Back-to-school sale drops the TI-84 Evo to its lowest price at just $74

The perfect way to start the year

印度國際畢業生工作許可被拒 無力再借貸 決定返國創業

事主:Samir Garhwal

【星島綜合報道】數名在卡加利Portage College畢業的印度籍國際學生,因畢業後工作許可(Post-Graduation Work Permit,PGWP)申請被拒,表示無力再借貸,決定返回印度發展。

其中一名學生Samir Garhwal接受CityNews訪問時表示,與其繼續留在加拿大面對經


【社區消息】孟嘗會頒獎學金 表彰兩傑出高中生卓越表現及領導力

【社區消息】孟嘗會8月12日假士嘉堡孟嘗社區及義工服務中心舉行2026年度「孟嘗金禧紀念獎學金」頒奬禮,向兩名安省傑出高中畢業生頒發每人總共4,000元獎學金,以支持他們繼續升學。「孟嘗金禧紀念獎學金

Continue reading...

屯門私家車與綠色小巴互撼多人傷 現場一段青山公路全封

屯門青山公路嶺南段與屯富路交界、近屯門濾水廠對出,周一(8月17日)晚上近10時,一部私家車與一部綠色小巴相撞,私家車車頭淪廢鐵,擋風玻璃碎裂,小巴亦頭燈及泵把損毀。初步事件中有11人受輕傷,包括私家


Houthis Claim Strike on Saudi Vessel as Red Sea Violence Escalates

The armed group, based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said it had launched missiles near the vital maritime trade route, in a conflict that shows no sign of abating.

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

A comparison table lists features of 'Qwen 3.8-Max' and 'Qwen 3.8 27B', showing differences in model type, total parameters, active parameters, primary access, license, and hardware needs.

AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs

AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU.

Last year was a merge request adding ROCm native context support for Virglrenderer. That ROCm native context support has yet to be merged into Virglrenderer for the AMD GPU compute stack for virtualized GPU computing. But now they are looking at a new implementation for providing better support in virtualized environments.

Continue reading...

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

Add as a preferred source on Google