The Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has put Silicon Valley’s AI titans into “panic mode”, says Parmy Olson in Bloomberg. They’ve been persuading investors that only vast quantities of money could keep the competition at bay. DeepSeek’s latest model uses relatively unsophisticated chips and cost just $6m to train. (The latest ChatGPT model was more like $100m.) To the average user, the Chinese upstart is as good as the most expensively trained American AIs.
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Christopher Walken, remains blissfully insulated from modern technology. “I don’t have a cellphone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered,” the 81-year-old actor tells The Wall Street Journal. To watch his own performance in the Apple TV show Severance, Walken had to ask the producers to send him DVDs. “I’ve never had a watch either… if I need the time, I just ask somebody.”
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Road-builders in China, when a stubborn grandfather refused to sell his house to them, built their planned two-lane highway right around his property. Huang Ping, whose two-storey home in the town of Jinxi is now completely surrounded by the elevated expressway, acknowledges that he may have been better off accepting their £180,000 compensation offer. “It feels like I lost a big bet.”
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"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."
Confucius
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If you ever find a magic lamp and make a wish don't make the same mistake as me and say you just want to be happy.
I'm now working in a mine and living in a house with six other dwarfs!
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First Rule of family gatherings: Always bring your own vehicle so you can leave when you want.
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Alexa , take down the Christmas decorations. (Worth a try).
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BBC News - Ukraine says North Korean may have pulled out of front line
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjder8zgk48o
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China is building what US intelligence believes will be the world’s largest military command centre. Satellite images show a construction site in west Beijing roughly 10 times the size of the Pentagon, with deep holes that military experts suspect are designed to house hardened bunkers to protect Chinese leaders during conflict.
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The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull.
https://youtu.be/d0NxhFn0szc
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Stella idea!
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The 'Know' report the 4 day workweek continues to capture interest in the U.K., with 200 companies now adopting the practice, according to the 4 Day Week Foundation. They employ more than 5,000 workers between them and received the accreditation from the 4 Day Week Foundation, an independent group. The accreditation criteria recognizes a 4 day, 32-hour working week with no loss of pay as "gold standard," and a 4 day, 35-hour working week as "silver standard."
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Lidl has been granted permission by a High Court to open its very first pub in Northern Ireland. The German grocery giant will be able to go ahead with its plans to launch the pub inside its Dundonald store, based near Belfast, after a judge dismissed an appeal. During the ruling on Monday, Mr Justice Colton said he saw “no good reason for refusing the application”. The proposals involve opening a pub, seating roughly 45 customers, and an off-licence area.
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The number of cars made in the UK fell to 780,000 during the year, the lowest since 1954, except for during the pandemic, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group. Mike Hawes, the SMMT’s chief executive, said the decline last year was down partly to factories pausing while they switched to electric production. However, he added that the industry is still struggling with weak global demand, and slower-than-expected growth in electric car sales.
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The Metro report that Shoplifting in England and Wales has surged to an all-time high, with a total of 492,914 offences logged by police in the year to September 2024, up 23% from 402,220 in the previous year. The figure is the highest since current records began according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It comes after shoplifting levels had already reached a 20-year high last year, with the latest figures continuing to rise.
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A “groundbreaking” £1.65m treatment offering a potential cure for people in England living with sickle cell disease has been approved for use on the NHS, the medicines watchdog has announced.
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Almost half of Danish people now consider the US to be a considerable threat to their country and the overwhelming majority oppose Greenland leaving to become part of the US, new polling has found.
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An “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly critical report from Whitehall’s spending watchdog has said.
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Investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the airplane involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with a US military helicopter that killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft. The crash has raised questions over whether understaffing in an air traffic control tower played a role in the United States’ worst aviation disaster in years.
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The Guardians Nino Omer says a new public accounts committee report that disability benefit claimants are receiving “unacceptably poor service” from the government, waiting on average 10 times longer than other claimants for calls to be answered. Meanwhile, rising DWP underpayments are leaving many at greater risk of hardship.
The Labour party wants to move away from the harshness of austerity, yet its rhetoric remains rooted in pledges to be “ruthless” in cutting the “spiralling” benefits bill.
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