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Sonos just launched Live Activities on iPhone

The Sonos app on iPhone just added a big new feature: Live Activities. Here are the details on how they work.
Pentagon orders 30 US universities to scrutinise ties with Chinese research partners
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 export-controlled research had been exposed.
The institutions must report their findings and proposed mitigation measures – including the termination of partnerships deemed problematic – to
DeepSeek’s Peak-Hour Pricing Betrays Where Its Users Really Live, Calming US Fears of a China AI Takeover, Even As Alibaba’s Qwen Models Bury Meta On Hugging Face
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 man charged after suspected hate‑motivated assault in North York, police say
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 Asian male. According to police, the man allegedly directed repeated anti‑South Asian racial slurs toward the victim.
When the victim attempted to leave, police say the accused assaulted him



