America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.

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The FAA plans to reduce air traffic by 10% at busy airports. And, a federal judge orders the Trump administration to fully restore SNAP food benefits by today, which it plans to appeal.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched an unprecedented review of routine shots given to kids, alarming public health experts.

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Here are a bunch of questions about politics and one about bears.

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Competition, whether from overseas rivals or second-hand goods, has kept the price of furniture relatively low. New tariffs may boost U.S. makers ? and raise prices.

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For a decade, political support for Israel has come from conservative Christians. But now isolationism and antisemitism are changing the tone.

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There's a lot of talk about how to monitor screen time for kids. But for kids to have healthy relationships with technology and smartphones, parents need to model good habits. Here's how.

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The popularity of the word honestly online and in conversation has soared in recent years. TBH, we'd like to know what's going on.

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For the second month in a row, a government report on employment and unemployment has been delayed by the federal shutdown. That leaves analysts looking for other signs to gauge the job market.

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NPR Mideast correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israel still requires a military escort.

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Kate and Gerry McCann say, despite the guilty verdict, they "take no pleasure in the result."

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Nadia said the abuse started after she ended their date early because of "red flags".

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A group of five people were reported missing before being found in a crashed car two days later.

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The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.

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Can you fathom the scale of Elon Musk's pay rise?

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Thousands of offshore workers are too heavy for the limitations of helicopter winch systems.

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In an interview with Israeli TV, Rom Braslavski described how he was stripped naked and tied up by members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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BBC Verify tracks how the RSF killed unarmed people in a massacre that humanitarian officials believe left 2,000 dead.

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More than 11 million people tuned in to find out who emerged victorious in the Traitors' castle.

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The BBC presenter says on her new podcast she hopes there can be a "normalisation" of the topic.

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Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers

Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the latter part of this decade.?

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MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software

A pair of MIT researchers have detailed a proposed new model for software that would help both humans and AI code generators alike create better and more transparent applications. No more vibing!?

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Behold the one trillion dollar man

Tesla is awarding its CEO Elon Musk a package worth a possible $1 trillion, however, it relies in part on a dramatic increase in the value of the electric vehicle manufacturer.?

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Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode to offset some of its fluffier edges.?

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All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30

Anyone turning 25 this week has never known a time when humans weren't living in space. The same might not be true when they're 30.?

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Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU

Microsoft is again banging the data sovereignty drum in Europe, months after admitting in a French court it couldn't guarantee that data will not be transmitted to the US government when it is legally required to do so.?

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This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first

The Bank of England (BoE) has cited the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as one of the reasons for the country's slower-than-expected GDP growth in its latest rates decision.?

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Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed

The UK?s tax collector is yet to reach the levels of efficiency its investment in digital services has led auditors to expect, according to a new report.?

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Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes ?

On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register?s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.?

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We're months away from AI building AI

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has confirmed it will use humanoid robots to make Nvidia servers in America.?

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Europe's Ariane 6 rocket gave an environmental monitoring satellite a perfect ride to space.

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Ransomware doesn't pay what it used to.

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But the differences are likely to be subtle, so it won't be easy.

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Sandworm and other Russian-state hackers unleash data-destroying payloads on their neighbors.

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Tesla investors back Musk pay despite his busy schedule running other companies.

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Deep Research and predictions based on Kalshi and Polymarket data are coming soon to Google Finance.

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AT&T loses another ad-board ruling just a week after suing the organization.

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Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

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American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.

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"If you increase the cost, you?ll get everything in two years. If not, I?m sorry.?

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