Bitchat tops app charts in Uganda as authorities cut internet
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
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Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
Prediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the...
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The proposed sanctions would include the freezing of assets for new individuals involved in the recent crackdown, which has reportedly claimed hundreds of lives since protests began nearly two weeks a...
OP here. I spent the weekend red-teaming small-scale open weights models (Qwen2.5-1.5B, Qwen3-1.7B, Gemma-3-1b-it, and SmolLM2-1.7B). I found a consistent vulnerability across all of them: Safety alig...
Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protests which first erupted in late December and which activists say were suppressed with a deadly crackdown. here are many ve...
The debut trailer for Masters of the Universe is now online, and it reveals a first look at Jared Leto as Skeletor as he battles He-Man. The special effects-heavy trailer sets up the story, with Nicho...
Davos braces for Trump's return. Weeks after attacking Venezuela, capturing its controversial leader, and reviving Greenland ambitions, the US president's presence is expected to raise the stakes at W...
Bitcoin faced the prospect of turning its $98,000 highs into a liquidity hunt as tariffs put new BTC price local lows back on the table next....
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Some 3,000 members of the opposition People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (MEK) are sheltering in Albania. It has been claimed that the MEK plays an important role in the protests in Iran. Some ex...
Milrem Robotics is among the companies making its weapons so they can be upgraded as easily as possible. Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images The battlefield in Ukraine is changing constantly, and weapon...
Despite US President Donald Trumpâs insistence on acquiring Greenland, public support for the idea remains low. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of US residents this week showed that fewer than one in five respon...
Microsoft has been testing its ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming service over the past few months, as I exclusively revealed in October . Now, the software giant is getting close to testing the free stre...
What is an authentic photo? A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid . In a series of messages, Instagram's top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year, largely ar...
1968's classic and influential sci-fi film, Planet of the Apes (based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel), spawned a franchise that dominated the first half of the '70s with four more movie s...
Civil engineer and former deputy minister in the Palestinian Authority faces daunting reconstruction task...
In addition to womenâs rights protests in 2022, experts believe that the protests currently happening in Iran represent the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979. While ...