The cakes – usually baked in the shape of a lamb using a special pan – have a long history in Central Europe, from the German osterlamm, to the Polish baranek wielkanocny, to the Alsatian lammele.

As online betting has grown in popularity, a new report from the New York Federal Reserve builds on the troubling link between legal sports wagering and financial health.

"Pain is a mysterious thing," says neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But understanding how it works in the body and different kinds of treatment can help you find the right pain relief when you need it.

U.S. work combatting HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives globally. Under the Trump administration, funding has been slow in coming and unpredictable, wreaking havoc on people trying to do the work.

Some people are splurging. Others are finding that their refunds are being swallowed up by the rising cost of gas.

Roommates overall are skewing older, as young people stay with their parents for longer. The share of older adults looking to rent with a roommate has tripled from a decade ago.

Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting guidance from scientists on what to capture when they get closer to the moon.

The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.

Even as religious belief declines in Spain, the processions at Seville's Semana Santa — the Holy Week lead-up to Easter — draw crowds moved by music, tradition and powerful emotion.

A U.S. official said that one crew member had been rescued and U.S. forces continue to search for the second crew member.

Four Hatzola ambulances were set alight in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green in the early hours of 23 March.

The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

Hungary is going to the polls in nine days - after 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban be unseated?

The age at which people can start receiving the state pension is going up in stages over the next two years.

A member of the public found the bag containing guns and a Taser on a south London street.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls the plan a "stupid notion that would be nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars".

A former US marine tells the BBC the priority of any recovery team would be to look for signs of life.

How we travel to work in cities might be changing as e-scooter and e-bike fares become cheaper than traditional public transport.

Double-murderer Dezi Freeman evaded capture for seven months in the bush but police believe he had help.

PowerWash Simulator 2 has been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games become so popular?

Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient

PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…

Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.…

Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much

Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

About that partnership...

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices.

Some OEMs saw double-digit growth in Q1, others saw double-digit declines.

OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.