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When the children of my friends and clients announce they are getting married, it is not the wedding venue or dress that is the talk of the table - it is whether to prenup or not to prenup.

Seat 11A has been dubbed a 'miracle seat' after the Air India crash's sole survivor walked away from the wreckage - but experts say some areas of a plane are safer than others.

Two fire crews rushed to the scene after a barbecue started a fire in a garden

Millions of women may be at higher risk of agonising infections that could cause infertility or life-threatening pregnancy complications, experts have revealed today.

The suspects were travelling in a car linked to a knifepoint robbery last month

I wanted to transfer an Isa held in my Mother's name to a Lloyds Bank Isa. I requested the transfer in January but it still has not been accepted.

'The material is very soft and comfortable'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Since 2022, the U.S. has tightened the noose around the sale of high-end AI chips and other technology to China overnational-security concerns. Yet Chinese companies have made advances using workarounds. In some cases, Chinese AI developers have been able to substitute domestic chips for the American ones. Another workaround is to smuggle AI hardware into China through third countries. But people in the industry say that has become more difficult in recent months, in part because of U.S. pressure. That is pushing Chinese companies to try a further option: bringing their data outside China so they can use American AI chips in places such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East (source paywalled; alternative source). The maneuvers are testing the limits of U.S. restrictions. "This was something we were consistently concerned about," said Thea Kendler, who was in charge of export controls at the Commerce Department in the Biden administration, referring to Chinese companies remotely accessing advanced American AI chips. Layers of intermediaries typically separate the Chinese users of American AI chips from the U.S. companies -- led by Nvidia -- that make them. That leaves it opaque whether anyone is violating U.S. rules or guidance. [...] At the Chinese AI developer, the Malaysia game plans take months of preparation, say people involved in them. Engineers decided it would be fastest to fly physical hard drives with data into the country, since transferring huge volumes of data over the internet could take months. Before traveling, the company's engineers in China spent more than eight weeks optimizing the data sets and adjusting the AI training program, knowing it would be hard to make major tweaks once the data was out of the country. The Chinese engineers had turned to the same Malaysian data center last July, working through a Singaporean subsidiary. As Nvidia and its vendors began to conduct stricter audits on the end users of AI chips, the Chinese company was asked by the Malaysian data center late last year to work through a Malaysian entity, which the companies thought might trigger less scrutiny. The Chinese company registered an entity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, listing three Malaysian citizens as directors and an offshore holding company as its parent, according to a corporate registry document. To avoid raising suspicions at Malaysian customs, the Chinese engineers packed their hard drives into four different suitcases. Last year, they traveled with the hard drives bundled into one piece of luggage. They returned to China recently with the results -- several hundred gigabytes of data, including model parameters that guide the AI system's output. The procedure, while cumbersome, avoided having to bring hardware such as chips or servers into China. That is getting more difficult because authorities in Southeast Asia are cracking down on transshipments through the region into China.

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A new generation of action/adventure fanatics are about to revere the terrifying and legendary 'Predator' as a hit new instalment of the 38-year franchise landed on Disney+ on Friday.

Shibari, which originated in Japan and is popular in the kink community, typically sees couples tie each other up with thin, colourful ropes using intricate knots.

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The British royal, 10, pinned the historic Diamond Horseshoe brooch to the front of her light blue dress for her grandfather King Charles' birthday parade in London today.

Movers such as Kelley Meadows are taking advantage of cash incentives and other perks offered by 'dying' towns across the US competing for remote worker citizens

It's in a prime beauty spot along the river

Brittany Phillips sat by her sick three-year-old daughter's hospital bedside playing the doting mom. But, in reality, she was researching her next sickening plan to poison the little girl.

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