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Taking to Instagram on Monday, Stacey said she couldn't wait to be reunited with her husband Joe Swash , 44, and their children; Rex, six, Rose, four, and Belle, three.

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Two Americans who were not onboard the cruise ship linked to the global hantavirus outbreak are being monitored for symptoms.

The scheme, which launched on 2 February, legally requires every filling station to share changes to its petrol and diesel prices within half an hour of making them.

Joely Richardson has shared a heartfelt tribute to her late sister Natasha as she marked what would have been her 62nd birthday on Instagram on Monday. 

Digg is relaunching again, this time as an AI-focused news aggregator rather than the Reddit-style community site it recently abandoned. TechCrunch reports: On Friday evening, the founder previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clone and more like the news aggregator it once was. This time around, the site is focused on ranking news -- specifically, AI news to start. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site's goal is to "track the most influential voices in a space" and to surface the news that's actually worth "paying attention to." AI is the area it's testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics. The email warned that the site was still raw and "buggy," and was designed more to give users a first look than to serve as its public debut. On the current homepage, Digg showcases four main stories at the top: the most viewed story, a story seeing rising discussion, the fastest-climbing story, and one "In case you missed it" headline. Below that is a ranked list of top stories for the day, complete with engagement metrics like views, comments, likes, and saves. But the twist is that these metrics aren't the ones generated on Digg itself. Instead, Digg is ingesting content from X in real-time to determine what's being discussed, while also performing sentiment analysis, clustering, and signal detection to determine what matters most. [...] The site also ranks the top 1,000 people involved in AI, as well as the top companies and the top politicians focused on AI issues.

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The presenter, 54, has given a frank outlook on her 23-year marriage to her artist husband, Graham Swift.

Our Political Editor Jason Groves has singled out Keir Starmer's top political blunders since he entered Number 10 - which do you think was the worst?

Showcasing the 'very best Asian cuisine nationwide', the contest aims to present spice fans with the 'outstanding curry houses in their local area'. The 100 restaurants are selected by a public vote.

Pupils have complained they were left fearing for their futures after sitting a Higher maths exam which was 'totally unrecognisable' from what they had prepared for in class.

A young boy is fighting for life after he was hit by a train and dragged several metres after his backpack reportedly became tangled between carriages.

Dozens of Labour MPs today called for the Prime Minister to resign after a last-ditch fightback speech failed to quell a growing mutiny.

The child star and YouTuber who has made millions promoting his own boxing matches is undergoing more tests on injuries he suffered during his knockout defeat to ex-heavyweight champ.

Michael Jackson's eponymous biopic is now the second highest-grossing biopic of all time. The project has pushed 2022's Elvis, starring Austin Butler, out of the ranking.

People with diets high in polyphenols, found in the likes of berries, apples, coffee, cocoa and tea, were twice as likely to have more 'youthful' cells.

Over the weekend, the 59-year-old comedian enjoyed a father-daughter outing with his eldest child Sadie, 20, in Brentwood.

Nvidia's real AI moat isn't "a piece of hardware," writes Wired's Sheon Han. It's CUDA: a mature, deeply optimized software ecosystem that keeps machine-learning workloads tied to Nvidia GPUs. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: What sounds like a chemical compound banned by the FDA may be the one true moat in AI. CUDA technically stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture, but much like laser or scuba, no one bothers to expand the acronym; we just say "KOO-duh." So what is this all-important treasure good for? If forced to give a one-word answer: parallelization. Here's a simple example. Let's say we task a machine with filling out a 9x9 multiplication table. Using a computer with a single core, all 81 operations are executed dutifully one by one. But a GPU with nine cores can assign tasks so that each core takes a different column -- one from 1x1 to 1x9, another from 2x1 to 2x9, and so on -- for a ninefold speed gain. Modern GPUs can be even cleverer. For example, if programmed to recognize commutativity -- 7x9 = 9x7 -- they can avoid duplicate work, reducing 81 operations to 45, nearly halving the workload. When a single training run costs a hundred million dollars, every optimization counts. Nvidia's GPUs were originally built to render graphics for video games. In the early 2000s, a Stanford PhD student named Ian Buck, who first got into GPUs as a gamer, realized their architecture could be repurposed for general high-performance computing. He created a programming language called Brook, was hired by Nvidia, and, with John Nickolls, led the development of CUDA. If AI ushers in the age of a permanent white-collar underclass and autonomous weapons, just know that it would all be because someone somewhere playing Doom thought a demon's scrotum should jiggle at 60 frames per second. CUDA is not a programming language in itself but a "platform." I use that weasel word because, not unlike how The New York Times is a newspaper that's also a gaming company, CUDA has, over the years, become a nested bundle of software libraries for AI. Each function shaves nanoseconds off single mathematical operations -- added up, they make GPUs, in industry parlance, go brrr. A modern graphics card is not just a circuit board crammed with chips and memory and fans. It's an elaborate confection of cache hierarchies and specialized units called "tensor cores" and "streaming multiprocessors." In that sense, what chip companies sell is like a professional kitchen, and more cores are akin to more grilling stations. But even a kitchen with 30 grilling stations won't run any faster without a capable head chef deftly assigning tasks -- as CUDA does for GPU cores. To extend the metaphor, hand-tuned CUDA libraries optimized for one matrix operation are the equivalent of kitchen tools designed for a single job and nothing more -- a cherry pitter, a shrimp deveiner -- which are indulgences for home cooks but not if you have 10,000 shrimp guts to yank out. Which brings us back to DeepSeek. Its engineers went below this already deep layer of abstraction to work directly in PTX, a kind of assembly language for Nvidia GPUs. Let's say the task is peeling garlic. An unoptimized GPU would go: "Peel the skin with your fingernails." CUDA can instruct: "Smash the clove with the flat of a knife." PTX lets you dictate every sub-instruction: "Lift the blade 2.35 inches above the cutting board, make it parallel to the clove's equator, and strike downward with your palm at a force of 36.2 newtons." "You can begin to see why CUDA is so valuable to Nvidia -- and so hard for anyone else to touch," writes Han. "Tuning GPU performance is a gnarly problem. You can't just conscript some tender-footed undergrad on Market Street, hand them a Claude Max plan, and expect them to hack GPU kernels. Writing at this level is a grindsome enterprise -- unless you're a cracker-jack programmer at DeepSeek..." Han goes on to argue that rivals like AMD and Intel offer competitive specs on paper, but their software stacks have struggled with bugs, compatibility issues, and weak adoption. As a result, Nvidia has built an Apple-like moat around AI computing, leaving the industry dependent on its expensive hardware.

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The tiny birds were seen chirping next to a fourth, unhatched egg over the weekend, with the first sighting of two chicks at around 2am on Saturday - with the third hatching later that day.

Only months ago, Isabella's young life took a sudden and devastating turn, beginning with what seemed like nothing more than a blocked nose.