WASHINGTON (Kashmir English): President Donald Trump is set to extend the popular video sharing app sale-or-ban deadline for the third time since taking office this year, suggesting that TikTok will live on for at least another three months in the United States. “President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep […]
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ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): In a significant step towards enhancing security and ensuring digital accountability, the federal government has initiated a phased operation to deactivate over 4.9 million mobile phone SIMs distributed against expired or canceled Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs). The instruction was issued by the Ministry of Interior, based on the recommendations of the National
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CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): The National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has issued an advisory, warning of a surge in phishing and hacking attacks on WhatsApp, urging special vigilance for messages received from unknown numbers. Phishing is a kind of cybercrime where malicious actors attempt to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information, such as credit
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PARIS (Kashmir English): Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to eliminate half of white-collar jobs within one to five years, said a top executive at global recruiter ManpowerGroup at Paris Vivatech trade fair. He warned that predictions of imminent AI-driven mass unemployment are likely to come true adding that employers will seek workers with different
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CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging giant, is giving its users greater control over data usage and storage through a new feature. The feature enables users to select the quality of automatically downloaded media, with either “standard” or “HD” quality available. Now available to choose beta testers on WhatsApp Beta for Android version 2.25.18.11, the feature
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ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Thousands of complaints were reported from worldwide on internet monitoring websites regarding the outage of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, APIs, and Sora video service. An outage started earlier today, affecting web and mobile users with error messages and login issues worldwide, including Pakistan. The company, OpenAI, said that they are investigating the outage, but
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KARACHI (Kashmir English): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has reported 102 bird strike incidents involving its aircraft in 2024. According to the PIA official report, the Airbus A320 fleet was the most affected, accounting for 85 of the total incidents in the last year. Among the airports, Lahore remained the top in recording such incidents
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CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): Millions of WhatsApp users will lose the service for the popular messaging platform as Meta starts discontinuing support for older phones from June 1, 2025. The move comes after WhatsApp‘s compatibility policy was updated, attributing this to security issues and the necessity for newer operating system features. Phones No Longer Supported Originally
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ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): The federal government is likely to impose a five-year levy on gasoline-powered vehicles in the upcoming fiscal budget to promote electric vehicles (EVs) in the country, local media has reported. The levy would be imposed on both imported and locally manufactured petrol- and diesel-driven vehicles. EV Fund Besides discouraging petrol- and
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LAHORE (Kashmir English): If you‘ve been thinking about upgrading to an iPhone 15 or 16, you can think about the most recent Apple devices, including the iPhone 15 and the upcoming iPhone 16, that can be purchased in easy monthly installments in Pakistan. With monthly installments starting at around Rs14,000, owning a premium device has
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