Catherine Ringer, a singer who took the French pop world by storm in the 1980s in bold, brassy anthems that melded rock, pop, punk, funk and techno with Latin accents and dance rhythms, died on Sept. 14 in Paris. She was 68. Her death, from cancer, was announced by President Emmanuel Macron of France, who…
Pakistan begin their FIFA ASEAN Cup journey with a Thailand outing on Saturday with head coach Nolberto Solano urging his players to use the tournament as a test against some of Asia’s stronger sides.The Group B match at Bandung’s Si Jalak Harupat Stadium kicks-off at 2pm PST and marks Pakistan’s first appearance in an official…
Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration. “The department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the department’s…
As the Ontario government’s multi-year electric vehicle manufacturing strategy faces potential collapse, Premier Doug Ford convened his cabinet to “assess [the] progress” of the “protect Ontario” promise. On Thursday, PowerCo Canada, a subsidiary of German automaker Volkswagen, announced it would delay the production of the $7 billion giga factory in St. Thomas, Ont. where the…
Gold medallist China’s Zhang Zhanshuo celebrates. Photo: AFP TOKYO: Chinese teenager Zhang Zhanshuo won a record seventh swimming gold at the Asian Games on Friday and said it had been the “perfect conclusion” to his week in Tokyo. The 19-year-old wrapped up a scintillating campaign with victory in the 400m freestyle in a Games-record 3min…
Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. The method pairs rejection sampling fine-tuning with hint-guided self-distillation. In a live A/B test, tool-call failures fell from 2.24% to 1.77% between 2 trained checkpoints. Perplexity team reports this as a statistically significant 21.2%…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size An “unusual odour” coming from the sewer system in Middle Sackville prompted the evacuation of around 70 households on Thursday night, municipal officials said. Residents in the area of Claudia Crescent, Lucy Court, Flora Court, and Old Sackville Drive were reporting a chemical smell inside some homes,…
OSLO: Erling Haaland marked another milestone on Thursday after a double in Norway’s 3-2 Nations League victory over Denmark made him the highest-scoring Nordic man in international football history, surpassing Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Haaland took his tally for the national team to 64 goals in 56 appearances, eclipsing Ibrahimovic’s 62 goals in 122 matches for…
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls. Altar-1 powers Aikido Machine, the company’s autonomous pentesting appliance for on-prem and air-gapped networks. Is it deployable? Yes, the weights are public on Hugging Face and run with vLLM…
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will hold a joint press conference with her German counterpart after two days of trade and security talks between the two countries in Ottawa. Canada recently deepened both defence and economic ties with Germany after selecting TKMS for a massive contract to build a fleet of up to 12 new…
