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…
Pakistan squash player Sana Bahadar and her father Sher Bahadar pose for a picture outside the Nagoya Kinjo-Futo Arena. — Reuters Inside the glass walls of a squash court, Sana Bahadar lets her racquet do the talking. Outside, the 20-year-old Pakistani communicates through a combination of sign language and lip reading. Deaf and non-verbal since…
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Toronto police are investigating after two people were stabbed in King West Village early Friday morning. Police said its officers were called to King and Portland streets around 4:33 a.m. for reports of a stabbing. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a…
DUBLIN: No Irish supporters in the stadium, no home match in Ireland and no pundits or Irish commentary on television: the country’s strong support for the Palestinian cause is increasingly reshaping its sporting and cultural calendar. Ireland face Israel in football’s Nations League in Hungary on Sunday before a designated Irish “home” game in Serbia…
What happens when the app you started in high school goes viral? For Zach Yadegari, the answer was more than 15 million downloads, $30 million in annual revenue, and an acquisition by MyFitnessPal — all before his 20th birthday. Yadegari was just 17 when he co-founded Cal AI, the AI-powered nutrition app that lets users…
The past few days have been “an emotional roller-coaster” for Elenore Sturko, who said she thought she had found a political home among a group of eight like-minded legislators in the CentreBC party — only to be abandoned three days later, when all except her rejoined the British Columbia Conservatives. Sturko said she and other…
They say major initiatives should undergo independent assessments before being put to a decision. PARIS: The four main European football leagues — the English Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Italy’s Serie A and Germany’s Bundesliga — called on Friday for a reform of FIFA. The sport’s governing body has been mired in crisis since the…
When Sara Du was helping companies build MCP servers in 2025, people kept asking her how they could use AI agents from within Slack itself. But there were a bunch of technical hurdles in the way: moving messages back and forth and getting agents the right context, all without burning through token budgets. Upon digging…
