Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha ran the London Marathon in under two hours, but he only got second place. He told NPR he hopes to run his next marathon a minute faster.

The move follows an administration push for cuts to the NSF and raises concerns in the scientific community that it could jeopardize a tradition of independent decisions about federal science grants.

In her first appearance on Capitol Hill this year, lawmakers questioned Education Secretary Linda McMahon about students' civil rights and cuts to federal education spending.

An attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday has, again, highlighted the climate of political violence in the U.S. But there are still many questions about the motive.

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Disney's ABC to seek early broadcast license renewals for the eight TV stations it owns amid backlash over Jimmy Kimmel's joke about Melania Trump.

The case revolves around a photo the former FBI director posted online last year of seashells on a beach arranged to say "8647."

Musk's lawyers say OpenAI leaders "stole a charity" and Musk warns about the potential dangers of AI: "We don't want to have a Terminator outcome."

The pool is being resurfaced in a shade more akin to that of a swimming pool. It's one of many physical changes Trump is planning for the nation's capital.

In January, Kim Keon Hee was sentenced to 20 months for accepting gifts from the Unification Church, which sought political favors.

People recovering from opioid addiction risk relapse when they can't get their medications after natural disasters. A group of doctors is calling for lawmakers to ease access to the meds.

There were some lines in the speech that may have buoyed Democrats – and raised eyebrows in the White House.

It will have little effect on the current oil blockades, but it could change everything afterwards.

No 10 has expended considerable political capital in keeping Labour MPs onside over the Mandelson vetting row.

Several warning lights are flashing that have some wondering whether we are in the foothills of another financial crisis.

Current rules state that three unsuccessful pregnancies are needed to trigger NHS support - but a pilot project could bring about change.

The passports will be released as part of the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.

Wales' big six parties clashed in the TV debate less than two weeks before the Senedd election.

The remarks, made in February and first reported by the Financial Times, came to light during the King's state visit.

The move comes as the White House pressures Disney-owned ABC to fire Kimmel after he called Melania an "expectant widow".

Eucerin asked 160 people to use the serum for four weeks then say how much younger they thought they looked.

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…

No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on

Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…

PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role

The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …

Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you

OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…

'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'

Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…

DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.…

Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks

If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.…

80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags

IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.…

Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market

Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.…

Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump

Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…

The clown car is all gassed up.

When doctors saw him, his limbs were discolored and crackling.

Kimmel joke calling Melania an "expectant widow" followed quickly by FCC order.

Civil liberty concerns spur FAA to revise drone no-fly zones near ICE vehicles.

Humanoid robots could load cargo and clean aircraft cabins at Haneda Airport.

GitHub says it can no longer absorb "escalating inference cost" from it heaviest AI users.

University of Oregon scientists repurposed battery-testing tool to better measure coffee's flavor profile

Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure.

The hands-free, eyes-on driver assist only works on geofenced highways.

The bidirectional design has some clear advantages for a working taxi.