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The soap star, 55, has risked the fury of ticket-holders who have paid to see her on stage by quietly pulling out of her eight scheduled performances in Woking this month.

John Kiriakou, who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1990 to 2004, warned the US President was seeking to 'break' the 'final taboo' around dropping nuclear bombs.

Drivers in south Essex and Thurrock face a 23-mile diversion as Lower Thames Crossing works run from November 4 to November 10, National Highways warns.

Drivers in south Essex and Thurrock face a 23-mile diversion as Lower Thames Crossing works run from November 4 to November 10, National Highways warns.

Lucy Knapp, 17, was killed after her Seat Ibiza Xcellence left the road and hit a tree on Headcorn Road between Staplehurst and Headcorn about 8.25pm on June 11.

Lisa Bennett was halfway through her lunch recently when a piece of chicken became lodged in her throat.

Why some people have startling visions on the edge of death has baffled experts for decades. Now, a study has revealed that these encounters have an uncanny pattern.

Wayne Rooney was ever the proud father as he watched his son Kai playing a Manchester United youth game on Tuesday. 

Donovan Marx (pictured) was attacked at his property in Syferfontein, near Ventersdorp in the North West province after three armed men wearing balaclavas confronted a farmworker.

While people applauded him for 'speaking out' about the topic, while others scrutinized the Watermelon Sugar crooner for complaining after he charged so much for his own ticket prices.

Wondering when's too soon to unbox the festive season and dress up your house? Amanda Holden hasn't held back - and more and more of us are doing the same.

The boy was arrested overnight on Monday on suspicion of attempted murder following the stabbings at an address in Eastleigh on Halloween night.

Essex County Council has appointed councillor Isi Rocha as its new cabinet member for education, SEND and skills.

Essex County Council has appointed councillor Isi Rocha as its new cabinet member for education, SEND and skills.

It's officially the time of the year where supermarkets and retailers tug on the heartstrings of the nation with festive adverts that try to encapsulate the true spirit of Christmas.

Customers left wondering what's been compromised after vendor advises resetting passwords, 2FA and passkeys

Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) reported today that they used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra language model to raise a small, open source Qwen model's math score roughly sixfold by directly editing its weights -- the numerical parameters that govern its behavior. Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang and Omar Khattab described their work in a research blog post published November 2. They call the approach "weight-space programming" and tested Astra's ability to interpret and alter networks without using conventional training procedures to generate the edits. In the strongest language-model example, Astra's intervention raised Qwen3.5-0.8B's MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1% while touching approximately 0.016% of its weights. The improvement came primarily from correcting repetitive reasoning—a distinction that shaped both the technical findings and the debate over their implications. Their experiments explored a broader possibility: AI systems that inspect, repair and construct other neural networks by working directly on their internal machinery. "This is cool as heck!" wrote Yuchen Jin, a technical staffer at Databricks and former co-founder and CTO of Hyperbolic Labs who was unaffiliated with the research, on X. "Imagine using a large LLM to directly edit a smaller model's weights and dramatically improve its capabilities. It's like gene editing for neural networks. Even cooler than distillation!" Voyage AI staff researcher Chandan Singh, formerly of Microsoft AI, also reacted to the findings: "For anyone questioning whether this post is overhyped, I think they are actually *underselling* the approach."

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Paris Jackson is asking her late father Michael Jackson's estate to release $600 million to a family trust meant to benefit her and her two brothers.