People gathered on rooftops to enjoy flying kites for the first time in years, celebrating the spring festival of Basant. The activity had been banned due to injuries and deaths during past celebrations.

ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.

Attorney General Pam Bondi faced pointed questions on Capitol Hill, and lawmakers continued to press the Justice Department about its decision to redact certain information.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies.

The sprawling agency saw its baseline funding expire after lawmakers left town for a week-long recess, but without a deal to rein in the conduct of federal immigration officers.

Malinin, undefeated since 2023, stumbled and fell multiple times, landing far off the podium. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won gold in an upset that shocked even himself.

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer.

After the fall of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan regime promise amnesty and reconciliation — but for hundreds still jailed and thousands facing charges, justice remains uncertain.

Power companies say they're better prepared for extreme weather, but challenges remain to electricity production as the state's demand grows

In an extensive interview with Newsnight, the woman at the heart of France's biggest rape trial speaks about betrayal, healing and choosing the right path.

The Queen's note said Gisèle Pelicot's courage had "created a powerful legacy that will change the narrative around shame, forever".

After days of cloud and rain, the weekend starts sunny and cold with further snow and ice warnings as Simon King expalains

A search has been carried out in Tuscon, Arizona, close to where the 84-year-old was abducted from nearly two weeks ago.

The previously unseen photo was shared with the caption "Happy Valentine's Day" along with a heart emoji.

No ice track, and yet the most successful nation in Olympic skeleton history - how Great Britain became a skeleton giant.

When the men's rinks of Canada and Sweden met at the Winter Olympics in Cortina on Friday, tempers became frayed.

Ilia Malinin, the red-hot favourite for men's figure skating gold, suffers a nightmare on the ice.

Eileen Guo and Alysa Liu have been thrust into a debate that goes far beyond sports.

Ms Pelicot reveals it is "inconceivable" that the man she shared her life with "could have committed these horrors".

Just ask DeepSeek

Two of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning, and then copy these capabilities in their own AI systems.…

The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align

APRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet.…

Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year

Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.…

News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”

Despite its CEO's insistence that it wasn't doing any "large scale" deals soon, ServiceNow has acquired yet another company. This time, the software firm has scooped up Pyramid Analytics, an Israeli corporation with data science and preparation expertise. The goal is to build additional context and semantics into its software stack.…

By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program

Can using AI teach you to code more quickly than traditional methods? Anthropic certainly thinks so. The AI outfit has partnered with computer science education org CodePath to get Claude and Claude Code into the hands of students, a time-tested strategy for seeding product interest and building brand loyalty.…

Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.…

As if admins haven't had enough to do this week

Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses and government agencies to attack.…

DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics

The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical minerals to discovering a unified theory of physics is on the table. …

Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure

Intel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server, desktop, and mobile processors, and this has been noticeable in PCs thanks to supply constraints on Chipzilla's processors.…

Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs

Prices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon binge could leave telcos scrambling to get customers online.…

CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

Hayden AI's cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.

Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.

“This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.

Don't expect big changes yet.

MST3K's 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward.

Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life.

Robotaxis can't escape the gig economy as Waymo tries to solve a human problem.

"It’s time to go back to the Moon—this time to stay."

These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.