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BBC breakfast viewers were left surprised after its weatherman had an awkward blunder live on air.

The first record of the pub dates back to 1086, 939 years ago

Behind the bloody gangland murders that spawned a slew of low-budget British gangster movies lies a real story about whether the men found guilty served time for a crime they didn't commit.

Alcohol is officially banned in Saudi Arabia, but scratch the surface and the Arab nation has, for the last 70 years, been awash with booze which has been smuggled in and even home-brewed.

Experts say the figures illustrate the root cause of the West's spiralling obesity crisis. Two-thirds of Brits and nearly three-quarters of Americans are considered fat.

You might call it a special relationship. No, not the one between Donald Trump and Elon Musk - although that is interesting in all kinds of ways - but the one between Musk and his son X.

Jeremy, 52, and Veraness Tregenna, 51, met when they were both working at the chain's store in Wednesbury, near Birmingham when the famously chilly store warmed their hearts.

Natalie O'Neill took to social media platform TikTok to reveal the unknown contributors to the prevalent skin condition which she said several of her friends had 'randomly' developed.

Pensioner, John, 75 was slammed with £240 worth of parking fines despite placing his car in a spot at Lode Lane in Solihull that was meant to be free for blue badge holders.  

Charlotte Oakley, 33, left, from Sheffield, who was travelling with her friend, Eleanor Holding, 33, said they each had to fork out £1,400 because of the app's 'confusing wording'.

Renee Salt believes she would never have survived the war without her mother, Sala Berkowicz, who remained by her side for six years until their liberation at Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

Craigdon Mountain Sports in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, is due to close for good at the March - much to the dismay of the local shoppers.

A burglar has been banned from certain shops in Essex after officers secured a court order aimed at protecting businesses from further harm.

A burglar has been banned from certain shops in Essex after officers secured a court order aimed at protecting businesses from further harm.

Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh...

AI model makers love to flex their benchmarks scores. But how trustworthy are these numbers? What if the tests themselves are rigged, biased, or just plain meaningless?…

According to The Intercept, the IRS is set to purchase an Nvidia SuperPod AI supercomputer to enhance its machine learning capabilities for tasks like fraud detection and taxpayer behavior analysis. From the report: With Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency installing itself at the IRS amid a broader push to replace federal bureaucracy with machine-learning software, the tax agency's computing center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, will soon be home to a state-of-the-art Nvidia SuperPod AI computing cluster. According to the previously unreported February 5 acquisition document, the setup will combine 31 separate Nvidia servers, each containing eight of the company's flagship Blackwell processors designed to train and operate artificial intelligence models that power tools like ChatGPT. The hardware has not yet been purchased and installed, nor is a price listed, but SuperPod systems reportedly start at $7 million. The setup described in the contract materials notes that it will include a substantial memory upgrade from Nvidia. Though small compared to the massive AI-training data centers deployed by companies like OpenAI and Meta, the SuperPod is still a powerful and expensive setup using the most advanced technology offered by Nvidia, whose chips have facilitated the global machine-learning spree. While the hardware can be used in many ways, it's marketed as a turnkey means of creating and querying an AI model. Last year, the MITRE Corporation, a federally funded military R&D lab, acquired a $20 million SuperPod setup to train bespoke AI models for use by government agencies, touting the purchase as a "massive increase in computing power" for the United States. How exactly the IRS will use its SuperPod is unclear. An agency spokesperson said the IRS had no information to share on the supercomputer purchase, including which presidential administration ordered it. A 2024 report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration identified 68 different AI-related projects underway at the IRS; the Nvidia cluster is not named among them, though many were redacted. But some clues can be gleaned from the purchase materials. "The IRS requires a robust and scalable infrastructure that can handle complex machine learning (ML) workloads," the document explains. "The Nvidia Super Pod is a critical component of this infrastructure, providing the necessary compute power, storage, and networking capabilities to support the development and deployment of large-scale ML models." The document notes that the SuperPod will be run by the IRS Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics division, or RAAS, which leads a variety of data-centric initiatives at the agency. While no specific uses are cited, it states that this division's Compliance Data Warehouse project, which is behind this SuperPod purchase, has previously used machine learning for automated fraud detection, identity theft prevention, and generally gaining a "deeper understanding of the mechanisms that drive taxpayer behavior."

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Andrew, 29, and Tasha, 26, who met on Love Island in 2022, seemingly ended their relationship last month after buying their first home together and starting renovations.

A hidden painting of a mystery woman has been found lurking beneath Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, one of Pablo Picasso's earliest works from his Blue Period, experts revealed.

The Ferrari 296 GTB narrowly missed a retired old man before crashing into the residence in São Paulo, Brazil.

EXCLUSIVE Lynthia Calliste, 35, made headlines this week after it emerged she had cited her husband finding the local cuisine unpalatable as a reason to avoid being deported to Granada.