SECOND THOUGHTS
On the heels of the

SECOND THOUGHTS
On the heels of the

Researchers are tackling a critical challenge in large language model (LLM) training: maintaining reproducibility without sacrificing performance. Xinwei Qiang, Hongmin Chen, and Shixuan Sun, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ByteDance…

TRIPOLI: Libya’s Seif Al-Islam Qaddafi went from his notorious father’s heir apparent to a decade of captivity and obscurity in a remote hill town before launching a presidential bid that helped derail an attempted election.
Seif…

Pakistan has steadily grown into the role of a regional power broker, built on past military and strategic successes and reinforced by increasingly confident diplomacy that has strengthened its bilateral relationships. Within Pakistan, this…

Independent Report
Quetta | 03 February 2026
Train services connecting Balochistan with other provinces remained suspended for the fourth consecutive day due to…


More Americans oppose than support U.S. military intervention in Iran for each of three ways of describing it, including using force to overthrow Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and bombing Iran in response to its treatment of protesters….

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The temptation to bomb the Islamic Republic…