Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present.

President Trump addressed the nation last night, making his case for war with Iran. And, the Supreme Court majority seemed inclined to rule against the Trump administration on birthright citizenship.

Iran continued to target Gulf countries with ballistic missiles and drones Thursday as the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a security alert warning of attacks by Iran-backed militias.

In New Hampshire and states with legalized sports gambling, wagering helps fund government services. But now competitors like Kalshi and Polymarket are getting a cut of the action.

It has been a year since President Trump announced double-digit tariffs on imports from around the world. So far, those levies have not produced the economic boom the president promised.

Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully launched on a mission that will take it around the moon and back to Earth. Here's what to expect over their roughly 10-day journey.

Trump says war in Iran is 'nearing completion' in national address, Iranian officials react to President Trump's speech on Iran war, SCOTUS hears arguments on birthright citizenship.

Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary in the U.S-Israel war with Iran. It played this role before, during a high-stakes moment in diplomatic history.

The newly announced sanctions relief is the latest U.S. recognition of Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in Venezuela ever since the U.S. military captured her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro.

Robert Bush pleads guilty to charges relating to Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.

Families of the dead tell of the agony caused by "horror show" funeral director Robert Bush.

What are the mission's four astronauts doing and when will they go to the Moon?

Damage and travel disruption are likely in the north of the UK with a Met Office named storm expected to sweep through on Saturday.

The first open sale of tickets for the 2026 World Cup showed Fifa is charging up to $10,990 (£8,333) to be at the final.

Narges Mohammadi's brother says he fears her life is in imminent danger and she needs to be transferred to a hospital.

A man dies in flooding near Athens as rain lashes several regions in Greece, while a Saharan dust storm enveloped Crete.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said Donald Trump's comments about his marriage were "neither elegant nor up to standard".

Yvette Cooper is chairing a virtual summit looking at ways to get energy exports moving through the shipping lane.

It comes as Mills released a statement saying he had "fully cooperated and responded" with the police investigation in 2018.

The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services

Opinion Salesforce has begun to position Slack, its business collaboration platform, as the interface through which users can access and act on data in enterprise applications from rival vendors.…

Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer

The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. …

Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen

It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates.…

Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings

The BBC is looking for a supplier to provide IT for all its workforce and help automate parts of the corporation through a contract apparently named after a dog.…

We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'

Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned.…

And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned

Toilet trouble, telemetry problems, and an issue with the flight termination system have not marred the Artemis II mission to the Moon, which launched yesterday.…

And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis

The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.…

Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable

Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone's favorite stimulant led to a massive breach.…

First public downstream victim, but won't be the last

AI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was "one of thousands of companies" affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise continues to spread.…

Chocolate Factory’s compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory

When Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount of memory required to serve models, many hoped it would help with a memory shortage that has seen prices triple since last year. Not so much.…

Between January and March, Tesla built 50,000 more cars than it could sell.

Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.

Liftoff of Artemis II with four astronauts occurred at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) on Wednesday.

Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue.

A persistent agent, stealth "Undercover" mode, and... a virtual assistant named Buddy?

Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more.

Did you know that Ohio is a hotbed of UFO activity?

Swiss finance minister filed a criminal complaint over Grok's "defamation."

Confidential SEC submission sets up largest IPO in history.

Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.