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President Donald Trump reversed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's decision to livestream the state execution of the Fort Hood terrorist after pushback against the shocking decision.

Andy Burnham was about to chair a monthly meeting of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA). And on the agenda was a hugely important financial decision.

An Afghan couple have tried to justify marrying off their daughters, two and five, for money by claiming they had 'no choice'. (File image of a woman and her baby at a pro-Taliban rally in Afghanistan)

A12 crash in Essex near Boreham Interchange partially blocks southbound traffic after Junction 19, causing delays for drivers heading to Chelmsford and London.

A12 crash in Essex near Boreham Interchange partially blocks southbound traffic after Junction 19, causing delays for drivers heading to Chelmsford and London.

Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model optimized to run locally across two 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple's MLX framework. Meta says it's the "most capable U.S. open-weight model to date." MacRumors reports: Muse Spark Open has 816 billion total parameters with 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million-token context window. It is meant for coding and agentic work, and Meta says it excels at extended tasks, multi-step reasoning, and software engineering. The new Muse model was tuned to run on Mac Studio, and Meta says the Mac Studio paired with Muse Spark Open is the "best way to run a powerful model on your own desktop." From Meta: "Apple's unified memory architecture lets the M5 Ultra's integrated GPU use up to 512 GB per Mac Studio, so two machines can hold an entire model. And the chip's 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth is fast enough to read the small slice each token needs. The result is two Mac Studios behave like one supercomputer with a terabyte of unified memory." Apple hasn't released the 512GB Mac Studio as of yet, but it's supposed to be coming later this month. It won't be cheap, because the 256GB Mac Studio is already priced over $10,000.

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There's a small statue of a boxer in Ray and Carol Hatton's home. Perched on a table by the front door, the clay figurine of their son is nine inches tall and evokes a sadness impossible to measure.

Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast

On Wednesday, insiders alleged to TMZ that Diddy, real name Sean Love Combs, sustained a 'severe' head injury in a fight with Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke on Friday.

Neil Lewis, 47, fraudulently passed the MOT on a Volkswagen Tiguan which failed its safety checks when it veered off the road and crashed into trees on March 4.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service warns drivers not to risk flooded roads as unsettled weather arrives, urging motorists to turn around and reroute safely.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service warns drivers not to risk flooded roads as unsettled weather arrives, urging motorists to turn around and reroute safely.

The images were taken on Tuesday morning - with the glowing cloud witnessed by masses of sky watchers across multiple states in North America.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder

The union has called for emergency talks between the Government and employers after staff are quitting in droves amid a rollout of changes to the frequency of post deliveries.

Arrests were made across Essex

Microsoft says recent Windows 11 updates have made the operating system up to 20% more responsive by improving memory management and reducing background resource use. "A big part of that work is making smarter use of memory and system resources," says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences at Microsoft. "We've improved memory management and efficiency across Windows to help keep more of your PC's resources focused on what you're actively doing." The Verge reports: The improvements to memory management now make a "meaningful difference" on PCs with just 8GB of RAM. "Windows can now keep up to 2GB more of your active data in memory instead of moving it to slower storage," says Virk. "For example, on PCs with 8GB of memory or less, Widgets load only when you open them, making more than 200 MB of memory available for your apps and other work." Microsoft has also made Windows Update less disruptive, cleaned up the Widgets section, and finally allowed the taskbar to be repositioned to the sides or top of a display. Windows Hello sign-in has also been sped up, and Bluetooth pairing is more reliable, "including an AirPods pairing experience that's up to 15 seconds faster." The next big step is a new Windows Search experience that's a lot faster and more capable. [...] It's currently available for Windows Insiders, and Microsoft says it will "roll out more broadly later this year."

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The sitcom, which originally aired for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004, was shown on Channel 4 until 2011 when it was bought by Comedy Central and then Netflix.

Actor Taron Egerton has been caught looking at his mobile phone while driving in West London - by notorious YouTuber activist CyclingMikey, also known as Mike Van Erp.

Hilary Swank reflected on being more 'present' and a 'different parent' after having kids later in life, months before announcing her pregnancy news this week.