While the agent wore a mask in videos taken of the event, he appeared to be unmasked in many social media posts. That image appeared to have been generated by xAI's generative AI chatbot, Grok.

In cities across the country, demonstrators have expressed grief and outrage over the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday morning.

The Pitt is back for a new run, evoking the tensions health care providers face in the U.S. today. Here's what one doctor says to watch out for this season.

The Trump administration is withdrawing from 66 global groups, including U.N. entities that focus on climate and health issues.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says a plan unveiled Thursday to take the first steps toward universal childcare for kids under five shows New Yorkers that "democracy can actually deliver for them."

We're continuing to learn more about the 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday and is taking the rare step of ending the Crew-11 mission early.

NPR identified the ICE agent who fired the gun as Jonathan Ross by cross referencing court records. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — without naming the officer — said he had been with the agency for a few years and had a previous confrontation with a protester.

In two press conferences about an hour apart, Minnesota's governor and the White House disagreed about the facts behind Wednesday's fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

President Trump sidelined Venezuela's opposition and is working with remnants of the regime led by ousted leader Nicolás Maduro. What's next for the opposition?

A gust of 99mph is recorded in the Isles of Scilly as the storm brings heavy snow and rain to the UK.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Minneapolis to protest the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good.

The incident is threatening to inflame a deeply contentious debate over immigration enforcement.

Donald Trump wants and needs quick victories. Taking Maduro is the decisive win he has craved, writes Jeremy Bowen.

A BBC investigation finds building issues across city schools after a firm contracted to carry out repairs went into liquidation.

Police say all enquiries to find the parents of the abandoned babies have now been "exhausted".

Rallies on major roads in the capital and in Iran's second city were peaceful and not dispersed by security forces.

The Department of Homeland Security says the incident began with the traffic stop of a Venezuelan gang member.

Some people are waiting more than a year to have their claims processed, the Public Accounts Committee says.

The men were told they could not stay in pre-booked rooms on a night when temperatures hit -6C (-21.2F).

Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails

Machine learning models, particularly commercial ones, generally do not list the data developers used to train them. Yet what models contain and whether that material can be elicited with a particular prompt remain matters of financial and legal consequence, not to mention ethics and privacy.…

Resets 'Days Since Last Outage' counter to zero, aspires to do the same for everyone, forever

Analytics outfit Snowflake is buying telemetry data platform Observe to help its customers discover and mitigate IT issues before they cause downtime. It announced the deal on the same day its own services experienced a “major outage.”…

Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away

While end customers grapple with crushing memory prices, we imagine Samsung execs are breaking out the Champagne. This week the memory titan forecast fourth-quarter operating profit would roughly triple as the South Korean electronics cabal rides the AI wave into the New Year.…

Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely...

CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle to secure skyrocketing numbers of non-human identities, including AI agents.…

It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers

Could a bot take the place of your doctor? According to OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT Health this week, an LLM should be available to answer your questions and even examine your health records. But it should stop short of diagnosis or treatment.…

Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter

Nvidia's H200 GPUs could begin trickling into China as soon as this quarter, but there's a catch. Due to all the geopolitical turmoil that's ravaged US-China trade relations over the past year, buyers may need to pay up front for the coveted AI accelerators. And they won't get a refund if China decides to block the imports!…

Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inbox

We hope you like more AI in your Gmail inbox, because Google is "bringing Gmail into the Gemini era." It'll be on by default, but the good news is that you can disable it. …

No reports of active exploitation … yet

Cisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to access sensitive information - and warned that a public, proof-of-concept exploit for the flaw exists online.…

'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such'

Today, it is hard to escape LLM bots and the endless slop they emit, but the Linux kernel might be largely safe … for now.…

One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power

Datacenter building decisions tend to fall into two camps with colocation providers plumping for urban areas while hyperscalers seek sites where electricity, land, and construction costs come cheaper.…

Spying doesn't become legal just because "cheaters" are the targets.

FCC says new category of devices "can operate outdoors and at higher power."

SK Hynix and Micron are also riding high on the AI industry's demand for RAM.

Old-school food pyramid returns, but jumbled and upside-down, like a funnel.

“Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children.”

Expert explains how simple it could be to tweak Grok to block CSAM outputs.

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

After record-setting launch, Western holiday sales are down compared to the first Switch.

US also pulling out of pacts promoting development, democracy, and human rights.

“This is a very significant contribution to the astronomical community."