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Blake Lemoine, the software engineer, reported this to the US government and was subsequently suspended by Google for violation of confidentiality agreements. Almost no one agrees that the AI in
Continue readingA Google Engineer Claims One of Their AIs Has Become Sentient
TALKING POINTS: THE slide seems unstoppable…The government’s hopes of sealing the IMF deal and the promise of a bailout from friendly countries have yet to be realized. The specter of
Continue readingPolitics Put Pakistan Economy in a Perpetual State of Crisis
NEWS OF INTEREST (NOI): Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday. Fauci, 81, tested positive on a rapid antigen test and was “experiencing mild
Continue readingAfter 4 Shots and Two Masks Fauci Catches Covid
Muslim minorities are under attack in India – front-ended by extremist Hindu activists and supported by the police, a source tells DesPardes who shared some videos of some latest incidents
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Some WhatsApp Shares Curated by Irshad Salim – based in Karachi, to reflect on Social Media – as he sees it. “AI driven Algorithm, bots, etc. populating the cloudflare and
NEWS OF INTEREST (NOI): Pakistan’s Directorate of Internal Audit-Inland Revenue of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has detected a case of tax fraud involving a revenue loss of more
Continue readingPakistan’s Internal Revenue (FBR) Detects Rs1bn ($5m) Tax Fraud
At 50 years, Bangladesh has entered an era of high growth, low inflation, rising income levels and falling poverty rate. Its forex reserve has also gone up and up in
Continue readingBangladesh Economy: From High Growth to “Crisis at Both Ends”?
Without music life would be a mistake —NietzscheNo man is a hypocrite in his pleasures —Dr Johnson BERING STRAIT SERIES: Music started for me with whatever was blaring out of
Turbulent times. Some financial experts are warning that the US economy could plunge into a recession in the next year, despite the current strength of the job market and robust
Continue readingReflection On The US Economy. A 1970s-Style Energy Crisis Still Looms.
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES: Uruk is the oldest Sumerian city inhabited civilized city in the world 6000-4000 years BC (8000-6000 years ago). Agriculture, art and architecture flourished then, and the
Continue readingSumerian Cuneiform Script and Social Media Emojis
A high-powered delegation of Pak military comprising senior officials from all three services – army, navy and air force – visited China from June 9 to 12 to step up
Continue readingChallenging Times: Pakistan, China Hold High-level Military Interaction
Although flooding has become a routine annual affair in Bangladesh, more than half of its rivers have become unnavigable and many more have vanished, affecting the livelihood of millions in
Continue reading‘Rivers in Bangladesh Have Vanished Due to the Effect of the Farakka Barrage’