The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guardrails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own.

Republicans passed more than $1 trillion for the Pentagon alongside a budget blueprint to fund the war with Iran and implement provisions of President Trump's election overhaul bill.

We check in on one state public broadcasting network a year after President Trump signed a law ending federal funding of public media.

The agreement gives American companies priority access to nuclear reactors and fuel to Saudi Arabia. It's expected to last decades and be worth billions of dollars.

Cancer diagnoses are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean regions, but care lags behind.

After a week of nationwide protests over the direction of Ukraine's military strategy in the ongoing war with Russia, the Ukrainian military has a new commander, Mykhailo Drapatyi. Here's what to know.

For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.

Plastic surgery is becoming so normalized and undetectable, it's changing our relationship to reality. The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino considers how beauty standards have dovetailed with AI.

It's not just watching paint dry. The twists and turns of the Reflecting Pool repairs, originally a two-week project, have kept bloggers and viewers busy all summer.

An independent autopsy of the body of Nolan Wells shows that the cause of death is undetermined pending an investigation, according to attorney Ben Crump.

The BBC can reveal that detectives have so far uncovered nine victims of PC Alan Greer but many more are anticipated.

Nearly five months on, grief is still raw as a teacher and a mother recall the horror of the attack in Minab.

The US Department of Energy says the "peaceful" co-operation agreement will give US firms "great access" to the Saudi nuclear energy programme.

The Houthi attacks would be the first in the Red Sea since the Iran-backed group announced a "maritime embargo" against Saudi Arabia.

Fampridine boosts nerve signals to make it easier to walk, with up to 5,000 eligible.

The cost of parking closest to the terminal has hit £10 at two of the UK's airports.

Following weeks of mainly dry weather, we can welcome some rain this weekend, but it is not going to be that much, as Chris Fawkes explains.

Athletes from 74 countries and territories will compete for 215 gold medals over 10 days of competition.

It will follow a private funeral for family and close friends, which will be held in the coming weeks.

The new analysis from a prominent water campaigner emerged after secret court documents were leaked.

And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack

Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud

Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused

It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit

ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste

As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner

Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?

Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports

Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy

A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted

“We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.”

Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely.

First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.

"The people I trusted betrayed me. The justice system failed me."

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin's opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today.

"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.

A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.

Samsung's new foldables are slimmer, faster, and more expensive.