Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

The Trump administration announced a three-phase transition that will eventually include management of most federal student loans as well as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Planned Parenthood of Illinois will pay $500,000 to end an investigation that found the organization's DEI practices violated federal civil rights laws

Health officials with the Trump administration have backed away from an effort to more heavily regulate indoor tanning — despite protests from medical groups that warn of the dangers of skin cancer.

NPR has learned that mediators have quietly given Hamas a proposal to hand over all its weapons to ensure Gaza's reconstruction.

The "Because I Got High" rapper made waves in 2023 with the album and song "Lemon Pound Cake," using home video to mock a police raid on his Ohio home. The deputies lost their civil suit against him.

Graham was a creative force in the performing arts. She wanted dance to express authentic, human emotions — a revolutionary idea in the late 1920s.

Several Republican-led states are passing their own versions of the SAVE America Act, Trump-backed legislation that would introduce new proof-of-citizenship requirements to register to vote.

In messages to NPR, Tehran residents describe largely deserted streets roamed by paramilitary officials and vigilantes. They say security forces are banning gatherings for Nowruz, the Persian new year, this week.

At the Emergency Hospital, dozens crowded around a thick book to check the names of the victims killed in an airstrike on a rehabilitation center. The U.N. says over a hundred people were killed.

Juliette Kenny's father is urging the government to improve access to the MenB vaccine for young people at risk.

Will the pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU risk courting electoral disaster by alienating Brexit-backing voters?

Child sexual abuse reports go back 10 years and were seen by safeguarding group which included police

The government says it will step in to clean up some of the biggest illegal rubbish tips in England.

Opponents are considering using parliamentary procedure to force a vote to highlight their concerns.

Raynor and Moth Winn published a book they hoped would help get them out of debt, the BBC confirms.

Entering a football match in England and Wales without a ticket will become a criminal offence under new laws.

Rionaghac McGrotty was four months old when she was rescued from a car that slid off a pier after a day at the seaside.

The decision comes after footage emerged appearing to show the reality star in an altercation with her ex-partner.

The venue broke the record for the most visitors to any museum or gallery in a single year.

Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dots

Meta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.…

Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete

Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot.…

From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit

GTC DEEP DIVE At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged for months: Why spend so much to license AI chip startup Groq’s tech and hire away its engineers rather than build it themselves?…

Deal helps company build out its Codex team

In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex programming agent.…

Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline

There is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social media platforms are responsible for population-level mental health harms. …

Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next?

Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…

Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety

It turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps an developers on Android after all. In the face of sustained community dissatisfaction with its developer verification requirement, Google has given Android users an out.…

CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'

A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice.…

Better than seismometers?

Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.…

Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028

GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, unless you look for an options button on the login screen.…

Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.

Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."

DarkSword, a powerful iPhone-hacking technique, has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.

Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash.

"Where we are today in space warfare is very similar to where air superiority was in the 1930s."

Codex maker says it will "continue to support these open source projects" after deal closes.

VR will be on life support while mobile remains the focus, though.

Cops asked the jury for millions after Afroman used raid footage in music videos.

The "advanced flow" will be available before verification enforcement begins later this year.

"8GB unified memory is the minimum practical configuration."