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Scotcast: GB Energy: We can bring bills down

Fraser Stewart is 'excited' about our energy future.

Scotcast: GB Energy: We can bring bills down

Fraser Stewart is 'excited' about our energy future.

Ministers defend government-backed energy company against forced labor claims

LONDON — The U.K. government has defended its publicly-owned energy company, days after POLITICO revealed Great British Energy was still funding firms that could not rule out exposure to slave-made goods.  “We are tackling forced labor where we find it in global supply chains, and we want to go further,” Energy Minister Michael Shanks told MPs when questioned in the House of Commons Tuesday.  The Department for Energy Security and Net...

Homeowners spend £11k on upgrades to avoid moving costs

Homeowners spend £11k on upgrades to avoid moving costs New research shows UK homeowners are choosing to renovate their homes instead of relocating - helping save on moving costs. Homeowners would rather renovate than relocate - with factors such as costs and emotional ties keeping them rooted to where they are. A poll of 2,000 property owners found only one in five (22%) would now prefer to move than make their current home work for them.

Compact LLM Deployment and World Model Assisted Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates compact large language model (LLM) deployment and world-model-assisted inference offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. We first propose an edge compact LLM deployment (ECLD) framework that jointly applies structured pruning, low-bit quantization, and knowledge distillation to construct edge-deployable LLM variants, and we evaluate these models using four complementary metrics: accessibility, energy consumption,...

Public procurement of electricity could save GB households £200 a year, says thinktank

Government plan to de-link gas and electricity prices aims to reduce bills for consumers after global surge in pricesHouseholds in England, Scotland and Wales could save nearly £200 a year on their energy bills if the government stepped into the market to act as the sole buyer of electricity, according to a thinktank. The research found that public procurement of electricity, meaning the government would become the “single buyer” of power before it is resold to consumers, could shave...

Public procurement of electricity could save GB households £200 a year, says thinktank

Government plan to de-link gas and electricity prices aims to reduce bills for consumers after global surge in pricesHouseholds in England, Scotland and Wales could save nearly £200 a year on their energy bills if the government stepped into the market to act as the sole buyer of electricity, according to a thinktank. The research found that public procurement of electricity, meaning the government would become the “single buyer” of power before it is resold to consumers, could shave...

Recent application studies of an INTPIX4NA SOIPIX detector-based X-ray camera using an SiTCP-XG 10GbE-based high-speed readout system at KEK facilities

arXiv:2603.09461v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Silicon-On-Insulator PIXel (SOIPIX) detector is a unique monolithic structure imaging device currently being developed by the SOIPIX group, led by the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). Our detector team at the KEK Photon Factory (PF) has developed an X-ray camera based on the INTPIX4NA SOIPIX detector. This detector provides a sensitive area of 14.1 $\times$ 8.7 $\mathrm{mm^2}$, with 425,984 pixels arranged in an...

Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service

Spike-Aware C++ INT8 Inference for Sparse Spiking Language Models on Commodity CPUs

arXiv:2606.03026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking language models expose activation sparsity that dense Transformer runtimes do not directly exploit. This paper studies that property from a systems perspective. Building on the SymbolicLight V1 spike-gated language model family, we implement a C++ CPU inference runtime that treats sparse binary spike states as an execution primitive rather than only applying post-hoc weight compression.