In 2024, Romania, an upper middle income European country, had over 30,000 cases ? putting it on the world's top ten measles list. Its vaccination rate hovers around 60%. How did this happen?

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The CDC claims, without evidence, that vaccines may cause autism. And, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani heads to the White House, where he will meet the president for the first time.

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Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound often cause nausea and other side effects. Brain scientists are looking for ways to solve this problem.

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Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" ? which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

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Thai Police have arrested a suspected Russian hacker who is wanted by the FBI for alleged cyberattacks on U.S. and European government agencies.

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Rare earths aren't all that rare. The real choke point is in processing and refining them, where China enjoys market dominance.

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This week, the quiz examines truth, drugs and scandal!

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Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by the Trump administration.

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Billboards in Times Square are inviting New York businesses to relocate to Miami Beach. They're being paid for by a Florida developer who sees the election of Zohran Mamdani as an opportunity to lure residents and businesses south.

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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will meet with President Trump at the White House Friday putting the frequent foe of conservatives face-to-face with one of his biggest critics.

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The draft provisions come across as heavily slanted towards Moscow, but Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to work with the US.

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A final decision has not yet been formally taken but the controversial project is expected to be given the go-ahead.

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Why - in an age where so many of us are feeling the financial pinch - are some budget shops on UK high streets having such a tough time?

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Regulator Ofgem says a change in the price cap in January means a 0.2% increase in gas and electricity prices.

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A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

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European football's governing body claimed clips of fans cheering Scotland's World Cup qualification in front of TV screens breached copyright.

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Several groups - some of them backed by Israel - are ranged against Hamas in Gaza, with complex and overlapping ties.

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Fifteen women are killed every day in a country with one of the highest rates of gender violence in the world.

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Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, admits raping the child in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

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Georgina Cox wants clothing firm Sweaty Betty to apologise and pay influencers it works with fairly.

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Prosecutors say front companies, falsified paperwork, and overseas drop points used to dodge US export rules

Four people have been charged in the US with plotting to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips into China, allegedly relying on shell firms, fake invoices, and covert routing to slip cutting-edge GPUs past American export controls.?

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Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands

Microsoft developer boss Scott Hanselman saved the company's Ignite shindig this week by unveiling the source code for Zork I-III, all available under the MIT license.?

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Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick

It's important to have your login in hand, literally. Zi Teng Wang, a UK magician who implanted an RFID chip in his appendage, has admitted losing access to it because he forgot the password.?

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UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy

On Christmas Day 2024, a Russian-linked laundering network bought itself a very special present: a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstan bank, later used to wash cybercrime profits and funnel money into Moscow's war machine, according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).?

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EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing two government departments to understand how they compelled tech companies to remove ICE-tracking apps and websites from their platforms.?

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Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt

SC25 There's a new efficiency champ at the top of the Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable supercomputers.?

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Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act

The UK's online regulator has lobbed a £50,000 fine at an AI nudification website for failing to implement mandatory age checks, potentially allowing under-18s to waltz past the virtual velvet rope.?

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Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize

A UK tech minister has declined to put a figure on the cost of the government's digital ID plans as MPs question the contributions expected from central departments.?

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The tech is impressive. Shoehorning it into absolutely everything is not

Opinion In a tweet lamenting all the "cynics" unmoved by AI, Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman demonstrated that Redmond's Reality Distortion Field is running at full power.?

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AutoGuard uses injection text for good

Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an "AI Kill Switch" to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping.?

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With the government shutdown over, the FAA has lifted its daytime launch curfew.

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The company is pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn.

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SpaceX had big plans for the upgraded Starship vehicle that failed on Friday morning.

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"Does the world really need a 151st rocket company?"

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HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

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ByHeart said "there's no reason to believe" until its own testing found a reason.

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Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.

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Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

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Google's Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.

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Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now it's back?in Trump form.

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