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Flood alerts remain in effect along a major river in KentWintery showers will be replaced by persistent rain over the coming days.(Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)Following on from the freezing start to 2026, temperatures are at long last climbing to milder levels this week as forecasters advise that more heavy rain and gusty winds are on the way. Kent has endured persistent sub-zero temperatures since January began due to lingering Arctic air which resulted in snow flurries, wintery showers, cold-health alerts and ice warnings being issued.Over the weekend (January 10 and 11), this air mass was finally displaced by an area…

In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings packed with racks of computers are springing up to fuel the AI race. These engineering marvels are a new species of infrastructure: supercomputers designed to train and run large language models at mind-­bending scale, complete with their own specialized chips, cooling systems, and even energy supplies. Hyperscale AI data centers bundle hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips called graphics processing units (GPUs), such as Nvidia’s H100s, into synchronized clusters that work like one giant supercomputer. These chips excel at processing massive amounts of data in parallel. Hundreds of thousands…

Eighty years ago, Canada enacted executive orders to banish more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent, stripping thousands of citizenship in the process. Named a Top 100 Book of 2025 by The Hill Times and described as “essential reading for history buffs” by The Globe and Mail, a new book from University of Victoria (UVic) historian Jordan Stanger-Ross and University of Alberta legal scholar Eric M. Adams tells the untold story of Japanese Canadians facing banishment after the war and the legal battle that challenged notions of citizenship, race and rights. Source link

Location : The M1 northbound between junctions J22 and J23 . Lane Closures : Lane three is closed. Reason : Road traffic collision. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 16:30 and 16:45 on 12 January 2026. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Lanes Closed : There is one of three lanes closed. Source link

“Oil tankers are huge, Kent County Council is huge – so the fact we are starting to turn the ship after only eight months is really quite remarkable.”Linden Kemkaran And Brian Collins(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)The Reform UK duo behind the largest local council in the country faced down criticism of its draft budget today. Kent County Council (KCC) leader Linden Kemkaran, sitting alongside her deputy Brian Collins, compared the scale of the task in balancing the books to turning a listing tanker around.She said the council had succeeded in finding millions in savings and fulfilling the “ambition” of setting…

French defense tech company Harmattan AI is rising almost as fast as the supersonic planes of its new backer. Founded in 2024, the company is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet. Harmattan AI, which builds autonomy and mission-system software for defense aircraft, had already received strong validation signals from the French and British ministries of defense in its less than two years of existence. But this funding and the accompanying partnership will give new wings to a company that…

Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy scooped up more bitcoin after Michael Saylor teased the move Sunday by adding “₿ig Orange” to the Strategy Tracker chart. Saylor’s company snapped up another 13,627 BTC at roughly $91,519 per coin. Michael Saylor and company revealed the purchase of $1.25 billion worth of bitcoin ( BTC) early Monday. “Strategy has […] Source link

‘Tunbridge Wells is not just disgusted. It is livid. The government must step in now’The latest water shortage issues have resulted in residents flushing toilets with rainwater, flocking to water stations and hurriedly showering if water returns(Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)”Livid” water shortage customers in Tunbridge Wells are calling for Government intervention and an urgent crisis meeting as situation is escalated to a “major incident”. Today’s announcement (Monday, January 12) by Kent County Council comes after more households have been hit by no water or low water in the past 24 hours.The continuing supply problems have been branded a “fiasco” by…

Hundreds of millions of people now use chatbots every day. And yet the large language models that drive them are so complicated that nobody really understands what they are, how they work, or exactly what they can and can’t do—not even the people who build them. Weird, right? It’s also a problem. Without a clear idea of what’s going on under the hood, it’s hard to get a grip on the technology’s limitations, figure out exactly why models hallucinate, or set guardrails to keep them in check. But last year we got the best sense yet of how LLMs function,…

Erin Doherty, who grew up in Crawley and now lives in Brighton, was recognised for her role in the limited series Adolescence at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes awards in Beverly Hills, California.  She plays clinical psychologist Briony Ariston, who supports a teenage boy accused of murdering a female classmate. The series, also starring Stephen Graham, explores misogyny and harmful online content, and has fuelled national conversations in Parliament and schools. Doherty, 32, is reported to have attended Hazelwick School in Crawley and previously played for the Crawley Wasps ladies’ football team. She now lives in Brighton and has been…