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Adnan Syed is set to remain free from jail despite his conviction for the 1999 killing of his high school ex-girlfriend in a case that captured the world.

Dell saw a sequential slump in server sales its most recent quarter as customers were awaiting access to systems using Nvidia’s “Blackwell” GPUs, and rival Hewlett Packard Enterprise had a similar issue when it turns in its first quarter of fiscal 2025, which ended in early February. …

GPU Transitions, Aggressive Server Pricing Squeeze HPE Profits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Now working with seven hyperscalers for custom AI silicon. Not working on acquiring bits of Intel

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least, after the company announced a big majority of its top 10,000 customers have decided to acquire its Cloud Foundation stack and posted strong growth.…

Upcoming closures from March 7 to 9 on the M25 and A12 may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

There was an average of 11 permits granted for scheduled works across the district of Braintree per day in an “incredibly frustrating” year of roadworks.

Braintree Council has announced the completion of the project at Rose Hill, behind the Lakes Road Industrial Park.

Upcoming closures from March 7 to 9 on the M25 and A12 may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

He shouted "where's the f***ing gold" as he hit the boy in the face repeatedly

A fan shared a moving story about Dolly Parton 's late husband Carl Thomas Dean following his death at age 82 this week on March 3 in Nashville.

Newer generative AI models have begun developing deceptive behaviors -- such as cheating at chess -- when they cannot achieve objectives through standard reasoning methods. The findings come from a preprint study from Palisade Research. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Popular Science article: To learn more, the team from Palisade Research tasked OpenAI's o1-preview model, DeepSeek R1, and multiple other similar programs with playing games of chess against Stockfish, one of the world's most advanced chess engines. In order to understand the generative AI's reasoning during each match, the team also provided a "scratchpad," allowing the AI to convey its thought processes through text. They then watched and recorded hundreds of chess matches between generative AI and Stockfish. The results were somewhat troubling. While earlier models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 only attempted to "hack" games after researchers nudged them along with additional prompts, more advanced editions required no such help. OpenAI's o1-preview, for example, tried to cheat 37 percent of the time, while DeepSeek R1 attempted unfair workarounds roughly every 1-in-10 games. This implies today's generative AI is already capable of developing manipulative and deceptive strategies without any human input. Their methods of cheating aren't as comical or clumsy as trying to swap out pieces when Stockfish isn't "looking." Instead, AI appears to reason through sneakier methods like altering backend game program files. After determining it couldn't beat Stockfish in one chess match, for example, o1-preview told researchers via its scratchpad that "to win against the powerful chess engine" it may need to start "manipulating the game state files." "I might be able to set up a position where the engine evaluates its position as worse causing it to resign," it continued. In another trial, an AI even used the semantics of its programmers to reach its cheating phase. "The task is to 'win against a powerful chess engine,' not necessarily to win fairly in a chess game," it wrote. The precise reasons behind these deceptive behaviors remain unclear, partly because companies like OpenAI keep their models' inner workings tightly guarded, creating what's often described as a "black box." Researchers warn that the race to roll out advanced AI could outpace efforts to keep it safe and aligned with human goals, underscoring the urgent need for greater transparency and industry-wide dialogue.

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David Lacerenza, 58, is accused of charging Milanese customers at his bar, La Ginoteneria di Davide, up to 10,000 euros (£8,375) a night for booze, sex and drugs.

Bradford Council's annual budget meeting had only just got underway before it had to be paused due to the disruption.

All the figures I've seen suggest that compared with women, male physicians give us considerably more in return for the six-figure sum it costs to train a doctor.

The high street favourite has showcased different ways to style the items

The blast occurred at around 11.25 this morning at a warehouse in Fontecalent near holiday hotspot Alicante in south-eastern Spain .

A GoFundMe account had been posted by DJ Funk family's to help the ailing musician, whose real name was Charles Chambers, detailing his health woes.

A digger driver was caught on camera crashing into cars in a rampage before it went smashing into a Post Office in a shocking video.

The Sentencing Council on Wednesday published new guidelines for courts to follow when imposing community and custodial sentences, including whether to suspend jail time.

Peace talks between the US and Ukraine will take place in Saudi Arabia next week, President Zelensky has said.

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