Activists sailing on dozens of boats attempting to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip to deliver aid say Israeli forces intercepted them, detaining the crews while the flotilla was sailing near the Greek island of Crete.

The Iran war has nearly doubled jet fuel prices in the United States. That means the bill for firefighting aircraft operations this summer will likely rise by tens of millions of dollars.

A father and daughter in New Jersey have pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeiting scheme to trick art galleries and auction houses into buying forged paintings

President Trump suggested he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence in Germany as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the U.S-Israel war against Iran.

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to the Trump administration's move to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians in the country.

The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter's Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.

The House has approved a three year extension of the surveillance program known as FISA Section 702. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces a difficult path to final passage.

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

The Pentagon says that the cost of the war with Iran is estimated to be some $25 billion. Defense officials were appearing on the Hill for budget discussions.

The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

Footage shows the moment a man was arrested after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London.

Axios reported that US Central Command has prepared a plan for a wave of "short and powerful" strikes on Iran.

Dozens of Trading Standards officers describe intimidation from criminals running mini-marts and vape shops.

Many commentators, even critics of the monarchy, seem delighted at the spectacle.

A sculpture of a man marching off a plinth in St James's appears to bear the artist's name.

A new scan technique could spot areas of endometriosis missed by conventional scans, scientists say.

Is the UK fumbling the shift away from oil and gas jobs?

Future base rate changes are hard to predict as analysts judge the economic impact of the Iran war.

Before the fragile ceasefire in the region, this was one of the most heavily targeted US and UK military bases in the Middle East.

Nadine Buzzard-Quashie speaks for first time about her "David and Goliath battle" against two police forces.

Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves

Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.…

Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.…

Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management

Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.…

AI is driving more searches and ads

Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.…

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.…

ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…

Second try's a charm?

Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…

Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law.

Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

Most are keeping their subscriptions after signing up, too, research firm says.

FTX fraudster came out as Republican, then tried to claim Biden's DOJ targeted him.

Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans.

Motorola's foldable lineup is bigger and more spendy than ever.

Framework charges nearly double for the 12GB version of the mobile RTX 5070.

Study authors say courts should reconsider rulings in light of this new evidence.

Manufacturers backed effort to repeal the law but ultimately failed.

The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact.