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Welcome back to Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - one of the toughest, most gruelling gigs in all of theatre, for actors and audiences alike.

Two giant pandas have arrived at a zoo in Atlanta as a gift from Chinese President Xi Jinping, following a long history of the rare and beloved animals being used as diplomatic currency.

A one-off vaccination programme was launched this year after outbreaks which began in Kent in March left two young people dead.

Cloudflare has launched two open-weight decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, designed for structured yes/no, multiple-choice, and ranking tasks while also supporting images, video, and up to a 64K context window. Cloudflare says its models outperform TypeSafe's Jev on several benchmarks and can run locally from Hugging Face. The Register reports: For starters, Clef has an LLM backbone. According to Cloudflare, Clef uses specially post-trained, frozen versions of Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B for Clef and Clef-flash, respectively, with the Qwen backbone performing a prefill-only pass during inference. Clef is still fast - faster than Jev, to be fair - and scores choices in parallel after that prefill-only pass. It's not clear what Jev's underlying architecture is, as TypeSafe has kept that a secret. As for its speed and capability, Clef moves fast. Cloudflare ran it against Jev and some other open decision models using the Jev Decision Index available on Hugging Face, and the company's own ranking suggests Clef is slightly slower than other open models, but more accurate, with Clef-flash just as accurate as most of the others, but far faster. To be fair to the competition, Cloudflare self-reported its own scores against the benchmark, and they have yet to be reproduced for ranking on the official Decision Index. Cloudflare also ran Clef against TypeSafe's own benchmarks, and claimed it beat Jev in three out of four areas, only losing out on agent trace observability. Even if it were a bit slower or less accurate, Clef has another major leg up on Jev: It's not limited to classifying text -- it can also handle images and video. Additionally, Clef supports a 64k context window. Jev can also handle up to 64k tokens across a request, although its state plus longest individual question is limited to 32k.

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Mind those matches. Netflix is doing Great American Literature again, and that means everything is highly flammable - timber houses, log barns and truckloads of wooden acting.

There was doubt whether Ireland would fulfil their fixtures against Israel this international break, but the first game was played at the weekend and the second is scheduled to take place too.

Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds

Brooklyn Beckham has revealed salt and pepper flecks in his hair as he and Nicola Peltz arrive at the Balenciaga show in Paris on Thursday.

The Met Police has said a full inquest into the death of violent gangster Chris Kaba should not go ahead after the police marksman who shot him dead was cleared of murder.

The surge in yields on UK 30-year bonds, known as gilts, meant investors were charging as much to lend to Britain as they did to beleaguered Italy in 2012.

In 2022, the governments of Boris Johnson and successor Liz Truss came under intense pressure to mitigate fuel costs for British households.

Ryan Roslansky is leaving Microsoft and LinkedIn after nearly 18 years, triggering another leadership shuffle across Office and Teams. "Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year," notes The Verge. From the report: "Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position," says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an internal memo. "Over the past year, Ryan's team has done critical work bringing together the product, engineering, and design foundations that have made this next phase possible." Roslansky is leaving a week after Microsoft announced its new Copilot, which the company is positioning as "the OS for work." He's also leaving around a month after calling fully AI-generated documents "a doom loop" for workers. "If we're not careful, we'll end up with a very expensive way to avoid writing and reading in an ocean of sameness, genericness," said Roslansky in his LinkedIn post. Microsoft is now moving the teams behind Office and Microsoft Teams over to Charles Lamanna, as part of the Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) organization. [...] Microsoft's chief design officer, Jon Friedman, is also moving to report to Copilot chief Jacob Andreou. Microsoft appointed Dan Shapero as its LinkedIn CEO earlier this year, and he will continue in this role and report directly to Nadella.

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Darcey Maunder was discovered unresponsive on a bed in a hotel in Newquay, Cornwall on November 11.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said it received a tip about the suspected poaching from an Oso resident on September 20.

Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally

A policewoman armed with a teargas cannister has been chased and kicked to the ground by a gang of young rioters as social media is flooded with footage of escalating protests across France.

Asim Hanif, 48, from West London, has described feeling 'emotionally wrecked' since Aidan, six, was effectively abducted from the UK by his Peruvian-born mother, Karen Perales in 2024.

Burnham's claim that he would be 'really concerned' if City's owners were to sell the club after it was found guilty of serious breaches of the financial regulations has been hit by widespread criticism.

Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, was granted parole on Thursday after being sentenced to 10 years behind bars over the death of Botham Jean.

Laurence Billam, 92, suffocated his wife Shirley, 87, with a pillow at their Devon apartment before taking an overdose of prescribed medication on Sunday, April 19.