Ultra-endurance athlete receives a Rs500,000 cash award after completing the gruelling journey on foot PESHAWAR: Record-holding ultra-endurance athlete Masood Khan received a warm welcome at the Peshawar Sports Complex after completing an extraordinary 1,850-kilometre journey from Peshawar to Karachi on foot in 24 days. Director General Sports Wasal Khan, Additional Deputy Commissioner Dawood Salimi, Additional…
In this tutorial, we work with Underdog Saluki 27B, a 7.9 GB build of Qwen3.8-27B that its makers say keeps tool calling intact at about two bits per weight and even edges out the full 54 GB model on their own 120-task benchmark. Saluki is built on ISTA-DASLab’s GSQ-RCO quantization of the same model, so…
Asif Rangoonwala CBE and Tariq Sheikh signed the deal for King Charles’ charitable Pakistan mental health care work in Pakistan. — Reporter LONDON: King Charles’ charity, the British Asian Trust, has launched a landmark partnership with the UK and Europe’s biggest halal meat supplier, Tariq Halal Meats, to support its work transforming mental health awareness,…
The return of Russian athletes to the international stage puts the IOC’s commitment to neutrality under scrutiny PARIS: IOC president Kirsty Coventry’s desire is that “politics does not take over on the field of play”, but Ukraine and former executives from her organisation have told AFP that politics and sport remain inseparable. Coventry’s view will…
Work is underway to ensure polar bears can safely coexist with people in Churchill, Man., as the Arctic animals arrive by the hundreds in the coming days. Polar Bears International (PBI) is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the future of polar bears and Arctic sea ice. It marks polar bear week during the first seven…
Saudi organisers say the 2027 AFC Asian Cup remains on schedule, with security and operational conditions under review.
Left to right — US scientist Karl Deisseroth, German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel . — AFP STOCKHOLM: The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in the field of optogenetics. The field helps researchers understand…
Google team have released llm-d 1.0, the first stable version of its distributed inference stack. This open-source, Kubernetes-native layer turns vLLM or SGLang model servers into one coordinated pool. They released it at the PyTorch Conference North America. It targets self-hosted agent and RL workloads, where round-robin load balancing breaks down. TL;DR A serving stack:…
Sanrio has cancelled its VIVANT character-merchandise collaboration after criticism in China. Here is what prompted the decision and how TBS responded.
Former Pakistan captain says Babar’s open right shoulder is affecting his ability to judge deliveries Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has identified a technical flaw in Babar Azam’s batting, saying the seasoned batsman’s open right shoulder is affecting his ability to judge the line and movement of deliveries.Babar has struggled to convert promising starts into…
