Skipper hits 13-ball 55 as Green-shirts chase 107 in the fifth over against Hong Kong Captain Abbas Afridi smashed a blistering 55 as Pakistan defeated hosts Hong Kong by five wickets in the Plate semi-final of the Hong Kong Sixes on Saturday to set up a final against Oman. Hong Kong posted 106-3 in their…
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Cleveland-Cliffs would be making a “mistake” by not respecting its obligations and commitments, as the U.S.-based owner of Stelco faces potential legal action from the federal government over their laying off of up to 500 Canadian steelworkers. The comments came at an event in Ottawa when Carney was…
Club denies wrongdoing and have appealed against findings over alleged financial rule breaches MANCHESTER: English football’s Independent Regulator (IFR) will have “absolute power” to force Manchester City’s owners to sell if they are ultimately found to have run the club improperly, the watchdog’s chair has said. Premier League leaders City have been found guilty on…
The bad week for cybersecurity just got worse for thousands more companies, who were spied on by Chinese hackers following the breach of IT management and remote access giant ConnectWise. Security researchers at Microsoft say the China state-aligned hackers broke into ConnectWise’s cloud backup service and stole application credentials that are used to establish data…
New data from Health Canada show that flu season is arriving early in B.C., with the province leading the way. According to the department, more than five per cent of tests detected influenza in the week of Oct. 4. The most common detection was Influenza A(H1N1) at 98.4 per cent. The population most affected was…
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI on Tuesday. The suit, filed by Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, alleges that ChatGPT coached Wan to taper off her seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before she died in February, The New York Times reported. Wan was using…
Drops for stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry are dragging markets down worldwide on Thursday, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May amid the war with Iran. The S&P 500 sank 1.3 per cent following even sharper losses in Asia, whose markets are full of AI and other technology stocks. The Nasdaq composite was…
Block’s AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation. Block announced it on October 23, 2026 as a research preview. Dessa is a speech-to-speech model from Block that listens and talks at the same time. Block says it used no text and no pretrained models. That is a…
Perplexity, along with NVIDIA team, has introduced JOLT, a new post-training method for language models. JOLT stands for Joint On-policy Learning and Teaching. It trains a single model in 2 roles. The teacher sees privileged information; the student does not. The key change is that the teacher is trained too, so its feedback stays usable….
In the last 18 months, multiple data center proposals have fallen through in Germany: Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse, and state-owned Komm.ONE withdrew from a project in Baden-Württemberg. Though precisely what causes a data center development to fold is rarely clear, Komm.ONE pointed directly to the burdens of the Energy Efficiency…
