OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business
OpenAI on Tuesday acquired a four-year-old AI biotech software startup called Orchestra Bio, the company…
Sri Lanka pull off second-highest chase in ODI history against England
Sri Lankan players celebrate after winning the third one-day international of the tri-series match against England at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on October 22, 2026. — PCB Rathnayake, Fernando add 166 runs together. Shanaka scores explosive 97 off just 50. Brook quickest ODI double ton goes in vain. Sri Lanka produced a sensational…
Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, report says
Elon Musk has invested approximately $1 billion in the newly formed media company Skydance, according to a new report from Semafor. News of the investment comes a few weeks after Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to create the combined company. Co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are tasked with bringing…
Health ministry official says plague risk in Pakistan ‘very low’ after suspected Siberia case
Representational image of a bacteria. — Reuters NIH capable of diagnosing plague cases. Health ministry monitoring situation, says health DG. WHO reportedly not fully briefed on suspected case. ISLAMABAD: The federal health ministry has said the risk of plague spreading in Pakistan is currently very low following a suspected case in Siberia. Speaking to Geo…
AI stocks weigh on markets Thursday as oil rises to highest price since May – National
Drops for stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry are dragging markets down worldwide on Thursday, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May amid the war with Iran. The S&P 500 sank 1.3 per cent following even sharper losses in Asia, whose markets are full of AI and other technology stocks. The Nasdaq composite was…
Asim Khan reaches quarter-finals of ABC Open squash championship
Pakistan’s eighth seed beats Malaysia’s Shafiq Kamal 3-1 as other local players exit Pakistan’s seasoned player Asim Khan on Thursday reached the quarter-finals of the Venice ABC Open International Squash Championship after defeating Malaysia’s Shafiq Kamal 3-1 in the second round. The eighth-seeded Khan secured a 11-2, 10-12, 11-7, 11-6 victory in 48 minutes at…
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
The bad week for cybersecurity just got worse for thousands more companies, who were spied on by Chinese hackers following the breach of IT management and remote access giant ConnectWise. Security researchers at Microsoft say the China state-aligned hackers broke into ConnectWise’s cloud backup service and stole application credentials that are used to establish data…
Karachi reports polio case as Pakistan’s 2026 tally hits seven
A health worker administers polio drops to a child on the first day of a nationwide polio vaccination campaign, in Karachi on February 3, 2025. — AFP Five cases reported in KP this year. Two cases detected in Sindh so far. National campaign set for November. KARACHI: A polio case has been reported in Karachi’s…
Subtropical storm bringing rain and wind to parts of Atlantic Canada, diverts cruise ship
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 22, 2026 12:43 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Subtropical Storm Josephine is expected to bring heavy rain and wind to parts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Thursday and Friday. Environment Canada has issued yellow rainfall warnings for parts of northern and…
WAPDA win six gold medals on opening day of National Athletics Championships
KARACHI: Pakistan WAPDA dominated the opening day of the Lok Sahaaita 54th National Athletics Championships 2026, winning six of the seven gold medals on offer. National record-holder Shajar Abbas claimed the men’s 100-metre title in 10.20 seconds to be crowned Pakistan’s fastest man. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Attaullah finished second, while HEC’s Haseeb took bronze. WAPDA’s Faiqa…
NVIDIA Nsight Python Tutorial: How to Profile GPU Kernels
In this tutorial, we implement on Nsight Python, NVIDIA’s open-source Python interface to its kernel profilers. Instead of running a script under the Nsight Compute command line and digging through a report afterward, we mark the code we care about with nsight.annotate, decorate a benchmark function with nsight.analyze.kernel, and get back a pandas DataFrame of…
