A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.

As President Trump began a pattern of deploying the National Guard to democratic-led cities, several Democratic attorneys general and their staffs worked to coordinate their fight against the deployments – and, ultimately, they won.

President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing.

Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.

As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities.

Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.

The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown.

Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.

The secret discussions, bombshell leak and sacking which led to Robert Jenrick defecting to the Reform party.

Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it "a wonderful gesture of mutual respect".

Multiple sources have told BBC Persian that security forces will not release bodies unless relatives hand over money.

Ellen Roome, from Gloucestershire, is one of a group of parents suing TikTok over online challenges.

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

The replacement for the Household Support Fund aims to help people facing sudden difficulties.

British heavyweight Anthony Joshua returns to the gym following the recent car crash which killed two of his close friends and team members.

The rarely used law allows the president to use active-duty military personnel for law enforcement.

Israel placed and later moved control markers in three areas, with some placed deeper inside Gaza than maps suggested.

Seven hospitals with Raac that were prioritised last year are not expected to be completed on time - some not until 2032/33.

You can't park there, mate

An enterprising engineer has turned an old parking meter into a jukebox using a Pi Zero 2 and some open source code.…

How not to maintain computers

On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we take great delight in telling your tech support stories – mostly the ones involving bizarre behavior and heroic fixes.…

Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot

The Wikimedia Foundation, the org behind Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms, has revealed it’s signed six more AI companies as ‘enterprise partners’, status that gives them preferential access to the content it tends.…

2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises

Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC has posted huge growth, says more is on the way as the AI boom is not abating, but also pointed to the inevitability of price rises for its output.…

Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body

OpenAI, having invested heavily in artificial intelligence, is placing a side bet on organic intelligence.…

This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins

Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.…

You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink

RISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the viability of rival interconnect tech UALink.…

The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases

More than half of AI projects have been delayed or canceled within the last two years citing complexities with AI infrastructure, according to a research report commissioned by DDN, a data optimization company in partnership with Google Cloud and Cognizant.…

What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see

What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.…

Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required

If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a vulnerability in AMD CPUs that exposes secrets in its secure virtualization environment.…

Pharma execs had avoided conflict with Trump admin, but now join doctors in rebukes.

NYT says US hackers were able to turn off power and then quickly turn it back on.

An interesting new take on Trek includes some characters you already know.

This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons.

Spotify claims the higher fees will help "benefit artists."

ChatGPT used a man's favorite children's book to romanticize his suicide.

Lawmakers seek FTC investigation, but Trump has taken control of the agency.

Liquid Glass is controversial, but adoption rates aren't as low as they seem.

Even Google's own earbuds are vulnerable to the Fast Pair hack.

Developers say "this was not something we wanted" as they purge open source project.