Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military to carry out "forceful strikes" in the Gaza Strip, threatening the ceasefire brokered by President Trump.

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Hurricane Melissa is now Category 5, and the strongest storm this year as it approaches Jamaica. The National Hurricane Center warns the damage in Jamaica will be catastrophic.

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The Chinese ultra-fast fashion giant Shein will open its first shop in one of Paris' historic department stores. Critics see the move as a threat to France's fashion identity.

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Amazon has faced pressure from investors to tighten its finances as it spends big on the AI race. The company says it will cut 14,000 jobs, citing a goal of "reducing bureaucracy, removing layers."

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Over 40 million Americans will soon be without federal food assistance as SNAP benefits are set to expire on Saturday. And, Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa to bring over 170 miles per hour winds.

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America's immigration crackdown might have serious financial consequences for a range of countries.

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Code Switch explores the racial history of two seemingly opposing movements that inform today's declining birthrates.

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A federal judge in San Francisco will consider whether to indefinitely halt the thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump administration since Oct. 1.

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Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

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The designation would have, as one domestic terrorism expert told NPR, a "cascading effect across civil society, including social media organizations, civic organizations and everything in between."

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Melissa's 185 mph winds at landfall means it could eclipse all storms the island has experienced before.

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Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.

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Local authorities say the cost of providing school transport is becoming "financially unsustainable".

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Where to put asylum seekers has become one of the fiercest topics of political debate since last year's general election.

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Julia Wandelt, charged with stalking the McCanns, tried to present the pair with a DNA report, a court is told.

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A 22-year-old man was arrested at the scene and remains in police custody, the Met Police said.

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The company says the opportunities provided by AI means it needs to be "organised more leanly."

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The UN says there are credible reports of "summary executions" in el-Fasher.

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How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

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Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.

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'Electrons are the new oil,' ChatGPT maker claims, demanding 100 GW per year

OpenAI wants the Trump administration to build 100 gigawatts of additional electricity generation capacity per annum to avoid the US being overtaken by China in the AI arms race.?

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Scratch Grokipedia and Wikipedia bleeds

What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success.?

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Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts

ai-pocalypse Bubble, meet pin. Large organizations are set to defer a quarter of planned AI spending from next year until 2027, forcing a market correction.?

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More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery

Why can't we all just get along... for the good of science? New research suggests countries prioritizing national security over the greater good are hindering global research and economic development.?

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CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns

Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices.?

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Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview

Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook.?

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Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway

Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.?

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From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity

Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity.?

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Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse

Feature With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection.?

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Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak

Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme data breach.?

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The startup has partnered with RepairPal to service its affordable EV truck.

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Platforms expect to monitor a range of signals, but age detection will be spotty.

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Both AMD and Intel continue to serve low-end PCs with aging silicon.

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New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.

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The deal wouldn't protect UCLA from the proposed university compact.

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Republicans are attempting to foreclose the ability of cities and states to seek damages linked to climate change.

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Big power, no lag, surprising agility make for a stellar drive?at an astronomical cost.

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Generative search engines often cite sites that wouldn't appear in Google's top 100 links.

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Ad industry watchdog says AT&T violated program rule, demands removal of ads.

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From the makers of Apollo in Real Time comes a site with 500 times more data.

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