Tensions are rising in the Middle East as shaky ceasefire agreements between the U.S., Israel and Iran, and Lebanon and Israel, are tested. And, the Secretary of the Navy is out of the role.

The seizure comes after President Trump told Fox News Wednesday that there was "no time pressure" on the ceasefire with Iran, which he has extended indefinitely.

After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions of lives. How did Trump's aid cuts affect it?

The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.

Americans who moved to Vietnam and Thailand say their lives are now lower-stress and lower-cost. But glamorous videos on TikTok don't tell the whole story.

The latest campaign finance reports show Democratic enthusiasm in key House and Senate races, but national Republican groups have far more in the bank to potentially spend down the road.

After a historic partial shutdown of Homeland Security, congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool that could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without Democratic support.

The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.

President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.

The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant, a silver recovery business. An emergency management official says workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility when the leak occurred, causing a chemical gas reaction.

Across the UK, shopfronts are being exploited by criminal gangs pushing illegal drugs, experts say.

The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Iran, where the buzz of busy shopping streets masks deep uncertainty over the country's future.

The three-year agreement will see at least 50 riot-trained police officers drafted in to tackle violence and “hostile crowds”.

The arrest was made as part of a wider investigation into leadership at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Lebanon's prime minister accused Israel of war crimes after IDF attacks on Red Cross vehicles also stopped rescuers from reaching the site.

Evie and her mother were enjoying a day trip to south Wales when they came across the amphibian.

The portrait was taken by photographer Matt Porteous in Cornwall earlier this month.

Are golf courses the right places to build housing, or are they simply a soft target?

Fifa stands by comments made last week by president Gianni Infantino in which he said that "the Iranian team is coming, for sure".

BBC UK editor Ed Thomas confronts a shopkeeper secretly filmed selling cannabis and cocaine to one of our researchers.

Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa

Black Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about.…

EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon

Elon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't exist.…

Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy

Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.…

Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim

GCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices.…

Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn

Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles.…

Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.…

Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot

AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).…

NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.…

Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Kubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.…

Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'

Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.…

Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.

Car sales are up, battery sales and emissions credits are down.

How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.

Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.

Kennedy's tesimony sets up another clash over vaccines with next CDC director.

"You just push this button, and in three hours, you're counting photons."

When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.

Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service.

What was Warner Bros. even thinking, shelving this film for so many years?

Google's new generation of Tensor AI chips is actually two chips, one for inference and one for training.