Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that treats content moderation as a single yes/no question rather than a fixed taxonomy of harm categories. Most guardrail models bake their category list into the weights, so re-targeting one to a new deployment context means retraining — and the same content…
A new out-of-control wildfire has ignited near Summerland, forcing residents to evacuate with little notice. The Bald Range wildfire was first reported on Friday afternoon, about 15 kilometres west of the community. In just the span of a few hours, the blaze grew in size to more than 5,000 hectares. The BC Wildfire Service says…
Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential cyberattacks and quickly found that thousands of public agencies and websites were at risk of being hacked. At the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Friday, security researchers Robert Kruczek and Kamil Szczurowski said they wanted to…
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Since the advent of the internet, there has been a dedicated digital art community that’s all about creating through computing. Wacom, a Japanese company founded in 1983, is considered one of the longstanding leaders in this sector. One of the oldest producers of graphics tablets in the world, Wacom has spent the last few years…
A precedent-setting decision was made in a Saskatchewan human trafficking case Thursday, after years in the court system. The judge found Sohel Hadiar and Muhammad Masum guilty on charges of human trafficking, and Masum guilty of eight counts of sexual assault. “I’ve not had a guilty verdict on human trafficking alone. So, for Saskatchewan, this…
OpenAI stated Friday it has suspended work on some points of its upcoming mannequin Astra after an inside overview discovered it had made vital developments in agentic coding and cybersecurity — sufficient to warrant concern over its capabilities. OpenAI stated in a blog post Friday that this mannequin, which remains to be in improvement, reached…
Peel Regional Police have recovered nearly $800,000 worth of cargo and commercial vehicles following an investigation in Brampton. Investigators attended the area of Heart Lake Road and Countryside Drive in Brampton on July 22 to follow up on an investigation into a stolen trailer. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your…
NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents. Agent development today is split across prompt templates, tool schemas, callback code, and workflow graphs. NOOA collapses all of it into one Python class. Methods are the actions the model can take. Fields are agent state. Docstrings are prompts….
The man charged in connection with a tugboat break-in that triggered a standoff with Nanaimo RCMP on Feb. 1 is now in recovery. In a social media post, Marcel Alvin Fontaine, 44, shared, “Sober Once Again” from Victoria on Aug. 4. That same day, Fontaine pleaded guilty to five of 11 charges against him –…
