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On Valentine’s Day, I brought you a story that’s since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad, discovered an entire network of 7,000 remote-control DJI robots ready to let him peek into other people’s homes.To be clear, DJI had already begun addressing some of the related vulnerabilities before the man, Sammy Azdoufal, showed The Verge just how much he could access. But it wasn’t clear whether DJI would pay him for his discovery, particularly after how it treated security researcher Kevin Finisterre back in 2017 —…

An Edmonton-area family has finally been reunited with their dog. The pup got spooked months ago, and the family thought they might never see her again. Chilli has been a huge part of Jody Toope’s family for the past three years, but the Calmar family recently went nearly three months without her.“Chilli is wonderful, she steals everybody’s heart,” said Jody Toope, Chilli’s owner.The six-year-old German Shepherd-cross got spooked when she was out with one of her owners in Brazeau County near Drayton Valley, southwest of Edmonton, in December and ran off into the woods.“She didn’t come back, he stayed out…

Amelia Island, Florida, March 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Broad Arrow Auctions, driven by Hagerty (NYSE: HGTY), set new standards for some of the collector car market’s most sought-after supercars during the first evening of its two-day 2026 Amelia Concours Auction. Held at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, the auction room was packed as cars sold throughout the evening achieved strong prices, with the Private Collection of Unobtanium Supercars saved for the final, eagerly awaited lots. The 352-mile, original-owner, well-optioned 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder opened the group with immediate interest, selling for a final $2,975,000 to set a new auction world…

Kelowna, B.C., is still in the off-season but this year the tourism season is expected to get an earlier start. “We think we’re in for a very, very good and early tourism season,” said Ellen Walker-Matthews, president and CEO of the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA).The city is hosting several major events this spring and summer starting with the Memorial Cup in May.That will be followed by the CFL’s Touchdown Kelowna games in June and the B.C. Summer Games in July.But TOTA officials also say the 2026 FIFA World Cup, taking place in Vancouver starting June 11, will likely also…

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he believes Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from the line of succession to the British throne for his “deplorable” actions, but noted he would respect the process currently playing out in the country. “Personally I do, yes,” Carney told reporters in Tokyo when asked about the former prince Andrew.“There is a process (underway) to define that process, but I certainly think his actions, which are deplorable and have caused him to be stripped of his royal title, certainly merit, if that’s the word — necessitate is a better word — his removal from the…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgarians looking up around 8 p.m. Thursday may have noticed some unusual lights streaking across the night sky. Photos and videos of a group of lights filled social media, with those who captured the moment left wondering what they saw. “It was from one end of the sky to the other,” said Forrest Hyslop, who was able to record video of the lights from his acreage northwest of Calgary. “It was pretty fantastic to see. I’ve seen shooting stars and stuff like that but initially I didn’t know what it was because…

The US Customs and Border Protection says it currently can’t comply with an order to process billions of dollars in refunds stemming from tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. In a filing on Friday, CBP executive director Brandon Lord says the agency’s digital import processing system is “not well suited to a task of this scale,” as reported earlier by CNBC.The CBP’s admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled that importers impacted by the tariffs are entitled…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Mount Royal University (MRU) is hoping to attract more women to the aviation industry, where they remain critically underrepresented, it says. The post-secondary institution held a Women in Aviation Day at Calgary’s Springbank Airport on Friday to provide prospective pilots with an opportunity to network.“We have a bunch of industry representatives,” said Kacy Cameron, an MRU second-year aviation student and one of the event organizers. “They have sent all their female pilots — as much as they could — just to show some inspiration for the younger generation, showing the different opportunities…

Grammarly’s “expert review” feature offers to give users writing advice “inspired by” subject matter experts, including recently deceased professors, as Wired reported on Wednesday. When I tried the feature out myself, I found some experts that came as a surprise for a different reason — one of them was my boss.The AI-generated feedback included comments that appeared to be from The Verge’s editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, as well as editor-at-large David Pierce and senior editors Sean Hollister and Tom Warren, none of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them in the “expert reviews.”The feature, which launched in August, claims to help…

It appears MFIN was forced to deplete its holding company cash balances to repay $31.25 million in debtThe Company tried and failed to raise debt before the February 26th, 2026 maturityMFIN will need to raise debt or equity SOON – we believe it will be expensive or one-sidedThis situation is DIRECTLY A RESULT OF poor management and no board oversightMarkets are afraid in general, MFIN’s decision-making is making it worseMFIN’s Tangible Book is still below its 4Q2013 peak – stock price is down 40% from its peakPrice/Tangible Book Value is a terrible ~1.0x and substantially below other lenders and MFIN-selected…