Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed aristocrats are 92 of the House of Lords' 800 members.

The war in Iran is roiling jet fuel prices and airlines are beginning to hike prices, unsettling travelers far from the Middle East. If you're booking a flight soon, here are things to know.

New research finds AI can point people in the wrong direction. And the quality of health information it imparts depends on how well you prompt the tools.

According to Chinese mythology, those born in the Year of the Horse will clash with Tai Sui, a heavenly general. Luckily, there are ways to appease Tai Sui, including amulets at Shanghai's Jade Buddha Temple.

Members of the International Energy Agency have announced a coordinated release of 400 million barrels of stockpiled oil in an attempt to counter the disruption in oil trade triggered by the Iran war.

A majority of Americans oppose the U.S.' involvement in the war with Iran, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And, the Department of Justice is quietly restoring gun rights to felons.

Attacks and counterattacks continued throughout the Middle East Wednesday. Two cargo ships were struck in the Gulf, as some lawmakers in Washington pressed for answers on the war's rationale.

You've heard of yoga with kittens, and goats, and maybe even reindeer… but what about a bunch of pythons and one baby Columbian Common Boa named Mango?

Nearly half of Americans support the National Guard monitoring November's elections, potentially signaling an openness to the sort of nationalizing of elections that President Trump says he wants.

The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.

A batch of documents has revealed new details about the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador.

The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC's international editor.

Ian Huntley had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The non-hormonal daily pill could benefit 500,000 women for whom HRT is not suitable.

Chester Zoo is leading a call for a change in the way "rain icons" are used in weather forecasts.

Average mortgage rates hit highest since last August in the biggest upheaval since the mini-Budget.

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known as Mo Chara, had been accused of showing support for proscribed organisation Hezbollah following a gig in London in 2024.

Fuel duty on petrol and diesel is due to rise from September, when a 5p cut is phased out.

Sources tell the BBC that pupils had to hide under their desks as the incident unfolded.

German cross-country skiers turn their backs on the Russian gold medallists on the Winter Paralympics podium in protest against the nation's inclusion at the Games.

150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested

Not every scam starts with malware or a compromised account. Sometimes all it takes is a friend request or a link shared via chat.…

Inspector general flags Starship risks and gaps in testing

The NASA Office of Inspector General has published a report on the agency's management of the lunar Human Landing System (HLS) contracts, highlighting the risks and arguments behind the scenes.…

Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only

DR-DOS is back, and there is already a test version you can download. But as of yet, it's not finished, not FOSS – and not based on the original code.…

Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine

The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged victim's sensitive data.…

This is not satire, but we wish it was

The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event.…

Let them eat cores

Intel has a new strategy for shoring up its eroding market share: Offering PC buyers more cores per dollar than arch-rival AMD in a refresh of its Arrow Lake range.…

Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server.

Exclusive If you thought Nvidia or AMD's 72-GPU rack systems were enormous, silicon Ayar Labs has something much bigger in the works.…

Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables

Photonics startup Lightmatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.…

Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.…

Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe

A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.…

"We are focused on protecting space, assuring access to space, ensuring custody of space."

GPU maker courts corporate partners for NemoClaw ahead of annual conference.

First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.

A brief spoiler-free review of the film, which opens in the US on March 20.

75% of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before Trump took office.

Highest risk of part of tongue being torn off is with temps between -5° and -15° C (23° to 5 °F).

A complex structure with multiple electrons is within reach of today's hardware.

"Due to late-stage design changes, the potential risk of uncontrolled reentry increased."

In the end, the FDA only approved the drug for a rare genetic condition with clearer data.

Is it clean "reverse engineering" or just an LLM-filtered "derivative work"?