Border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents will help the Transportation Security Administration "move those lines" while also enforcing immigration law.

A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.

Baseball hitters are on a quest for power. But that quest comes at a cost. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas DiLiberti about baseball players suffering hamate injuries.

Kathy Barnes-Lou cared for her mother for 14 years before her death. She learned that caregiving can bring life's purpose into focus, even as it grinds you down.

Some Democrats who were swept into office last November are grappling with the reality of governing. The new leader of Pennsylvania's Lehigh County says urgency is needed.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, about how the war on Iran is effecting the global economy.

As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment.

We look at President Trump's mixed messages on the war with Iran, plus the latest on Department of Homeland Security funding, which Congress has frozen over his immigration enforcement policies.

We have the latest on the U-S and Israeli war on Iran, where in the past 48 hours, Israel has struck one of Iran's nuclear facilities and Iran has responded with strikes in Israel.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters.

The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency says.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman are being held in Tehran's Evin prison amid ongoing attacks on Iran.

A household with an average income of £55,000 has cut spending on leisure activities by £40 a week, offical figures suggest.

A hill walker shares a snap of moles hanging on barbed wire and is surprised by the huge response.

Paris and Marseille are held by the Socialists in local elections which saw the nationalist right win in Nice and certain towns.

The government wants Britons to embrace heat pumps. But will they ever make financial sense for the average user?

Six sites have been deprioritised from the flagship scheme to build a wave of new settlements.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) causes progressive muscle weakness and, without treatment, can limit life expectancy to just two years.

The violence began after 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman was killed after reportedly being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian while on his quad bike.

The International Energy Agency chief said the war could lead to the world's worst energy crisis in decades.

National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar storm

The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has warned the country is underprepared for a severe space weather event.…

First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face

Who, Me? Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.…

Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn’t add up

Elon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called “Terafab” capable of producing a terawatt’s worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.…

'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues

Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done.…

PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more!

Asia In Brief Australia’s government on Monday announced a set of datacenter “expectations” to guide would-be bit barn builders who contemplate breaking ground down under.…

PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…

The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself

feature CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.…

Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter

A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.…

Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows

The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.…

Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much

Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…

Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later.

Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.

This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.

“Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.”

The verdict, while not a complete loss, could still cost him billions.

Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.

ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle is grounded after a solid rocket booster anomaly last month.

"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

One of the first controversies of its kind.

Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.