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By Fatima Raza, Technology Desk | Updated: October 22, 2026 Electronic Arts is shutting down BioWare, the legendary studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and has cancelled the next Mass Effect game that was announced back in 2020. The decision, revealed in a staff memo from EA…
ChatGPT Ads Expand to Pakistan: OpenAI Adds 26 More Countries, Taking Total to 89 By Fatima Raza, Technology Desk | Updated: October 21, 2026 Yes — ChatGPT ads are coming to Pakistan. OpenAI announced on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, that it is expanding advertising inside ChatGPT to 26 more countries, including Pakistan, bringing the total…
By Fatima Raza, Technology Desk | October 20, 2026 | Updated: 6:45 PM PKT Millions of bank customers across the United Kingdom woke up to failed card payments, frozen banking apps and broken checkouts on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, after a major Google Cloud outage knocked out services in its London data centre region. The…
The Redmi K100 launch is official. Redmi confirmed on Weibo that the phone debuts in China on October 28, 2026 at 7 PM local time, with pre-orders already open. It brings the Snapdragon 8 Elite plus Xiaomi’s dedicated D2 gaming chip, a flat 6.83-inch 165Hz AMOLED display, and a record 10,000mAh battery — the biggest…
WhatsApp Is Building an In-App Browser for iPhone Users — Open Links Without Leaving Chats By Fatima Raza | Technology | Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | Updated: October 20, 2026 WhatsApp is developing a full in-app browser for iOS that will let iPhone users open any link directly inside their chats — no more being…
NCCIA Lahore Zone Arrests 10 Suspects in Four Cybercrime Operations By Fatima Raza Published: October 20, 2026 | 8 min read Technology Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested 10 suspects in four separate operations in Lahore, targeting alleged online child exploitation and blackmail, counterfeit Canadian identity documents, payment card fraud and an…
By Fatima Raza | Technology Desk | Published: October 20, 2026 Gauth AI has officially arrived in Pakistan. On October 19, 2026, the Ministry of Education Pakistan signed an MoU with Gauth AI — TikTok and ByteDance’s AI study companion app — at a ceremony in Islamabad attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Under the…
NCCIA Arrests 1,129 Suspects, Recovers Rs105.3 Million in Nationwide Cybercrime Crackdown By Fatima Raza Published: October 19, 2026 | Technology | 8 min read Quick Facts 1,129 suspects arrested in one month during nationwide cybercrime operations by the NCCIA. Rs105.3 million recovered and returned to victims of online fraud and cybercrime. 5,176 complaints received in…
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Launched: Open-Weights AI That Beats Claude Opus 5 at 20 Cents a Task By Fatima Raza Published: October 19, 2026 | Technology | 7 min read Quick Facts What: DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17, 2026 – a faster, leaner open-weights AI model. Headline benchmark: DeepSWE v1.1 at 77.0%, ahead of Claude Opus…
Amelia Earhart Expedition 2026: Taraia Object Ruled Out as Wreckage, Search Continues By Fatima Raza Published: October 19, 2026 | Technology & Exploration | 6 min read Quick Facts Verdict: The Taraia Object is not Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. Announced Monday, October 19 (Nikumaroro local time), the team found “no conclusive evidence” the lagoon anomaly…