Frustration is growing on Commerce Avenue in Kelowna. Business owner Gerald Goertsen says over the weekend security cameras captured someone ripping out lavender plants from the side of his commercial building. “Just complete destruction without, without any consequence,” Goertsen said. He describes the latest incident as part of a pattern of crime and social disorder…
Gold medallists Kazakhstan’s Ruslan Kurbanov, Vadim Sharlaimov, Kirill Prokhodov and Yerlik Sertay celebrate on the podium after winning the Men’s Team Epee at the Aichi International Exhibition Center, Tokoname, Japan, September 27, 2026. — Reuters NAGOYA: Organisers of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 apologised for a travel mix-up on Monday, which saw Pakistan reaching a…
H Company has released Holo4, a family of generalist computer-use models for AI agents. One set of weights clicks and types on screens. It also writes code and calls MCP or API tools. Holo4 ships in 2 sizes: Holo4 27B (dense) and Holo4 35B-A3B (Mixture of Experts, 3B active). Both serve a 256K context on…
A small group of aspiring safety guards participate in a coaching session, requiring 40 hours within the classroom earlier than they will write their provincially-mandated take a look at to formally get their licenses. It’s coaching that Teacher Peter de Beer, after 25 years within the business and a couple of decade finishing up these…
Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan (left) and Saim Ayub interact during their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup match against USA at the SSC Ground in Colombo on February 10, 2026. — AFP Pakistan will face Bangladesh in the men’s cricket semi-final at the Asian Games 2026 after Tigers’ quarter-final against Malaysia was abandoned without a ball being…
Anthropic devoted practically a 3rd of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to threat components, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the submitting in latest days. The submitting particulars particular, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its fashions have already proven or may present, together with makes an attempt to “resist shutdown,” to…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal police say evidence gathered in a criminal investigation into allegations of discriminatory and racist conduct by officers from a neighbourhood station in the city’s east end has been submitted to Quebec prosecutors for review. In an update Monday, the SPVM said evidence collected as part of…
COPENHAGEN: FIFA President Gianni Infantino has ordered an assessment of proposals to distribute more money to national associations, following calls from UEFA and CONCACAF for a $2.1 billion payout from the governing body’s reserves, but stopped short of committing to an amount. In a letter to the six continental confederation presidents seen by Reuters on…
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a 5-model audio stack spanning ASR, TTS and realtime interaction. The main model is Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex speech model built for voice agents that call tools. Qwen also cut prices: about 85% on Realtime, about 70% on TTS and up to 95% on ASR. Is it deployable? Yes, as…
New polling suggests the Parti Québécois could be headed toward a majority government in next week’s provincial election, while support for the Coalition Avenir Québec has fallen sharply, with one projection suggesting the governing party could fail to win a single seat. Three polls released with one week remaining in the campaign point to growing…
