Category: Technology

Meredith Whittaker, the President of Signal, has reaffirmed the app’s security after reports surfaced that senior US officials mistakenly added a journalist to an encrypted group chat discussing classified military operations in Yemen. The controversy began when The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally included in a Signal conversation among Trump administration officials about planned airstrikes. Goldberg later confirmed the messages were real when the strikes happened as described. While Whittaker did not address the specific breach, she took to X to emphasise Signal’s strong encryption and contrast it with…

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DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus said on Tuesday a commercial deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet network Starlink is set to be signed within three months to provide internet services across the South Asian country. Yunus, who has led Bangladesh since prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted last year, has said the deal would provide a reliable internet service that could not be disrupted by an future political upheaval. Yunus, a Nobel laureate, took charge of the interim government in August after Hasina was forced to flee to…

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BEIJING: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, released a major upgrade to its V3 large language model, intensifying competition with US tech leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. DeepSeek-V3-0324, the new model, was made available through AI development platform Hugging Face, marking the company’s latest push to establish itself in the rapidly evolving AI market. The latest model demonstrates significant improvements in areas such as reasoning and coding capabilities compared to its predecessor, with benchmark tests showing enhanced performance across multiple technical metrics published on Hugging Face. DeepSeek has rapidly emerged…

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China has closed the gap with the United States in artificial intelligence development to just three months in certain areas, thanks to companies like DeepSeek that have found more efficient ways to utilise chips and apply algorithms, according to 01.AI CEO Lee Kai-fu. Lee, a leading voice in global AI and former head of Google China, told Reuters that DeepSeek’s progress demonstrates China has taken the lead in fields such as infrastructure software engineering. In January, DeepSeek disrupted the global AI landscape by unveiling an AI reasoning model that was trained using…

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Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and they found it is one of the hottest nova explosions ever discovered. According to Live Science, the recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a, reveal that it’s the hottest burst of its kind ever recorded. LMCN 1968-12a, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is the first recurrent nova outside our galaxy to have been studied in near-infrared light. This nova, beyond its extreme temperatures, is also notable for being an extremely violent…

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WhatsApp is set to unveil an innovative feature that will enable users to share motion photos in chats, groups, and channels in an upcoming update. The popular Meta-owned instant-messaging app announced the new feature in its latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.8.12 update, which is available on the Google Play Store, WABetaInfo reported. Motion photos are a unique media format that captures the brief moments of movement before and after a still image, combining video and audio for a more immersive experience. This screengrab shows the upcoming WhatsApp feature. — WABetaInfo This…

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SAN FRANCISCO: AI startup Perplexity has expressed interest in buying TikTok, outlining plans to revamp its algorithm, as the popular video app faces a US deadline to cut ties with its Chinese owner or risk being banned. Perplexity, in a blog post, outlined a vision for integrating its AI-powered internet search capabilities with the popular video-sharing app. “Combining Perplexity’s answer engine with TikTok’s extensive video library would allow us to build the best search experience in the world,” the San Francisco-based firm stated. “Perplexity is uniquely positioned to rebuild the TikTok…

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, on Thursday announced the launch of its generative artificial intelligence assistant Meta AI in the European Union starting “this week”. This development comes more than a year after its initial unveiling in the United States in September 2023 and subsequent expansion across all Meta platforms in April 2024. “It’s taken longer than we would have liked to get our AI technology into the hands of people in Europe as we continue to navigate its complex regulatory system – but we’re glad we’re…

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Dark energy, an invisible force making up about 70% of the universe, remains one of science’s greatest mysteries, accounting for 25%, it leaves just 5% of the universe made up of visible matter, AFP reported. Dark energy is responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe, but recent discoveries could challenge the existing theories, prompting scientists to rethink their understanding. What is dark energy? No one knows exactly what dark energy is. It doesn’t interact with light or matter and may not even exist. The story begins with the Big Bang 13.8…

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WhatsApp is set to introduce an exciting new feature that will allow users to share their favourite Spotify tracks directly in status updates in a future update. Users will be able to explore an additional option to post music from the streaming app as a WhatsApp status update, alongside the usual option to send it as a message to a contact or a group, WABetaInfo reported citing the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.8.3 update. This upcoming update will enable Meta’s popular instant-messaging app to generate a preview of the shared song,…

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