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PAN 2.0 is the Income Tax Department’s project to move every PAN and TAN service onto a single, paperless online platform. If you already have a PAN, you do not need to apply for a new one: your number stays the same and your current card stays valid. Nearly two…

From 1 November 2026, your phone should start showing the name of the person calling you, not just their number, even if you have never saved it. This service is called CNAP, short for Calling Name Presentation. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has told every mobile operator to switch it…

A “digital arrest” isn’t a real arrest. It’s a scam in which callers pose as police, CBI, narcotics or RBI officials, keep the victim on a video call for hours, and frighten them into transferring money to “clear their name”. On 29 October 2026, the Supreme Court said banks must…

NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform has moved from keynote slides to real shipments. NVIDIA says production shipments began in August, Google Cloud is preparing to make Vera Rubin instances generally available, and at GTC Berlin last week NVIDIA showed a shipping container that holds seven of its racks. Here is what…

Three of India’s biggest IT services companies quietly became Microsoft’s biggest proving ground for enterprise AI this year. Infosys, TCS, and Wipro have collectively pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment past 400,000 employee seats in 2026, with LTIMindtree recently joining the group — making this one of the largest enterprise AI…

For 25 years, a small German programming wiki called DSEwiki existed as exactly the kind of forgotten corner of the internet that almost nobody thinks about. The site had become largely inactive, receiving roughly 20 edits over an entire decade from a small group of volunteer contributors. Then, in May…

For years, “AI hacking” usually meant a human hacker using artificial intelligence to work faster. AI could help write a phishing email, generate a piece of code, search for vulnerabilities or speed up reconnaissance. The human was still driving the attack. That distinction is becoming much harder to make in…

For years, “the AI chip race” basically meant one company. That’s still mostly true — but 2026 is the year it stopped being entirely true, and the shift has been happening fast enough that it’s worth actually tracking rather than assuming the status quo holds. Nvidia is still winning, by…

For once, this isn’t a rumor built entirely on leaks. Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal directly, ahead of the company’s September 2026 hardware event, that price increases are coming across Apple’s product lineup. Asked plainly whether devices would cost more, Cook didn’t dodge it: “We’re not…

For years, the AI chip conversation has basically been a one-company story — Nvidia builds it, everyone else buys it. Google’s been quietly working to change that math for over a decade, and its latest move just made that ambition very hard to ignore. The company has rolled out Ironwood,…