Eight people were killed in a school shooting in a remote part of British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, according to The Associated Press. The suspect, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, was found dead following the attack and had a history of mental health contact with police, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald.
The shooting occurred at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Authorities revealed that the suspect had prior mental health calls to her home. The investigation is ongoing, and further details are expected to be released as the police continue their work.
In other news, a new study published by researchers from the University of Montreal and Italy's National Research Council found that meditation alters brain activity. The study, which involved 12 monks of the Thai Forest Tradition, used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to analyze brain activity. According to Wired, the research concluded that meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity.
Meanwhile, in the realm of artificial intelligence, a new project called "On The Docket" is using AI to generate visual depictions of U.S. Supreme Court justices reading their decisions, as reported by NPR News. This project aims to expand access to the Supreme Court.
Also, researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab, and ETH Zurich developed a new technique called self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT) that allows large language models to learn new skills without forgetting their past capabilities, VentureBeat reported. The technique enables models to learn directly from demonstrations and their own experiments. Experiments show that SDFT consistently outperforms traditional supervised fine-tuning (SFT) while addressing the limitations of reinforcement learning.
Finally, in early 2017, an artist began documenting their journey of making a living as an artist, as shared on Hacker News. The artist, who had just finished a year with $54,000 in sales, was about to have one with $150,000. The artist later sold over $1 million in art, and shared their theories on how to earn enough money to buy the remainder of their time.
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