Victoria Mboko’s run through one of the most important competitions in women’s tennis ended where it inevitably — and impossibly — seemed like it might all along. And what a place she chose to do it. On Thursday night in Montreal, in the Canadian Open final, Mboko staged another comeback to rise out of a one-set hole and shake off …
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Asia Stocks Eye Cautious Open as Wall Street Cools: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg.com
Asia Stocks Eye Cautious Open as Wall Street Cools: Markets Wrap Bloomberg.com Japan index hits record high on earnings boost, other Asian markets ease Yahoo Finance Asian shares are mostly lower, while Tokyo’s Nikkei jumps 2% The Hill Asia stocks: Japan hits record high on US tariff relief, others trend lower Investing.com Live: Nikkei jumps as Japan assured Trump will implement agreed tariff deal Australian …
Read More »US national parks staff in ‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts | Trump administration
Across the US’s fabled but overstretched national parks, unusual scenes are playing out this summer following budget cuts by Donald Trump’s administration. Archeologists are staffing ticket booths, ecologists are covering visitor centers and the superintendents of parks are even cleaning the toilets. The National Park Service (NPS), responsible for maintaining cherished wildernesses and sites of cultural importance from Yellowstone to …
Read More »Battlefield 6 has almost 250,000 people waiting in an open beta queue
Battlefield 6 currently has close to 250,000 players waiting in queue for access, ahead of the today’s early access beta period. The game, which is set to release on the 10th October, is giving folks a chance to hop in starting later today, as well as this weekend and the next. Everyone who requested access to Battlefield 6’s Labs tests …
Read More »Battlefield 6 Open Beta Forces PC Gamers to Mess About With Their BIOS to Enable Secure Boot — and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Next
If you’re trying to play the Battlefield 6 Open Beta on PC, you might have run into a problem: ‘Secure Boot is not enabled.’ You are not alone. PC gamers hoping to play DICE’s latest now open beta early access is live have no choice but to enable Secure Boot on their PC. And a cursory glance at social media, …
Read More »Battlefield 6 devs respond as Open Beta launch sees server queues of over 200,000
Battlefield 6’s Open Beta has launched into early access, but players are having to wait to get in, being met with server queues of over 270,000 in some cases. The beta went live at 1 AM PT on August 7, and the devs addressed the server queue issue a couple of minutes before. “Since this is Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta …
Read More »There’s a Huge Queue to Get in the Battlefield 6 Open Beta Before It’s Even Out
There’s a huge queue to get in the Battlefield 6 Open Beta before it even starts. After IGN reported how thousands of people were sitting on the Battlefield 6 Open Beta menu screen on Steam yesterday, August 5, today, just hours before the open beta launches for those with early access, EA has had to trigger the kind of queue …
Read More »How to set up and run OpenAI’s ‘gpt-oss-20b’ open weight model locally on your Mac
This week, OpenAI released its long-awaited open weight model called gpt-oss. Part of the appeal of gpt-oss is that you can run it locally on your own hardware, including Macs with Apple silicon. Here’s how to get started and what to expect. Models and Macs First, gpt-oss comes in two flavors: gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b. The former is described as a …
Read More »2025 US Open prize money sets record for largest purse in tennis history – US Open Tennis
2025 US Open prize money sets record for largest purse in tennis history US Open Tennis 2025 US Open prize money ATP Tour U.S. Open singles winners will get a record $5 million each NBC News U.S. Open makes tennis history with $90 million announcement Yahoo Sports US Open prize money pool increases to record $90M, largest in tennis history USA Today Source link
Read More »UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model
The Royal Society has been publishing more than half of its content open-access by charging article-processing fees.Credit: Nigel Bowles/Alamy The UK Royal Society is converting eight of its journals to the ‘subscribe to open’ (S2O) publishing model, starting next year. The not-for-profit publisher, which produces ten titles, including the world’s first peer-reviewed journals, announced the decision today. The S2O model …
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