A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said.

Cuba's government confirmed that it had recently met with U.S. officials on the island as tensions between the two sides remain high over the U.S. energy blockade of the Caribbean country.

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.

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The Onion says it has a new deal to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars media company. If approved, the satirical news website could turn Infowars into a parody of itself.

The 65-year-old Cook will turn over CEO duties to Apple's head of hardware products, John Ternus, in September. Cook will remain with the company as executive chairman.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who was under internal investigation, is leaving her position. She becomes the third cabinet departure of President Trump's second term.

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

"We women are the land guardians and keepers," says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and social harms caused by a copper and gold mine.

Most analysts had predicted the rate would remain unchanged at 5.2%.

One petrol retailer says he is experiencing about five drive-offs a week at each forecourt, costing him thousands.

The final design for a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth is to be unveiled, 100 years after her birth.

Ternus will take over running the technology giant in September as Cook steps up to become executive chairman.

The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain's vulnerability to energy price shocks.

Prosecutors say the singer, real name David Anthony Burke, could face life in prison due to the nature of the case, if convicted.

In the Senedd campaign, are weighing up whether the issue of Welsh independence is a vote winner or loser.

Tube drivers in the RMT union are taking part in two 24-hour walkouts this week.

Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create "a clear legal requirement for schools".

This clears the way for Japan to sell weapons to more than a dozen countries.

Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole

UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware crew claims it grabbed far more than the company is currently admitting.…

Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment

Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.…

And China is loving it

Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.…

Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess

The NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spacesuits won’t finish in time to use them for the planned Artemis III Moon landing mission in 2028.…

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Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank.…

A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports

UPDATED Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users' sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story keeps changing: First it attributed the publicly exposed info to "intentional behavior" and "unclear documentation," then threw bug-bounty service HackerOne under the bus.…

The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions

It’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to expand its West Texas campus to about 17 gigawatts of behind-the-meter generation capacity.…

Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple

Have you heard? Apple's Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years leading the iMaker's business. He'll become executive chairman and hand the reins over to John Ternus, a senior VP of hardware engineering, effective September 1.…

Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit

When Rockland County, New York, approved nearly $77 million in tax breaks for JPMorgan Chase's datacenter expansion in 2024, no one showed up to object. Two years and a whole lot of bit barns in the news cycle later, government watchdogs are calling foul over the project's lone permanent job.…

Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

One app should not modify another app without asking for and receiving your explicit consent. Yet Anthropic's Claude Desktop for macOS installs files that affect other vendors' applications without disclosure, even before those applications have been installed, and authorizes browser extensions without consent.…

Problems with the ground system would have "put current GPS military and civilian capabilities at risk."

Cook will be executive chairman, but will no longer run the company day to day.

Experts point out a series of flaws, including small size and no control group.

Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump's Supreme Court loss.

Energy management and speed differentials are the problems of the day.

A humanoid robot's record half-marathon run shows China's speed in robotics.

AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.

The future war film, from the director of Moon, is adapted from 2000 AD's comic series.

Kea parrot missing his upper beak "has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species."

Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.