The anti-parasitic drug became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is now being embraced as an alternative treatment for cancer. It is as politically polarizing as ever. 

The war over Iran engulfed more of the Middle East and beyond on Monday as Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah responded to the killing of Iran's spiritual leader with its first attack on Israel in more than a year.

Tomato clownfish, in response to an unpredictable world, appear capable of adjusting when they lose their stripes based on cues from other fish and their habitat, a new study in PLOS Biology finds.

Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran on Monday.

The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.

Democrats and a few Republicans are calling for curbing Trump's unilateral use of military power in Iran, despite previous such efforts failing to advance.

The GOP made big strides with Latino voters in 2024. Immigration and the economy were key drivers, but two years later, those issues could sway them to back Democrats in primaries happening this week.

When the modern electric vehicle was still in its infancy, drivers worried that vehicles would need expensive battery replacements within a few years. But battery lifespans are exceeding expectations.

The law, the same one used to prosecute Joe Biden's son for illegal gun possession, has united an array of strange bedfellows, from conservative gun rights groups to liberal civil liberties groups.

As more people stay active as they age, overuse injuries are increasing. A non-invasive treatment known as shockwave therapy can help ease heel and elbow pain. Here's how.

No casualties were reported and the base sustained "minimal damage", the Ministry of Defence said.

Experts have warned that a prolonged conflict could push global energy prices even higher.

The US says six of its F-15 jets were "mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses", with all crew in a stable condition.

Iran's attacks on Gulf Arab states suggest the Islamic Republic is targeting not just the US military but also civilian infrastructure.

Iran's surviving leaders are in crisis mode, battling to project security as US and Israel strikes continue.

The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will "not join offensive action now".

From Monday, asylum seekers granted refugee status in the UK will be offered only temporary protection.

The process - called alkaline hydrolysis - will offer families a third option instead of burial or traditional cremation.

Jack O'Sullivan disappeared after attending a house party in Hotwells, Bristol in March 2024.

Emma Stone, Wunmi Mosaku and Timothée Chalamet were among the stars posing for pictures in Los Angeles.

A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

The new beta of the next version of Firefox lets you view two web pages side by side, with a split you can drag with your mouse.…

Official monitoring shows connectivity collapsing to near-zero

Iran's internet has plunged into a near-total blackout, with traffic down to around 1 percent of normal levels and connectivity described as "close to zero" as authorities curb access amid widening regional conflict.…

Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass

Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will make of Microsoft's Project Silica, a mixture of the two, is less clear.…

Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora

The Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.…

Oh, the contortions required to debug strange errors!

Who, Me? A weekend of unwinding is behind us, so The Register returns to work on Monday with a fresh installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that reveals how you got in a tangle, and then extricated yourself.…

Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails

OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified environments, and urged the Pentagon to make the same terms available to its rivals.…

PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection

Infosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part of a program kicked off early last year.…

Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds

South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the digi-cash.…

New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score

If you own a desktop computer, you're used to swapping parts and peripherals around, but most laptops are closed boxes with few ways to modify them. Lenovo's new ThinkBook Modular AI PC concept shows what happens when you can remove a screen, a keyboard, and even blocks of ports from a mobile PC.…

PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!

Asia In brief One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects.…

First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.

Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature and outlast storms, floods and, predators

The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

"There were assumptions that were made in the strategy that obviously didn’t come to fruition."

Can two declining companies form a profitable one?

Interactions between neighboring materials is mediated by virtual photons.

Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says.

Director Gore Verbinksi and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirical sci-fi film.