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The results of a ballot of thousands of probation staff represented by the National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) is expected as early as tomorrow.

$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?

Trigger warning: This is a column you may not wish to read over breakfast. It contains references to lavatories and bodily functions...

In 2016, presenter Joe Crowley met a family whose five-year-old daughter Scarlett was saved by a donated heart.

New research has found that fire brigades across the UK attended 212 fires involving solar panels last year.

Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI

The very mention of Thames Water, as Britain battles through drought with seaside resorts infested with E. coli, provokes an apoplectic reaction.

Ministers have made a 'catastrophic misjudgement' that risks another scandal on the scale of Mid Staffs unless Andy Burnham intervenes to stop the changes, the party warns.

US predator Litani has written to 100,000 of Aviva's individual investors offering them £5.30 for each of their shares - well below last night's closing price of £7.07.

Revolut was granted the licence by the banking regulator and the ECB, meaning it can offer French customers a wider range of loans, mortgages and savings products.

Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding "initial gamepad support" for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhelds include MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+, the extremely expensive, extremely powerful handheld built around Intel's Arc G3 processor that launched this summer. While SteamOS has long included beta support for "other AMD powered handhelds," Valve has only recently been working on offering compatibility with Intel-based handhelds like the MSI Claw line. This weekend's update suggests the company hasn't abandoned those efforts and that Intel chips aren't being left out of the SteamOS conversation. SteamOS 3.8.25 also newly supports the controllers built into Ayaneo's Android-focused Pocket S2 and the more recently released Windows-based Konkr Fit. Valve also says the new OS offers "improved support" for older MSI Claw devices and the OneXPlayer line of portable gaming PCs. This weekend's update follows June's SteamOS 3.8 update, which stressed "improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms." That update specifically called out improved controller support on handhelds from the likes of GPD Win, Anbernic, and OrangePi, as well as improvements for various Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw, and OneXPlayer devices. The report notes that the new SteamOS update also updates the Linux driver powering the new Steam Controller, "allowing it to work with 'native controller applications' even when Steam is not running."

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Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'

As Europe braces for yet another heatwave, the relentlessly dry conditions that have left the continent gasping for breath have also revealed many of the secrets once long-held by the River Danube.

Faith Curran was reported missing around 12.40pm on Thursday by her family.

It emerged on Friday the EastEnders star, 62, has been charged with drink-driving after police were called following a row with staff when he was challenged at a petrol station in Harlow, Essex.

30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow

Aptoide has become the first third-party Android app store available directly through Google Play in the U.S. "The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third-party stores," notes The Verge. The change makes rival storefronts far easier to discover and install, potentially opening the door for Epic, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft and others to distribute their own app stores through Google's store. From the report: Third-party app stores have always been available on Android, which is a more open platform than iOS in that respect. However, until now they've only been available if pre-installed on a device -- as with the Amazon Appstore on Fire tablets or Samsung's Galaxy Store -- or installed via sideloading. Listing rival storefronts within the Play Store makes them much easier for users to find and access. [...] Aptoide itself is relatively little known, but it's likely to be the first of many alternative app stores. It's presumably only a matter of time before the Epic Store makes its own appearance, and the likes of Amazon, Samsung, and other phone manufacturers may also want to put their stores in front of potential customers.

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The warning was issued to students ahead of a webinar lecture about the history of bedtime stories.

Exclusive images obtained by the Daily Mail show a massive, custom-made banner dominating Tajrish Square in the Iranian capital of Tehran, installed late last week.

A family of four allegedly skipped out on a $130 tab at a Wyoming restaurant, prompting the owner Zoey Aldahash to take matters into her own hands by sharing their image on Facebook.