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Andy Burnham has been warned it would be 'madness' and a 'dereliction of duty' to block drilling in two massive prospects in the North Sea.

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta's closed Muse Spark 1.2 model and appears to be aimed at attracting developers who want capable AI agents without relying entirely on cloud-hosted services. Engadget reports: Facebook said that it's making the "weights" that AI systems use to choose responses available to everyone on Hugging Face along with developer documentation. The download is available for free, and users can run the model on their own PCs. The company noted that optimized integrations will land on llama.cpp and other sites, "so you can go from download to working agent in minutes." The model is powerful for its size, according to Meta, with the "strong success rates" on benchmarks like DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas and SWE-Bench (which evaluates its ability write and debug code). It also supports reliable tool use, multi-step reasoning, failure recovery, multimodal input and scaffold compatibility for work with OpenClaw and other agent orchestrators. It was trained on data from over 100 languages, the company added. "Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an essay accompanying Muse Glimmer's release. "This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where individuals can use this powerful new capability to reach their full potential, pursue their interests, and improve their lives and the world more than ever before."

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Nine men were arrested and later released on bail

Derby County's proposed Saudi takeover has collapsed after new investors dramatically pulled the plug, despite winning approval from the Football Regulator.

The actor, 38, has revealed he has been diagnosed with a genetic disease.

The Loose Women star, 61, is said to be 'smitten' with fashion lecturer Ryan Brockbank after they began dating several months ago.

It was announced on Friday that Strictly's longest-standing couple, who started dating in 1999 and married in 2003, had split.

David Boylett, was also caught in possession of ammunition which would have worked with the weapon when it was assembled, and an overpowered air rifle.

Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost

Two people have since been charged with preventing a lawful and decent burial of a dead body between July 3, 2025 to August 6, 2026

The A12 northbound near Colchester United's football ground is expected to remain closed until this evening following a "serious" crash earlier today.

The A12 northbound near Colchester United's football ground is expected to remain closed until this evening following a "serious" crash earlier today.

The allegations also included sexualised text messages

Taiwan deliberately throttled mobile internet across the Taichung area during its annual Han Kuang war games, "simulating communication disruption in the event of a Chinese attack or natural disaster," reports Reuters. The drill accompanied air-raid exercises and military rehearsals aimed at defending strategically important areas such as the Penghu Islands. From the report: Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has long lived with the threat of a Chinese invasion and holds air raid drills along with its war games every year, clearing people from the streets for 30 minutes. During the internet "throttling" drill, centered on Monday on the major central metropolis of Taichung, only basic mobile phone services worked, though other functions including ATMs, traffic signals, landlines and fixed internet services were not affected. Air raid sirens rang out in Taichung "and people cleared the streets from 2:30 p.m. (0630 GMT) as the government sent simultaneous text messages in Chinese and English telling mobile phone users of "simulated air attacks on communication infrastructure." The government had widely flagged the drill ahead of time, including posting details on social media, and most people Reuters spoke to at the Taichung train station were prepared. [...] The same exercise will be repeated on Thursday in northern Taiwan, including the capital Taipei.

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The Meta boss responded after it emerged the 21-foot skiff was rescued by a much smaller boat after it ran out of fuel between Juneau and Petersburg near Alaska.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Judi James said that the Duchess of Sussex, 45, 'looked like both the cute star and the confident director of her own movie'.

Drivers faced long delays throughout Monday

What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?

One of the simplest ways to get rich is to invest a regular sum every month. It doesn't have to be a huge amount, so long as you stick with it.

Private waiting lists have already soared as Britons scramble to secure the game-changing treatment, which can help people with obesity lose up to 17 per cent of their body weight after 64 weeks.