The U.S. military said Sunday that it blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, as the Trump administration pursues its campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.

Rory McIlroy goes back-to-back at the Masters to join Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods.

A stampede at a mountaintop fortress popular with tourists in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens of others, authorities said.

Voters will have to wait until at least Monday to learn the outcome of Sunday's presidential election after the process was mired with logistical issues that left thousands unable to cast ballots.

President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV on Sunday night, saying he didn't think the U.S.-born global leader of the Catholic Church is "doing a very good job."

Historic voter turnout in Hungary ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from power. This shift may dramatically change Hungary's relationship with the European Union, which Orbán criticized regularly.

Hungarians turned out in historic numbers to vote against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's and his Fidesz party. NPR's Rob Schmitz discusses with reporter Esme Nicholson and political scientist Abel Bojar.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with political scientist Abel Bojar about the results of Hungary's election, the far-reaching consequences of the vote and the future for Viktor Orban.

Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party.

Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.

Sir Keir Starmer is planning a law which will mean that the UK government can adopt EU single market rules, without them being voted on in Parliament.

Despite strides in feminism, why do teen girls still seem to view themselves through the lens of boys?

Schools are being told to cut down on sugary desserts, and provide more vegetables and whole grains.

The 50th Oliviers at the Royal Albert Hall provided some memorable conversations away from the ceremony.

Security chiefs will not be able to block spies from giving evidence to future public inquiries.

The US president accuses Leo of being "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy".

The SNP leader made the claim in the BBC's televised debate ahead of next month's Scottish election.

The singer voluntarily checks herself into a treatment facility, three weeks before her court date.

The government had previously announced opening hour extensions in England and Wales for some knockout matches - but has now widened the eligibility.

Not viral as in cat videos. Viral as in we need a vaccine

Opinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides.…

Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware

France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…

Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible

Who, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.…

PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more!

Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.…

Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episode

Kettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …

AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

Vibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.…

Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data

FEATURE Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.…

Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode

A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.…

Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents

FEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.…

Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes.

Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI struggle with the Premier League.

"The work ahead is greater than the work behind us."

"I can't imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission right now."

Plaintiffs say transcription tool processed confidential chats offsite.

A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone.

Algorithms, not drivers, are deciding how hard to accelerate, and that's no good.

Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.

Dense drops of oobleck with high shear rates spread out like a liquid before stiffening into a solid.