Month: April 2026
Iran cannot find mines in Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s attempt to choke the Strait of Hormuz has run into a problem: it cannot locate and remove all the mines it deployed in the waterway.The issue is now at the centre of high-stakes talks in Islamabad, where reopening the route has been linked to any pause in hostilities. Iranian and US teams have reached
OpenAI confirms urgent security issue
Tech Giant OpenAI issued a warning to its macOS users on April 10, 2026, after reporting a recent security issue linked to third-party Axios, which was part of a wider supply chain attack. The Sam Altman-led firm said it has found no signs that users’ data was accessed or that the company’s systems were hacked.
Lawsuit against Meta addiction
Meta has denied the allegations and says the company takes extensive steps to keep teens and young users safe on its platforms. The decision comes in the wake of a landmark trial in which a Los Angeles jury on March 25 found Meta and Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab negligent for designing social media
Cannot trust whatsapp
Billionaire Elon Musk and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov have raised fresh concerns about WhatsApp’s privacy practices, after a lawsuit in the United States accused the platform of mishandling user data.Meta has dismissed the allegations, calling them baseless. In a statement, the company said WhatsApp has used the Signal protocol for nearly a decade and that
Pakistan spying on India’s army locations
An espionage network with direct links to Pakistan has been unearthed, revealing how handlers across the border were remotely monitoring real-time movement of Indian Army personnel through a covert grid of solar-powered CCTV cameras installed at strategically sensitive locations across northern India.The surveillance network spanned key cities including Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Patiala and Moga in
Trump threat to exit NATO
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser has warned the US president’s threat to withdraw from NATO remains on his agenda, despite the alliance pledging to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Over past weeks, the US president repeatedly slammed countries in the western alliance for not supporting American military operations against Iran.NATO, formally known as the
sailing through the Strait of Hormuz
Nineteen vessels have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the ceasefire on Tuesday evening.Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo. Three of the vessels were sailing under Iranian flags.Despite being an
SpaceX to compete with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
SpaceX applied to participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming AWS-3 wireless spectrum auction starting in June. Telecom companies use wireless spectrum to transmit voice calls and data from devices to cell towers and vice versa. They’re absolutely essential for any telecom building a wireless network. Spectrum licenses are controlled by the government, and there
Nasa spacecraft glitch
After a successful trip around the Moon, everything has been going smoothly on the Orion spacecraft’s journey back to Earth – except for the $23 million toilet, which has gotten clogged. The system designed to flush wastewater into space is malfunctioning, and Nasa believes that a chemical reaction in the urine treatment system is the
The Artemis II crew prepares for a dangerous high-speed re-entry after a historic and emotionally profound journey
After becoming the first humans to directly observe the far side of the Moon, the four astronauts onboard Artemis II are now ready for a critical re-entry into the Earth’s orbit. The crew is targeting a splashdown on Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast, it recently had a word with the press