A father and daughter in New Jersey have pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeiting scheme to trick art galleries and auction houses into buying forged paintings

President Trump suggested he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence in Germany as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the U.S-Israel war against Iran.

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to the Trump administration's move to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians in the country.

The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter's Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.

The House has approved a three year extension of the surveillance program known as FISA Section 702. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces a difficult path to final passage.

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

The Pentagon says that the cost of the war with Iran is estimated to be some $25 billion. Defense officials were appearing on the Hill for budget discussions.

The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

The map drawn by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boosts President Trump's effort to reshape voting before the midterm elections. The GOP likely holds a slight edge over Democrats in redistricting now.

In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

Footage shows the moment a man was arrested after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London.

Axios reported that US Central Command has prepared a plan for a wave of "short and powerful" strikes on Iran.

Dozens of Trading Standards officers describe intimidation from criminals running mini-marts and vape shops.

Many commentators, even critics of the monarchy, seem delighted at the spectacle.

Is the UK fumbling the shift away from oil and gas jobs?

A new scan technique could spot areas of endometriosis missed by conventional scans, scientists say.

Future base rate changes are hard to predict as analysts judge the economic impact of the Iran war.

Nadine Buzzard-Quashie speaks for first time about her "David and Goliath battle" against two police forces.

The first man to run a marathon in under two hours in a competitive race received a hero's welcome from supporters and family when he arrived home.

It comes after legislation to remove their right to sit in the upper chamber passed last month.

AI is driving more searches and ads

Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.…

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.…

ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…

Second try's a charm?

Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…

Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info

Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.…

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.…

Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about

The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.…

Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law.

Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

Most are keeping their subscriptions after signing up, too, research firm says.

FTX fraudster came out as Republican, then tried to claim Biden's DOJ targeted him.

Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans.

Motorola's foldable lineup is bigger and more spendy than ever.

Framework charges nearly double for the 12GB version of the mobile RTX 5070.

Study authors say courts should reconsider rulings in light of this new evidence.

Manufacturers backed effort to repeal the law but ultimately failed.

The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact.