Foreign visitors who are eligible to bypass the visa application process may soon have to turn over five years' worth of social media history to enter the U.S., under a new Trump administration plan.

The executive order is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration to hold back state-level AI rules. But many Republicans are also uncomfortable with the effort.

What did Disney do now? Which beloved icons are having birthdays? Why is there a question about hair?

Indiana Republicans resisted the call by President Trump for redistricting. He and the state's Republican governor threatened to back primary challenges against senators who wouldn't get on board.

New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by heating up and glowing in the infrared.

It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement.

The State Department is swapping out Calibri for Times New Roman in all its official documents, reversing a Biden-era change that aimed to increase accessibility for readers with disabilities.

This follows joint drills by Chinese and Russian strategic bombers and fighters on Tuesday that prompted Japan and South Korea to scramble planes to monitor them.

President Trump says he's sending $12 billion in aid to American farmers who are reeling from global trade disruptions. Those include inflation and Trump's tariffs that are making fertilizer and farm equipment more expensive, and the President's trade war with China which closed a huge market for American soybean exports. 

The health secretary also warns planned strikes by resident doctors next week could be the "Jenga piece that collapses" the NHS.

The impact of the JLR cyber-attack continued to affect output, while analysts say spending was hit by Budget uncertainty.

A botched roof extension caused the ceiling to collapse at Kate Morris’s top-floor flat.

With "sharp rises" in shop theft in recent years, the nature of it is changing too - as retail workers in the area dubbed England's shoplifting capital have seen

Documents seen by BBC show hospitals being ordered to slow down on activity to help balance the books.

Some critics say the questions were unnecessarily complex, while others argue that's their intended purpose.

Backstage footage shows the singer in tears after meeting survivors of the attack during her world tour.

The South American nation's output has plummeted and restoring its former glory would be a heavy lift.

King Charles has recorded a message about his experience of cancer for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign.

The French-made role-playing game is named game of the year and also picks up prizes for music and performance.

Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

On Call Welcome once more to On Call, the Friday column in which we share stories of tech support incidents that went pear-shaped until cunning Reg readers stepped in to save the day.…

Forum site says it’s potentially more harmful to users who don’t log in

Forum site Reddit has filed a case that seeks to exempt itself from Australia’s ban on children under 16 holding social media accounts.…

Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale'

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon will spend 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to committing fraud.…

Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come

Silicon photonics won’t matter in the datacenter “anytime soon,” according to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.…

The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law

You want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.…

Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu

Exclusive Broadcom has recently killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, the company told The Register, dealing a blow to smaller customers, one of whom told us they would likely switch to a rival hypervisor as a result.…

Begun, these AI wars have

Amid controversy over its ability to generate content with copyrighted characters, OpenAI has struck a three-year deal with Disney to license more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters for use in Sora videos and ChatGPT Images.…

Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back

CyberVolk, a pro-Russian hacktivist crew, is back after months of silence with a new ransomware service. There's some bad news and some good news here.…

Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better

A trade group of European cloud providers has laid into the European Commission’s decision to allow the VMware-Broadcom merger to go ahead, alleging that it failed to assess the infrastructure and semiconductor company’s incentives to massively raise prices on customers.…

So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels

You can't generate solar power at night unless your panels are in space. A startup that wants to beam orbital sunlight straight into existing solar farms has just emerged from stealth, claiming a world-first power-beaming demo, but with a lot of critical information left unreported. …

Original KOTOR director Casey Hudson returns to Star Wars with new studio Arcanaut.

Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a "combinatoric explosion."

Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others.

"We all kinda immediately agreed this was way too cool to change."

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.

Director Craig Gillespie's film is the second in the new DCU's "Gods and Monsters" chapter.

Disney demands that Google immediately block its copyrighted content from appearing in AI outputs.

Join us Tuesday, December 16, at 2 pm ET to hear from leaders who resigned in protest.

Gazelle's high-end commuter offers a belt drive and continuous variable transmission.

Ford will keep the plant in Kentucky, SK gets the one in Tennessee.