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More than 18,600 dogs from across the globe will parade through the halls of the National Exhibition Centre over the next four days hoping to win the Best in Show crown.

Apple has removed the 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio, leaving 256GB as the new maximum. The remaining 256GB upgrade has also increased in price and now faces longer shipping delays as demand grows "due to consumers seeking machines suitable for running local AI agents," reports MacRumors. From the report: The Mac Studio starts with 36GB RAM, but there were upgrades ranging from 48GB to 512GB, with the higher tier upgrades limited to the M3 Ultra chip. Now there are options ranging from 48GB to 256GB, with wait times into May for the 256GB upgrade. Apple has also raised the price for the 256GB RAM upgrade option. It used to cost $1,600 to go from 96GB to 256GB on the high-end M3 Ultra machine, but now it costs $2,000. 512GB was $4,000 when it was available.

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The Conservative leader said she would reinstate the limit to fund the recruitment of more soldiers to boost Britain's military.

Messi and Miami are being honored by the president after winning their first ever MLS Cup last season, just eight years after being founded by an ownership group that includes David Beckham.

Lisa Dorrian disappeared from an event at Ballyhalbert Caravan Park in County Down on the night of February 27, 2005. Detectives believe she was murdered shortly thereafter.

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help

Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a survey of 200 suits published by data streaming tools vendor Confluent. /p>…

It’s ok, Todd. You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong.

Okta chairman and CEO Todd McKinnon said he believes it would be difficult for an LLM alone to replicate the quality of SaaS applications his company provides, but that doesn’t stop him from worrying about competition from bots.…

Scientists have discovered the origin of three mysterious signals from the centre of the Milky Way.

As the fighting in Iran escalates, America's secret doomsday plan for the president and major US officials to avoid a nuclear war has been uncovered.

Britney Spears was driving erratically on the highway in a harrowing hour-long chase before being pulled over and arrested for DUI, a 911 dispatch call obtained by the Daily Mail reveals.

Daisy Edgar-Jones has opened up for the first time about her debilitating battle with endometriosis, sharing how she has learned to manage the painful condition over the years.

United Airlines has updated its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when playing audio or video on personal devices during flights. Travelers who refuse could be removed from the plane or even permanently banned from flying with the airline, reports CBS News. United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack... Further reading: Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.

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The Fury family bloodline will see the next generation turn their hand to boxing after Tyson revealed his son's desire to become a professional fighter.

As the midterm elections loom in November, Republican strategists have been alarmed at how what was previously Trump's strongest issue - immigration - has become an electoral liability.

Katie Price's husband Lee Andrews shared that he was told to 'seek immediate shelter' due to missile threats in Dubai on Thursday.

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's closest advisor Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave the Department of Homeland Security after her shock firing.

Women are going wild over the fitness regime touted by Gabby George, who first shared her arm workouts for brides to tone up ahead of their big day.

An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of investors tied to the administration. The suit claims the arrangement violates a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest and alleges the deal financially benefited Trump allies while leaving the platform's algorithm under Chinese ownership. NBC News reports: The suit, filed by the Public Integrity Project, a law firm that seeks to raise the "reputational cost of corruption in America," argues the deal violates a law intended to prevent the spread of Chinese government propaganda and has enriched Trump's allies. That law, signed by then-President Joe Biden in 2024, said that TikTok couldn't be distributed in the United States unless the Chinese company ByteDance found an American-based corporate home by the day before Donald Trump returned to office. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court. "The law was clear, but it was never enforced," says the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Shortly after the deadline to divest passed, President Trump issued an executive order purportedly granting an extension for TikTok to find a domestic owner and directed his Attorney General not to enforce the law." The plaintiffs in the suit are two software engineers from California: One is a shareholder in Alphabet Inc., YouTube's parent company; the other is a shareholder in Meta Platforms, Inc., which is Instagram's parent company. Both say they suffered financially due to the non-enforcement of the law. "The original motivation for this law was to prevent the Chinese government from pushing propaganda onto American audiences," said Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project and a former Justice Department prosecutor. "The deal that the president approved is the absolute worst of all possible worlds, because right now ByteDance continues to own the algorithm, which means that it can censor the content that it doesn't like, but at the same time Oracle controls the data and it can censor the information that it doesn't like. Really it's a situation that's going to be terrible for users, and terrible for free speech on the platform."

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Former Manchester City captain Andy Morrison has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a severe neurological condition called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome in a heartbreaking video online.

Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay?

Bill Gates-backed nuclear outfit TerraPower finally has approval to build its Natrium reactor. However, it may still face issues finding a steady fuel supply. And, oh yeah, it hasn't built any reactors like this before.…