The best multi day hikes in the world. “As an avid hiker, who spends most of her time hiking, I have done more than 100 multi day hikes all over the world. This list includes 25 of my favorite ones.”
On a night when Erling Haaland moped around the pitch, dragging his hulking frame across the Cardiff turf, Wales registered a welcome victory over 10-man Norway and their first this year. Daniel James cancelled out Oscar Bobb’s well-worked opener in the first half and 17 seconds into the restart Torbjørn Heggem was sent off for fouling James as the Leeds winger streamed through towards goal, resulting in a free-kick from which Neco Williams earned Craig Bellamy’s side the three points. “You’re just a shit Kieffer Moore,” was the chant at Haaland from the locals.
Bellamy was under no illusions about the task facing his side. He described Norway as one of the best teams in the world and one riding the crest of a wave after reaching the World Cup quarter-finals. Martin Ødegaard, the Arsenal and Norway captain, was the visitors’ creator in chief and it was no surprise he was the architect for a crisp opener, slotted in by Bobb, one of two Fulham players and one of five Premier League regulars in the Norway starting lineup.
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Previously: NASA to bump telescope back into space to avoid it falling to Earth. It didn't work. Why: An attempt to save NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from dropping out of orbit fell short, but the behind-the-scenes machinations required just to make a rescue possible deserve recognition, government and commercial space officials said in a recounting of the mission.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - In de Verenigde Staten is in aanloop naar de parlementsverkiezingen van november discussie ontstaan over spotjes die de regering laat uitzenden. Die lijken op campagnefilmpjes en worden betaald met geld dat door het Congres eigenlijk was bestemd voor zaken als grensbewaking en de bestrijding van drugscriminaliteit, komt naar voren uit onderzoek voor The Washington Post.
Een van de filmpjes lijkt erg op een video van 30 seconden die het campagneteam van Trump produceerde in 2024, concludeert de krant. De timing is gevoelig, want bij de verkiezingen van komende maand dreigen de Republikeinen van Trump hun meerderheid in het Congres te verliezen.
Bronnen rond de regering ontkennen dat de filmpjes campagnevideo's zijn. Trump staat zelf niet op het stembiljet en kijkers worden ook niet opgeroepen om te stemmen, klinkt het. Democraten denken daar anders over en stellen dat belastinggeld zonder toestemming van het Congres wordt misbruikt voor politieke doeleinden.
Longtime Slashdot reader ThurstonMoore shares a report from Reuters: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced the creation of a new military command that would be dedicated to building and providing autonomous and robotic capabilities across the U.S. military. The command, which Hegseth said would be called "Autonomous Warfare Command," highlights the rapidly changing nature of warfare and the need to make progress on systems like drones and the use of artificial intelligence.
Speaking in front of hundreds of junior officers and enlisted personnel at Quantico, Virginia, in a speech peppered with attacks on the media, Hegseth said the command would be led by a four-star officer. "The pace of war is changing faster than the process to support it," Hegseth said in a speech called the "State of the Force," in which he announced other changes, including the creation of the office of religious affairs. "Cheap compute, superintelligence, and advanced commercial manufacturing have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, high-precision strike," Hegseth added.
[...] The United States has long relied on its vast military budget to field some of the world's most expensive weapons systems. But there is an increasing realization within the Pentagon that this is not sustainable. "Today we need both quality and quantity," Hegseth said.
Speaking in front of hundreds of junior officers and enlisted personnel at Quantico, Virginia, in a speech peppered with attacks on the media, Hegseth said the command would be led by a four-star officer. "The pace of war is changing faster than the process to support it," Hegseth said in a speech called the "State of the Force," in which he announced other changes, including the creation of the office of religious affairs. "Cheap compute, superintelligence, and advanced commercial manufacturing have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, high-precision strike," Hegseth added.
[...] The United States has long relied on its vast military budget to field some of the world's most expensive weapons systems. But there is an increasing realization within the Pentagon that this is not sustainable. "Today we need both quality and quantity," Hegseth said.
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Two weeks after the Jev model took the AI world by storm, Cloudflare has released its own pair of "Clef" decision models that it claims are smarter and faster than Jev, while also being open weight and runnable locally. The Clef family of decision models was announced by Cloudflare on Thursday, and consists of two models: Clef and Clef-flash, a slightly smaller and faster version of the model. For all intents and purposes, they work the same way as TypeSafe’s Jev, in that they can answer three types of bounded, structured questions: Yes/no, multiple choice, and rankings. It’s there that the bigger differences emerge, though, as Clef isn’t only built differently but, if Cloudflare’s benchmark claims hold up, also appears more capable than Jev and several other decision models in a number of tests. 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. Clef is available directly from Cloudflare hosted on Workers AI, which the company said makes the models even faster because “we’re able to take advantage of our GPUs at the edge, leading to low network latency and faster decisions.” For those that would prefer not to pay the token cost (Clef costs $0.24 per million tokens - nearly six times the price of Jev at $0.042/M), Clef can also be downloaded from Hugging Face, and is open weight under the same Apache-2.0 terms as Qwen. While described as “open source” in the announcement, Cloudflare AI Platform group product manager Michelle Chen confirmed to The Register that its training datasets aren’t public. As for whether your hardware can run it, Chen told us that Clef-flash will run on any GPU with at least 41 GB of VRAM, while Clef requires 85 GB of VRAM on a GPU for it to function. “This is assuming single concurrency and a 64k context window,” Chen added. Don’t worry about having to rebuild your decision model architecture for Clef either - its API is fully Jev compatible, allowing it to serve as a drop-in replacement if you want to give it a shot, either locally or using Cloudflare’s hosting option. ®
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