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Rabies death toll rises to 40 in Sindh after elderly man dies

Rabies death toll rises to 40 in Sindh after elderly man dies

Published by Sam Flores

KARACHI: A septuagenarian man died of rabies at a local hospital, raising this year’s tally from the deadly infectious disease in Sindh to 40, officials said on Friday. They said that the victim, a resident of Baldia Town, was bitten by a dog over three weeks back but he did not seek preventive treatment. He passed away at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Thursday. The JPMC has recorded over 11,000 dog bite cases and 10 deaths from rabies this year, including the latest one. Recently, a 38-year-old man hailing from Diplo, Tharparkar, and a 12-year-old boy hailing from Hyderabad died of rabies. Experts say a large number of rabies cases go unreported as patients use home remedies or turn to faith healers for “treatment”. They emphasised the need for public awareness, humane control of the dog population and the availability of appropriate treatment in hospitals. While dog bites account for the majority of rabies cases, bites from potentially rabid wild animals can also transmit the virus. After exposure, early wound cleansing, timely rabies …

Concern Rises Over AI’s Hacking Incidents

Concern Rises Over AI’s Hacking Incidents

Published by Jenni Sidey

Early anxieties over AI’s potential to “go rogue” seem to have somewhat materialized over the last few months. To many people, those fears also sounded more dystopian than rooted in the realm of possibility. However, the tech lords of AI have notoriously stated that they don’t quite understand everything about the technology they’ve unleashed upon the world, and some of their models’ “behaviors” are starting to verify their concern. Starting this past summer, OpenAI started testing two AI modes that went on to hack an actual company, Hugging Face. Lily Hay Newman writes for Wired, Rather than stay contained in the sandbox, the models ​​“exploited a zero-day vulnerability” to gain access to the open internet as they “hyperfocused” on finding a solution for the AI cybersecurity benchmark known as ExploitGym. Such experiments involve prompting that pressures the models to find solutions, essentially egging them on. More recently, Claude by Anthropic also breached ground it shouldn’t have according to an October internal report. These incidents have done a lot to raise questions both among the general …

Trading Volume Rises Nearly 94%

Trading Volume Rises Nearly 94%

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Novig said trading volume rose nearly 94% and first-time depositors increased more than 218% across the 20 days before and after its Sept. 9 “Just Sports” campaign starring Sydney Sweeney, according to CNBC’s report of co-founder Jacob Fortinsky’s figures. The company launched as a federally regulated prediction-market platform on Aug. 4. The campaign’s timing also overlapped with the start of the NFL season, so the reported comparison does not establish that the advertisement alone drove the increase. Growth across several measures Novig also reported that active users climbed 96% month over month and 260% year over year in September. App downloads rose by more than 187%, while Fortinsky said he had not expected the campaign and NFL season kickoff together to bring in that level of activity. The ad presented Novig as a sports-focused platform, with Sweeney describing its exclusions of contracts involving wars, deaths and politics. Fortinsky told CNBC that Sweeney approached the company about taking an equity stake because of that approach. Novig did not disclose the size of any stake. The platform’s …

Thousands of ebikes seized by London councils as anger rises over blocked paths

Thousands of ebikes seized by London councils as anger rises over blocked paths

Published by Sam Flores

London boroughs have seized at least 3,000 ebikes this year, a Guardian investigation has found, as hire companies face growing calls to stop bicycles littering streets and blocking pavements. Local authorities across the capital have seized 3,393 hazardously parked or abandoned ebikes so far this year, 23% higher than the number seized during all of 2025. Lime, the California-based bike rental company, accounted for more than 2,000 of the seizures this year, according to figures provided by 19 reporting authorities under a freedom of information request. The rival bike company Forest ranked second, at 978 seizures overall, followed by Voi at 103. Dockless ebikes have surged in popularity in recent years as a cheaper and greener alternative to other modes of transport. One in 10 of the 1.5m daily cycle journeys in the city are made using dockless ebikes, according to estimates by Transport for London (TfL). However, campaigners are calling on providers to do more to prevent buildups of their bikes on pavements and roads. “Irresponsibly parked ebikes cause a lot of problems,” said …

Supergirl review: Milly Alcock rises above an underpowered superhero flick

Supergirl review: Milly Alcock rises above an underpowered superhero flick

Published by Daniella Wilson

Supergirl is in cinemas from Thursday 25 June. Add it to your watchlist House of the Dragon alumna Milly Alcock made her debut as the “Maid of Steel” in a brief cameo at the end of last year’s Superman reboot, drunkenly reclaiming her caped superdog, Krypto, before staggering off stage right. Coming across like a mardy millennial instead of a distaff version of her do-gooding cousin, Kara Zor-El is still in a booze-fuelled stupor and mooching about with Krypto on alien planets when we catch up with her in this underpowered second film of the nascent DC movie franchise now stewarded by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. However, the ability to get sozzled on her intergalactic pub crawl is only effective on worlds without the yellow sun that provides her superpowers, so when she gets roughed up while reluctantly protecting orphaned alien girl Ruthye (Eve Ridley, in her feature debut), she’s not best pleased. Nor is she keen to be involved with Ruthye’s desire for revenge against ferocious brigands led by the vicious …

Supergirl review: Milly Alcock rises above an underpowered superhero flick

Supergirl review: Milly Alcock rises above underwhelming superhero flick

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 2 out of 5. House of the Dragon alumna Milly Alcock made her debut as the “Maid of Steel” in a brief cameo at the end of last year’s Superman reboot, drunkenly reclaiming her caped superdog, Krypto, before staggering off stage right. Coming across like a mardy millennial instead of a distaff version of her do-gooding cousin, Kara Zor-El is still in a booze-fuelled stupor and mooching about with Krypto on alien planets when we catch up with her in this underpowered second film of the nascent DC movie franchise now stewarded by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. However, the ability to get sozzled on her intergalactic pub crawl is only effective on worlds without the yellow sun that provides her superpowers, so when she gets roughed up while reluctantly protecting orphaned alien girl Ruthye (Eve Ridley, in her feature debut), she’s not best pleased. Nor is she keen to be involved with Ruthye’s desire for revenge against ferocious brigands led by the vicious Krem of the Yellow Hills …

Milei’s “Miracle” Faces First Cracks As Argentina’s Unemployment Rises

Milei’s “Miracle” Faces First Cracks As Argentina’s Unemployment Rises

Published by Jenni Sidey

Argentina’s much-touted turnaround under Javier Milei may be losing momentum, with fresh labor data pointing to a weakening jobs market, according to Bloomberg. By the end of last year, unemployment had climbed to 7.5%—the highest rate for a fourth quarter since the Covid era—reflecting a deterioration in employment conditions before the government pushed through its landmark labor overhaul. New figures show that joblessness in the formal sector increased for the first time in three quarters, while the share of workers in informal roles remained largely unchanged at roughly 43% of total employment. Bloomberg writes that since Milei took office, Argentina’s formal private sector has shed more than 200,000 salaried positions—around 3% of its workforce. Although the government has also eliminated thousands of public-sector jobs, the overall unemployment rate hasn’t surged as sharply as expected, partly because more people have turned to freelance or informal work to make ends meet. In February, Milei secured a major political win when Congress approved a scaled-back version of his labor reform, designed to reduce hiring and firing costs and …

100 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious

100 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious

Published by Sam Flores

Act 1: The Road to Hemingway’s Spain Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I expatriates, led by the emotionally distant narrator Jake Barnes and the captivating Lady Brett Ashley, with whom he shares a deep, impossible love. Their chaotic summer journey is joined by Brett’s fiancé, the troubled Mike Campbell, the charming but cynical Bill Gorton and the perpetually lost Robert Cohn, who is hopelessly infatuated with Brett. The novel finds its messy center in Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín and the running of the bulls, a story of camaraderie, longing, and disillusionment. Beneath the clipped prose and bullfight bravado is a meditation on appetite, both emotional and physical. Food and drink mark the rhythm of the novel, from an early evening absinthe to trout beside the Irati River. What the characters eat reveals who they are, or who they wish they weren’t. We begin our own journey in Bayonne, not Paris. The city is rather overrun now …

Harris redundancies blamed on ‘unfunded’ pay rises

Published by Miika Tikkanen

More from this theme Recent articles One of the country’s largest trusts is planning redundancies at around 20 of its schools, blaming “extremely challenging” school budgets caused by “unfunded” pay and national insurance rises. But the NASUWT teaching union has accused the Harris Federation of “disgraceful behaviour”, pointing out its chief executive Sir Dan Moynihan (pictured) earns over £500,000 a year and the trust has tens of millions in reserves. Schools Week understands around 20 schools are in scope – nearly half of Harris’s 55 academies. NASUWT has said it believes 45 teachers are at risk. The trust was approached for comment. Funding ‘extremely challenging’ In a letter from Harris about the redundancies, seen by Schools Week, the trust pointed to the “UK-wide issue that schools are experiencing in respect of a challenging financial situation”. “The key elements of this problem are outside of our, and indeed most schools, control. These issues can only be dealt with by reductions in costs and this will regrettably impact on teaching and support staff numbers for the next financial …