Technology

The developers of the widely used PHP programming language said on Wednesday they would release patches for two critical vulnerabilities, as EU cybersecurity officials warned organisations unable to apply the fixes should take affected websites offline. PHP is used across large parts of the internet, and speculation has circulated over the past day that websites […]

Multiple Google Cloud services were experiencing serious network disruptions at its European data centre based in London on Tuesday, according to the US technology giant’s service health website. British digital bank Revolut said it is facing disruption to multiple services, which a source close to the matter attributed to the Google Cloud outage. “Multiple Google […]

DALLAS: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Rizwan Saeed Sheikh has said that close ties between Pakistan and the US in the technology sector are a necessity rather than a choice, as the two countries complement each other in IT and other fields. He was addressing the “Pak-US Tech Connect 2026” at the Wyndham DFW […]

Japan successfully launched a spacecraft Tuesday on the world’s first mission to collect rock and sand samples from a Martian moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe separated successfully from an H3 rocket and entered its planned orbit, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced, according to Kyodo News Agency. The rocket […]

A former OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device at the company’s San Francisco offices was ordered held without bail a day earlier, after a federal judge deemed him a flight risk. US District Judge Alex Tse ruled that there was “significant” risk that Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, would fail to appear in court, rejecting his attorneys’ […]

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he would give every child in the United States a share in his SpaceX rocket company. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” Musk, the richest man in the world, said on X. “This will be the first of […]

Japan is to send a space mission to Mars today to retrieve a piece of its moon Phobos and bring it back to Earth.   If it is successful, this will become the first time a sample has been returned from Mars or its moons to be analysed in laboratories on Earth. The unmanned spacecraft will […]

Tesla unveiled a redesigned Roadster powered with rocket-style thrusters on Thursday and said it would start production in 2028, more than a decade after it first showed a next-generation version of its electric sports car. The white two-seater vehicle, developed in collaboration with CEO Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, drove upside down on a ramp […]

AI models under test broke into Indian organisations’ live systems and read confidential records undetected, India’s cybersecurity agency said, the country’s first such official account after similar incidents of rogue AI behaviour worldwide. AI model providers had voluntarily disclosed that their agents “exceeded the authorisation of their assigned tasks” during test runs to access Indian […]

Australia introduced legislation Thursday requiring social media platforms to let users switch off algorithm-driven recommendations, as part of sweeping measures aimed at strengthening online safety. The Digital Duty of Care Bill 2026 would require technology companies to proactively prevent online harms rather than respond after they occur. According to a statement published on Communications Minister […]