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A person standing in a salt mine in Pakistan.
A worker scans for premium salt deposits in the Khewra salt mine's giant tunnels.
  • Pink Himalayan salt is sourced from Pakistan, not the Himalayas, despite its name.
  • The world's largest deposit of pink salt, the Khewra mine, produces 400,000 tons of pink salt a year.
  • Pakistanis are expanding salt processing to capture more value in the global market.

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The news around PlayStation hasn't been great lately, and Sony has just the thing to fix that. Maybe.

On the PlayStation Blog, Sony announced a new initiative called The Playerbase. Through The Playerbase, fans of PlayStation games can apply to have their faces scanned and their likenesses used in PS5 games. The first game to do this will be Gran Turismo 7, in which one lucky fan who makes it



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There's a new movie tracking app in town, with a twist for squeamish horror fans. Binge leverages Apple's Live Activities feature to warn viewers about jump scares in horror movies.

This seems to work rather simply. Users open the app when starting a movie and Apple devices will display warnings on the lock screen ahead of frightening scenes. The settings can be adjusted to only warn about major


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A former Meta employee in the UK is under investigation after allegations that he illicitly downloaded about 30,000 private photos from Facebook. According to The Guardian, the accused developed a software program to evade Facebook's internal security systems and access users' private images. Meta uncovered the breach more than a year ago and referred the case to law enforcement, where it is now



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A-10 Warthog flying behind a refueling aircraft in the skies above Iran.
A task force including A-10s protected the rescue aircraft flying to pick up the downed F-15E pilot in Iran.
  • US Air Force A-10 Warthogs were part of the rescue operation for downed airmen in Iran.
  • The A-10s were in a "Sandy" role supporting search and rescue.
  • The Air Force has pushed for the retirement of its A-10 fleet, deeming them obsolete.

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the logo of open-source AI agent OpenClaw is displayed on a smartphone screen

If you've been using OpenClaw, the wildly popular AI agentic tool that took the developer community by storm, you should probably update it if you haven't done so already.

OpenClaw, as we've reported in the past, has widely known security problems. From the beginning, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger has warned potential users on GitHub that "There is no 'perfectly secure' setup."

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TL;DR: Live stream the 2025-26 Champions League for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.


The top club competition in the world of football has to be the Champions League. There is nothing else that brings the very best teams in the world together in a battle for footballing immortality. Sure, winning your domestic league is great. But winning the Champions League is on another level.

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In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Maps. Sharing a photo on Google Maps has always required a […]



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artemis ii captures a crescent Earth setting against the moon's edge

Artemis II astronauts spent Monday rounding the moon's edge, digital cameras in hand, snapping views of craters, an eclipse, and a blue marble rising and setting in deep space.

Inside NASA's Orion spacecraft, Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen took turns at the windows like kids on their first plane ride.

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In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland, positioning the company to handle the growing wave of hardware disposal from Dublin’s hyperscale data centre cluster. When the servers that power Europe’s cloud infrastructure reach the end of […]



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