Japan's parliament elected Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, after her party struck a coalition deal expected to pull her governing bloc further to the right.

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The Charlotte Chess Center, where Naroditsky trained and worked as a coach, announced his death, calling him "a talented chess player, educator, and beloved member of the chess community."

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The artificial reef off Miami Beach will be at the same time an art installation, a restoration of the island's coral habitat and an underwater tourist attraction.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers have put all the chips in on their pursuit of being baseball's first back-to-back champions since 2000. The Blue Jays and their red-hot lineup won't go down easy.

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Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.

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Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.

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The latest version of OpenAI's Sora can quickly turn text prompts and simple images into studio quality videos, which left the entertainment industry deeply uneasy.

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The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, which could pave the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.

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Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

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The "Danger Zone" singer is asking for his performance to be deleted from a fake "King Trump" video that the president posted to Truth Social on Saturday.

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The ghostwriter of Giuffre's posthumous memoir says the prince's "life is being eroded because of his past behaviour".

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Will there be pressure on the Palace to reveal any information they hold on Prince Andrew and Epstein?

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Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds quit the panel overseeing the national grooming gang inquiry.

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Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.

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Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv say they will not accept any ticket allocation from Aston Villa should the decision to ban their supporters from next month's Europa League match be overturned.

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Hamas is diminished but far from spent - Israel may have to deal with it for some time to come

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Rossi, who claimed to be the victim of mistaken identity, was jailed for at least five years in Utah.

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Higher interest payments offset increased revenue from tax and national insurance, the UK statistics body says.

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Crews tore down a massive covered entryway and windows in the East Wing to make way for Trump's new event space.

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The young prodigy's "unexpected passing" was announced by his family on Monday.

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Calendar cock-up exposed recipients' details

Anti-fraud nonprofit Cifas was left red-faced after sending out a calendar invite that exposed the email addresses of dozens of individuals working across the fraud space.?

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12 more hours of pain followed initial outage

Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other services to fail.?

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Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has published a paper detailing scheduling tech it has used to achieve impressive utilization improvements across the GPU fleet it uses to power inferencing workloads ? which is nice, but not a breakthrough that will worry AI investors.?

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Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting

Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations, but only after developers fine-tune AI models to understand an author?s output.?

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It's Typhoon season?year round

China's Salt Typhoon gang appears to have successfully attacked a European telecommunications firm, according to security researchers at Darktrace.?

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The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company

Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker that's found itself at the center of a geopolitical crisis, has denied claims by its former CEO that its Chinese division is now operating as an independent entity.?

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Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery

The starving child whose picture broke your heart when you saw it on a charity website may not be real. Global health researchers say that stock image companies like Adobe are profiting from AI-generated "poverty porn" that non-profits are using to drum up donations.?

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Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light

Windows 11 launched way back in October 2021 and has become Microsoft?s must-have OS thanks to the impending end-of-life for Windows 10. After all that time, there are still significant portions of the OS that don?t do dark mode. However, Redmond is making significant progress, bringing a couple of key dialog boxes into compliance.?

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When your best engineers log off for good, don?t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

column "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.?

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Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users

Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment. The malware was designed to steal cryptocurrency, but so far, there are no reports of actual theft.?

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WindBorne says its balloons are compliant with all applicable airspace regulations. 

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Ruling holds that defeating end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp harms Meta's business.

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"The president wants to make sure we beat the Chinese."

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Sandboxing lessens hassle, but fire-and-forget agentic tools still pose risks.

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Selected testers will have to sign an NDA and use a disguised case.

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New method extracts desirable elements from waste magnets using less energy and acid.

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Guppies are highly susceptible to the Ebbinghaus illusion. Ring doves? Not so much.

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Sunday was not a day of rest for SpaceX.

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Proxy firm says plan doesn't ensure that Musk's "focus and time remain on Tesla."

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The Circuit of the Americas was packed for the US Grand Prix.

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