Instagram will use AI worldwide to spot teens lying about their age
Meta says millions more teenagers will be moved into restricted accounts, even if they have listed an adult birthday
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Monday 9 November 2026
Pakistani AI startup RLabs wins award at Silicon Valley summit
The firm, led by NUST graduate Harris Ahmed, beat 17 international startups at Plug and Play’s November summit with technology that trains people and machines in simulated worlds
Nvidia board investigates Jensen Huang over link to suspected Chinese spy
The chip giant’s directors say they have no reason to believe secrets were compromised, as Huang tells staff he was unfaithful to his wife and is ‘deeply sorry’
Sunday 8 November 2026
Mars may still be volcanically alive, European orbiter finds
Hydrogen chloride rising from fresh cracks on the flanks of the Alba Mons volcano suggests magma may still be stirring beneath the planet’s surface, scientists say
NASA picks eight firms for up to $10bn in moon lander deals
Eight companies, from SpaceX to Blue Origin, will compete to fly cargo to the Moon, and a nuclear-powered rover built from Mars rover spares is headed for the lunar south pole in 2028
Saturday 7 November 2026
Six satellite internet firms, Starlink among them, still await licences
All six are registered as companies in Pakistan, but none can sell internet until the space regulator signs off and the interior ministry clears their foreign directors and shareholders
Sony brings back the original Walkman headphones, now with USB-C
The MDR-3R copies the 1979 MDR-3 down to its orange ear cushions and 23mm drivers, but plugs into a phone and adds a remote and a microphone
Biology silver and a first AI team: HEC honours 23 olympiad students
Pakistan’s teams won 14 awards at this year’s International Science Olympiads, led by Hassan Atif Cheema’s silver medal in biology
Pakistani astronaut to be first foreigner on China’s space station
A Pakistani payload specialist will fly to Tiangong on the Shenzhou-24 mission and return on Shenzhou-23, in the first joint flight of China’s crewed space programme
Friday 6 November 2026
Shehbaz orders a roadmap for 100% digital payments in Pakistan
Government cheque payments through Asaan Assignment Accounts are to end on November 15 and move to Raast, and bill payers are being urged to use the QR code on their bills
National CERT warns banks AI attacks could show customers fake balances
The cyber agency’s advisory also flags risks to power grids, pipelines and water plants, and tells banks to check their apps against core records
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production to make room for Cybercab
Elon Musk says the Texas factory will switch next year to the self-driving robotaxi, and the truck’s lead engineer suggests its run is over
PTA and Meta block 176,000 WhatsApp accounts on recycled SIM numbers
Old accounts stay live after a SIM is cancelled and the number reissued. Here is what the move means and what you should do
Upwork freelancers can now withdraw straight to JazzCash and Easypaisa
NayaPay, SadaPay and Finja are also on the list, and the money usually lands within minutes, Upwork says. Here is how to set it up
Blue Origin unveils third stage for New Glenn as next launch slips to 2027
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company also announced Northstar, a lighter and more powerful engine, as it rebuilds a pad damaged in May
US warns of ‘ongoing’ cyber threat to freezers after global hacks
CISA and the FBI say hackers are targeting internet-connected cold storage, and urge firms to take systems offline
Thursday 5 November 2026
Government to refund up to Rs70,000 for international IT certifications
Graduates and professionals can register now for AWS, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle exams, but you pay first
Pakistan’s first robotic telesurgery performed in Islamabad, university says
A surgeon at a conference removed a gallbladder by remote control, with a team at the patient’s side
Blue whale found dead on Gwadar’s East Bay after two days off the coast
WWF-Pakistan is investigating, and its adviser says shallow water may have thrown the whale off course
No, the PTA has not banned TikTok: viral notification is fake, regulator says
The regulator says it issued no such order and urges people to check its official channels
Spotify audiobooks reach Pakistan: what you get and what it costs
Fifteen hours a month and more than 100,000 English titles, but check the price before you pay
NASA unveils X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft
The agency expects a first flight within two years, testing manoeuvres and flight controls never before tried in a crewed plane
NASA’s Swift telescope falls back to Earth over Indonesia after 22 years
The observatory re-entered the atmosphere over North Sumatra. NASA expected most of it to burn up, though some parts may have survived
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Pakistan to curb imports of camera smart glasses, ECC decides
The committee also wants workplace rules from the provinces. No start date or details yet, and Punjab already has its own 30-day ban in force
Ozone hole is seventh largest on record, but still healing, NASA says
An unusually strong polar vortex enlarged this year’s Antarctic hole, scientists say, but the layer is on track to recover by the 2070s
Russian hacktivists claim Europe’s freezer hacks, but experts have doubts
The groups’ posts have vanished, and researchers say Iranian hackers or even teenagers playing pranks could also be behind the attacks
ChatGPT ads have reached Pakistan: what they see and how to limit them
Free and Go users may start seeing sponsored boxes below answers. Here is what advertisers get, and how to stop your past chats being used
Hackers reset French blood bank freezers to 110C in overnight attack
A technician spotted the rise in time, France says, as a wave of attacks on refrigeration systems spreads across Europe
New lizard species with maze-like markings found in Balochistan’s Chagai
Researchers named the racerunner Eremias chagaiensis after the district, and say Balochistan’s deserts remain among South Asia’s least explored places
Canva shakes up 22% of its jobs, with layoffs and moves to Sydney
Chief executive Melanie Perkins says the design company needs to be ‘refounded’, in changes affecting 1,271 people
NASA seeks ideas to save Hubble before it falls to Earth around 2033
The 36-year-old telescope still works well, and administrator Jared Isaacman says it deserves the effort
US midterms: Three NASA astronauts vote from the space station
Anil Menon says he, Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins filled out electronic ballots, and his sleeping quarters served as the voting booth
Europe’s Hera probe gets first sight of the asteroid NASA hit in 2022
The spacecraft is closing in to measure what the deliberate crash did, in a test of how to defend Earth from asteroids
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Binance says a fake job interview opened the door to its $6.3bn hack
An engineer was told to download an ‘assignment’ that was really malware, and the hackers then used a compromised AI tool to reach two more laptops
GTA VI needs up to 212GB, and you can start downloading it on November 10
The game launches on November 19 at $79.99 and is digital only, so even boxed copies will contain just a download code
Voyager 1 is about to become the first probe a light-day from Earth
A hello will take two days to answer. The 49-year-old probe reaches the milestone on November 18, weeks after it briefly fell silent
Pakistan logs over 1,000 cyberattacks in 2026, with 70 staff to track them
National CERT’s chief told lawmakers that AI handles about 30% of its work, as members raised worries about attacks around national days
Pakistan tops the world in YouTube viewing, PTA chief tells parliament
Lawmakers at the same meeting said the networks keep getting worse, with calls dropping even in Islamabad
North Korea calls Binance hack claims ‘absurd’ as Kim Yo-jong denies any role in record $6.3 billion theft
Kim Jong Un’s sister said the US was trying to damage North Korea’s image, days after the FBI blamed a state-backed hacking group for the largest crypto theft on record.
Apple posts record $114.5bn quarter, no end for iPhone Duo delays in sight
John Ternus, on his first earnings call as chief executive, called memory prices “unprecedented”, and Apple did not rule out raising device prices again.
