Naveed Ahmad

Externally-sponsored terrorism, propaganda cannot derail Pakistan’s progress: CDF Munir – Pakistan

Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Tuesday asserted that “propaganda, fake news or externally-sponsored terrorism” could not derail Pakistan’s progress. The field marshal made the remarks while interacting with officers and troops of formations deployed in Balochistan during his visit to Quetta, according to the…

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Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.

Most members of Stanford’s class of 2026 are smart, ambitious, and poised for remarkable careers. Theo Baker already has one. In his first semester of college, Baker broke the story that forced Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne to resign — work that earned him a George Polk Award, one of journalism’s highest honors. Warner Brothers and…

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Echo Protocol Hacked for $76.7M in Admin Key Exploit

Decentralized finance protocol Echo Protocol was exploited after an attacker minted about 1,000 unauthorized eBTC on the protocol, which is deployed on the Monad blockchain. Blockchain security firm PeckShield and analytics platform Lookonchain both reported the incident on Tuesday, noting that a hacker minted 1,000 synthetic Bitcoin (eBTC) worth around $76.7 million. “We are currently…

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Commander Abu Lulu in Sudan is back in combat

A Sudanese paramilitary commander, Abu Lulu, who was arrested late last year following global outrage over videos of him executing unarmed people in al-Fashir has been released from prison and returned to active duty on the battlefield, nine sources told Reuters. Two of the sources – a Sudanese intelligence official and a commander with the…

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How to Build an Advanced Agentic AI System with Planning, Tool Calling, Memory, and Self-Critique Using OpenAI API

TOOLS = { “calc”: lambda expression: _safe_calc(expression), “kb_search”: lambda query, k=3: _kb_search(query, int(k)), “extract_json”: lambda text: _extract_json(text), “write_file”: lambda path, content: _write_file(path, content), } TOOL_SCHEMAS = [ {“type”: “function”,”function”:{“name”:”calc”,”description”:”Safely compute a numeric expression.”,”parameters”:{“type”:”object”,”properties”:{“expression”:{“type”:”string”}},”required”:[“expression”]}}}, {“type”: “function”,”function”:{“name”:”kb_search”,”description”:”Search internal mini knowledge base.”,”parameters”:{“type”:”object”,”properties”:{“query”:{“type”:”string”},”k”:{“type”:”integer”,”default”:3}},”required”:[“query”]}}}, {“type”: “function”,”function”:{“name”:”extract_json”,”description”:”Extract and parse first JSON object from text.”,”parameters”:{“type”:”object”,”properties”:{“text”:{“type”:”string”}},”required”:[“text”]}}}, {“type”: “function”,”function”:{“name”:”write_file”,”description”:”Write content to a file path.”,”parameters”:{“type”:”object”,”properties”:{“path”:{“type”:”string”},”content”:{“type”:”string”}},”required”:[“path”,”content”]}}},…

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