Canada’s foreign service cuts are disproportionately affecting positions based abroad, with those rotational positions being eliminated at three times the rate of those for Global Affairs staff based in Canada. Data obtained by The Canadian Press also shows an even larger drop in foreign workers hired at missions overseas, just as the Carney government seeks…
The NCCIA is investigating leaks with the UK examiner as maddened students prepare for resits. This summer has brought on a nightmare for students across Pakistan and a PR bloodbath for the Cambridge examinations board. Its Mathematics paper leaked hours before hundreds of thousands of teenagers were supposed to attempt it across the country on…
Arsenal followers rejoice profitable the Premier League. Photograph: AFP LONDON: Arsenal celebrated their first Premier League title for 22 years on Tuesday after Manchester Metropolis had been held to a 1-1 draw by Bournemouth, sparking wild scenes of pleasure across the Emirates Stadium. Metropolis needed to win to take the combat to the ultimate day…
Google just released Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O May, 2026. It is the first Gemini 3.5 model. The series combines frontier intelligence with action. Google calls it a major leap for intelligent agents. The Flash tier has historically been faster and cheaper. 3.5 Flash outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on challenging benchmarks. The previous premium…
Is BTC poised for a collapse to under $55,000? The primary cryptocurrency, which performed quite well towards the end of April and beginning of May, has tumbled by 5% over the past week, sparking fears that the bottom of the bear cycle has yet to be reached. One popular analyst believes that its eventual breakout…
Vancouver’s fire chief says changes were needed to how crews respond to certain medical calls, especially at some of the city’s busiest halls. In the first quarter of the year, there were almost 6,000 apparatus runs from Firehall 2 in the Downtown Eastside. These calls are when a crew and truck respond to an emergency….
North Korea’s first sports team to visit the South in eight years reached the Asian Women’s Champions League final on Wednesday as Naegohyang Women’s FC beat Suwon FC Women 2-1. Naegohyang came from behind to defeat their rivals from the South amid torrential rain in Suwon, in a hard-fought semi-final played in a fair spirit…
Pakistan captain Shan Masood celebrates after scoring a half-century during the fourth day of the second Test against Bangladesh at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet, May 19, 2026. — AFP Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood on Wednesday said he accepted the leadership role for the betterment of red-ball cricket in the country, amid…
NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture. The model supports autoregressive (AR) decoding, diffusion-based parallel decoding, and self-speculation decoding. It is available in 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter sizes. The family includes base, instruct, and vision-language variants. Sequential Decoding Limits Throughput Standard autoregressive (AR) language…
Qivalis, a European banking consortium developing a regulated euro stablecoin, expanded to 37 member institutions on Wednesday after adding 25 new banks across 15 countries. The new members include ABN AMRO, Rabobank, Nordea and Intesa Sanpaolo. The Amsterdam-based consortium is targeting a second-half 2026 launch, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph. “We are not…
