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The unique accommodation is comprised of two parts of an old Lufthansa aircraft pieced together to resemble a 'marooned' scene in the isolated Somerset countryside.

Microsoft feared too many machines would end up bricked

Microsoft vet Raymond Chen first told the story of HLT and Windows 95 more than 20 years ago. The instruction tells the CPU to effectively shut itself down until the next hardware interrupt – ideal for laptops, since power consumption would be hugely reduced.…

AN URN containing cremated human ashes have been found in a supermarket trolley in Essex.

U.S. jobs growth was much slower than previously reported, according to revised data released on Tuesday. From a report: The number of jobs created in the United States from April 2024 to March 2025 was revised down by 911,000 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That would roughly amount to 76,000 fewer jobs created each month of the year up until March. The revision draws fresh attention to the weakening U.S. labor market, which added an average of only 29,000 jobs in each of the three most recent months. The August jobs report showed that the U.S. added only 22,000 jobs that month and also revised June's job growth down to a loss of 13,000 jobs. Those datapoints have led economists and some policymakers to conclude that the U.S. labor market is now at a standstill. "The jobs engine that has been integral to U.S. economic growth defying expectations for the past four years is stalling," Sarah House, a senior economist at Wells Fargo, said in a note on Friday.

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AN URN containing cremated human ashes have been found in a supermarket trolley in Essex.

The former glamour model, 47, and Atomic Kitten star, 45, are in the midst of their tell-all tour, An Evening with Katie Price & Kerry Katona.

by George Whittaker Introduction

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has gradually become one of Microsoft’s key bridges for developers, data scientists, and power users who need Linux compatibility without leaving the Windows environment. Over recent versions, WSL2 brought major improvements: a real Linux kernel running in a lightweight virtualized environment, much better filesystem behavior, nearly full system-call compatibility, etc. However, until recently, certain high-performance workloads, GPU computing, video encoding/decoding, and very up-to-date kernel features, were either limited, inefficient, or unavailable.

In Windows 11, Microsoft has taken bold strides to remove many of these bottlenecks. Two of the most significant enhancements are:

1. The ability for WSL to tap into the GPU for acceleration (compute, video hardware offload, etc.), reducing reliance on CPU where the GPU is much more suited.

2. More seamless Linux kernel upgrades, allowing users to run newer kernel versions inside WSL2, bringing performance, driver, and feature improvements faster.

This article walks through each thing in detail: what has changed, why it matters, how to use it, what limitations still exist, and how these developments shift what’s possible with WSL on Windows 11.

What WSL Was, and Where It Needed Improvement

Before diving into recent changes, it helps to understand what WSL (especially WSL2) already provided, and where it lagged.

• WSL1: Early versions translated Linux system calls to Windows equivalents. Good for basic command-line tools, scripts, but limited in compatibility with certain networking, kernel module, filesystem, and performance-sensitive tasks.

• WSL2: Introduced a real Linux kernel inside a lightweight VM (Hyper-V or a similar backend), better system-call compatibility, better performance especially for Linux tools, and much improved behavior for things like Docker, compiling, etc. Still, heavy workloads (e.g. ML training, video encoding, hardware-accelerated graphics) were constrained by CPU support, lack of passthrough of GPU features, older kernels, etc.

So developers were pushing Microsoft to allow more direct access to GPU functionality (CUDA, DirectML, video decoding), and to speed up how kernel updates reach users.

GPU Acceleration in WSL on Windows 11: What It Means

GPU acceleration here refers to WSL’s ability to offload certain computation or video tasks from the CPU to the GPU, enabling faster, more efficient execution. This includes:

• Compute workloads - frameworks like CUDA (for NVIDIA), DirectML, etc., so that things like deep learning, scientific computing, data-parallel tasks run much faster. Microsoft now supports running NVIDIA CUDA inside WSL to accelerate ML libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow.

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WITH students back at school after the six weeks holiday, year 6 pupils are starting to think about their next steps.

The Minco Softball girls team were onboard the bus when the terrifying ordeal unfolded on Monday night on Highway 152, authorities said six of those on board are in a critical condition.

On Tuesday it was announced that she is working with London-based fashion house self-portrait, marking the first time she will be the face of a brand.

Braintree Council workers took on the Public Sector Challenge in the Peak District for Cancer Resarch UK and the British Heart Foundation.

Dramatic video footage shows palm trees snapping in half in Alicante and roads turning to rivers in Majorca as the Med braces for 'hazardous' thunderstorms and 'extreme' flooding.

I have about £8,000 in bitcoin that I hold on an investing and trading app that offers crypto. A friend told me that I should hold it in a crypto wallet instead.

Decorating your home involves a lot of decision-making, with endless paint swatches plastered over every wall and numerous trips back and forth to furniture shops (or three-hour IKEA hikes) to pick the perfect furniture. But one thing I've always found particularly tricky is rugs.

An image posted on Reddit shows grey bricks met with green lines that intersect to create a grid - but weirdly the lines appear to be moving.

The works could be completed before the end of the year

Myleene Klass broke down in tears in an Instagram video on Tuesday as she prepares to send her daughter Ava off to University.

Pictures shared on social media appeared to show large trucks, often associated with film crews, parked in the car park

Kial Robinson, 29, and Piran Ezra Wilkinson, 48, both from Chichester, in West Sussex, were photographed at a press conference today at the National Narcotics Agency office in Denpasar.