Minnesota officials are rebuffing demands from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, as the state continues its clash with the Trump administration over the surge of federal immigration enforcement.

A powerful winter storm walloped a huge swath of the U.S., killing at least 18 people. Electricity is out for hundreds of thousands, and freezing rain and snow have coated streets.

After repeated Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid, Ukrainians face long outages during a cold winter at war. On social media, Ukrainians share tips for keeping warm at home.

The Israeli military says the body of Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old special forces policeman killed while fighting Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, has been found.

Minneapolis strikes and protests continue after ICE's fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. And, states work to recover from a massive winter storm that has left widespread power outages and flight chaos.

If you're procrastinating working out, here's one less excuse. Short gym sessions can be enough to build meaningful strength — as long as you push yourself while you're there.

Rubio is the first person to hold both roles at the same time since Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.

Senate Democrats say they are unwilling to fund the Department of Homeland Security without major reforms, raising the likelihood of a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.

The 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection.

The return of the remaining hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as removing the remaining obstacle to proceeding with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire's second phase.

The White House has shifted how it talks about Alex Pretti's killing as more Republicans express concern over the deadly encounter.

The MP was unveiled as Reform's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally, bringing the number of the party's sitting MPs to eight.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Ran Gvili’s return "an extraordinary achievement".

The government says it has commissioned a review into "what's holding the younger generation back".

Sir David and Lady Beckham were seen with their children Romeo, Cruz and Harper.

The home secretary told Parliament she wants to make better use of technology - such as live facial recognition and AI.

Gorton and Denton has been Labour for more than 90 years but party sources fear it could be won by Reform or the Greens.

The TV chef says she's "bubbling with excitement" to be joining Paul Hollywood on the Channel 4 show.

The pub and bar group has blamed government policy for its issues as it searches for a buyer.

Chandra is the third major storm to hit the UK this month, after Goretti and Ingrid caused widespread damage and destruction.

The new US-based joint venture blamed a datacenter power outage, but hasn’t elaborated

TikTok's new life under majority American ownership is off to a rough start, after users complained of widespread service disruptions the company blamed on a datacenter power outage.…

An official Model Context Protocol extension

Anthropic's Claude can now present the interfaces of other applications within its chat window, thanks to an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).…

But CEOs remain frozen in place

More than 400 tech workers have urged their CEOs to "call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities" after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend and the world's richest and most powerful chief executives remained silent.…

Points to a use-case problem

AI adoption in the workplace stalled in the fourth quarter of 2025, but those who have already started using it are making increased use of it, according to a survey by pollster Gallup. Don't let that fool you into thinking AI is taking over work, though: frequent AI users are still a tiny minority of overall workers.…

Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong

Agents may be the next big thing in AI, but they have limits beyond which they will make mistakes, so exercise extreme caution, a recent research paper says.…

Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages

The internet spent the closing months of 2025 being knocked over by cut cables, broken power grids, bad weather, military strikes, and the occasional self-inflicted technical wound, according to Cloudflare's latest global traffic data.…

Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work

KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…

Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations

Alaska Air's CEO says IT outages last year damaged the company on multiple fronts despite "triple redundancies" built into its disaster recovery plan.…

The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home

Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on an oscilloscope, engineer Mike Ayles has got the 1990s shooter running in a computer-aided design (CAD) modeler.…

Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI

Boffins at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to develop cheap and power efficient LEDs to replace lasers. One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.…

This is the first major upgrade since Apple introduced AirTags five years ago.

Staffers warn DOT's use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.

Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk.

Toad: "So some dinosaur just shows up and he's now part of the group. Cool."

US TikTok users experienced a wide range of errors, sparking conspiracies.

No display? No problem for the UART-to-web-server "Doombuds" project.

Elon Musk's company faces fines of up to 6 percent of its daily turnover.

"These are just the difficulties of designing a spacesuit for the lunar environment."

How two podcasters turned a Star Trek side project into a full-time career.

Destructive payload unleashed on tenth anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.