Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer, an open-source…
Eurovision Song Contest Crowns an Asia Champion
Simon Robinson, one of the fans who traveled to Bangkok for the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, said that his history with the competition is nearly as long as its seven-decade run. He was eight years old when he first watched it with his family in Yorkshire, England, when Britain’s Mary Hopkin finished in second…
KP honours sports personalities
Sports personalities receive awards in three categories Legends, Champions and Emerging Talent PESHAWAR: Seventeen outstanding sports personalities from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa were honoured on Friday at the Sports Heroes Awards 2026 ceremony held at Nishtar Hall for their remarkable services, national and international achievements and distinguished performances in the field of sports. The awards were distributed in…
Tesla opens Cybercab pre-orders ‘for personal use,’ with geo restrictions and a $299 monthly fee
Tesla said on Friday evening that “select customers” now have the opportunity to pre-order the company’s autonomous, golden Cybercab “for personal use.” More details became clear as those select customers looked at the order page. Tech reviewer Marques Brownlee posted that buyers “must accept delivery” in one of a handful of Texas cities and that…
‘Major’ fire tears through small town northwest of Edmonton
At least three businesses were lost following a “major” fire that burned through the town centre in Mayerthorpe, Atla., the mayor said. In a statement posted to social media, Mayor Allen (A.J.) Malcolm said his deepest sympathies were with everyone affected by the fire. “These businesses are more than just buildings. They represent years of…
Pakistan beat Bangladesh 1-0 to reach SAFF Championship final for first time
Pakistan players celebrate a goal during their SAFF Championship match against Maldives at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka on November 8, 2026. — SAFF Pakistan reached the SAFF Championship final for the first time on Saturday, beating hosts Bangladesh 1-0 in the second semi-final at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The victory meant Pakistan reached…
Cmpnd Releases dspy-wsp: Weight-Space Programming Comes to DSPy
Cmpnd has released dspy-wsp, a prototype optimizer that brings weight-space programming to DSPy. Weight-space programming is a technique in which a frontier LLM reads another model’s weights and edits them directly. There are no gradients, no training loop and no fine-tuning dataset. dspy-wsp packages this as WeightSpace, an optimizer that plugs into any DSPy program…
Avalanche stars MacKinnon, Makar to miss weeks – Ottawa
By The Canadian Press The Canadian Press Posted November 14, 2026 1:21 pm Updated November 14, 2026 1:22 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size MONTREAL – The Colorado Avalanche will have to make do without their two biggest stars in the coming weeks. Head coach Jared Bednar told reporters…
Aadam Syed holds CNS Open lead
Aadam Syed maintained his hold at the top of the leaderboard after the third round of the 30th Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Open Golf Championship at the Karachi Golf Club on Saturday, posting a 54-hole gross total of 209. Syed followed earlier rounds of 69 and 69 with a third-round 71 to carry…
Transportation secretary blames ‘routine’ equipment upgrade for grounding flights nationwide
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that a nationwide ground stop halting flights across the United States was caused by seemingly routine maintenance work. Duffy said that during “routine maintenance,” copper wire at a remote location was being upgraded to fiber optic cable by L3Harris, a longtime contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration. After the…
South Sudan’s National Election, Its First, Will Be Delayed
Officials in South Sudan, the world’s youngest state, said on Saturday that its first national election would be postponed, raising new questions about a vote that analysts had already said could not yield a credible result. The National Elections Commission said in a statement that the presidential and legislative elections, which had been scheduled for…