The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to the Trump administration's move to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians in the country.

The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter's Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.

The House has approved a three year extension of the surveillance program known as FISA Section 702. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces a difficult path to final passage.

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

The Pentagon says that the cost of the war with Iran is estimated to be some $25 billion. Defense officials were appearing on the Hill for budget discussions.

The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

The map drawn by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boosts President Trump's effort to reshape voting before the midterm elections. The GOP likely holds a slight edge over Democrats in redistricting now.

In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."

A grand jury charged Comey with threatening Trump's life through his since-deleted 2025 post of seashells forming "8647." Trump is the 47th president, and the term "86" has a few possible meanings.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police says.

Footage shows the moment a man was arrested after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London.

King Charles and Queen Camilla on their state visit to the US visit the memorial in New York.

Is the UK fumbling the shift away from oil and gas jobs?

Future base rate changes are hard to predict as analysts judge the economic impact of the Iran war.

A new scan technique could spot areas of endometriosis missed by conventional scans, scientists say.

It comes after legislation to remove their right to sit in the upper chamber passed last month.

The star said he broke his leg, hip, pelvis and a "bunch of ribs" at the CogX convention in 2023.

Prosecutors argue Cole Tomas Allen should remain in custody until trial on a charge of attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft all reported earnings at the same time on Wednesday.

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.…

ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…

Second try's a charm?

Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…

Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info

Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.…

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.…

Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about

The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.…

There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was

Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such championship exists.…

Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.…

Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law.

Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

Most are keeping their subscriptions after signing up, too, research firm says.

FTX fraudster came out as Republican, then tried to claim Biden's DOJ targeted him.

Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans.

Motorola's foldable lineup is bigger and more spendy than ever.

Framework charges nearly double for the 12GB version of the mobile RTX 5070.

Study authors say courts should reconsider rulings in light of this new evidence.

Manufacturers backed effort to repeal the law but ultimately failed.

The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact.