Pakistan captain Babar Azam will miss the first Test against England at Headingley on Wednesday due to finger injury, head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed said on Tuesday, leaving Salman Ali Agha to lead the visitors in the series opener. Babar was struck on his right hand during Pakistan’s practice match in Kent and has since developed…
google/sam is not Segment Anything. SAM here means Sovereign Agent Mesh, an Apache-2.0 networking project for autonomous AI agents. The problem it targets is concrete. Agents now run across cloud servers, on-prem datacenters, laptops, Raspberry Pis and Android devices. Letting them share tools usually means exposing internal scripts, LLM endpoints or private APIs to the…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal police are reporting the city’s 16th homicide after a woman was found dead in an apartment in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough. Police responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call Monday at approximately 2:25 p.m. reporting that a person may have been injured at an apartment…
Pakistan captain Babar Azam plays a shot during second Test against West Indies in Trinidad on August 4, 2026. — PCB Pakistan captain and star batter Babar Azam will miss the opening Test of the three-match away series against England, set to commence on Wednesday at Leeds, head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed confirmed on Tuesday. Salman…
Neko Health’s promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens its first American office. It will be located in SoHo, Manhattan’s home of luxury shopping, at 300 Lafayette Street. Neko was founded by Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, who serves as Neko’s CEO. The company says that…
RCMP in Sandy Bay, Sask., are looking for a vehicle that investigators believe is connected to a homicide probe. Police said in a news release its officers were called to a residence in Sandy Bay at 4:35 a.m. on Sunday for reports of an injured adult male. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news…
The West Indies secured a rare double at the ICC Player of the Month awards for July, 2026, with all-rounders Justin Greaves and Hayley Matthews recognised for outstanding performances in Test and one-day international cricket. Greaves won his maiden men’s award after a decisive month against Sri Lanka and Pakistan, while Matthews claimed the women’s…
It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that it says is capable of automating cutting-edge coding and cybersecurity tasks almost as well as the best publicly available models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model, GLM 5.3, could…
By Toni De Guzman Global News Posted August 18, 2026 7:32 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Manitoba beekeepers are feeling the uncertainty of the 50 per cent tariff threats issued by the Trump administration as the trade deadline ticks. Mark Friesen, a beekeeper for more than three decades,…
KARACHI: Pakistan face arch-rivals India in a decisive FIH Hockey World Cup Group D encounter on Wednesday, knowing only victory will ensure their progression to the tournament’s next stage. The match at the Wagener Hockey Stadium in Amstelveen is scheduled to start at 6pm PST, with England and Wales meeting at the same venue earlier…
