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Airbus completes record 24-hour flight with plane to be used by Qantas
A specially modified Airbus A350 plane touched down in France on Tuesday after a record 24-hour test flight from Australia, ahead of its joining Qantas’s fleet next year. Its 23,076-kilometre journey — across three continents and two oceans, and through two sunsets and two dawns — was one of the most-watched flights shown on the…
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OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says
The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company New York-based Modal Labs, according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter. AI models that underpin tools like chatbots and image…
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Shifting geopolitics of tech
The development and governance of artificial intelligence should be a global effort. It should not be a solo performance by any single country, but rather “a symphony of global cooperation”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17. The remark encapsulated the broader message that extended…
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Pakistan to make historic FIFA debut with ASEAN Cup participation
LAHORE: Pakistan men’s national team will make their debut in a FIFA-sanctioned event when they compete in the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup later this year, the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) confirmed on Tuesday. The development, which had emerged in May, was officially announced by the federation as Pakistan were named among the 14 teams set…
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Fatima Zahra becomes first Pakistan woman boxer to secure Commonwealth Games boxing medal
GLASGOW: Fatima Zahra made history on Tuesday by becoming the first woman boxer from Pakistan to secure a Commonwealth Games medal after cruising into the 60kg semi-finals with a unanimous points victory over New Zealand’s Jordan Wilson. The 22-year-old outclassed Wilson 5-0 in the quarter-final, with all five judges awarding her the contest to guarantee…
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Pakistan stay unbeaten at CAVA volleyball
ISLAMABAD: Maintaining their winning streak, Pakistan defeated Kazakhstan on Monday in the last league match of the Central Asian Volleyball Association (CAVA) Men’s Volleyball Championship here at the Liaquat Gymnasium of the Pakistan Sports Complex. Earlier in the day, Uzbekistan beat Nepal 3-0. Pakistan, after downing Kazakhstan 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-21), completed the league stage…
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West Indies beat Pakistan by 90 runs in first Test
Pakistan crumbled for the second consecutive day to the West Indies pace attack, losing the first Test of a two-match series by 90 runs on the fourth day in Trinidad on Tuesday. Set a tricky target of 211 on a deteriorating surface, the tourists were never in contention and were all out for 120 off…
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ICC penalises Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas over ‘aggressive, animated’ celebration during West Indies Test
Abbas was penalised for celebrating in an “animated manner” near dismissed batter Jomel Warrican, the final wicket of the innings, it added. “Both players admitted their offences and accepted the sanctions proposed by Jeff Crowe of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, so there was no need for formal hearings. “On-field umpires Alex Wharf and Richard Kettleborough and third umpire Jayaraman Madanagopal levelled…
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Showers in parts of Punjab, Islamabad mark onset of fresh monsoon spell
Parts of Punjab and Islamabad received rain on Wednesday morning, marking the onset of a fresh monsoon spell in the country just as a previous one that caused flooding in several areas of Punjab and over 100 deaths ended. As of 11am, one injury in a rain-related incident in Punjab’s provincial capital, Lahore, was reported during the…
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Green Railway Corridor project launched in Punjab to turn railway land into parks
LAHORE: The Punjab government has launched the Green Railway Corridor project to transform neglected railway land into parks and recreational spaces along the tracks as a part of a plan for a greener and smog-free Punjab. According to a handout, the project, comprising four phases, envisages the development of 32 parks on abandoned railway land…
