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Karen Carney revealed she has suffered from a spinal condition since childhood, and has shared how it affects her ability to perform on the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor. 

"Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD," writes the Register. "But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators..." Driving the transition is a focus on performance per dollar, which for a hyperscale cloud provider is arguably the only metric that really matters. Speaking during a fireside chat moderated by CNBC on Wednesday, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott said that up to this point, Nvidia has offered the best price-performance, but he's willing to entertain anything in order to meet demand. Going forward, Scott suggested Microsoft hopes to use its homegrown chips for the majority of its datacenter workloads. When asked, "Is the longer term idea to have mainly Microsoft silicon in the data center?" Scott responded, "Yeah, absolutely... Microsoft is reportedly in the process of bringing a second-generation Maia accelerator to market next year that will no doubt offer more competitive compute, memory, and interconnect performance... It should be noted that AI accelerators aren't the only custom chips Microsoft has been working on. Redmond also has its own CPU called Cobalt and a whole host of platform security silicon designed to accelerate cryptography and safeguard key exchanges across its vast datacenter domains.

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Two teenage girls were killed in a subway accident in NYC. Around 3.10am Saturday, officials were called to a Brooklyn subway station where they found the girls unconscious.

They were once regarded as two of the 'nicest' Aussie guys in showbusiness.

The Tory leader was greeted by a crowd of activists outside the Midland Hotel on Saturday afternoon - and insists her Party are the only one with a 'credible plan' on the economy and immigration.

On the back of film fame, the Golden Spurtle porridge-making championships, returned to the village of Carrbridge for its 32nd year with a record number of entries from around the globe.

The attack was in Shostka, a city northeast of Kyiv , where a 71-year-old man was found dead in one of the wrecked carriages.

The incident occurred as the motorboat, described locally as a tourist boat, was leaving the marina in Fuengirola.

The Greater Manchester Police force has 12,677 employees. But they've now suspended work-from-home privileges, reports the BBC, "following an investigation into so-called 'key-jamming', which can allow people to falsely appear to be working. "Twenty-six police officers, staff and contractors are facing misconduct proceedings following the probe, the force said." One constable told a hearing that a police detective working from home had made it look like his computer was in use on 38 different occasions over 12 days, according to an earlier BBC article. The evidence "showed lengthy periods where the only activity is single keystrokes, pressing the 'H' key about 30 times, between 10:28 and 11:56 GMT on 3 December, and then the 'I' key more than 16,000 times." The detective "used key jamming for 45 hours out of a total of 85 he was logged in for and was frequently away from the keyboard for half of his working day." The constable said the detective's motivation was "laziness" — and the detective has already resigned. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the article.

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The Queen of Pop, 67, blended into the crowd alongside her partner, 29, as they supported their London football team who came out victorious with a 2-1 win.

Hunter S Thompson, the pioneer of a brand of wild, first-person journalism had threatened to take his life. It was obvious; he'd ended it all. At least it was obvious until now.

The music mogul, 65, was forced to pull out of auditions for the next series at the last minute on Thursday.

Rihanna was spotted in West Hollywood on Friday night, marking her first public outing since giving birth to her and ASAP Rocky's third child.

Ocasio-Cortez's comments came as she looks to keep growing her campaign dollars. She raked in $15.4million this year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Georgie Robinson began weekly injections of Mounjaro hoping it would help her shed the excess weight she had carried for more than a decade. What she didn't expect was this side-effect.

Alan Dershowitz hit out at the 55-year-old who revealed in court ahead of sentencing on Friday that he was already making public speaking plans in another state.

The 29-year-old had posted a family snap showing her and Cruz sat in the front row for Victoria Beckham's Paris Fashion Week show on Friday.

The son of screen legend Robert Mitchum has passed away at the age of 84. He first gained attention in the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road, a role originally intended for Elvis Presley.

The 38-year-old, who was in town to cover Sunday's NFL game between the Colts and the Raiders as a commentator for Fox Sports, is now recovering at a local hospital in 'stable' condition.

The producer, 55, revealed that he has had to disassociate from his producer instincts and has taken some inspirations from Russian KGB spies.