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It’s safe to say that no one is crazy about passwords. For chief information security officers, there’s the nightmare of employees leaving lists of passwords on their desks or putting them on Post-it notes on their computers. For workers, there’s the inconvenience of having to enter multiple passwords to gain access to various devices and resources.Passwordless authentication technology is designed to address these issues, and use of these tools is on the rise. A recent survey of 200 CISOs by Wakefield Research, sponsored by security vendor Portnox, showed that a significant majority (92%) of the security leaders said their organizations…

Vote counting has begun as polling concluded for by-elections in six National Assembly and seven Punjab Assembly seats. Voting began at 8 am and continued without interruption until 5 pm. Tight security arrangements have been implemented for the elections in accordance with Election Commission directives, with additional personnel deployed at sensitive locations. Special provisions have been made for the convenience of voters, including the elderly and women. A total of 2,792 polling stations were established for the by-elections, with 408 designated as highly sensitive and 1,032 marked as sensitive. Over 20,000 security personnel were deployed to maintain law and order…

If you are holding onto your aging printer or cracked smartphone longer than you had planned, you are not alone.Heather Mitchell, 69, retired and living in Tucson, Arizona, is content with her phone even though it is old by smartphone standards.”My Samsung Galaxy A71 is six-years-old. It’s hanging in there surprisingly well for a jalopy. I’ve had issues with it, and still do, but they are minor,” said Mitchell. “I love Samsung phones, but can not afford a new one right now. A new phone would be a luxury.”The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according…

People take photos of the newly-unveiled UNESCO World Heritage sign at the Bell Tower, an ancient landmark on the Beijing Central Axis, in Beijing, capital of China, July 27, 2025.  (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s accession to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Throughout the years, China has enthusiastically embraced the main idea of the convention, said Irina Bokova, former UNESCO director-general.BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — While advancing its modernization, China has made enormous efforts to protect its heritage and achieved significant progress in conservation, Irina Bokova, former UNESCO director-general,…

A drone photo taken on Nov. 12, 2025 shows the reconstructed houses that have been delivered to residents in Yejiang Village of Dingri County, Xigaze City, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)XIGAZE, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — In early January, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Dingri County in the city of Xigaze, leveling thousands of houses.Ten months after the earthquake, more than 32,500 destroyed or damaged houses have been restored and handed over to affected residents, according to the authorities of Xigaze City.In less than three days after the earthquake, Xizang rolled out a post-disaster reconstruction plan and kicked off the…

ISLAMABAD: The newly formed Federal Constitutional Bench (FCC) is scheduled to hear the intra-court appeals filed by five Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges against a Supreme Court’s split order endorsing transfer of three judges from different high courts to the IHC. According to a cause list issued by the FCC, a six-member bench led by Chief Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan will hear the intra-court appeal tomorrow (Monday) at 11:30am. The bench also includes Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, Justice KK Agha, Justice Rozi Khan Barrech, and Justice Syed Arshad Hussain Shah. However, the petitioner judges have challenged the…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024.Adek Berry | AFP | Getty ImagesOn Microsoft’s earnings call last month, CEO Satya Nadella boasted about the company’s artificial intelligence products, and said over 150 million people are using its Copilot assistant for productivity, cybersecurity, coding and other endeavors.But conversations with IT buyers at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in San Francisco this week highlighted some of the hurdles the company must overcome as it tries to sell its AI chatbot in the enterprise market.”I know a lot of customers who are like, ‘Yeah, I…

A travelers check flight information at LAX as the shutdown passes the one-month mark, leaving essential workers unpaid in Los Angeles, California, on November 5, 2025. Grace Hie Yoon | Anadolu | Getty ImagesU.S. airlines are predicting another record Thanksgiving holiday travel period and are upbeat now that the travel-snarling government shutdown has ended.Airlines will carry more than 31 million people between Friday, Nov. 21, and Monday, Dec. 1, Airlines for America, a lobbying group representing the largest U.S. carriers, predicted Thursday. The busiest days are expected to be the Sunday after Thanksgiving, with about 3.4 million people flying, followed…

PUBLISHED November 23, 2025 The recent suicide attack in Islamabad—the first of its kind in over a decade—has once again thrust Pakistan’s capital into the spotlight of global security concerns. With a bomber detonating near the District Judicial Complex, killing at least a dozen and injuring dozens more, many analysts have rushed to interpret this as a “return” of suicide terrorism to Pakistan’s urban centres. Yet history and context urge caution before drawing such conclusions. Suicide terrorism, as a strategic operational choice, thrives not as a single dramatic act but as a sustained campaign—an environment that Pakistan’s current security architecture,…

Lawmakers critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war said Saturday they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan President Donald Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual proposal offering Washington’s positions.A State Department spokesperson denied their account, calling it “blatantly false.”Rubio himself then took the extraordinary step of suggesting online that the senators were mistaken, even though they said he was their source for the information. The secretary of state doubled down on the assertion that Washington was responsible…