A bunch of athletes reported their medals detaching from their ribbon, causing dents and in one case, breaking in half. In response, the Olympics organizing committee is re-checking all the medals.

The Tel Aviv indictment is the first publicly known instance of people being accused of leveraging military secrets to place bets on the popular prediction market.

Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.

At the Illinois gathering of the Future City competition, 16 middle school teams presented their concepts for cutting-edge cities.

Nancy Guthrie is among the thousands of people who go missing in the U.S. each year. But experts describe her case as "strange," with many unique details, from her age to her celebrity daughter.

Korea's Gaon Choi, 17, rebounded from a hard fall to win gold — and end her role model's historic bid for three in a row in the Winter Olympic halfpipe.

Senate Democrats blocked two Republican-backed measures Thursday to keep the department open, including a short-term funding extension for two weeks as negotiations continue.

Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion.

The disclosure from the agency's acting director came after immigration officers shot two U.S. citizens, intensifying questions about ICE officers' tactics, training and use of force.

Rich Ruohonen has tried to get to the Olympics for almost 40 years. He finally got his chance, taking to the ice at the Milan Cortina Games representing the U.S. on Team Casper for curling.

The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

The move marks the culmination of a decade-long push by the president to tear up climate policies he argues stifle industry.

The parents of two children who say they warned nursery staff about Chan tell the BBC they felt ignored.

Eight people were killed, ranging in age from 11 to 39, with 25 people injured in the shootings at a school and a home.

The Cabinet Office says the move is "by mutual agreement" but it follows months of negative media reports about his performance.

School leaders welcome the "greater clarity" on how to handle the polarising issue for parents and pupils.

Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - slightly and temporarily - by stimulating two areas of the brain.

General Synod did vote to continue to look at the issue, but bishops say there are "theological and legal barriers" to having such ceremonies now.

The last reported sunshine had been on 21 January - the longest sunless period since records began in 1957.

The plans are subject to a 12-week public consultation which starts on Friday.

Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?

Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.…

Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030

ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.…

Are you a good bot or a bad bot?

More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators

Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.…

And hey, maybe the overseas remote operators senators fret about won’t be needed quite so often

Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker. …

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way

Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him.…

As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough

Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment.…

Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform

Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.…

Not-onamous by a long shot

Nobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations – including company employees getting the occasional peep at your tough-to-fold unmentionables.…

12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards

Elon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the company's evolution "required parting ways with some people."…

This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.

OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.

Nicolas Cage described his character as "70 percent Humphrey Bogart and 30 percent Bugs Bunny."

Vulcan's Blue Origin-made BE-4 engines appear to have saved the rocket from failure.

The agency is betting the the Supreme Court will reverse a prior ruling.

FTC claims Apple News suppresses conservatives, cites study by pro-Trump group.

And Framework expects things to get worse before they get better.

App arrives months after Google requested takedowns of third-party options.

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.