As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar explains the stakes in Sea Change.

Consumer prices in September jumped 3.7% from a year ago. The Social Security Administration said benefits will increase next year to help keep pace with the rising cost of living.

We got to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time early. Here are our impressions of the remake and its elaborate new style.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a sit-down interview with NPR as Russia's full-scale invasion nears the 5-year mark. And, Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Factory workers in India are being asked to wear GoPro cameras to record the way they do their jobs. The ultimate goal is to train robots to take over. Will it work?

The White House publicly asked for U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation on Tuesday as she faced mounting accusations of improper conduct.

Free samples, high-pressure pitches and $50,000 bills: An NPR investigation reveals how a network of mall skincare stores systematically targeted older adults and people with disabilities across the U.S.

For years, customers have complained of aggressive sales tactics and charges at mall skincare stores. NPR investigated the business that connects many of them.

Kansas voters could send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in nearly a century — and flip the governor's office back to Republican control, even in what could be a tough year for the GOP.

For many election cycles, civil rights groups and political parties have fanned out to monitor polling places, but the charged midterm environment has many organizations stepping up efforts this year.

Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".

Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcomed President Zelensky to Downing Street on Wednesday, as Ukraine's leader looks to shore up his European allies five years into Russia's war on Ukraine.

BBC Verify has identified 254 incidents from the past three years the Israeli military said it is reviewing after being accused of harm.

The home secretary said she would not hesitate to impose measures on other countries "refusing to co-operate".

Livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan "will taint the honor of the military that employs it, and a nation that allows it," 72 former officers said in a letter.

Reform says all of those people filmed by ITV are under investigation having resigned or been suspended.

Katie Zacharia does not appear to be registered to the legal bar in any state where she has lived.

Art of Play says its staff have been threatened after the singer complained online about how she was treated.

Sgiath is thought to be the UK's first sea squirt-hunting dog and has been trained to sniff out the marine pest.

SOS Children's Villages International has acknowledged that more than 140 children were taken to its facilities by Syrian security services.

Both Switchzilla and CISA sound the alarm

Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you

Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use

Xbow earned a $250K bug bounty and all the AI model got was a lousy t-shirt

Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks

Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries

What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet

Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing

DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades

New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks

Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet.

But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns.

Suspected Russian drones have sunk or damaged 5 ships near Bulgaria and Romania.

"This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating."

FCC chair threatens E-Rate fund, blames schools for kids' excessive screen time.

Plaintiff claims cameras enabled warrantless tracking and monitoring after he previously sued over excessive force.

With the end of IMSA’s 2026 season, we have thoughts about the future of the sport.

"Have you ever seen a world born?"

AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.

OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.