A Chinese national has also been deported for flying a UAV near an airport, police have said Three Germans have been arrested in Norway for allegedly launching a drone in a prohibited zone around an airport, Bild has reported. The outlet cited local media as saying the three men were detained on Tuesday and released shortly afterwards. It did not …
Read More »ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show that the agency is seeking private vendors to run a multiyear surveillance program out of …
Read More »Healsgood AI raises £2.5m to scale NHS cost-saving platform Flexzo AI, bringing seed funding to £5m
Healsgood AI, the healthtech behind Flexzo AI, has secured an additional £2.5 million in seed funding from Octopus Ventures, taking total investment in its NHS workforce management platform to £5 million over the past year. The London-based company, which trades as Flexzo AI, is developing an artificial intelligence-driven system to help NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) cut their …
Read More »جسٹس طارق محمود جہانگیری کی جامعہ کراچی سے ڈگری منسوخی کا فیصلہ معطل – Pakistan
سندھ ہائیکورٹ نے اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ کے جسٹس طارق محمود جہانگیری کی جامعہ کراچی کی جانب سے ڈگری منسوخی کا فیصلہ معطل کردیا۔ جسٹس اقبال کلہوڑو نے ریمارکس دیے کہ ہم کیسے کسی کی عزت داؤ پر لگا سکتے ہیں، کسی کی ساری زندگی کی کمائی داؤ پر لگی ہوئی ہے۔ جمعے کو جسٹس محمد اقبال کلہوڑو کی سربراہی میں …
Read More »Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch
A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who store their customers’ data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. The loosely organized group, which has been known as Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters, has published a dedicated data leak site on the dark web, …
Read More »UK firms hit record levels of late invoice payments, leaving SMEs £109bn out of pocket
More than £100 billion in overdue invoices were logged by UK companies in the first nine months of 2025, as late payment practices hit record levels and small businesses bear the brunt. Analysis of government filings by the campaign group Good Business Pays shows that a record number of large firms admitted paying more than half their invoices late this …
Read More »A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes | TechCrunch
Zehra Naqvi, 26, grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s. This was the era of Tumblr and Twitter. She would stay up all night breaking down the release dates of Marvel movies or analyzing the movements of One Direction members. She eventually gained a collective 250,000 followers across the two platforms. “Those early internet rabbit holes taught me …
Read More »Exclusive: New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million | TechCrunch
When Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a master’s degree in aeronautics, there was one place he wanted to go next: the desert. The Mojave desert, to be specific. A company called Scaled Composites had spent years developing experimental aircraft out on that arid land, and Gull wanted in. He could have tried to get a more …
Read More »Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store | TechCrunch
Apple has removed ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that allow users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, following pressure from the Trump administration. The app, which went viral earlier this year, allowed users to lawfully share information about where they’ve seen ICE agents within a 5-mile radius of their location, and …
Read More »Tesco boss warns Rachel Reeves: ‘Enough is enough’ on tax rises as budget delay rattles retailers
Tesco chief executive Ken Murphy has delivered a blunt warning to the Chancellor, urging Rachel Reeves not to impose fresh tax burdens on Britain’s retailers in next month’s autumn budget. Speaking after a year in which Reeves’s maiden budget raised employers’ national insurance contributions and the minimum wage — measures that added more than £7bn in costs across the sector …
Read More »“There is no malice in my heart…”: Pakistan’s Sana Mir clears the air on her ‘Azad Kashmir’ remark during Women’s World Cup 2025
Former Pakistan women’s cricket captain Sana Mir, now serving as a commentator at the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, has issued a clarification after sparking controversy during the Pakistan vs Bangladesh match in Colombo. While describing Pakistan cricketer Natalia Pervaiz, Mir referred to her as a player “from Kashmir, Azad Kashmir, plays in Lahore a lot of cricket.” The …
Read More »’آئندہ پنجاب پر بات کرنے سے پہلے سو مرتبہ سوچنا‘: مریم نواز کی پیپلز پارٹی کا نام لیے بغیر تنقید – Pakistan
وزیراعلیٰ پنجاب مریم نواز نے پیپلز پارٹی کا نام لیے بغیر ایک بار پھر تنقید کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ مریم نواز کیوں معافی مانگے، سیلاب کے دوران تنقید کرنے والے ترجمان معافی مانگیں، میں نے اپنے عوام کے لیے آواز بلند کیں، آئندہ پنجاب پر بات کرنے سے پہلے سو بار سوچیں۔ Source link
Read More »How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26 | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Apple introduced its Foundation Models framework during WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the company’s local AI models to power features in their applications. The company touted that with this framework, developers gain access to AI models without worrying about any inference cost. Plus, these local models have capabilities such as guided generation and tool calling …
Read More »Fans react as Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul’s centuries headline India’s dominance over West Indies on Day 2 of 1st Test
India tightened their grip on the first Test against West Indies as centuries from India’s star batters and all-rounder powered them to a commanding 448/5 at stumps on Day 2. With a 286-run lead on the board, the hosts are firmly in the driver’s seat, leaving an inexperienced West Indies side with a daunting challenge ahead. A day of milestones …
Read More »Fury in pretty Spanish town as Brits sold £436k ‘illegal’ villas by ex-mayor
A former mayor of Lliber (Alicante), Jose Mas, has been convicted of fraud over licences granted to build 290 illegal villas. The Spanish properties were marketed to UK and European buyers at between €300,000 (£262,000) and €500,000 (£436,000). Construction took place in the Marina Alta region town between 1999 and 2003 on land which was classified as “non-developable”. Prospective buyers …
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