Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.

For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.

Bushra Mahnoor remembers the shame she felt when she had her period as a teen and did not have the supplies she needed. Today she leads a campaign to lower prices for pads in Pakistan.

The FBI searches the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of a leak investigation. And, the Trump administration restores $2B for mental health and addiction programs.

Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland after talks between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. on Wednesday highlighted disagreement.

Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level.

People struggling with insomnia tend to hyperfocus on the fact that they can't sleep, which can prevent them from getting any shut-eye. Experts share effective practices to overcome sleep stress.

Overall enrollment is up slightly at colleges and universities, driven by gains at community colleges and public four-year programs.

Ugandans are voting in a tense presidential election as 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his four-decade rule amid an internet shutdown and heavy military deployment.

Four people from NASA's Crew-11 mission splashed down off San Diego, successfully completing five months aboard the International Space Station. The trip was cut short due to a medical issue.

It was Kemi Badenoch's belief that Robert Jenrick was about to make the ultimate leap to the right which has plunged the Conservative Party into turmoil.

The judiciary says Soltani is not facing charges carrying the death penalty, while a rights group reports that the execution has been "postponed".

Four astronauts who left the International Space Station (ISS) a month early due to one of the crew members falling ill have returned to Earth on Thursday.

The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are dividing the group at the very top.

France says a 15-strong French military contingent has arrived and more forces will be there in the coming days.

Many Labour MPs and officials privately expect the government to follow the Australia's example and implement a ban.

The presenter will continue to host University challenge and his Radical podcast for the BBC.

Harrison Sullivan will not have to pay the full cost of the jet that police chartered to arrest him.

Charities say employers will still be able to certify themselves without employing "a single disabled person".

Reservists will remain on call for an extra decade, with a lower threshold for being called up.

The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in

The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.…

And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg

A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz security researchers.…

When margins are this tight, mergers might follow

The memory shortage is forecast to push smartphone prices higher in 2026, triggering a market decline and forcing budget phone makers to merge or disappear.…

January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication

Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App.…

Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications

Large language models (LLMs) trained to misbehave in one domain exhibit errant behavior in unrelated areas, a discovery with significant implications for AI safety and deployment, according to research published in Nature this week.…

Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums

The Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors and subsidiary OnStar from sharing drivers' precise location and behavior data with consumer reporting agencies for five years under a 20-year consent order finalized January 14.…

Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice

The UK's West Midlands Police has released a woman on bail as part of an investigation into a data breach at a Walsall general practitioner's (GP) surgery.…

Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.

The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it.…

40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this?

Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+ 2 with 8 GB of onboard RAM and the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator aimed at local AI computing.…

Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud

Microsoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale.…

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals.

"It comes up almost every time that I see him. Continuous human presence and no gap."

These new tariffs are designed to survive legal challenges.

Jet lag and charging added plenty of complications to this regularity road rally.

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.

Shadrack Byfield lost his left arm in the War of 1812; his life sheds light on post-war re-integration.

AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators.

On Jan. 6, there were 211 cases. The outbreak, which began in October, is now at 434.

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

Zippy action, fun upgrade system make for a great pick-up-and-play shooter.