ICE seems to be changing from aggressive immigration enforcement on city streets to an apparent return to operations that rely heavily on local law enforcement. But even in Florida, where sheriffs are required to cooperate with ICE, some conservative sheriffs have concerns about pursuing immigrants with no criminal records.

In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler leapt towards the River Thames from a fifth-floor luxury apartment in central London. Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the story of the teen's double life in a new book.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II this week. The four astronauts aboard will travel around the moon.

The war in Iran enters its 6th week as the search continues for the missing U.S. service member who bailed out of a fighter jet shot down over Iran on Friday.

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island.

The cakes – usually baked in the shape of a lamb using a special pan – have a long history in Central Europe, from the German osterlamm, to the Polish baranek wielkanocny, to the Alsatian lammele.

As online betting has grown in popularity, a new report from the New York Federal Reserve builds on the troubling link between legal sports wagering and financial health.

U.S. work combatting HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives globally. Under the Trump administration, funding has been slow in coming and unpredictable, wreaking havoc on people trying to do the work.

"Pain is a mysterious thing," says neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But understanding how it works in the body and different kinds of treatment can help you find the right pain relief when you need it.

Some people are splurging. Others are finding that their refunds are being swallowed up by the rising cost of gas.

Yellow wind warnings will cover parts of all four UK nations by Saturday evening.

Three men charged following the attack appeared at court this morning, and have since been remanded in custody.

The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

A Russian drone hit a busy spot in the southern Ukrainian town on Saturday morning, injuring another 21 people.

The age at which people can start receiving the state pension is going up in stages over the next two years.

How we travel to work in cities might be changing as e-scooter and e-bike fares become cheaper than traditional public transport.

People struggling to conceive say friends and family often make well-meaning but insensitive comments about their infertility.

It's been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games like PowerWash Simulator 2 become so popular?

Double-murderer Dezi Freeman evaded capture for seven months in the bush but police believe he had help.

Hungary is going to the polls in nine days - after 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban be unseated?

Agents to check the work of the agents

All Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking "Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site." And, no, adding "DON'T HALLUCINATE" to the instruction loop won't help.…

The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people

In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To understand why, it helps to consider the history of the underlying Azure infrastructure.…

Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient

PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…

Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.…

Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much

Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices.

Some OEMs saw double-digit growth in Q1, others saw double-digit declines.

OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.