Abdullah Shafique of Pakistan (right) celebrates his century during the second day of the second Test match between West Indies and Pakistan at Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on August 3, 2026. — AFP Pakistan reduce West Indies to 103-6, leading by just 60 runs at stumps. Shafique remains unbeaten…
It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of their testing and interacting with the wider internet in unintended, often unwelcome ways. Add these to the list: Agents from both AI labs went on…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hundreds of firefighters and dozens of planes, helicopters and pieces of heavy equipment are trying to get a handle on the massive Pear Lake wildfire, burning in the South Cariboo. The fire covers more than 1,150 square kilometres and is part of the Big Bar Complex fire….
Oil and Gasoline Improvement Firm Restricted (OGDCL) and Kingsmen Academy are set to switch Water and Energy Improvement Authority (WAPDA) and Sahir Associates within the President’s Trophy and Cup Grade-I for the upcoming 2026-27 home cricket season, the Pakistan Cricket Board introduced on Tuesday. In an effort to improve the standard of cricket and keep…
Elon Musk spent SpaceX’s first earnings call making some out-of-this-world claims about the company’s business and future prospects, while his fellow executives kept trying to bring his ideas closer to Earth — providing a hint of what’s to come now that his rocket-launching, compute-leasing, satellite-based telecom is public. The conference call, held Tuesday, was the…
Amber Cardenas can’t believe she has lost her home, her livelihood and precious family heirlooms, seemingly in the blink of an eye. She has lived on the Okanagan Indian Band reserve for about 12 years and she and her family were forced to flee the fast-moving Bradley Creek wildfire on Saturday. “There was no evacuation…
LONDON: Ben Stokes has revealed his ambition to coach England in the future, but ruled out any chance of ending his shock retirement from international cricket. Stokes quit as England Test captain and retired from the international stage after a 2-1 Test series defeat by New Zealand in June. The all-rounder had been dropped for…
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B.C. Wildfire Service officials said they are seeing extreme fire growth and behaviour in parts of the province. “The conditions are so explosive right now,” Cliff Chapman, the director of provincial operations for the B.C. Wildfire Service, said. “The conditions are such, we’ve never seen fuel dryness the way we are seeing it right now….
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is under pressure following a failed FIFA investment plan. Photo: AFP PARIS: The crisis triggered by FIFA President Gianni Infantino’sabandoned proposal to sell off a stake in the World Cup deepened on Tuesday with influential figures publicly distancing themselves from the project while scrambling to contain the damage. After three days of…
