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YouTuber George Clarke was yesterday announced as the sixth celebrity contestant for Strictly 2025. But his showbiz roots go deeper than his online personality.

Anthony Cummins reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

Jamie Buxton reviews the best Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels out now.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has cited 'grave concern' over multiple allegations that Palestinian prisoners have been subjected to degrading treatment in prisons.

Sitting on the side of my bed is the man I have just had sex with. Totally naked, his muscled torso glistens, his six-pack in contrast to my own more Rubenesque form.

Meghan Reinertsen, 29, from Atlanta, Georgia, spoke with the Daily Mail about her nightmare experience on board a United Airlines plane from Newark to Indianapolis.

Rebecca, a pupil at Kelvinside Academy, is one of nine girls from around the world whose inspiration and influence have earned them a mention in the prestigious publication.

Benedict Osborne, 52, was clocked speeding on the busy Westway Flyover in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London on July 29, 2024, Lavender Hill Magistrates Court was told.

He is the ninth toy signed in an open-walleted summer for the Welsh side, who want to make a serious impression in the Championship after three consecutive promotions.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 270M can be tuned in a snap and maintains robust performance despite its small footprint. [...] Running an AI model locally has numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy and lower latency. Gemma 3 270M was designed with these kinds of use cases in mind. In testing with a Pixel 9 Pro, the new Gemma was able to run 25 conversations on the Tensor G4 chip and use just 0.75 percent of the device's battery. That makes it by far the most efficient Gemma model. Developers shouldn't expect the same performance level of a multi-billion-parameter model, but Gemma 3 270M has its uses. Google used the IFEval benchmark, which tests a model's ability to follow instructions, to show that its new model punches above its weight. Gemma 3 270M hits a score of 51.2 percent in this test, which is higher than other lightweight models that have more parameters. The new Gemma falls predictably short of 1 billion-plus models like Llama 3.2, but it gets closer than you might think for having just a fraction of the parameters. Google claims Gemma 3 270M is good at following instructions out of the box, but it expects developers to fine-tune the model for their specific use cases. Due to the small parameter count, that process is fast and low-cost, too. Google sees the new Gemma being used for tasks like text classification and data analysis, which it can accomplish quickly and without heavy computing requirements. You can download the new Gemma for free, and the model weights are available. There's no separate commercial licensing agreement, so developers can modify, publish, and deploy Gemma 3 270M derivatives in their tools. You can download Gemma 3 270M from Hugging Face and Kaggle in both pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions.

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The eyes of the world will be on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, where the two men are due meet at 8.30pm UK time on Friday.

Some custom malware, some legit software tools

At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool on the market, escalate privileges, and ultimately steal and encrypt data before extorting victims into paying a ransom.…

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway quietly built a stake in a struggling company over the past two quarters, a regulatory filing shows.

It comes shortly after Katie, 47, urged Peter, 52, to take part in peace talks as their daughter Princess has been 'unfairly' dragged into their feud.

More reported cases of a grotesque virus leaving rabbits across the US deformed is sparking fears that the condition is spreading nationwide this summer.

Rachel Brosnahan's husband has raised eyebrows after 'liking' an Instagram comment criticizing her on-screen chemistry with Superman costar David Corenswet.

The 35-year-old billionaire pop star previously name-dropped the late Hollywood screen siren in her 2017 hit song, ...Ready for It

Apple has reintroduced blood oxygen monitoring to certain Apple Watch models in the U.S. by shifting the feature's calculations to the paired iPhone, sidestepping an ITC import ban stemming from its legal dispute with medical device maker Masimo. TechCrunch reports: Blood oxygen data will be measured and calculated on the user's paired iPhone, and results can be viewed in the Respiratory section of the Health app. This means users won't be able to view the data on their Apple Watch, as they'll need to do so on their iPhone. Apple says the update announced today is enabled by a recent U.S. Customs ruling, which means that the tech giant is allowed to import Apple Watches with the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature. The change doesn't affect previously sold models with the original version of the feature or units bought outside the U.S. The redesigned feature only applies to Apple Watches that were sold after the ITC import ban took effect in early 2024. These users can access the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming on Thursday.

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The 31-year-old pop star - who previously got sober in 2014 - clutched a bottle of Clase Azul México tequila in the middle of a packed crowd at West Hollywood hotspot Zouk on Wednesday night

Grown adults fight over limited-edition merch, push past children, and plunge into debt for their addiction. And that's just the start of it...