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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

UN Urges Safer Social Media for Young Users

GENEVA/BRUSSELS: The United Nations on Thursday urged social media companies to adopt child-safe designs after Meta agreed to tighter restrictions on teenage use of Facebook and Instagram in some US states. The agreement followed claims that Meta designed its platforms to attract young users, downplayed risks and unlawfully collected children’s data. The settlement, involving numerous US states and territories, could cost Meta billions of dollars, including a separate deal with Texas. Read More…

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Alina Hashmi Posted in World

Lebanese PM stresses need for ‘clear timetable’ for Israeli withdrawal

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met with US officials to discuss the military aspect of the ongoing negotiating framework and the developments in the country’s south, according to the National News Agency. The agency reported that Salam met US Ambassador to Lebanon, Michael Issa, and the head of the Special Military Coordination Group for Lebanon, General Joseph Clearfield. During the meeting, the report said, Salam pressed for “the need for Israel to stop the destruction operations, expand the scope of the experimental areas, and set a clear timetable for the… Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in Business

Pakistan secures $500m US investment in critical minerals

Pakistan is set to receive a landmark investment of around $500 million in its critical minerals sector under a newly signed agreement with United States Strategic Metals (USSM), the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Monday. The commitment follows the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) at the Prime Minister's House during the visit of a high-level US delegation, which included representatives from USSM and Mota-Engil, a global mining and infrastructure group. The agreements cover cooperation in the development and processing of critical minerals, including rare earth elements (REEs), as… Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

West Bank town becomes ‘big prison’ as Israel fences it in

A five-metre-high metal fence slices across the eastern edge of Sinjil, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Heavy steel gates and roadblocks seal off all but a single route in and out of the town, watched over by Israeli soldiers at guard posts. “Sinjil is now a big prison,” said Mousa Shabaneh, 52, a father of seven, watching on in resignation as workers erected the fence through the middle of the nursery on the edge of the town where he planted trees for sale, his sole source of… Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Israeli spyware targeted scores of WhatsApp users: Meta

An official with Meta's WhatsApp chat service said Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions had targeted scores of its users, including journalists and members of civil society. The official said on Friday that WhatsApp had sent Paragon a cease-and-desist letter following the hack. In a statement, WhatsApp said the company "will continue to protect people's ability to communicate privately". Paragon declined to comment. The WhatsApp official said it had detected an effort to hack approximately 90 users of its platform. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in Technology

Meta releases early versions of its Llama 3 AI model

Meta Platforms on Thursday released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image generator that updates pictures in real time while users type prompts, as it races to catch up to generative AI market leader OpenAI. The models will be integrated into virtual assistant Meta AI, which the company is pitching as the most sophisticated of its free-to-use peers. The assistant will be given more prominent billing within Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger apps as well as a new standalone website that positions it… Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in Technology

Facebook, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Meta’s Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are suffering from a global outage, leaving thousands of users unable to access the social media platforms. According to details, the issues appeared around 19:45am PST and are impacting both social media sites’ apps and website. The outage will cause your password to be rejected, and Facebook will promptly log out its users. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in Technology

Google releases ‘open’ AI models 'Gemma' after Meta

Google on Wednesday released Gemma, new artificial intelligence (AI) models that outside developers potentially can fashion as their own, following a similar move by Meta Platforms and others. The Alphabet subsidiary said individuals and businesses can build AI software based on its new family of “open models” called Gemma, for free. The company is making key technical data such as what are called model weights publicly available, it said Read More…

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