Yayoi Kusama, high priestess of polka dots, has died
The Japanese artist has died at age 97. Kusama's polka dotted pumpkins, "Infinity Rooms," and other repetitive and dreamlike artworks have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide.
Drugstores say Medicare's $50 obesity drug program is catching on
The Bridge program, which began July 1, makes some Medicare beneficiaries eligible for obesity drugs for $50 a month. CVS and Walgreens say they've each already filled 100,000 such prescriptions.
Immigration arrests soar, hitting 50,000 in July
Since taking over in March, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pivoted from the confrontational style of immigration enforcement of his predecessor, Kristi Noem. The latest data is reflective of a strategy that is working
Greetings from Karbala, Iraq, where millions gathered for a Shia pilgrimage
Pilgrims came to Iraq from all over the world in August. Many Iraqi and Iranian pilgrims walked hundreds of miles in extreme heat to mark the event. Outside the shrines, the atmosphere is almost festive.
States try new tactics to bring down high hospital prices
Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs.
Judge clears the way for Postal Service work on Trump's mail-in voting order for now
A federal judge in Boston canceled a nationwide ruling that blocked U.S. Postal Service work on President Trump's order to limit mail-in voting for the midterm election. But a new block may come soon.
Will Trump's latest beef plan make your hamburger cheaper? Not much, experts say
The proposal comes weeks before the midterm elections, when food prices and the cost of living are expected to be major issues on voters' minds.
How Dolly Parton wrote the story of a changing America
Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.
Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial
The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.
Nearly 1,000 are missing in Nepal and Tibet after floods caused by a glacial collapse
China's Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that mudslides in Tibet caused by a glacial collapse have left three people dead and 558 missing, while police in Nepal reported at least 162 were killed.
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BBC visits hospital in Kathmandu as families wait for news
More than 150 people have been killed after a massive flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border, as hundreds still missing.
Woman who died in fire with niece, 7, was 'beautiful soul', mother tells BBC
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the fire in Middlesborough, police say.
New thunderstorm warnings for parts of UK as rain set to continue
The Met Office has issued fresh thunderstorm warnings for Thursday with the potential for England and Wales to see flash flooding as the unsettled weather continues.
At least one dead after car crashes into crowd in northern France
One suspect was arrested after the incident in Caen, police said, following a reported fight at a nearby bar.
World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed
Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97
The artist died earlier in August after a life "devoted entirely to artistic creation", her company said.
Meta's $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety
Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
Burnham calls summit of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish first ministers
The announcement comes as Burnham holds his first official visit to Wales since becoming prime minster.
Susan Sarandon leads tributes to Rocky Horror Picture Show co-star Tim Curry
Stars of stage and screen grieve the cult British actor, who has died aged 80.
Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
It is believed the mosquitoes arrived at Germany's busiest airport on a plane, according to German public health officials.
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FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
Beijing's botnets busted.
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1
K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'
GitHub Actions was down yet again
Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case
Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too
Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills
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RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead
Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.
Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions
The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.
The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class
The "everyday" GT3 delivers, despite looming regulations and an ever-inflating price tag.
Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
"Most" Xbox One and Series X games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.
Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.
Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.