Aggregator

David Harbour is hoping that the third time is the charm for him at the Emmys. 

Get Up To $1,000 matched in FanCash with Fanatics Sportsbook promo code NYPOST26.

Since the troubled child star's tragic 2022 passing, the "Lizzie McGuire" actress has paid tribute to him several times.

Since the troubled child star's tragic 2022 passing, the "Lizzie McGuire" actress has paid tribute to him several times.

The quake follows two back-to-back June temblors in Venezuela.

Recommended by teachers for this year's classroom reset.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warned mischief-minded Badger State Republicans Sunday not to cross party lines in Tuesday's contest.

It wasn’t just the lights flashing on this fire truck. A crazy Wisconsin woman allegedly stole a fire truck for a bizarre naked joyride. Emily Fair, 36, was busted in the bare in the truck nabbed from the Pleasant Prairie fire station in the early hours last Tuesday after making a series of confusing radio...

We need more Ted now!

Olivia Elliot, now 5, woke up vomiting and complaining of a headache in June 2025.

The actress danced in the black one-piece in a playful Instagram video posted last week, while her A-list daughter cheered behind the camera.

The actress danced in the black one-piece in a playful Instagram video posted last week, while her A-list daughter cheered behind the camera.

Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, A 30B Model That Runs On A Single Consumer GPU

Meta released Muse Glimmer on Monday, a 30-billion-parameter model built for agent work that fits on a laptop. The company published the model's weights - the trained numbers that make up the model itself, meaning anyone can download it and run it on their own machine - on the model repository Hugging Face, under an Apache 2.0 license that is genuinely permissive, without the usage restrictions Meta attached to its Llama releases.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 9, 2026. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

The model is aimed at a specific and increasingly crowded target: AI that runs on your own hardware instead of somebody else's cloud. Google has Gemma, Alibaba has Qwen, Mistral and DeepSeek both ship small open models. Meta is arriving late to a category it arguably created and then abandoned.

What It Is

Glimmer was built from Muse Spark, Meta's frontier model, using a technique called distillation: you train the small model on the big model's output until it learns to imitate what the larger system already knows. 

Then there's the problem of making it fit. A 30-billion-parameter model at full precision needs more than 55GB of memory, which no consumer graphics card has. Meta compressed the numbers that make up the model down to roughly a quarter of their usual precision, shrinking it to under 20GB - small enough to leave room for everything else the model needs running alongside it inside a 24GB or 32GB card. The company says the compression costs little or nothing on the tasks that matter.

Speed comes from a second trick, called speculative decoding. Models normally write one word at a time, each one waiting on the last, which is why long answers feel slow. Meta pairs Glimmer with a small, fast companion model that predicts whole chunks of text, then has the real model check the guesses all at once and keep whatever it got right. It works because checking an answer is much faster than producing one. Meta reports the result is 3.1x faster on an RTX 5090, 1.8x on an M5 Max, and 1.5x on an M4 Max.

Meta has positioned Glimmer against Google's Gemma4-31B and Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B, and claims strong results on tests that measure whether a model can complete a multi-step job start to finish - fixing real bugs in real codebases, calling outside tools, recovering when something fails. Those are the company's own numbers from the company's own testing, which is worth remembering until outsiders get their hands on it. As of Monday, they can.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says a version of Spark itself will follow in the coming weeks, with larger models after. 

Models you can download are cheaper to run and easier to customize than models you rent, and the strongest downloadable ones increasingly come out of China - DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot. Zuckerberg's argument is that American labs are hobbled by training-data restrictions their foreign rivals don't face, and that blocking foreign models is the wrong answer to that.

"US policy must reduce this additional friction if we want American open source models to lead over time," he wrote.

He also wants distillation protected as a matter of policy - "you can learn from anything you can observe." Glimmer is a distilled model, released the same morning, so the principle has a beneficiary.

Meanwhile

The model came wrapped in a 6,500-word essay titled "The Future is for Everyone," arguing that advanced AI should be handed to individuals rather than concentrated in a few institutions, and that "the notion AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic."

Meta also announced a $1 billion fund for communities hosting its data centers, a response to the local opposition that has become one of the larger obstacles to building AI infrastructure. The essay cites Richland Parish, Louisiana, where teachers received a $50,000 bonus out of the tax revenue Meta's construction generated.

Tyler Durden Mon, 08/10/2026 - 10:40

Duane "Keffe D" Davis has plead not guilty to any involvement in the rapper's murder.

Time to brush up on your Minionese.

Clenney, 30, who has been behind bars since the August 2022 killing, pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a deadly weapon.

Say goodbye to summer sun and get cozy in this fall-friendly, cozy sweater.

NORAD Jets Intercept 2 Planes Over Restricted Airspace Near Trump's Golf Club

Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times,

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) F-16 fighter jets intercepted two general aviation aircraft that flew into restricted airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey, on Aug. 9, the command said.

President Donald Trump was at his golf club in Bedminster for the weekend, arriving the evening of Aug. 7 and departing for Washington on Aug. 9, according to his public schedule. The club hosted the LIV Golf New York tournament from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9.

Both aircraft were escorted out of the area safely, according to a statement from the Continental U.S. NORAD Region at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, which runs the mission. NORAD said in a post on X that it had intercepted multiple aircraft, while First Air Force put the number at two.

The restrictions had been announced days earlier. On Aug. 6, NORAD said it would enforce multiple VIP temporary flight restriction areas over New Jersey established by the Federal Aviation Administration for the weekend.

Such restrictions close off a defined block of airspace for a set period and are published in advance through notices to airmen, which pilots are required to check before every flight. The FAA issues them for presidential movements and other events, and NORAD enforces them.

In the Aug. 6 announcement, the command said aircraft violating the restrictions would be met with whatever action was needed to gain compliance, and it urged pilots to avoid that outcome.

NORAD also said the public may see U.S. Army ground-based air defense equipment in the same region. Those systems operate under NORAD authorities and work alongside its aircraft as part of what it described as a layered defense network of radars, satellites, and fighter jets.

The command tied the posture to Operation Noble Eagle, the name it gives to all of its aerospace warning, control, and defense missions in North America. NORAD describes the operation as deterring, detecting, and defeating potential threats to U.S. and Canadian airspace around the clock.

NORAD used the opportunity to remind pilots that if they are intercepted, they should immediately tune to 121.5 or 243.0 and reverse course until given further instructions on one of those frequencies.

Tyler Durden Mon, 08/10/2026 - 10:25

An influencer allegedly had flings with up to 75 prisoners including murderers, court documents revealed – as she struck a sweetheart deal by copping to fraud charges.

A level 2 out of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms was issued for certain US states.