The foreign minister chaired a meeting to review matters related to the power sector. The meeting was attended by the ministers for power and petroleum,…
Thailand’s foreign ministry said on Friday it was taken aback by an unprecedented public attack on the Thai premier and her family by Cambodia’s influential former leader, but stressed the need for diplomacy to resolve an escalating bilateral dispute. In a televised address that lasted more than three hours, veteran Cambodian politician Hun Sen rebuked…
South Korean police have detained six US citizens who were attempting to deliver around 1,300 plastic bottles filled with rice, dollar notes and Bibles to North Korea, a police official said on Friday. The group had been trying to float the bottles by sea at a border island west of the capital Seoul near the…
