British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

A patient who came to regret the top surgery she got as a teen won a $2 million malpractice suit. Then, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons clarified its position that surgery is not recommended for transgender minors.

Breezy Johnson's first Olympic medal is a gold, won in a race marred by the crash of teammate Lindsey Vonn

Vote counting was underway in Thailand's early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics.

In an explosive crash near the top of the downhill course in Cortina, Vonn landed a jump perpendicular to the slope and tumbled to a stop shortly below.

Many spent their careers training on the mountains they'll be competing on at the Winter Games. Lindsey Vonn wanted to stage a comeback on these slopes and Jessie Diggins won her first World Cup there.

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into the Potomac. Repairs could take longer than previously expected.

Amid an ongoing standoff between Harvard and the White House, the Defense Department said it plans to cut ties with the Ivy League — ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.

Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has departed just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

McSweeney, long considered instrumental to the rise of the PM, derived his power and influence from his track record as a political strategist.

Under official guidance, trade envoys have a duty of confidentiality over sensitive, commercial, or political information.

Rain has fallen in south-west England and south Wales every day of 2026 so far, the Met Office said.

Keyless thefts are on the rise and car crime is increasingly organised and high-tech.

After a week of frenzied build-up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Super Bowl 60 - America's biggest game - takes place on Sunday night.

The suspects include the alleged gunman, Lyubomir Korba, whom Russia says fled to the UAE after the attack.

A coalition led by current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to clinch a decisive win, an exit poll suggests.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared in the middle of night from her home in Tucson, Arizona, last weekend.

The rescued loggerhead turtle will be flown from the Channel Islands to mainland on Tuesday.

American superstar skier Lindsey Vonn "deserved a better ending" after suffering heartbreak in what could be her final Olympic event as she crashes in the women's downhill competition in Cortina.

Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript

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After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles

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Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles

Scientists have developed a machine learning method that could dramatically slash the cost and energy required to develop new lithium-ion batteries that the modern world is becoming increasingly reliant.…

AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone

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Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…

Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown

Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year, with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…

Marketing stunt backfires with creators

The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…

There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits

It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend

Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure – more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…

Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…

The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.

Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.

With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.

A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.

This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán.