For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed every Y Combinator founder he could…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Canadian woman of Chinese origin who was an intern at NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium has been arrested on spying charges, Belgian prosecutors said on Saturday. “She is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organisation,”…
Pakistan captain Babar Azam (second from right) and West Indies’ Roston Chase (second from left) at the toss for their first Test at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, July 25, 2026. — X/@TheRealPCB West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first against Pakistan in the first Test of their two-match series…
On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases. Notably, Opus 5 actually outperforms Fable 5 on a number of benchmarks included in the…
France was preparing to use a massive specially adapted cargo aircraft to dump flame retardants Saturday on a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, including from some suburbs of the wine region city of Bordeaux. Including some 70,000 people evacuated in central Spain, wildfires in southern Europe this week…
LAHORE: On the directives of Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif, relief operations are continuing in areas affected by a landslide near Jhika Gali in Murree. Rescue 1122 teams and Scouts personnel are carrying out relief activities under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner Murree, Zaheer Abbas Shirazi. The chief minister has sought a report on…
The District Health Authority Rawalpindi has announced new employment opportunities under the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) for dedicated healthcare staff. Applications are invited from qualified male and female candidates for 25 temporary positions of Vaccinator on an 89-day contingent paid basis to strengthen immunization coverage and public health initiatives across Rawalpindi district. Candidates possessing…
Shaheen Afridi’s Test selection in doubt. Photo: PCB KARACHI: Controversies continue in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) as Pakistan T20I captain Shaheen Afridi has lodged a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit after being “dropped” during a match. The upset Pakistani fast bowler was about to return home, but franchise officials and organizers apologized and persuaded…
A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped drawing power nearly simultaneously. The event caused voltage across the PJM grid…
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