August 23, 2026
2026-08-23T20:55:39+00:00 Shafaq News- Erbil Construction has begun on the Shorsh Bridge, a 48-meter-high structure on the Erbil-Koy Sanjaq dual carriageway that project engineers say will be the highest of its kind in Iraq. Project engineer ...
In Brief Posted: 1:01 PM PDT · August 23, 2026 Image Credits:Getty Images A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who ...
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million (around $966 million) — the second largest penalty issued so far under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, according to Reuters. The Dutch regulator was investigating ...
2026-08-23T19:18:28+00:00 Shafaq News- Baghdad Relations between Baghdad and Erbil have faced repeated disputes in recent years over differing interpretations of several shared issues, a member of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) Presidency office said ...
With back-to-school season approaching (or already here in some places), keeping track of everyone’s schedules can get pretty chaotic. Between work, school, appointments, sports, chores, and everything else going on, a regular paper calendar just ...
2026-08-23T18:13:08+00:00 Shafaq News- Zakho The number of drowning deaths recorded in the Kurdistan Region’s Zakho Independent Administration has risen to 11 since the beginning of 2026, after a man in his 20s drowned in the ...
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2026-08-23T15:31:35+00:00 Shafaq News- Erbil A discount on outstanding electricity debts in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) applies only to bills accumulated before the Runaki (Light) project and does not cover the project’s monthly electricity ...
The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and ...
You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, ...
