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Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

AI companies regularly tout their models' performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningful.…

An anonymous reader shares a report: A group of states is seeking to extend a World Trade Organization agreement to refrain from placing customs duties on digital transmissions, a World Trade Organization document showed on Thursday. The proposal submitted by Barbados on behalf of a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific states proposed to extend the current moratorium -- a key pillar of internet development for decades -- beyond March 2026, when it was set to expire.

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The Eurovision star, 36, who finished second in the 2022 contest, will follow in the footsteps of Wicked's Cynthia Erivo who played the role in LA earlier this year.

Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes …

On Call  Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register’s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…

Joey Barton has been found guilty of six counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety.

The fashion designer, 64, who was in a relationship with Richard for 35 years - and married for nine - until his death in 2021, said the memory of that night still haunts him to this day

Pastor Mick Fleming, who is a friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales, worked as a drug runner and debt collector and was once arrested on suspicion of murder.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán cracked a joke about Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a meeting with top officials at the White House on Friday, prompting laughs.

It's set to open for one of the biggest parties of the night in Essex

Dramatic footage posted to social media from Syracuse, Sicily, shows motorbikes almost fully submerged under flood water and cars attempting to move slowly with their hazards blinking.

The new predatory sponge was found 11,800 feet deep east of Montagu Island off the coast of Antarctica.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Nintendo has always been a company willing to try just about anything. Cardboard cutout toys that mesh with games? Done. A console called the Wii with a remote-shaped controller? Massive success. Legendary game designer and Nintendo executive Shigeru Miyamoto offered more insight into how the company operates in a recent financial briefing. "Nintendo has always worked with the idea that there are no limits to our efforts," he said. "For example, when we tried our hand at movies with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, its success was compared to the box office revenues of other movies. However, even if the movie topped the rankings, we would think there was more room for growth." Nintendo has been expanding its efforts in Hollywood after The Super Mario Bros. Movie became one of the best-selling films of 2023. The Legend of Zelda movie is now in production, and the Super Mario Galaxy movie is expected sometime in 2026. Miyamoto believes that some Nintendo IPs could see sales numbers "potentially reach beyond the boundaries of entertainment." "My latest theme is that there is no ceiling in the world of entertainment," he said. "In that sense, there are still many markets around the world that can be expanded through Nintendo Switch [...] One thing that is interesting about Nintendo is that it's okay to try anything."

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The actress, 21, and her co-star, 50, had a warm reunion at the Stranger Things final season premiere on Thursday night, with their friendly display continuing at the afterparty.

Overpriced, impractical and frankly just too fussy… Handbag refusenik Maddy Fletcher argues the case for living clutch and crossbody-free

Her death sent shockwaves through the local community and further afield

Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to

Nvidia's latest generation of Blackwell accelerators won't be available in China anytime soon, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who said there were no "active discussions" about selling the coveted chips to the Middle Kingdom.…

Hailey Bieber used Instagram to celebrate husband Justin Bieber's Grammy nominations on Friday. The singer is now a 27x nominee after racking up four 2026 nods for his latest album Swag.

NextGov: The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won't be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to 25 states, the tax agency thanked them for collaborating and noted that "no launch date has been set for the future." "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026," says the Monday email, obtained by Nextgov/FCW and confirmed by multiple sources. It follows reports that the program was ending and Trump's former tax chief, Billy Long, remarking over the summer that the service was "gone." The program, which debuted in 2024, was a big shift from the decades-long IRS policy of not competing with the tax prep industry in offering its own free, online tax filing service for Americans. Many Republicans had opposed Direct File, and tax prep companies also lobbied against it.

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People have reported all sorts of strange sightings in the skies above them

In a twist that nobody could have seen coming, the comic, 49, somehow managed to hoodwink Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga into believing he was a Faithful.