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Optical illusions have a unique charm-they play tricks on our brains and challenge the way we see the world. One particularly intriguing visual puzzle asks you to find the word “King” hidden amid dozens of repetitions of the word “Ring.” You only have 6 seconds to complete this brain teaser. At first glance, every word…
Users of several popular websites, including X (formerly Twitter) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have reported facing issues. The content delivery network provider, Cloudflare, is causing this multi-platform disruption. The company’s official status page has also confirmed the ongoing service degradation. According to the outage-tracking website Downdetector, the disruption began around 6:00 AM ET (4.30 pm IST)…
Representative image (AP) At least seven people have died and 13 others rescued after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sank near the Thailand-Malaysia border, the Malaysian maritime agency said on Sunday. Hundreds are feared to be missing following the incident.The maritime agency said rescuers recovered the body of a woman and rescued 10…
AI Image for Representation After Netherlands and Denmark, here’s another country that seems to have just realised that its buses can be brought to standstill by China. According to a report by Financial Times, the UK government is investigating whether hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses on British roads could be remotely deactivated. Officials at the…
Visual source: X/Weather Monitor At least six people were killed, one was reported missing, and nearly 750 others injured after a powerful tornado tore through the southern Brazilian state of Parana on Friday night.The twister, with winds reaching up to 250 km/h, struck the town of Rio Bonito do Iguacu early on Saturday. It lasted…
Authorities in Denmark are reportedly investigating a ‘dangerous’ security vulnerability in hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses that potentially allows them to be remotely deactivated. The investigation has been prompted by findings from Norway, where transport officials discovered that the Chinese supplier, Yutong, maintains remote access to the vehicles’ control systems for diagnostics and software updates….
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially confirmed that its cloud infrastructure is back online after the major outage which disrupted hundreds of websites and apps across the internet. The company stated that the incident was caused by a combination of DNS resolution failures and internal load balancer degradation in its US-EAST-1 region, one of its…
General Motors has laid off more than 200 salaried employees, primarily Computer-Aided Design (CAD) engineers, as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts to boost profitability. The cuts, which took place Friday at the company’s global tech campus in Warren, Michigan, come just days after the Detroit automaker raised its 2025 financial guidance following strong third-quarter…
India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) AHMEDABAD: As Yashasvi Jaiswal rushed in to embrace Brian Lara following an extraordinary 175 in the second Test against West Indies, Lara jokingly said, “Don’t beat our bowlers that bad.” The humorous remark was a glowing endorsement of the lofty standards that the 23-year-old batter has set. “Keep getting…
CDC (left), Donald Trump (agencies) Hundreds of employees at the US centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) who were laid off on Friday night have been reinstated, after officials said the terminations were triggered by an “incorrect notification,” reported CNN.According to the American federation of government employees (AFGE), around 1,300 CDC staff received layoff…
