Technology

WASHINGTON: Scientists for the past 15 years have been looking for evidence of a type of star only hypothesized but never observed — one powered not by the fusion of atoms like the sun and other ordinary stars but by mysterious stuff called dark matter. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s ability to peer back to the dawn of …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Rules 2023 to counter the ever-growing cyberthreats and hacking attempts at various public sector entities. The rules stated that a CERT council will be established through the Ministry of IT and Telecom, which will work as a forum for consultative as well as advising all tiers of computer …

PARIS: The combination of “warp speed” advan­ces in neurotechnology, such as brain implants or scans that can increasingly peek inside minds, and artificial intelligence poses a threat to mental privacy, Unesco warned on Thursday. The UN’s agency for science and culture has started developing a global “ethical framework” to address human rights concerns posed by neurotechnology, it said at a …

ISLAMABAD: TikTok has given more powers to parents, allowing them to curate the content viewed by their children and filter out what they deem inappropriate videos. The new content filtering feature is designed to “prevent content with mature or complex themes from reaching users between the ages of 13 and 17 years”, the social media platform said in a statement. …

The Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday said it has arrested nine suspects and booked 19 others for allegedly blackmailing citizens through loan-giving mobile applications (apps). The development comes a day after the agency launched an investigation into the death of a man in Rawalpindi — who purportedly ended his life — due to “threats” made by loan apps over …

PARIS: Google’s artificial intelligence-powered medical chatbot has achieved a passing grade on a tough US medical licensing exam, but its answers still fall short of those from human doctors, a peer-reviewed study said on Wednesday. Last year, the release of ChatGPT — whose developer OpenAI is backed by Google’s rival Microsoft — kicked off a race between tech giants in …

TAIPEI: Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn withdrew from a $19.4 billion deal with India’s Vedanta to make semiconductors in the South Asian nation owing to “challenging gaps”, it announced on Tuesday. The world’s top iPhone assembler signed an agreement in September with Vedanta to set up a chip factory — which would also produce display screens for phones and tablets — …

LAHORE: A four-member Pakistan team left for Bangkok on Sunday to participate in the Asian Athletics Championship scheduled to be held there from July 12-16. Shajar Abbas will compete in 100m and 200m races, Abdul Moeed will run in 200m and 400m while Mohammad Yasir will take part in the javelin throw competition. Esha Imran, who won women’s 100m gold …

WASHINGTON: US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company’s release of ChatGPT took the world by storm. The plaintiffs accuse the San Francisco company of using their works to train their artificial intelligence models without permission, adding to a series of cases that could …

Twitter owner Elon Musk’s freewheeling approach to the platform’s handling of censorship has won support from an unlikely quarter — Afghanistan’s Taliban. Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban leader without an official portfolio, said late on Monday that Twitter had “two important advantages” over other social media platforms following the launch of Meta-owned rival Threads. “The first privilege is the freedom …