Todd Blanche faces high-stakes confirmation hearing for attorney general
Blanche won Senate confirmation early in President Trump's second term to serve as the No. 2 official at the Justice Department. Now he faces a contentious hearing as he seeks the top job.
American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models
AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models.
CDC director nominee Erica Schwartz faces Senate for confirmation hearing
Dr. Erica Schwartz, Trump's nominee for CDC director, faces the Senate health committee for her confirmation hearing on July 15. If confirmed, she will lead an agency dealing with workforce and leadership shortages, and new layers of political review.
Todd Blanche's confirmation brings one Epstein survivor to center stage
Dani Bensky and a group of women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein have formed a bond they call a "survivor sisterhood." They live in two worlds, of advocacy and everyday life and motherhood.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to appear for confirmation hearing, U.S. restarts blockade against Iran amid standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, ICE suspends traffic stops after deadly shootings.
Mystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed 'Gus' for a record $50 million
A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world's largest and most complete specimens was sold for a record $50.1 million Tuesday to a mystery bidder.
Trump will speak on elections in Thursday primetime address
The speech comes as President Trump has escalated calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules for November's midterm elections.
Ebola is spreading faster in eastern Congo than it can be tracked, as deaths pass 700
Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, according to WHO, a sign the outbreak is spreading faster than health officials can track.
Supreme Court Justices give chilling accounts of threats to their safety
Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett spoke with lawmakers about funding for security and other needs for the court on Tuesday.
Spain sparkles to shock France 2-0 and advance to the World Cup final
Spain is back in the men's World Cup final for the first time since 2010. That's also when Spain won its only World Cup title. France had hoped to reach the final for the third straight tournament.
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Midnight social media curfew proposed for UK teens aged 16 and 17 - but they can opt out
The government also wants 'addictive' app features such as auto-play and infinite scroll to be set to be disabled.
Trump threatens to bomb bridges and power plants unless Iran resumes talks
Trump's comments aired as the two countries exchanged fire for the fourth day in a row and the US resumed blockading Iranian ports.
I still feel pain of '98 but this can be different for England, says Shearer
England's defeat by Argentina at the 1998 World Cup still burns deep for Alan Shearer, but he explains why this team can take their chance to change their lives forever.
Review of MP security needed after Widdecombe death, Burnham says
The expected next prime minister says politics has "darkened" in the decade he has been away from Westminster.
Briton's Iran jail sentence extended by two years, family says
Relatives of Craig Foreman say his punishment is being extended for talking to the media from jail.
After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain's weather even more extreme?
As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK
UK heatwave delivers exceptional sunshine and persistent 30C temperatures
The current heatwave has been hot, dry and exceptionally sunny with some locations seeing double the number of sunshine hours usually recorded at this point in the month, as Darren Bett explains.
How will Buy Now Pay Later changes affect you?
Consumers should be better protected as Buy Now Pay Later lenders now require authorisation to operate.
Seven Britons among those killed in Spain wildfires
Twelve of the 13 victims were foreign nationals, Spanish authorities said on Tuesday.
Police say Ann Widdecombe killed in 'targeted attack' as motive investigated
Counter terror police say they have obtained a warrant to hold a 28-year-old suspect for up to seven days.
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Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5
This elevator is headed for floor Bork
OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message
Ex-contributor claims he wasn't a rogue admin, hadn't left the project, and never intended to harm the distro
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web
'We don't serve their kind here' protects today's publishers, but won't help rebels destroy the monetization Death Stars built by Google and Meta
At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible
South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot
Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content
PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage
Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update
As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer
OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark
Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder
Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs
Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic
Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return
Citizens must now spend 21 days in a third country before they are allowed to come home.
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce
Federal officials have not confirmed a source yet—and there may be multiple sources.
US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.
These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors
Conductive ink is painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, drying into working electrodes.
Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.
New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.
Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
New research overturns assumption that abstinent younger drinkers are behind weak demand.
SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.