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Four people were killed and two injured in a fire at a shoe factory in Delhi's Mangolpuri Industrial Area. The blaze was reported on Friday night and was eventually extinguished by firefighters after several hours of effort. In France, the country's credit rating was downgraded by Fitch Ratings to a negative outlook due to weaker growth, higher borrowing costs, and a wider deficit.
In the tech and finance sectors, Intel's stock crashed 30% and Amazon missed its earnings report, contributing to a significant decline in technology stocks. OpenAI also decreased its fundraising target by $10 billion to $20 billion, lowering its proposed valuation to $1.25 trillion. Additionally, hedge fund Arini Capital Management sold $800 million in debt as losses mounted, and Corning's stock has plummeted since late June, trading at roughly $132.
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OpenAI has decreased its fundraising target by $10 billion to $20 billion, lowering its proposed valuation to $1.25 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The AI company had initially sought $30 billion at a valuation of $1.4 trillion. The deadline for investors to commit to the financing round was set for Friday, although the initial closing is likely to fall short of the revised target.
Many conversations about AI start with a tool. Someone has tried a chatbot, seen a demo, or heard that a competitor is using AI, and the question becomes where the business could use it too.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that the number of people living with diabetes worldwide rose from 200 million in 1990 to 830 million in 2022.
The Asymmetric Cyber Battlefield: AI-Driven Attacks vs. Human Defenses Main Thesis: The rapid integration of AI in cybersecurity is creating an asymmetric landscape where AI-driven attacks are…
D2C home appliance startup upliance.ai is in advanced talks to raise $3 Mn to $4 Mn (around ₹28-₹37 Cr) in…
Google is expanding Gemini on several fronts at once: the global release of Gemini 4 Argon , a wider set of connected apps, and demonstrations of custom skills and reusable prompt commands.
If paramos are said to be water factories, it could be argued that frailejones, native plants of these high-mountain ecosystems, are their regulators.
My brother spent two weeks ideating and developing an application for a hackathon. I built a complete website for farmers focused on procurement in six hours. I used Claude and Claude Code. At first glance, this looks like an obvious win for AI. Two weeks versus six hours. There's barely a debate to be had, right?
"If someone wants to use my face, my voice or my image, they ask me first," the Oscar winner notes in the filing The post Cate Blanchett-Led Coalition Challenges OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Battle appeared first on TheWrap .
A fire broke out at a shoe manufacturing factory in Delhi's Mangolpuri Industrial Area, which killed four individuals. Firefighters responded quickly and managed to rescue six people trapped inside the building. Two injured victims were taken to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital for treatment following the incident. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation by local authorities and…
Delhi: Four fatalities and two injuries resulted from a fire at a shoe factory in Mangolpuri Industrial Area on Friday night. The blaze, reported around 9:30pm, prompted rapid responses from firefighters and police. After several hours of effort, teams managed to extinguish the fire. Six unconscious individuals were rescued from the premises and taken to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, where four were pronounced dead upon arrival.
Webhook ingress gateways have to absorb bursty traffic from third-party senders and stay responsive when some of those connections are slow or hostile.
For a small SaaS sending a password-reset email, the least complex choice is a direct transactional-email API with one send operation and a preconfigured template.
Short answer: treat an OTP resend as a state transition on the original SMS message, not as a fresh “send again” button. Keep the message ID from the first send, call the resend operation with that…
About: The $6.3B hack wasn't a code bug (Dev.to, id 4949662, published 30-Oct-2026 21:58:55Z). Footprint: HUELLA-ADDENDUM-CORRECCION-MOTOR-20261030 The article states that 807 of the observations from…
The Luna Band is a screen-free, subscription-free Whoop alternative fitness tracker with a sleek appearance and functional metrics, but it’s not ready yet.
Tukri is a point-of-sale, stock and dues-book app for small shops in Bangladesh. It has a free plan and works offline. When we wrote our outreach plan on 21 October, Search Console showed a single…
If your website is funded by ads, you've probably wondered how many visitors never see them. I wanted a simple, friendly way to ask those visitors to support a site, so I built BlockWall . BlockWall is a lightweight, dependency-free JavaScript file that's completely free to use.
If the accusations are true, the record-making heist shows how powerful suspected North Korean hackers have become.
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank’s independent Inspection Panel will visit Pakistan from November 2-10, 2026, to examine complaints by 15 individuals from two villages in Punjab over alleged inadequate compensation, massive devaluation of ancestral land and safety risks associated with the construction of over USD 700 million 765 kilovolt transmission line under the Dasu Hydropower Project. The…
The World Bank’s Inspection Panel will travel to Pakistan from November 2-10, 2026, to review complaints lodged by 15 individuals from two villages in Punjab. The grievances stem from the construction of a USD 700 million 765 kilovolt transmission line as part of the Dasu Hydropower Project. The complainants assert that the compensation provided for their ancestral land is insufficient, and that restrictions imposed by the transmission line’s Right of Way (RoW) have diminished the economic value of their remaining property.
EDITORIAL: A series of recent policy decisions highlights a renewed push by the Pakistani government to expand financing options and business support for the SME sector. The proposed reorganisation of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA), the SBP’s launch of a digital financing portal and plans to expand export…
Some people enjoy being scared on Halloween events or while watching horror movies, while others politely decline. What determines whether we enjoy being scared or not?
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif said that her government has introduced innovative reforms to bring the province into the digital age, improve the business environment and equip…
Hyatt wants to consolidate its presence in Spain through strategic alliances, additions of new vacation hotels and diversification of its portfolio by adding new brands to the country. Read
There are just days to go until the US congressional elections - but a legal dispute over the important Senate race in Alaska has yet to be resolved. Now the Trump administration is taking another step.
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Friday made it clear that the government would continue indiscriminate action against encroachments and illegal occupants of state land in the federal capital. Naqvi, while talking to the media, said that no government or private institution, or any individual, would be permitted to illegally…
LONDON, Oct 31 — Technology firms retreated further Friday after more poorly received earnings from US titans fann...
Technology stocks suffered a significant decline on Friday as disappointing earnings reports from major US companies intensified concerns over the AI investment boom. Bitcoin also experienced a sharp drop following a major hacking incident at Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB trading group, stated that "the end of the week is dominated by a continuation of the recent AI sell-off on disappointing earnings, and concerns about the safety of crypto."
It is is the latest indictment of France’s inability to find a way to contain its swelling debt burden.
The glassmaker plans to double its sales by the end of 2030. What might that be worth to shareholders?
CPUs still have a lot of growth potential even with weakness in PCs.
ServiceNow commands a 20-point earnings valuation advantage, while Axon's cloud software transition masks heavy stock-based compensation.
Celsius is on a mission to dominate the energy drink market, while Kimberly-Clark is a steady veteran, rewarding shareholders with a high-yielding dividend.
This is the first time Apple has overtaken Nvidia since briefly doing so in late July.
A tepid growth forecast drove investors to sell.
Dozens of police officers guarded the entrance to the country's constitutional court as followers of the right-wing opposition protested the ousting of Bogdan Swieczkowski.
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki canceled a trip to Africa mid-flight after riot police were deployed nationwide to guard the constitutional court complex. The move followed the suspension of the court's chief justice, Bogdan Swieczkowski, by the nationalist right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS). Dozens of police were present at the court entrance, as supporters of PiS protested against the removal of Swieczkowski.
They chanted slogans like "Tusk traitor" and attempted to breach security barriers. Three individuals were arrested for trying to enter the court complex.
KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Aman is liaising with Pakistani authorities through the Foreign Ministry to obtain further details about a raid on a suspected cyber scam centre in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
US officials said they skipped a traditional G20 family photo after European officials refused to be photographed with Lavrov.
Ketua PH Melaka Adly Zahari berdepan cabaran PN, Bersama, dan bebas.
OCTOBER 31 — It is that time of the year again when horror hounds, casual moviegoers, and genre purists alike...
MELAKA: More than 200 Pakatan Harapan (PH) supporters gathered in Paya Rumput today to back the coalition’s candidate, Datuk Azman Abidin, in the 16th Melaka state election.
A federal judge Friday blocked the Trump administration from threatening election workers with criminal prosecution for counting ballots cast by registered voters the administration claims are ineligible. Why it matters: The emergency order, issued four days before the midterms , prohibits federal pressure to sideline ballots based solely…
The leaders shook hands and patted one another on the back when they crossed paths at the nomination centre.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio, South Korean foreign minister Cho Hyun and his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi met on the sidelines of a G20 meeting.
Neutrinos are funny little particles that weigh almost nothing, making them one of the universe's most elusive building blocks. They can come from objects as mundane as bananas and as exotic as supernovas—the exploding death throes of massive stars. Most neutrinos stream through space and pass through the Earth without interacting with anything.
Neutrinos are elusive subatomic particles that interact very weakly with matter, making them one of the most difficult particles to detect. Despite their elusive nature, experiments like IceCube have managed to detect these "ghost particles" originating from various astrophysical events, including supernovas and quasars. An ongoing challenge in neutrino research is pinpointing the exact sources of these high-energy neutrinos, as current telescopes primarily detect gamma rays, which can be heavily obscured by surrounding dust and gas.
Scientists who study striped bass say anglers on the East Coast are right to be concerned, and they say years of overfishing are just part of the problem.
A new gene-editing system could make it easier for researchers to introduce precise genetic changes into crops such as tomatoes, soybeans and rapeseed. Developed by researchers in China, SmartPE improves prime editing efficiency in several dicot plants, addressing a major limitation of the technique.
Planetary defense is a growing concern among the scientific community, as efforts have been made to design and implement missions meant to deflect incoming threats to the Earth well in advance. In 2022, NASA intentionally collided the Double Asteroid Redirection test (DART) planetary defense spacecraft into the smaller asteroid of the…
Studies conducted in various countries indicate that approximately 60% of people over age 65 currently live with two or more chronic conditions. With the aim of reversing this trend and promoting healthy aging, European researchers have created a new personalized indicator that provides a detailed snapshot of a patient's metabolism by…
A new study has mapped human urogenital development in its native spatial context, revealing how neighboring organs coordinate their development through cellular communication and molecular signaling…
A Dowen College swimmer, Jochebed Amos-Penda, has clinched a gold, a silver and two bronze medals at the NNPC-SNEPCo Interschool Swimming Competition in La Read More…
The GSLV mission placed the second-generation navigation satellite into its designated orbit, restoring NavIC to 4 operational satellites and strengthening India's indigenous navigation
Foot specialists recommend shoes with ample toe space and softer materials to ease bunion discomfort. Properly fitted footwear can help reduce pressure and friction around the affected joint.
Bunions are bony bumps that form at the base of the big toe, causing the toe to angle towards other toes on the foot. These bumps can lead to pain, soreness, and difficulty walking or finding fitting shoes. Dr. Kelly Hynes, chief of the foot and ankle service at Washington University School of Medicine, explained that bunions tend to worsen over time but may not always require surgery.
The development of bunions is largely determined by genetics, with people who have flat feet, flexible joints, arthritis, or previous foot injuries being more at risk. Women are more likely to develop bunions due to their joint structure and the tightness of their shoes.
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja An estimated 24.6 million adults aged 20 to 79 years are living with diabetes in the African Region in 2024, a figure projected to reach 59.5 million
The actress is facing a second-degree assault charge after allegedly injuring a flight attendant on an Oct. 11 flight The post Selma Blair Apologizes to People She ‘Hurt or Frightened’ After Plane Incident and Arrest appeared first on TheWrap .
Selma Blair issued an apology on Friday for a plane incident that occurred on October 11, where she allegedly injured a flight attendant and nurse after being removed from a plane at John F. Kennedy Airport. In an Instagram video, the "Legally Blonde" actress expressed remorse, stating, "What I can tell you, though, is very simple, and the truest thing I know about myself, and that not one day ever have I intended to hurt or frighten anyone a day in my life."
"I mean, he went off on me like Kelly Clarkson in a toy store," the comedian adds The post Bill Maher Has Some Choice Words for Trump After His 1,300-Word Rant: ‘I Don’t Want It to Be This Way’ appeared first on TheWrap .
Houston is off to a 5-0 start but is working through early season injuries as team plays Dallas and Oklahoma City on consecutive nights.
The two right-handed pitchers that went toe-to-toe earlier in the ongoing South Korean baseball postseason will meet again Sunday with much more at stake -- a ticket to the championship series. The Samsung Lions will host the Kia Tigers for the deciding Game 5 of their best-of-five second round in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO)…
(AP) — Grayson Saunier threw two touchdown passes and added 107 yards rushing and a TD on 18 carries, Cameron Best-Alston had two of Dartmouth's five interceptions, and the Big Green beat Harvard 24-14 on Friday night to move into a tie atop the Ivy League standings.
Christina Downer's boyfriend, Delorean Bijon Brandon, is among the individuals suspected of her murder The post 2 Arrested in Murder of ‘SNL’ Writer Jimmy Fowlie’s Sister appeared first on TheWrap .
Commanders defensive tackle Daron Payne was expected to have serious trade interest before the Nov. 10 trade deadline.
General Hospital won best daytime drama series for the fifth straight year at the 2026 Daytime Emmys - see the full winners list here.
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