After five weeks of fighting, President Trump's stated goals for the war look mostly unmet.

OpenAI is seeking to shape the public narrative about AI with the purchase of a niche talk show popular with Silicon Valley insiders.

Downtown Cairo, or Wust el-Balad as it's known, is a trove of hidden gems. Imprinted on every high-ceilinged building, arched balcony and iconic roundabout are relics that feel like love letters from the past.

With elections in Georgia and Wisconsin Tuesday, Democrats continued to overperform, which the party started in 2025 when it regularly improved on its margins compared to the presidential race in 2024.

In 2020, Annabelle Gurwitch went to urgent care for a COVID-19 test and learned she had cancer. She writes about life as a "cancer slacker" in her memoir, The End of My Life is Killing Me.

Investors around the world breathed a sigh of relief at the prospect of peace — and an easing of the global energy crisis.

The U.S. reached a last-minute ceasefire with Iran just before Trump's deadline for the country to meet his demands. And, Trump-backed Clay Fuller wins the U.S. House race in Georgia.

When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar clinics close in blue states.

To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration investigation has cut schools off from new data.

Some people use sarcasm jokingly. But funnily enough, we tend not to find it witty when we're on the receiving end.

Whether or not a lasting peace deal can be reached, the war and its consequences are reshaping the Middle East, writes international editor Jeremy Bowen.

Attacks hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley, hours after a US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

A US 15-point plan and an Iranian 10-point variant are oceans apart, writes the BBC's diplomatic correspondent.

The two-week truce opens up the prospect of direct talks with the US but has angered Iran's hardliners, writes BBC News Persian’s Kasra Naji.

Only a few vessels have crossed the strait since the US-Iran ceasefire deal, according to BBC Verify analysis.

Jasveen Sangha was found guilty of selling drugs that killed Friends actor Matthew Perry who had struggled with addiction for years.

The prime minister says fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz would help "stabilise" prices in the UK.

People who carry variations in two genes linked to appetite and digestion can lose more weight when taking drugs to treat obesity, research suggests.

Rex Heuermann's plea ends a case that police took 13 years to solve, frustrating the public and victims' family.

The animal charity says it has been forced to refute that an image of the dogs was AI-generated.

Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways

Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their written notes into graphics and their ideas into software applications.…

If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back

interview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware."…

Drawback: it’s radioactive

Forget recharging or swapping out disposable AAs every day. What if you could power energy-hungry devices for months or even years at a time from a single, reasonably-sized battery? A Washington state-based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality for DARPA, which wants higher-power radioactive batteries for space. …

Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep tech

As businesses drink the agentic AI Kool-Aid and go looking for productivity enhancements, IT professionals can deliver by rebranding their existing automations as “zero-token architecture,” according to Kelsey Hightower, a former Google distinguished engineer and a notable early promoter of Kubernetes.…

China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say

Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPUs may end up shipping later and in smaller volumes than anticipated due to supply chain challenges, TrendForce warned on Wednesday.…

BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats

BAE Systems has successfully tested a laser-guided rocket system with a Typhoon fighter jet from Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) as a potential anti-drone weapon. It follows earlier trials in the US with the F-15E Strike Eagle.…

Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform

A Workday-based HR platform rollout at Minnesota State universities and colleges likely left more than a thousand faculty and staff with payroll errors.…

MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery

To supercharge agents' ability to make scientific discoveries, DARPA is looking to improve cross-bot collaboration by developing a "science of AI communication" that will help the models work together to come up with better ideas. …

Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library

Microsoft has set an end-of-support date of April 7, 2027, for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the only supported version on .NET Framework, even though .NET Framework (and the original ASP.NET) will continue to be supported.…

Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers

Supermicro has launched an independent investigation after three people associated with the company were charged with violating US export restrictions on China.…

LinkedIn says claims fabricated by extension maker suspended for scraping data.

As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.

Meta touts strong benchmarks but admits "performance gaps" in agentic and coding systems.

Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

Motorola's budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.

Musk won’t seek a “single dollar” in OpenAI suit after asking to pocket up to $134 billion.

Any tanker passing must reveal its cargo so Iran can determine transit fee amount.

JSON text strings suggest performance charts based on "framerates of other Steam users."

Post-2013 Kindles will continue to work, even if they no longer receive updates.

European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.