Apple and Google have been ordered to take down apps that can “nudify” or “undress” people and told that they must stop profiting from the harmful technology, according to cease-and-desist letters sent to the companies seen by WIRED. On Thursday, San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that…
Bitcoin (BTC) has been counting down to its next bottom for almost two months, a classic onchain metric suggests. Key points: BTC supply in loss passed 50% for the first time this bear market in early June. In previous bear markets, that event sparked a countdown to a new BTC price macro bottom. Separate data…
In the summer of 2024, as Progressive Conservative MPPs began charging taxpayers for hotel stays in downtown Toronto, members of the Ford government pushed quietly to update the expense rules for elected officials. Specifically, members of the government were looking to expand the “special circumstances” category to go beyond extreme weather events and include night…
Iran stated it launched recent assaults on American amenities within the Gulf on Friday after a sixth consecutive night time of US strikes on Iranian navy amenities, as final month’s truce descended into day by day assaults and counterattacks. The US navy stated it accomplished one other night time of strikes on Iran “to additional…
Mohammad Nawaz reacts during ICC T20 World Cup match against India in Colombo, Sri Lanka on February 15, 2026. — AFP Pakistan spin-bowling all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz has been handed a three-month period of ineligibility by the International Cricket Council for breaching the Anti-Doping Code, with the suspension backdated to May 1, 2026. However, the sanction…
Embedding models decide which passages an agent ever sees. NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed model to work on that layer. It targets production-scale RAG, agentic retrieval, code retrieval, and agent memory. What is Nemotron 3 Embed? The model collection includes three open checkpoints. Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 is the accuracy-first option. Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 carries the same design into a…
From ETF launches to major acquisitions – here’s what happened in the past year in the Ripple ecosystem despite the token crash. Remember last year? I mean, you should; it wasn’t all that long ago. From a crypto perspective, it brought some massive gains, crashes, records, intensity, adoption, and everything in between. Numerous digital assets…
Her WhatsApp video to her mother was quick and casual: a clip showing her dinner plate with pasta and chicken, her face and a thumbs-up sign. It was an anodyne update between a mother who had migrated to Brazil and her 16-year-old daughter in Venezuela — part of a daily deluge of voice notes, photos…
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to open the mixed traffic lane on University Road soon as part of efforts to provide relief to commuters during the ongoing Red Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, where the progress of the…
Referee Ismail Elfath is seen performing prostration (sajda) following the 2026 World Cup football tournament semi-final match between England and Argentina at the Atlanta Stadium in Atlanta on July 15, 2026. — X Referee Ismail Elfath’s act of prostration, or sajda, after Argentina’s World Cup semi-final win over England has gone viral, with fans praising…
