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🏙️ Toronto Local News
CityNews Toronto
Toronto police to announce ‘enhanced cash reward’ for suspect in Fairview Mall shooting
Toronto police will announce an enhanced cash reward on Monday as the search intensifies for Kyle Douglas Prouse, the man wanted for shooting a security guard during an attempted jewellery store robbery at Fairview Mall last week. Inspector Kristy Smith will be joined by Toronto Crime Stoppers Chair Sean Sportun at police headquarters, where they […]
CityNews Toronto
Child advocates to rally for online harms bill covering AI chatbots, gaming
OTTAWA — Children’s advocates will hold a rally and press conference on Parliament Hill Monday to call for online harms legislation that covers AI chatbots and video games. “Just in recent months, we’ve seen the real escalation of harm that’s happening using AI chatbots,” said Sara Austin, founder and CEO of Children First Canada. OpenAI […]
Global News TO
Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office
A copy of the premier's itinerary obtained by Global News shows that over five weeks from early January, Ford took a range of meetings at his house or virtually.
CBC Toronto
Bricks came 'raining down' in Toronto when a truck took out a telecom line. So far, no one's paying up
Residents in an east-end Toronto neighbourhood are calling for better safety protocols and enforcement after they say telecommunications lines on their street have been repeatedly pulled down by trucks.
Global News TO
Toronto man’s HIV in remission after bone marrow transplant to treat cancer
Doctors say a Toronto man has shown no signs of his HIV infection since receiving a bone marrow transplant. If he stays virus-free through 2027, he'll be considered cured.
🌍 World Headlines
The Guardian
Weather tracker: Torrential rain in southern China leads to flooding fears
Heatwaves reach 45C across India as unseasonably cold weather affects parts of central Canada Widespread heavy rain is sweeping over southern China. By Wednesday, rainfall totals are expected to exceed 100mm across many parts of Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, and in some areas as much as 150-200mm. As a result, the Office of the State Flood Contro
Al Jazeera
Somalia hunger crisis worsens as drought displaces more than 500,000 people
In Somalia, displaced communities face starvation as humanitarian funds decrease, leaving them without assistance or hope.
BBC World
What we're learning about suspected Washington press dinner gunman
The man arrested at the event attended by President Trump is due in court on Monday.
Al Jazeera
Varoufakis on Palantir, AI warfare, and the rise of tech lordism
Yanis Varoufakis speaks to Redi Tlhabi about Palantir's new manifesto, AI weapons, and big tech's ideological drive.
The Guardian
Mali defence minister killed amid flurry of insurgent attacks
Car bomb kills Sadio Camara at home during coordinated assaults by rebel groups including West African al-Qaida affiliate Mali’s defence minister was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said on Sunday, a high-profile fatality during coordinated assaults staged the previous day by insurgents including the West African affiliate of al-Qaida. A car laden with explosive
🤖 AI News & Updates
TechCrunch AI
Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
Overview Energy's first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power.
TechCrunch AI
To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity
Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco.
VentureBeat AI
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, po
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.
VentureBeat AI
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they
💻 Tech News & Updates
Hacker News
Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock
Article URL: https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919386 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Hacker News
It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)
Article URL: https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918961 Points: 101 # Comments: 46
Slashdot
Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone's Location Data
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres: Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene... Now the Supreme
Slashdot
Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs
Public stock exchanges "appear to be warming to climate tech startups," reports TechCrunch. "Or at least some of them." This week, nuclear startup X-energy went public, raising $1 billion in an upsized share offering that appears to have delivered a windfall for its investors, including Amazon [and Google]. Retail investors apparently can't get enough, with the stock popping 25% in its first hour
Hacker News
Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
Article URL: https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997 Points: 74 # Comments: 20
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