A British engineering and research company is unveiling a "subsea human habitat," a base that four people can live and work in for missions of a week or more. It's the first new underwater habitat developed since the 1980s.

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An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease.

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Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, "Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive."

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Bob Trumpy has died. While he leaves a fine legacy as a Cincinnati sportscaster, his best moment might have been the two hours he spoke with a desperate and depressed woman who called into his show.

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A Israeli military court will weigh the fate of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release.

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Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats. What are the implications for bats ... and virus spread to humans?

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The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike.

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In the most recent release, Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. He was identified as Lior Rudaeff, who was 61 when he was killed.

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UPS and FedEx will ground their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes "out of an abundance of caution" following a deadly crash at the UPS global aviation hub in Kentucky.

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The high court decision allows a lower court time to consider a more lasting pause. The Trump administration is appealing an order to fully fund November food aid for millions of people.



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Two others are still missing after being released in error in June this year.

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In her first UK interview Megan Garcia speaks to Laura Kuenssberg about the death of her teenage son.

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.

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A man is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the attack in Birmingham city centre.

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The presenter and campaigner was described by his family as a "true national treasure" and "true consumer champion".

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A month since GPs in England started offering online appointment bookings, patients recount their experiences.

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The TV presenter says she found a lump in her breast after checking herself and is relieved to know the cancer had not spread.

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Trump has taken a number of actions against Democratic-led cities that experts say could slow Mamdani's goals.

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Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Atomic Kitten and Mis-Teeq reveal what life was like at the height of their fame.

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Cat Burns, Joe Marler and Nick Mohammed have been widely seen as the breakout stars of the series.

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Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade'

interview Digital rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she's made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders.?

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At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend

OPINION I have a habit of ironically referring to Microsoft's various self-induced whoopsies as examples of the company's "legendary approach to quality control." While the robustness of Windows NT in decades past might qualify as "legendary", anybody who has had to use the company's wares in recent years might quibble with the word "quality."?

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The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off

Meta on Friday floated plans to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028 as part of a massive datacenter expansion.?

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All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty

Law students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law last month held a mock trial to see how AI models administer justice.?

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'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed

A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tracking locations, and harvesting photos and logs before Samsung finally patched it in April.?

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Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

AI companies regularly tout their models' performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningful.?

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Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to

Nvidia's latest generation of Blackwell accelerators won't be available in China anytime soon, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who said there were no "active discussions" about selling the coveted chips to the Middle Kingdom.?

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It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.?

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Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker

Tensions between China and the Netherlands over the state of chipmaker Nexperia have begun to ease, but the battle for company control doesn't appear to be entirely resolved yet. ?

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Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise

Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.?

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His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.

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New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

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Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.

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"The FAA is concerned with the system's ability to maintain the current volume of operations."

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The end of HBO Max is "certainly plausible."

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Tucows subpoenaed in criminal probe for info on ?customer behind archive.today."

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It's unclear how much savings the deal provides or how many people will benefit.

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ChatGPT leaks seem to confirm OpenAI scrapes Google, expert says.

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Vampire Survivors-esque battler sets itself apart with great weapons, unique graphics.

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The automaker says it has plenty of electric F-150 pickups in inventory, though.

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