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The 65-year-old A-list actor will surely shock fans as he donned a big, blond wig and lacy negligee on the Los Angeles set of Soapbox.

Canterbury Cathedral attracts more than a million people a year and the famous entrance Christ Church Gate has been restored in a 'gaudy' and 'awful' fashion, say locals.

Woods, 50, rolled his SUV in an attempt to overtake a vehicle at high speed on Jupiter Island, before cops found two pills in his pocket and put him behind bars for eight hours.

The B1 bridge, which links Iran's capital with the western city of Karaj, was targeted in two waves of strikes on Thursday.

The 50-year-old stepped out for Shanghai Fashion Week in late March - or, as some conspiracy theorists are arguing, at least someone who looks like Jolie did.

Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.…

James McAvoy has described making his directorial debut as a 'nightmare he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy.'

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

Donald Trump charged his top military officials with crafting a plan to seize Iran's nuclear material, and what they created may be one of the most daring and dangerous missions ever.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google's terms. The company's Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has also acknowledged developer frustrations with AI licensing, so it's dumping the custom Gemma license. Like past versions of its open-weight models, Google has designed Gemma 4 to be usable on local machines. That can mean plenty of things, of course. The two large Gemma variants, 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense, are designed to run unquantized in bfloat16 format on a single 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU. Granted, that's a $20,000 AI accelerator, but it's still local hardware. If quantized to run at lower precision, these big models will fit on consumer GPUs. Google also claims it has focused on reducing latency to really take advantage of Gemma's local processing. The 26B Mixture of Experts model activates only 3.8 billion of its 26 billion parameters in inference mode, giving it much higher tokens-per-second than similarly sized models. Meanwhile, 31B Dense is more about quality than speed, but Google expects developers to fine-tune it for specific uses. The other two Gemma 4 models, Effective 2B (E2B) and Effective 4B (E4B), are aimed at mobile devices. These options were designed to maintain low memory usage during inference, running at an effective 2 billion or 4 billion parameters. Google says the Pixel team worked closely with Qualcomm and MediaTek to optimize these models for devices like smartphones, Raspberry Pi, and Jetson Nano. Not only do they use less memory and battery than Gemma 3, but Google also touts "near-zero latency" this time around. The Apache 2.0 license is much more flexible with its terms of use for commercial restrictions, "granting you complete control over your data, infrastructure, and models," says Google. Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, called it "a huge milestone" that will help developers use Gemma for more projects and expand what Google calls the "Gemmaverse."

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Heated meeting sees residents heckle councillors and developers

A prolific shoplifter from Colchester has been jailed for 18 months after admitting dozens of thefts.

Sir Jim Mackey, head of NHS England, said the permanent shift will make greater use of other clinicians following a series of disruptive strikes by the medics.

The law enforcement supervisor who was first on the scene of Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping had never investigated a homicide before, an insider told NewsNation's Brian Entin.

A first face-to-face meeting with FIFA president Gianni Infantino since the U.S. and Israel started a war against Iran on February 28 made genuine progress in soccer diplomacy at the end of a fraught month.

The American actress, 44, took to social media on Wednesday to share snaps of her trip as she enjoyed downtime with family and friends.

Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks

Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…

'My grandson Nico is yummy!' she said. 'He already has eight teeth, and is so smart and is quite the dancer. It's so special to see your kid turn into a wonderful parent.'

Love, who is the widow of Grohl's late Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain, appeared Wednesday on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast.

A heated meeting saw local residents lash out at councillors after the plans were approved