The Pentagon has ordered 30 US universities to conduct sweeping audits of their foreign research partnerships, including collaborations with Chinese institutions and organisations associated with former Confucius Institutes, or risk becoming ineligible for future federal funding.The Department of Defence said on Monday that the unnamed universities must review their academic, financial and research relationships with foreign “entities of concern” and determine whether sensitive or...

There has been much consternation in the United States over the past few weeks around the supposed proliferation of open-weight AI models from China. Even so, DeepSeek's newly instituted peak-hour pricing mechanism belies those fears, and suggests that most of its users still reside in Asia. While this paradigm is also likely to hold true for some of China's other high-flying AI models, such as Alibaba's Qwen series of LLMs, the sheer scale of oncoming demand is truly a marvel to behold

Toronto police have arrested a man following an alleged hate‑motivated assault involving racial slurs in the York Mills Road and Don Mills Road area early Sunday. Investigators say the incident happened around 12 a.m. on Aug. 16, when the accused became involved in an interaction with a victim who was visibly identifiable as a South […]

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Since Chinese container ships began plying the Northern Sea Route three years ago, the Arctic shipping lane has gained global importance.Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea later that year disrupted traffic through the Suez Canal – the fastest route between Europe and Asia – in what was the most serious conflict-driven disruption since the Arab-Israeli war nearly six decades earlier.The 5,600km (3,480-mile) Northern Sea Route spans Russia’s Arctic coast, from the Barents

Mattel is looking to succeed where Hasbro failed

The Sinking City is a bit of a favourite of mine, having previewed it way back in 2019. While I didn't review it, Francesco gave it a respectable 7.8 out of 10. It's a game I enjoyed playing in my own time, and one I was always interested in revisiting, something I'm now able to do in the now-released The Sinking City 2. I will say that my interest isn't only in the game itself, but