The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI is packed with a number of extraordinary allegations that…
Thailand beat Pakistan in Asian netball
Pakistan’s women’s netball team suffered a 66-48 defeat at the hands of Thailand in their second outing at the Asian Netball Championships. Pakistan’s women’s netball team suffered a 66-48 defeat at the hands of Thailand in their second outing at the Asian Netball Championships 2026 Plate Division in Hong Kong on Monday. Pakistan, who made…
ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model
ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a single unified architecture. It interacts in real time over continuous multimodal streams, rather than one turn at a time. Seed positions it as a step toward omni-modal interaction, and claims three breakthroughs: joint audio-visual understanding,…
1 lifeless, 1 rescued after canoe capsizes in Ontario lake
One individual is lifeless after a deadly canoe incident on Stewart Lake in Georgian Bay Township. Ontario Provincial Police in Bracebridge say they responded to a report of a capsized canoe on Saturday shortly after 8 p.m. Based on police, two people had been canoeing when the craft overturned roughly 40 ft from shore. Get…
80-year-old woman dies while fleeing aggressive Bald Range fire near Summerland
Descrease article font size Increase article font size An 80-year-old woman died while fleeing the Bald Range wildfire near Summerland on Friday night. Penticton RCMP said the Meadow Valley resident was attempting to leave her home with one member of her family when she reportedly died suddenly. Police believe her death to be a result…
Saskatchewan auto parts business falls victim to growing credit card scam
An auto parts business in southern Saskatchewan says it is among more than a dozen transportation equipment companies across the province that have fallen victim to a widespread credit card scam. Leanne Tuntland-Wiebe, the owner and manager of the Great West Auto Electric in Assiniboia, Sask., says her store lost around $20,000 earlier this year…
NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech model for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Instead of chaining ASR, an LLM, and TTS, it performs streaming speech understanding and speech generation in one unified network. That removes the multi-model orchestration and API handoffs a cascaded stack requires, and cuts end-to-end latency: measured smooth turn-taking…
Hamilton fatal stabbing marks city’s 9th homicide of 2026 – Hamilton
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man is dead in Hamilton, Ont., after police say an altercation occurred in the parking lot of a grocery store. The 21-year-old man was found with stab wounds early Sunday by a taxi driver on Main Street West near Frid Street. The driver called 911, then…
First Nations chiefs in B.C. urge feds, Alberta to halt pipeline advancement
A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta’s government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters. “The destructive and disastrous consequences of expanding fossil fuel production extend far beyond any single territory,” the Union…
2 tornadoes touch down in southwestern Ontario as storms blow through region
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A part of southwestern Ontario saw two confirmed tornadoes on Saturday after the region saw severe storms move through the area. The Northern Tornadoes Project which responds to reported tornadoes and determines if they touched down said late Saturday that one had touched down near Lindsay, Ont.,…
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio last month, but the AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper, according to The Wall…
