WHO chief urges transparency amid Russia plague reports
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a press conference on the Marburg virus…
UCP endorses proposed riding map NDP says is rigged
Alberta’s governing United Conservatives have officially endorsed changes to provincial riding boundaries that the Opposition NDP says are rigged to help the UCP win the next election. Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP caucus, in a vote split along party lines, voted Wednesday to endorse the riding changes and put the new boundaries into a bill to…
Earning Trust in the Age of AI Agents
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Every time Claude stops in the middle of a task to ask permission to open a file or read an email, I get two choices. I can allow it once, or I can allow it always. I click “allow once” pretty much every time….
5 men charged in Alberta auto theft, fraud ring involving old RCMP vehicles
Five men have been charged following a multi-year Alberta RCMP investigation into an alleged automotive fraud and vehicle theft ring that police say operated across Canada and overseas. The Alberta RCMP Auto Theft Unit said the investigation began in June 2024, after police identified a person they believed was heavily involved in driving auto theft…
The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space
When it comes to Texas data centers, the concerns of tech bros aren’t completely unfounded. Experts tell WIRED that the change in leadership could translate to some concrete changes in the industry—albeit with limits. Although Democrats have control of the Texas House, Republicans still have control over the state’s senate. Robert Paterson, professor of land…
EPS welcomes city budget but warns $61.6M shortfall could affect critical technology – Edmonton
Policing is the biggest expense in the City of Edmonton’s draft budget and accounts for the largest portion of property taxes. The Edmonton Police Service and Edmonton Police Commission are now responding to the city’s proposed fiscal plan released earlier this week. “On the operating side, we’re very happy with the formula. It’s allowed us…
Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
Ricursive Intelligence just released Ripple-65B Preview. Ripple-65B Preview is a 65B dense open-weight model from Ricursive, pretrained from scratch for agentic coding. It is a general-purpose variant of the proprietary model behind Ricursive’s AI chip design platform. The main claim: 80.52 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, the top self-reported score among US open-weight models. Every MoE rival…
Winnipeg Jets’ Brad Lambert clears waivers & loaned to Manitoba Moose – Winnipeg
Winnipeg Jets players had the day off after their miracle victory in Montreal, but the club made a couple of moves. Jets forward Brad Lambert was not claimed by another NHL team and cleared waivers before being loaned to the AHL’s Manitoba Moose. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox…
webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500
webAI has released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model for math, code and instruction following. The TwIL-8B reasoning model is post-trained from IBM’s Granite 4.2 8B. Weights are on Hugging Face under a non-commercial license. webAI’s launch post frames the pitch around cost per task, not raw scale. The 4-bit build is 4.98 GiB, sized for…
Winnipeg Blue Bombers tackle Jarell Broxton named CFL’s top offensive lineman – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Jarell Broxton of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was named the CFL’s top offensive lineman Wednesday. Broxton becomes the seventh Blue Bomber to win the award. Broxton started 17 regular-season games for a Winnipeg offensive line that paved the way for CFL rushing leader Brady Oliveira (1,493 yards)….
Pakistan’s Test revival begins
Hesson orders fast tracks; Azan, Fazal emerge as leading contenders to open the innings against Sri Lanka Pakistan batters Abdullah Fazal (left) and Azan Awais walk off after stumps on day two of the first Test match against Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka, on May 9, 2026. – Screengrab from…