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It speaks volumes about Andy Burnham's ocean-going political arrogance that he has proceeded with the wholesale early release of prisoners

About 700 criminals serving sentences of up to 19 months were released yesterday in the first stage of Andy Burnham's early release scheme

Katie Holmes and her younger beau Jason Bard Yarmosky continued to showcase their affections when they attended the Isabel Marant fashion show in Paris on Thursday.

Brooklyn Beckham, 27, and wife Nicola Peltz, 31, sat front row at the Balenciaga show in Paris on Thursday.

Researchers believe they can slash the time patients spend in an MRI scanner from 20 minutes to as little as six minutes, while still obtaining all the diagnostic information they need.

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Telegraph: British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show. The Virginia-based company behind the software has been accused in the US of having hidden its Russian ownership to avoid sanctions, before it was awarded government contracts. Its American chief executive and a Russian national were arrested last week after a US investigation found the company had sought to hide its ownership in an alleged attempt to avoid sanctions and scrutiny. [...] By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software. In December 2022, and in October 2023, Oxygen's chief executive told the US government that Oxygen Forensics had "no immediate or highest-level owner." By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software. In March, Mr Reiber allegedly told the US government that there had been no Russians involved in developing the software and that no one in Russia had access to the environment in which it was built. US prosecutors say this was false. If convicted, both Mr Reiber and Mr Davydov could face a sentence of 20 years in prison.

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Richard E Grant has already been hailed as an 'icon' after Thursday night's explosive launch of Celebrity Traitors.

Millions tuned in as deception, betrayal and backstabbing once again gripped the nation during the launch of Celebrity Traitors on Thursday. 

When Claudia Winkleman swore in Richard E. Grant and Maya Jama as Traitors, they formally took an oath and pledged to commit deception.

After months of anticipation and a stellar line up, the wait is over and this year's Celebrity Traitors have finally been revealed. 

Geri Horner's nepo baby daughter Bluebell Madonna appears to be following in her mother's footsteps as she 'performed a secret charity gig' in London.

Welcome back to Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - one of the toughest, most gruelling gigs in all of theatre, for actors and audiences alike.

Two giant pandas have arrived at a zoo in Atlanta as a gift from Chinese President Xi Jinping, following a long history of the rare and beloved animals being used as diplomatic currency.

A one-off vaccination programme was launched this year after outbreaks which began in Kent in March left two young people dead.

Cloudflare has launched two open-weight decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, designed for structured yes/no, multiple-choice, and ranking tasks while also supporting images, video, and up to a 64K context window. Cloudflare says its models outperform TypeSafe's Jev on several benchmarks and can run locally from Hugging Face. The Register reports: For starters, Clef has an LLM backbone. According to Cloudflare, Clef uses specially post-trained, frozen versions of Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B for Clef and Clef-flash, respectively, with the Qwen backbone performing a prefill-only pass during inference. Clef is still fast - faster than Jev, to be fair - and scores choices in parallel after that prefill-only pass. It's not clear what Jev's underlying architecture is, as TypeSafe has kept that a secret. As for its speed and capability, Clef moves fast. Cloudflare ran it against Jev and some other open decision models using the Jev Decision Index available on Hugging Face, and the company's own ranking suggests Clef is slightly slower than other open models, but more accurate, with Clef-flash just as accurate as most of the others, but far faster. To be fair to the competition, Cloudflare self-reported its own scores against the benchmark, and they have yet to be reproduced for ranking on the official Decision Index. Cloudflare also ran Clef against TypeSafe's own benchmarks, and claimed it beat Jev in three out of four areas, only losing out on agent trace observability. Even if it were a bit slower or less accurate, Clef has another major leg up on Jev: It's not limited to classifying text -- it can also handle images and video. Additionally, Clef supports a 64k context window. Jev can also handle up to 64k tokens across a request, although its state plus longest individual question is limited to 32k.

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Mind those matches. Netflix is doing Great American Literature again, and that means everything is highly flammable - timber houses, log barns and truckloads of wooden acting.

There was doubt whether Ireland would fulfil their fixtures against Israel this international break, but the first game was played at the weekend and the second is scheduled to take place too.

Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds

Brooklyn Beckham has revealed salt and pepper flecks in his hair as he and Nicola Peltz arrive at the Balenciaga show in Paris on Thursday.

The Met Police has said a full inquest into the death of violent gangster Chris Kaba should not go ahead after the police marksman who shot him dead was cleared of murder.