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George Wilson, who was allegedly caught smuggling methamphetamine, comes from the family of a multimillionaire associated with Iron Maiden.

Being organised, engaged, and helpful could not just make you more enjoyable to be around, it may even help you live longer according to new research.

It's easy to see why it's the most popular school in Essex

The American socialite, 29, nailed the perfect model off-duty look in a grey maxi coat and a chic burgundy headscarf ahead of a Schiapparelli fit during Paris Fashion Week.

It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them?

Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software.…

Pamela Anderson made sure all eyes were on her when she showed of her bold new hairdo at Tom Ford's runway show during Paris Fashion Week.

The long-awaited new station is set to open later this month

Officials were supposedly forced to replace 66 hand-sewn Stars and Stripes flags last month, at a cost of £800 each, ahead of the President's three-day visit in September.

In the past few days there has been a sudden and alarming coarsening of political language. Words and phrases have been tossed about which until now were almost entirely alien to our traditions.

There are a number of RSPCA branches in Essex, along with the affiliated Danaher Animal Home, with pets looking for forever homes.

Surrounded by beautiful countryside, this tranquil patch of Essex has often hosted some of the biggest names in music

There are a number of RSPCA branches in Essex, along with the affiliated Danaher Animal Home, with pets looking for forever homes.

A VITAL bus service has reduced its route and will now finish seven miles short of its previous destination.

In an appalling new race scandal, a group of Scotland Yard officers were also caught on camera dismissing rape victims and revelling in the use of force.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Thinking Machines Lab,a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product -- a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models. "We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people," said Mira Murati, cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines, in an interview with WIRED ahead of the announcement. Big companies and academic labs already fine-tune open source AI models to create new variants that are optimized for specific tasks, like solving math problems, drafting legal agreements, or answering medical questions. Typically, this work involves acquiring and managing clusters of GPUs and using various software tools to ensure that large-scale training runs are stable and efficient. Tinker promises to allow more businesses, researchers, and even hobbyists to fine-tune their own AI models by automating much of this work. Essentially, the team is betting that helping people fine-tune frontier models will be the next big thing in AI. And there's reason to believe they might be right. Thinking Machines Lab is helmed by researchers who played a core role in the creation of ChatGPT. And, compared to similar tools on the market, Tinker is more powerful and user friendly, according to beta testers I spoke with. Murati says that Thinking Machines Lab hopes to demystify the work involved in tuning the world's most powerful AI models and make it possible for more people to explore the outer limits of AI. "We're making what is otherwise a frontier capability accessible to all, and that is completely game-changing," she says. "There are a ton of smart people out there, and we need as many smart people as possible to do frontier AI research." "There's a bunch of secret magic, but we give people full control over the training loop," OpenAI veteran John Schulman says. "We abstract away the distributed training details, but we still give people full control over the data and the algorithms."

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Discovers debt it didn’t fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo

New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation.…

Volodymyr Zelensky warned of the danger after part of the site, which must be powered up to stop further spread of radioactive materials, was forced to run on two diesel generators.

Food delivery rider Diego Galdino has begun taking the law into his own hands to try and stop pickpockets terrorising the streets of the capital.

Renewables generated 54% of the EU's net electricity in Q2 2025, with solar power emerging as the leading source at nearly 20% of the total mix. Electrek reports: According to new data from Eurostat, renewable energy sources generated 54% of the EU's net electricity in Q2 2025, up from 52.7% year-over-year. The growth came mainly from solar, which produced 122,317 gigawatt-hours (GWh) -- nearly 20% of the total electricity generation mix. June 2025 was a milestone month: Solar became the EU's single largest electricity source for the first time ever. It supplied 22% of all power that month, edging out nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%), and natural gas (13.8%). [...] In total, 15 EU countries saw their share of renewable generation rise year-over-year. Luxembourg (+13.5 percentage points) and Belgium (+9.1 pp) posted the most significant gains, driven largely by solar power growth. Across the EU, solar made up 36.8% of renewable generation, followed by wind at 29.5%, hydro at 26%, biomass at 7.3%, and geothermal at 0.4%.

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