War Climate Resilience: The Hidden Environmental Cost 2026

War climate resilience has emerged as one of the most critically underexamined dimensions of the current Iran war — with the conflict producing environmental destruction carbon emissions and ecological damage at a scale that climate scientists and environmental researchers are only beginning to document but that will shape the region’s climate resilience capacity for decades […]

Social Media Platform X Faces Global Outage Not Linked to Country-Level Disruption: NetBlocks

The X global outage is real, it is widespread, and according to independent internet monitor NetBlocks, it has nothing to do with government filtering or country-level blocking. Social media platform X is currently experiencing international outages. Internet monitor NetBlocks confirmed the incident is not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering. More than 23,000 complaints […]

Arooj Aftab Sweet Dreams Urdu: Best Thing You Will Hear Today

Arooj Aftab Sweet Dreams Urdu has arrived — and it is exactly the kind of musical collision that stops you mid-scroll and demands your full attention. The soundtrack for Riz Ahmed’s new Prime Video series Bait features a mesmerising Urdu version of the Eurythmics classic Sweet Dreams Are Made of This by Anish Kumar featuring […]

OpenAI ends Disney partnership as it closes Sora video-making app

The OpenAI Disney partnership is over — and it ended not with a negotiation but with a shutdown notice that caught Hollywood, Wall Street, and millions of Sora users completely off guard. OpenAI plans to discontinue its Sora AI video generator six months after the high-profile launch of a standalone app for the service, as […]

Ground truth: When the Earth moves, AI can spot it

Every year, landslides and avalanches kill thousands of people worldwide — most of them in communities that had no warning, no time to evacuate, and no way of knowing the ground beneath them had already begun to move. Researchers have developed artificial intelligence systems that allow for the early detection of landslide and avalanche risks. […]

Three charged in the US with smuggling AI chips into China

The most high-profile AI chip smuggling prosecution in US history landed in a Manhattan federal court when three men linked to server giant Super Micro Computer were charged with secretly diverting at least $2.5 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPU-equipped servers to China in violation of US export controls. The unsealed indictment charges Yih-Shyan “Wally” […]

NASA to spend $20bn on moon base, nuclear-powered Mars spacecraft

NASA has unveiled the most ambitious restructuring of its space programme in decades — committing $20 billion over the next seven years to build a nasa moon base on the lunar surface, scrapping its planned orbiting lunar station, and announcing a nuclear-powered spacecraft that will reach Mars before the end of 2028. NASA has unveiled […]

Artemis II — NASA’s historic Moon mission set for lift-off

The Artemis II moon mission is days away from becoming the most significant human spaceflight in more than half a century. The Artemis II moon mission will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a free-return trajectory around the Moon and back to […]

Pakistani Films Eidul Fitr 2026: 3 Movies Battle for Viewers

Pakistani films Eidul Fitr 2026 box office battle has arrived — with 3 productions competing for the limited but lucrative Eid cinema audience that represents the single most important commercial window in Pakistan’s film calendar and the moment that can define or devastate a Pakistani film’s entire commercial run. Pakistani films Eidul Fitr competition this […]

China’s Xi looks to build an ‘even closer’ Pak-China community with shared future

Pak-China relations received a fresh and high-profile reaffirmation as Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President Asif Ali Zardari on Pakistan Day, expressing his readiness to accelerate the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era. Xi praised Pakistan for steadfastly safeguarding its national sovereignty, […]