When rain in Karachi drowns Pakistan’s Internet
By Nabil Tahir | Design by: Ibrahum Yahya PUBLISHED August 24, 2025 KARACHI: Like every other morning in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi’s residents set out for work on August 19…
A disgruntled worker built his own kill-switch malware to take down his former employer – and it didn’t pay off
A software developer sabotaged his employer after being demoted Davis Lu created a “kill switch” that would lock out all users He was sentenced to four years in jail and…
NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, August 24 (game #805)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’…
NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 24 (game #539)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’…
NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1527, Sunday, August 24
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’…
Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, August 24 (game #1308)
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while…
LLMs Struggle with Reasoning Beyond Training, Study Finds
A new study from Arizona State University has questioned whether the step-by-step reasoning displayed by large language models (LLMs) is as reliable as it seems. The work argues that what…
Nvidia quietly unveiled its fastest mini PC ever, capable of topping 2070 TFLOPS – and if you squint enough, you might even think it looks like an RTX 5090
Jetson T5000 claims 2070 TFLOPS performance through Blackwell GPU architecture Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit transforms a compact board into workstation-level computing T4000 is positioned as a lighter, cost-efficient alternative…
OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments
In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs. “We urge you…
Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acquihire
When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known as a reverse acquihire — a deal where…