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Ohio police officer Jamie Patterson defended allowing an adult to whip a teenage boy while he was in her custody.

Sarah Myers, 44, and her mother, Amy Steadman, 64, are accused of orchestrating the June murder-suicide that left Myers' four children dead inside an upstate New York home.

Officers were travelling at a 'low speed' when their patrol car collided with the moped, which was travelling towards them in Wythenshawe at around 3.45pm today.

Giving away your hard-earned cash and placing it in the hands of your children or grandchildren is always a nerve-racking business.

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New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys

Bending Spoons has made its first acquisition since going public last month at an $18 billion valuation, agreeing to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Airtable joins a growing portfolio of notable brands owned by the Italian app developer, including Evernote, WeTransfer, EventBrite, and Vimeo. TechCrunch reports: Founded in 2013, Airtable has so far raised more than $1.4 billion over multiple funding rounds. At its peak, during the boom days of 2021, it was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion. With its current net cash-and-cash-equivalents balance, Airtable is now valued at about $2.25 billion, Bending Spoons said. "Airtable is a pioneering brand reshaping how teams organize data and manage critical workflows. The value being delivered is reflected in annual recurring revenue growing over 20% YoY to approximately $480 million as of June 2026, and joining forces with Bending Spoons will accelerate innovation even further," Bending Spoons' founder Luca Ferrari said in a statement.

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New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims

The 16-year-old got on a bus heading towards Abbey Wood Underground Station and claimed a man followed her on board. Throughout the journey the girl said she noticed the man looking at her.

Mirsime Berisha, 49, was driving a double-decker outside the station when it hit Kathleen Finnegan, 56, on January 29, 2024. She started screaming and claimed the handbrake had failed to work.

Three quarters of Britons do not know what foods should be in the fridge a poll has found. Biscuit brand Bahlsen asked 2,000 of us what foods we store in our fridge and how often we argue about it.

The Godshill Model Village football streaker Erica was saved from a permanent ban from the football pitch after a poll for locals concluded overwhelmingly that she should be reinstated.

The child was spotted calling for help from a from a second-story balcony at a home in Boulder around 10.30pm on July 28.

Microsoft is introducing AI token budgets for employees, making the cheaper GPT-5.6 its default internal model and telling engineers to focus on business results rather than maximizing AI usage. 404 Media reports: "As we accelerate our use of GitHub Copilot to deliver on our goals, we all need to be aware of how we consume tokens," Jay Parikh, an executive vice president at Microsoft said in an email to Microsoft employees. GitHub is owned by Microsoft, and GitHub Copilot is an AI coding tool. "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for. I want all of us focused on maximizing outcomes that move the needle for our customers and our business." "As such, we are updating our internal guidance and managing token spend with the same discipline we apply to every other critical resource," Parikh said in the email. Parikh's email says that in an effort to "get greater value from our token investment" Microsoft is making OpenAI GPT-5.6, which is cheaper to use than other models, the default model for internal use. His email also links to updated internal Copilot guidelines stating that, as of July 2026, Microsoft divisions will have an "AI token budget target," and that employees can track their individual AI spending. "While there is no target spend value being shared at this time. The data shows that many engineers spend in the range of hundreds of dollars a month to a few thousand dollars in tokens," the guidelines say. They also say that some decisions may place further restrictions as they monitor spend. [...] Parikh's email said Microsoft will keep learning and adjusting its AI policies as models and products evolve, and stressed that he doesn't want to slow down the company's progress towards becoming "AI-first." "We are not optimizing for fewer tokens," he said. "We are optimizing for more impact per token.

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John Peter Collins, 66, and Samantha Adele Collins (pictured) were fishing on rocks at Fistral Beach on July 26 when the 32-year-old fell into the water.

One of the world's most notorious volcanoes is stirring again, decades after an eruption sent a scorching cloud through a nearby city and killed nearly everyone in its path.

On Monday, the 43-year-old actor showed off his chiseled torso in a series of selfies posted in an Instagram dump.

Holly Willoughby and her husband Dan Baldwin looked as loved-up as ever as they celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary together.

Georgina Rodriguez displayed her unbelievable figure in a white bikini as she declared she 'loves her curves' in a powerful body positivity post on Tuesday.

Taking to Instagram, the Duchess of Sussex posted a black and white photo of herself in a swimsuit, plunging into the water excitedly.